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Rodney Rodell Reed (born December 22, 1967) is an American death row inmate who was convicted on May 18, 1998, by a Bastrop County District Court jury for the April 1996 abduction, rape, and murder of Stacey Stites, a 19-year-old resident of Giddings, Texas.
Dec 12, 2020 · Stacey Stites’ family believes that when Rodney Reed was convicted in the murder of the 19-year-old Texas woman and sentenced to death, the right man was put behind bars. Their beliefs have not...
- Alyssa Choiniere
Apr 19, 2023 · Mr. Reed was convicted of the 1996 rape and murder of Stacey Stites, who was strangled to death with her own belt in Bastrop County, Texas. DNA collected from Ms. Stites’s body matched that...
Nov 13, 2019 · In 1996, Reed, 51, was found guilty of the abduction, rape and murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites in Bastrop, Texas. He has always maintained his innocence.
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Nov 16, 2019 · He was convicted of the murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites, who was found strangled after failing to turn up for work. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted Reed's scheduled execution.
May 24, 2021 · Stacey Stites, 19, was weeks away from marrying her fiance, Jimmy Fennell, a local police officer, when her body was discovered. Prosecutors quickly turned their attention to Rodney Reed, then...
Nov 1, 2021 · BASTROP — More than two decades after Rodney Reed was sentenced to death for the murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites, doubts about his guilt and the role race might have played in his 1998 conviction continue to haunt this Central Texas town.
