laws. what i would expect the russians to do is use the fact her wife is making public statements and these are being reported in media and social media as propagandization of lgbtq plus rights which could be another crime they could hold against her. reporter: the parents of another detained american describes themselves as panicked in his condition. reed s parent say his physical condition has taken a turn for the worse. he s coughing up blood throughout the day, he has fever off and on over 100 degrees, and he has pain in his chest, just all the signs of tuberculosis. reporter: in a new statement reed s parent say he was told he d be sent to a prison hospital, but when they were on the phone with him thursday he was summoned to a disciplinary commission, and quote, we fear authorities might send him back to solitary confinement instead. reed and pall wheeler was
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
defense. he was pulling from the same play book in that case in 1987 when he was first asked about it he denied the rape completely, and it was only after he was tied to it by dna that he started to tell a whole different story that he was having sort of a secret affair with her. that jury gave him a second chance. they believed him. i think most people don t know the whole story of rodney reed. they don t know that the only reason he was caught is because he tried to do it again, and she was just lucky enough to get away. benjet feels these other accusations should not determine reed s fate. the issue is whether rodney reed committed the murder, and whether or not you believe he committed these other crimes for which there s been no finding of guilt all of the evidence points to jimmy fennell. as far as freedom, i hope that they let me go. i need to hold my mom, you know?
i told the jury that we proposed to show them a sexual relationship between stacey and rodney, that relationship was not widely known in her circles, but in his circles it was known. prosecutor lisa tanner countered by presenting a statement that reed gave, saying he d never even met stacey. that statement was a large part of our evidence to show that his semen didn t get in stacey stites body due to some sort of secret affair but due to a rape. from all the witnesses and all the people that i was involved interviewing, nobody ever, ever said that they ever saw those two together. rodney reed was nobody that she knew. the prosecution laid out a time line of events leading up to stacey s murder. jimmy fennell testified that he and stacey were home from 8:00 p.m. until she left for work around 3:00 a.m.
the state s linchpin evidence is medically and scientifically impossible. there is no way she was killed at 3:30 a.m. she was killed before midnight. body was found, and that places the time of the crime at precisely when stacey was at home with jimmy. this case was entirely about the forensic evidence, and we know that the state s case, their forensic theory of guilt is a sham. on february 5th, 2015, ben jet filed a desperate final appeal to stay rodney reed s execution. reed was scheduled to be put to death in just three weeks. minimums and fees.