My life has been threatened, I’ve been assaulted. After going over the discovery at a rate at one to two hours a day a year, time has worn me down. “I was so mad and humiliated that I was determined to fight this and prove my innocence. “I was taken 500 miles away from everyone and everything I had known and loved,” he said. He insisted that he took the Alford guilty plea not to admit guilt, but because he can’t handle the strains of prison time and the risk of being tried under the harsher charge was too great.

Reed originally pleaded not guilty last year. She should have lived a long life, experienced all that life has to offer and watch her kids grow up, marry, have children and enjoy being a grandmother.” None of this nightmare should have ever happened. “She was one of the nicest people I’ve ever known and I certainly did not kill Sandi. “Sandi was a very good friend to me,” Reed addressed the judge during the hearing. Her skeletal remains were identified via dental records and an autopsy revealed her death was a homicide.īut Reed denied having any romantic relationship with Johnson to police and suggested Johnson could have committed suicide during the investigation. Washington State Department of Transportation workers later discovered her body on Aug. Investigators had learned of Reed’s infatuation with Johnson through several friends. We waited for eight long years before her body was found.”Ĭharging documents state Reed left Washington shortly after Johnson was reported missing. “Sean could hear her voice on the recorder and just knew she had to be nearby,” she said.

Confusion ran rapid.”Īfter Johnson failed to pick up her kids and missed her son’s first birthday party, her estranged husband reported her missing. Who was putting us through this misery on the day she would have loved celebrating? The adults were taking turns crying in the bathroom knowing that she would never leave her precious children unwillingly. “The day passed slowly,” Morley recounted. Johnson also made plans to have lunch with a friend in Bellevue but never showed up. Charging documents state that she left a voicemail with the babysitter the morning of her disappearance, stating that she would pick them up later in the day so she could do some shopping.

She planned for her then 2-year-old daughter and son to stay with a babysitter overnight. Reed and Johnson worked at Bowen Scarff Ford in Kent together when the mother of two disappeared.

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