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Laws. >> what i would expect the russians to do is use the fact her wife is making public statements and these are being reported in media and social media as propagandization of lgbtq plus rights which could be another crime they could hold against her. >> reporter: the parents of another detained american describes themselves as panicked in his condition. reeds parent say his physical condition has taken a turn for the worse. >> hes coughing up blood throughout the day, he has fever off and on...

Incarceration, jimmy had nothing to do with staceys murder. >> fennell, he was a cop. hes a bad cop. he was then apparently, and he is now, but that doesnt mean he killed her, you know. if we had evidence to convict him of the rape and murder of stacey stites, believe me, he would have been in jail a long time ago for that crime. >> to take an item and place it around her neck and pull with the force that it took to strangle her, jimmy fennell did not do that. it did not happen like that. if i c...

Defense. >> he was pulling from the same play book in that case in 1987 when he was first asked about it he denied the rape completely, and it was only after he was tied to it by dna that he started to tell a whole different story that he was having sort of a secret affair with her. >> that jury gave him a second chance. they believed him. i think most people dont know the whole story of rodney reed. they dont know that the only reason he was caught is because he tried to do it again, and she wa...

>> i told the jury that we proposed to show them a sexual relationship between stacey and rodney, that relationship was not widely known in her circles, but in his circles it was known. >> prosecutor lisa tanner countered by presenting a statement that reed gave, saying hed never even met stacey. >> that statement was a large part of our evidence to show that his semen didnt get in stacey stites body due to some sort of secret affair but due to a rape. >> from all the witnesses and all the peopl...

The states linchpin evidence is medically and scientifically impossible. there is no way she was killed at 3:30 a.m. she was killed before midnight. body was found, and that places the time of the crime at precisely when stacey was at home with jimmy. this case was entirely about the forensic evidence, and we know that the states case, their forensic theory of guilt is a sham. >> on february 5th, 2015, ben jet filed a desperate final appeal to stay rodney reeds execution. reed was scheduled to b...

A bad day on the road still beats a good one off it. ♪ progressive helps keep you out there. ♪ ingenious space- neat nest™ by fasaving design. so you can go from this... to this. farberware neat nest™. stacked & intact™ on may 4th, 1998 rodney reed went on trial for the murder of stacey stites in bastrop county, texas. in her opening statement reeds attorney lid qua jackson made a surprising claim.

>> rodney reed was now on death row, in livingston, texas. >> the state was to try to kill me. thats what it was. and im like, man, this is all crazy, right? i have no witnesses, no alibis, nothing? i dont have a defense. >> reed claims his dna was recovered from stacey because of a consensual encounter they had the day before staceys murder. he says he first met stacey the year before she was killed. >> i met her at a diamond shamrock in bastrop, right there in the back in the game room area, r...

>> at sentencing, tanner told the jury that reeds dna also matched semen found in two previously unsolved rapes. >> one was a sexual assault that had occurred six months prior to stacey, in bastrop, along the railroad tracks. the other was a sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl from 1989. >> tanner brought these women and four others to court, to describe in graphic detail how reed had assaulted them. the jury took only four hours to reach their verdict. >> 12 jurors quickly departed the courtho...

I told him, rodney, do you understand where you are? here in this little racist town, anything could happen. >> bastrop is about 30 miles outside of austin, but its also about 30 years behind austin. there was an atmosphere in the town of -- >> racism. okay? point blank, period. >> jimmy brown was reeds first lawyer, but left the case before it went to trial. from the very beginning, brown saw a troubling racial bias. >> this case seemed to be premised on the fact that good white girls dont have...

>> former georgetown police sergeant jimmy fennell was sentenced to ten years in prison today. >> some believe todays move could have had an impact on a decades old murder conviction. >> fennells conviction shined a new light on staceys murder. >> it did give me hope, because it was saying what i had been saying all the time, you know? >> but reeds defense was making little progress in the courts. desperate for a new strategy, rodney decided to go through his old case documents and discovered re...