OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A jury sentenced accused serial killer William Reece to be put to dying for the 1997 homicide of Tiffany Johnston.
It solely took the jury one hour and 45 minutes to succeed in their verdict.
Reece’s protection attorneys requested the jury to indicate him grace and solely hand down a sentence of life with out parole.
Final week, the jury discovered Reece responsible of killing 19-year-old Johnston on the Sunshine Carwash in Bethany in 1997.
The health worker beforehand testified the newly-wed had been certain, raped and strangled by Reece’s fingers, then a rope.
In the course of the three weeks within the courtroom, the jury heard a number of taped confessions of Reece describing how and why he murdered Johnston together with three different younger ladies in Texas across the identical time.
Jurors determined prosecutors proved the 19-year-old’s dying was violent, merciless and very heinous. Additionally they agreed Reece tried to keep away from prosecution of the crime by hiding her physique in a Canadian County discipline.
Prosecutors additionally argued Reece is a seamless risk to society. They argued Reece solely stopped committing crimes as a result of he was convicted of an aggravated kidnapping between the murders.
Earlier within the day, protection attorneys known as a former fellow inmate to the stand who claimed Reece got here to him saying he was going to admit to the murders and provides the households closure.
Three different Oklahoma County Detention Heart staff additionally testified Reece is a mannequin prisoner, solely entering into one altercation throughout his time on the Detention Heart.
Earlier within the week, a psychiatrist who examined Reece testified he has a decrease than common IQ stage and suffers from PTSD.
A number of of Reece’s relations additionally testified he was handed from house to house rising up and was raised by a verbally and generally bodily abusive mom.
“We’re so completely happy he acquired [the] dying penalty,” stated Kathy Dobry, Johnston’s mom. “As a result of this was for Tiff, though it helped households in Texas. However it was for Tiffany.”
Prosecutors claimed we are going to by no means know the way any of the 4 women really died due to a number of holes in Reece’s confessions.
Reece’s formal sentencing is ready for August 19, 2023.
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