In the Season 2 finale of The Evidence Room, KPRC 2 Investigates explores the confessions of serial killer William Reece, who preyed on women from Texas to Oklahoma in the late 1990s.

Parents’ determination, an interstate agreement, and 25 years of constant police work helped bring William Reece back to Texas after he received a death sentence in Oklahoma. The result: Reece pleading guilty to the 1997 murders of Laura Smither, Jessica Cain and Kelli Ann Cox.

William Lewis Reece was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to capital murder in the deaths of Laura Smither and Jessica Cain, who were killed 25 years ago.

An Oklahoma judge affirmed a jury’s death sentence for a man accused of a string of murders in 1997.

A jury in Oklahoma has recommended a death sentence for an alleged serial killer who was convicted of kidnapping a woman from a car wash and killing her more than 20 years ago.

An Oklahoma jury sentenced accused serial killer, William Lewis Reece, to death for the 1997 murder of Tiffany Johnston.

Accused serial killer William Lewis Reece has been found guilty of murder for the first time since a series of young girls were murdered in Texas and Oklahoma in 1997. It took an Oklahoma County jury less than 2 hours to find Reece guilty of murdering Tiffany Johnston in the town of Bethany. The case remain unsolved until Reece was charged with the crime in 2015 after DNA linked him to Johnston’s body and a phone card linked him to the area where she disappeared.