09 November 2019
FreeRodneyReed.com
Listen to the Behind the Blue Curtain Breakdown here:
Rodney Reed is currently on Death Row in a Texas awaiting execution at the end of November 2019. He was convicted of the murder and sexual assault of Stacey Stites in Bastrop, Texas.
On the 23rd of April 1996, 19-year-old Stacey Stites did not show up for work at the H.E.B grocery store in Bastrop, Texas. Her coworker opened the store without her, fully expecting her to show up any minute. At 5:23 am, about 2 hours after she should have arrived, the truck Stacey usually drove to work (owned by her fiance, Giddings Police Officer Jimmy Fennell) was discovered in the Bastrop High school parking lot by a police officer. Stacey had not yet been reported missing, so the officer called in the vehicle and continued his patrol.
At approximately 7:00 am, Stacey’s co-worker called Carol Stites, Stacey’s mother who then immediately called Stacey’s fiance, Officer Fennell. It was nearly 3:00 pm on that same day when Stacey’s partially clothed body was discovered in a wooded area. She had been strangled with her own belt and tests confirmed DNA from an unknown male in and on her body.
Stacey’s fiance, Officer Jimmy Fennell became the prime suspect, as he was the last to see her alive. The DNA didn’t match Jimmy, despite him failing two lie detector tests, he was ruled out as a suspect. Rodney Reed later became the main suspect. Reed denied knowing Stacey until the police hit him with the DNA evidence.
Renown forensic pathologists including Michael Baden, M.D., Werner Spitz, M.D., LeRoy Riddick, M.D., and Cyril Wecht, M.D. have all concluded that Reed’s guilt is medically and scientifically impossible.