People Magazine Investigates Recap for Is Rodney Reed Innocent? People Magazine Investigates: Is Rodney Reed Innocent? opens with Stacey Stites's life being profiled. She was the baby of the family and very athletic. She was outgoing and popular, especially with the boys. In the spring of 1995, she went to the
Rodney Reed was convicted of the murder of Stacey Stites: People Magazine Investigates if he was innocent
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Rodney Reed was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the killing of Stacey Stites. Pic credit: Texas Dept. of Corrections
People Magazine Investigates is examining a controversial case from Bastrop, Texas, which involved the abduction, rape, and murder of Stacey Stites, a young woman who was attacked while on her way to work in 1996.
Two years later, Rodney Reed was convicted of those crimes and was placed on death row; however, many believe that the police may have been affected by racial prejudice and may have imprisoned an innocent man.
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Stacey Stites was just 19 when she was killed in Bastrop, Texas.
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Stacey Stites was weeks away from marrying her fiancé when she went missing.
Just 19 years old at the time, Stites didn’t show up for work one morning in 1996, and was found dead hours later. Investigators said she had been raped and strangled, then left on the side of the road.