another officer, ed somella and stacey stites could not be excluded as contributors to saliva on that beer can. investigators had never figured out how fennell could have dumped stacey s body, abandoned his truck at the high school, and made it home on foot in time to answer a worried morning phone call from stacey s mother. one of the prime issues was, did jimmy fennell have an accomplice? the state had dna evidence that puts police officers with the victim at the crime scene? that alone should have resulted in a new trial. in 2001, bryce filed a motion for a new trial based on the dna evidence, but the court struck it down. after more than 15 years on death row, the state set an execution date, leaving rodney reed with just months to live. inferior phone detected.