Rodney Reed was sentenced for the homicide of 19-year-old Stacey Stites on May 18, 1998. Two years before the conviction, on April 23, 1996, the youngster’s body was tracked down along a street in Bastrop, Texas. She was beaten and choked to death with a belt.

Be that as it may, over 20 years after the fact, the conviction stays disputable as Rodney keeps on guaranteeing his honesty. In spite of the fact that Rodney, who was 28 out of 1998, was sentenced for the homicide, agents couldn’t lay out his immediate association in the homicide. As a matter of fact, the belt used to choke Stacey wasn’t even tried for DNA.

Rodney at first denied any association in Stacey’s homicide. Be that as it may, when specialists found DNA on her body, he conceded to having been in a consensual relationship with her. He said that the two had stayed quiet about their relationship since Stacey was at that point drew in to another person.

Following a preliminary almost two years after Stacey’s demise, Reed was sentenced and gotten capital punishment. Nonetheless, capital punishment was rescheduled a couple of times and he is as yet imprisoned at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Texas.

As referenced before, specialists couldn’t create any strong proof connecting Reed to the case, and for over twenty years, he has broadcasted his guiltlessness. Attributable to this, few individuals accept Rodney’s side of the story and even famous people like Rihanna and Kim Kardashian have shown him their help.

The stunning homicide was investigated in Examination Disclosure’s actual wrongdoing series Individuals Magazine Explores. The episode named Is Rodney Reed Honest? broadcasted on February 10.

Here is a short summation of the episode: Stacey Stites, 19, was only weeks from getting hitched when she disappeared in April 1996. She was accounted for missing when she neglected to appear for work, and only hours after this, her body was tracked down close to the side of a street in Bastrop, Texas.

Seven months after Stacey Stites was killed, an additional 19-year-old was gone after likewise. In any case, not at all like Stites, she figured out how to get away and guided the police to Reed.

Since Rodney Reed was a standard guilty party, police previously had his DNA on record, and soon they connected him to Stacey’s demise too. Furthermore, it is likewise accepted that race additionally had an impact in Reed’s conviction as he was a person of color while Stacey was a white lady.

Despite the fact that Reed has guaranteed his blamelessness for Stacey’s situation, he was supposedly engaged with the r*pe of two others – a 12-year-old young lady and a lady with scholarly incapacities. As referenced before, he had a few crook accusations against him and experiences with policing.

After Reed’s DNA was found on Stacey’s body, he guaranteed it was on the grounds that he was in a consensual relationship with her. He likewise added that he would have rather not referenced it before Stacey needed to stay quiet about the relationship as she was going to get hitched in half a month.

Notwithstanding, Stacey’s family denied the cases and said that she would never have a relationship with Reed as she was locked in to be hitched. They demanded that Rodney had r*ped her prior to killing her.

VIPs the nation over upheld Reed. Other than Kim Kardashian and Rihanna, different VIPs who upheld him incorporate Beyoncé, Quiet Factory, Pusha T, Susan Sarandon, Seth Green, and Oprah Winfrey.

HAPPENING TODAY: The court process begins in Bastrop in Rodney Reed's effort to show he's innocent in the murder of Stacey Stites in 1996. This morning's pre-trial is ahead of an appeal hearing July 19 where his lawyers will present evidence. Latest on #GoodDayAustin @fox7austin

— John Krinjak (@JohnKrinjakFOX7) July 6, 2021

Reed’s allies have likewise made different stages to show their fortitude with him.

At the point when Stacey’s body was found, she was scarcely shrouded and just in her pants and her dark bra. The belt used to choke her was found at the crime location yet it was never tried for DNA.

This is the kind of thing that a great deal of Reed’s allies use as a method for saying that the body of evidence against Reed was unjustifiable.

The story was investigated in Examination Disclosure’s actual wrongdoing series Individuals Magazine Explores on February 10, 2023.