OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Household and pals of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston are talking out about her whereas the trial for an accused serial killer continued in Oklahoma Metropolis.
“There are such a lot of feelings. There’s blissful, there’s unhappy, there’s hopeful [and] there’s lacking her terribly,” mentioned Johnston’s cousin Misty Witt. “I would like everybody to know she was a fully stunning individual.”
Tiffany Johnston’s household and pals are reliving the nightmare from July 26, 1997, whereas studying new particulars.
“A lot of the stuff is new to me as a result of [I was] younger when it occurred,” mentioned Witt. “I used to be actually shielded from plenty of the stuff that they had discovered.”
In a taped interview that was performed in court docket, the suspect William Reece mentioned he was washing a horse trailer at a Bethany carwash when the 19-year-old confronted him, claiming he sprayed her with water.
Reece confessed harsh phrases have been thrown backwards and forwards earlier than the combat turned bodily. Throughout the battle, Reece mentioned Johnston hit him within the head with a horse shoe. That is when he determined to strangle her.
After Johnston was killed, he mentioned he dumped her in a Canadian County subject the place her bare physique was discovered the subsequent day.
In 2015, DNA discovered on Johnston and calling card proof linked Reece to the crime. Final week, the medical expert testified she had been raped.
“Tiffany was robust. I am robust. We come from a robust household and I do know the issues that I see and listen to are simply info and footage,” mentioned Witt. “I can not let that emotion get to me and I am not going to let [Reece] see it for positive.”
Reece can also be accused of killing three different younger girls in Texas across the similar time.
Many members of the family of the opposite victims have been within the courtroom throughout this trial to assist one another.
“No person is aware of what to say; this is sort of a mini assist group and that is been the very best factor about this,” mentioned Jenni McEachern, a childhood buddy of Tiffany. ” Seeing the household and assembly folks I would heard about rising up with tiffany after which the opposite households, too.”
“For me personally, I can not carry that heavy load of hate. So, he is there as a result of he’s the suspect on this,” mentioned Witt. “I wont let it faze me. He will not see it faze me.”
Testimony resumes tomorrow morning at 9 a.m.
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