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Investigators use psychology to help extract confessions from a suspected serial killer
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More than two decades after "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty began reporting on the case of a missing 12-year-old girl from Friendswood, Texas, there is finally a conclusion to the case. What no one knew when Laura Smither first went missing in 1997 was that she had been the victim of a serial killer. William Reece would go on to murder three young women that same year before he was eventually identified by DNA.
Erin Moriarty: There was a very scary killer who was going up and down I-45 on his way, Texas, Oklahoma and back –
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