His friend fellow police officer now admits that Fennell gave him completely inconsistent accounts of his whereabouts at the time of the murder. Stites was most likely murdered by her fiance, Jimmy Fennell, Jr.įennell was the original prime suspect in the case. Requests to test the murder weapon for DNA have been repeatedly denied. No DNA evidence links Reed to the scene of the crime or any other element of the murder. The prosecution claims that Reed was able to break into Stites’ car on foot while she was inside it, and committed a brutal murder and sexual assault without leaving any physical evidence behind. Multiple witnesses confirm this, including members of Stites’ family. The DNA evidence cited by the prosecution resulted from a consensual sexual relationship with Stites. Despite sworn affidavits from witnesses establishing that Jimmy Fennell threatened to kill Stites before, and that he has subsequently confessed to the crime, and compelling expert testimony establishing Reed’s innocence, all requests to evaluate new evidence have been unsuccessful.
He was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for this.
After the murder of Stacey Stites, Fennell kidnapped a woman and sexually assaulted her while on duty as a police officer. The original suspect in the case was Stites’ fiancé, Jimmy Fennell, a brutal police officer with a history of violence against women.
Currently, he is scheduled to die in just a few days on November 20, 2019. The prosecution, citing that DNA persuaded an all-white jury of his guilt he was convicted and sentenced to die by lethal injection. He was in a consensual relationship with Stacey Stites and the only DNA of Rodney’s that was found was from this consensual relationship.
Absolutely zero evidence exists that Rodney had anything at all to do with this crime. Rodney has steadfastly maintained his innocence from Day 1.
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