A grieving mother in Oklahoma kept finding trinkets on the tombstone of her daughter whose 1997 murder was still unsolved. Certain clues made her think it might have been the prime suspect's mother.
48 Hours'" correspondent Erin Moriarty, airs Saturday, January 21 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount +.For years, Kathy Dobry waited to see if her daughter Tiffany Johnston's murder would ever be solved. And for many of those years, when Dobry visited Johnston's grave, she would sometimes find what she describes as trinkets on her daughter's tombstone.
After the murder, Dobry held a funeral for Johnston back in Anadarko and says she asked a woman she knew from town named Patsy Miely, who had worked for her before doing laundry, to iron the clothes Johnston wore in the casket. After his 1997 arrest in Texas, Reece's name came up as a suspect in Johnston's case. The car wash owner recognized Reece as a frequent customer and call records showed Reece had made a phone call in Yukon on the day she went missing, near the site where Johnston's body was found, and within an hour of when she was last seen alive.
In a 2022 interview with"48 Hours," Dobry told correspondent Erin Moriarty that the trinkets were tiny plastic baubles, like what you might get out of a gumball machine. She says she started finding them the year after Johnston died and when she saw them, she called everybody she knew, asking if they'd left anything there."You know, and everyone was, 'No, we haven't been to the cemetery,'" Dobry said.
After Dobry learned about the evidence connecting Reece to her daughter's murder, she told Moriarty she wondered if Reece's mother Patsy Miely had suspected her son was Johnston's killer all along, especially since Dobry says she stopped finding those items on Johnston's grave after Miely died in 2005.
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