Denton prosecutors to seek indictment of Texas serial murder suspect on trial in Oklahoma
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1 hr ago Domingo Ramirez Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram
May 12 FORT WORTH Denton County prosecutors will seek an indictment in the kidnapping and killing of a University of North Texas student in 1997 against a Texas convict whose Oklahoma murder trial started this week.
Jury selection began this week in an Oklahoma County District Court for 61-year-old William Reece, who authorities say is a serial killer.
In the Oklahoma case, Reece is accused of abducting 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston on July 26, 1997, from a car wash in Bethany. Her body was found the next day.
May 12, 2021
On behalf of Oklahoma Watch and one of its reporters, attorneys from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press are suing the state’s largest school system and its superintendent over their refusal to provide access to email records requested by the nonprofit news organization.
The May 11 lawsuit the first filed as part of the Reporters Committee’s Local Legal Initiative in Oklahoma, which launched last November centers on a state Open Records Act request Oklahoma Watch reporter Jennifer Palmer submitted to Epic Charter Schools last July seeking emails sent to and from the school system’s co-founder, Ben Harris.
Oklahoman
After being linked by DNA to a cold case in Oklahoma, Texas inmate William Lewis Reece began confessing.
By the time he was done, he had admitted to the killing in Oklahoma and three more in Texas, prosecutors say. All were in 1997, after he got out of an Oklahoma prison after serving time for rape.
He led investigators in Texas to two bodies after prosecutors there agreed not to seek the death penalty for his cooperation.
Texas Rangers pushed Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater to do the same. The district attorney refused.
Now almost six years after being charged Reece, 61, is going on trial in the Oklahoma murder case.
Oklahoman
For years, YouTuber Floyd Wallace Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, has been traveling across the Midwest recording run-ins with police.
He and others like him describe themselves as First Amendment auditors or activists. Remember, I am fighting for your freedoms, Wallace says in one video.
Now, he and two other YouTubers face a misdemeanor charge accusing them of falsely reporting a crime to instigate a confrontation with Oklahoma City police April 29.
The 911 caller reported a guy was hiding in the bushes Ninja-style outside the Carver Correctional Center, according to a recording released by police. I don t know what he s doing. He might be trying to plant some dope on the facility, the caller said.