incarceration, jimmy had nothing to do with stacey s murder. fennell, he was a cop. he s a bad cop. he was then apparently, and he is now, but that doesn t mean he killed her, you know. if we had evidence to convict him of the rape and murder of stacey stites, believe me, he would have been in jail a long time ago for that crime. to take an item and place it around her neck and pull with the force that it took to strangle her, jimmy fennell did not do that. it did not happen like that. if i could say something to rodney, i would probably say i forgive you, but you deserve what the state of texas will be doing to you, and that is ending your life. in addition to stacey s murder, reed was charged with two additional sexual assaults after dna linked him to previously unsolved rapes, and many see a pattern in rodney s
cooperating with the investigation. investigators had trouble placing fennell at the scene of the crime because of the distance between bastrop and his apartment in giddings. just a simple logistics of it didn t work. the problem was, how jimmy could have possibly gone with stacey that morning, murdered her, left the truck in bastrop next to the railroad tracks and then somehow gotten back home in time to be back in bed, when stacey s mom called him at 6:30. and it didn t work. when benjet looked for additional evidence on fennell, he discovered that contrary to standard procedure, police never searched jimmy and stacey s apartment. it s unheard of, when a person is found murdered, to not search the last place that they were seen, and especially in this case, where jimmy fennell
jail that somebody actually listens to her and starts looking into what she has to say. lear believes fennell s fellow officers failed to investigate and possibly covered up her rape. all they cared about was covering their butts, hiding what had happened. i was treated like i was some criminal, not a victim. i was reading the sunday newspaper and i just happened to glance down and it said georgetown police officer arrested for sexual abuse that s jimmy fennell. i was shocked. he s charged and ultimately he pleads guilty to lesser charges, and is sentenced to ten-year sentence which he s still serving time for. i think the public should be reassured that a rogue officer is going to prison, that he will
it left me and officer fennell alone, and he put me in the front seat of his patrol vehicle. he drove down a dirt road into a park, and he stopped his car, and he asked me to step out of the vehicle. and he grabbed me and slammed me at the back of his patrol vehicle. he removed his gun and placed it on the trunk, pointing at my head. he held me against the back of his car, where i couldn t fight back and he raped me. i was telling him to stop, and he just kept telling me to shut up. after he was done, fennell told me that i was going to keep my mouth shut, because if i told
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.