Reginald Kimbro was set to go to trial next week for the 2017 rape and murder of 22-year-old Molly Matheson. He also pleaded guilty on Friday in the murder of a Plano woman and multiple other rapes across the state. It was a sudden turn of events this week in a yearslong case.
A North Texas serial rapist and murderer will spend the rest of his life behind bars after admitting he's guilty of two murders.
"I got a phone call Wednesday probably about noon time from the prosecutors, and they were on together," Tracy recalled. "And they said, ‘We have news. We heard from the defense he’s offering to plead guilty.’" Investigators would soon learn Kimbro had been accused years before, but not yet charged, in multiple other rape cases in different jurisdictions.
"We were set to start trial on March 16 of 2020, and the end of the shelter in place happened that day. And so, we were stalled out for two years," Bangs said.
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