William Lewis Reece
William Lewis Reece | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 1, 1959 Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Convictions | Oklahoma: First degree murder (1 count) Texas: Murder (3 counts) Aggravated kidnapping Theft |
| Criminal penalty | Oklahoma: Death Texas: Life imprisonment (murder charges) 60 years imprisonment (kidnapping charges) |
| Details | |
| Victims | 4+ |
Span of crimes | April 3 – August 17, 1997 |
| Country | United States |
| States | Texas, Oklahoma |
Date apprehended | 1997 |
| Imprisoned at | Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Oklahoma |
William Lewis Reece (born July 1, 1959) is an American serial killer, rapist, and trucker formerly active in the U.S. States of Oklahoma and Texas. He is currently incarcerated in Texas and awaiting a death penalty sentence in Oklahoma.
In 2015, he was linked via DNA to the 1997 cold case murder of a woman in Oklahoma, for which he was subsequently convicted and sentenced to death in 2021. Not long after, he pled guilty to three different murders associated with the Texas Killing Fields in Galveston and Brazoria counties, and was sentenced to three life sentences in 2022.