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- Thus, with undeniable forensic evidence, William was formally indicted, and once presented in court, he was convicted of first-degree murder and was sentenced to death in 2021. The death sentence eventually forced William to open up, and he finally confessed to the 1997 slaying of Jessica Cain, Kelli Cox, and Laura Smither.
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Dec 1, 2022 · Once William realized that the police had forensic evidence against him, he came clean and confessed to killing Tiffany Johnston, Jessica Cain, Kelli Cox, and Laura Smither. He even led the police to where he had buried his victims and was subsequently arrested for his crimes.
Mar 21, 2024 · The death sentence eventually forced William to open up, and he finally confessed to the 1997 slaying of Jessica Cain, Kelli Cox, and Laura Smither. Moreover, to prove the legitimacy of his confession, he led law enforcement professionals to where he’d buried the girls.
Mar 15, 2024 · On June 29, 2022, Reece pleaded guilty and received three life sentences for killing Laura Smither, Jessica Cain, and Kelli Cox.
Jun 29, 2022 · Jessica Cain, 17, of Tiki Island is reported missing after her truck was found abandoned on the shoulder of Interstate 45. Cain was last seen at a party with friends at a restaurant in...
- Oct. 18, 1996: William Reece Is Released from Prison
- April 3, 1997: Laura Smither Disappears in Friendswood, Texas
- April 20, 1997: Laura Smither Is Found
- May 16, 1997: Sandra Sapaugh Is Kidnapped in Webster, Texas
- July 15, 1997: Kelli Cox Goes Missing in Denton, Texas
- Jan Bynum's Fight to Find Kelli
- July 26, 1997: Tiffany Johnston Vanished in Bethany, Oklahoma
- July 27, 1997: Tiffany Johnston's Body Is Discovered
- Aug. 17, 1997: Jessica Cain's Truck Is Found in La Marque, Texas
- Searching For Jessica Cain
After serving nearly 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting two women in his native Oklahoma, William Reece was released from prison in the fall of 1996. After his release, Reece briefly stayed with his mother in Anadarko, Okla., before moving to Harris County, Texas where he found work as a farrier (putting shoes on horses) and construction wo...
Laura Smither, a 12-year-old aspiring ballerina, went for a morning jog near her home in Friendswood, Texas, but never returned. As days passed, Gay and Bob Smither searched for their daughter with the help of their community, thousands of volunteers and even the U.S. Marines, but no one was able to find a trace of the missing girl.
After 17 days of searching, Laura Smither's decomposed body was found 12 miles from her home in a Pasadena, Texas, retention pond by a father and son out walking their dogs. After weeks in the water, her cause of death was unclear. Despite this devastating news, a suspect quickly emerged. It was William Reece, who worked at a construction site just...
Sandra Sapaugh, 19, stopped at a convenience store near I-45. Sapaugh says she noticed a man staring at her in the parking lot and when she saw him again at the Waffle House restaurant across the street, he offered to help her with a newly discovered flat tire. Sapaugh was confused by this and says before she knew what was happening, the stranger f...
Kelli Cox, a 20-year-old mother and student at the University of Northern Texas, was taking a tour of the Denton police department as a part of her criminal justice class but left early to take an exam. Shortly after leaving, Cox discovered that she was locked out of her car and used a pay phone at a nearby gas station to call her boyfriend for hel...
Kelli Cox was a dedicated student, taking summer classes and hoped to graduate early with a degree in social work. Although Kelli was a young mother to her daughter Alexis, she embraced it fully. Alexis was Cox's whole world and Kelli's mother Jan Bynum knew that Kelli would never leave Alexis behind. Still, the days of searching turned into weeks ...
Tiffany Johnston was 19 years old and newly married when she vanished in broad daylight, from a car wash in Bethany, Oklahoma. Her floor mats were still hanging on the drying racks and keys were still in the ignition, but there was no sign of Tiffany and no one at the car wash reported seeing anything out of the ordinary that day. Tiffany's mother ...
Just a day after her disappearance, Tiffany Johnston's partially clothed body was found in tall grass, next to an unpaved rural road close to the interstate. It was just 15 miles fromthe car wash where Tiffany Johnston was last seen alive. She had been strangled and sexually assaulted.Investigators were able to recover the killer's DNA from Johnsto...
Just three weeks after Tiffany Johnston's murder, 17-year-old Jessica Cain was last seen leaving a restaurant in Clear Lake, Texas, where she was out with friends. When Jessica missed curfew, her father C.H. Cain went out looking for her. After searching for hours, C.H. Cain found his daughter's truck abandoned on the shoulder of I-45 just a couple...
Search parties and friends looked for any sign of Jessica, but they had no luck. Gay and Bob Smither, who were still processing the loss of their own daughter Laura, just four months earlier, joined the search immediately, saying they felt called by God to help. After weeks of searching for answers, once again, investigators were left without leads...
Jun 29, 2022 · Reece in a morning court appearance pleaded guilty to the 1997 murders of Jessica Cain, of Tiki Island, and Laura Smither, of Friendswood. After pleading guilty in Galveston County, he was taken...
Jun 29, 2022 · HOUSTON – William Lewis Reece was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to the murders of Laura Smither, Jessica Cain and Kelli Ann Cox. All three were murdered in 1997.
