Indiana, on charges of assault. His particulars were sent to the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, who determined that he was also wanted by the Royal Canadian Mounted 
Police in connection with a multiple rape-murder at Lac aux Ecorces in the Province of 
Quebec.
  Reece was extradited to Quebec, where he was tried and found guilty of homicide. The 
evidence that principally decided the jury was a set of US Army dogtags discovered 
beneath the floorboards of the cabin where the rape-murders took place. They were 
identified as belonging to Richard Reece.
  Richard Reece was sentenced to life imprisonment. He hanged himself in his cell on the 
morning of July 9, 1985, leaving a note that said simply, 'Fish Hook.'
  FOOTNOTE II On February 18, 1986, a down-and-out was attacked in an alley between 14th 
and 15th Streets in Joplin, Missouri. The victim had been torn to pieces 'as if by 
wolves.' Pieces of his body were found as far as 65 feet apart.
  The only eye-witness to the killing was a partially-blind derelict of 72 years old, who 
was drunk on turpentine substitute at the time. He told the police that there were two 
killers, both 'with faces like ashes and eyes like orange fire.'
  His evidence was discounted by investigating officers, and the coroner's eventual 
finding was that the down-and-out had been killed 'by persons or animals unknown.'
  







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