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.

OKLAHOMA CITY — HOUSTON — A confessed serial killer who preyed on young Houston girls -- and killed at least two of them -- was formally sentenced to death Thursday by a judge in Oklahoma City.

A Galveston County grand jury indicted William Lewis Reece on murder counts in the deaths of 12-year-old Laura Smither of Friendswood and 17-year-old Jessica Cain of Tiki Island. Reece was already ...

A Texas man suspected in the cold-case killings of two women and two girls 20 years ago now faces four murder charges. William Lewis Reece, charged in the deaths of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston, ...