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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

'Black Widow' murders husband, then targets, kills her 'lookalike' to assume her identity!

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Charges filed against Lois Riess who allegedly killed her lookalike to steal her identity so she could hide while on the run for murdering her husband. Riess now under a murder indictment. Nancy Grace follows Lois Riess's deadly trail in this episode with forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, psychologist Caryn Stark, lawyer Mickey Sherman, psycho analyst Bethany Marshall, and Crime Stories contributing reporter John Lemley. Also, help us find missing teen Emma Stokes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

0:07.0

A Minnesota woman, a petite platinum blonde

0:15.0

triggers a nationwide manhunt.

0:19.0

After her husband is found dead on a worm farm,

0:23.0

I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.

0:25.0

Thank you for being with us in the last hours.

0:28.0

Major breaking news in the case of Lois Reese.

0:34.0

Her husband found dead shot by apparently a shotgun.

0:40.0

The ballistic still out on that 54-year-old David Reese in Blooming Prairie

0:46.0

found dead on his worm farm with a blanket over him.

0:50.0

Shot multiple times.

0:53.0

Police now believe his lovely wife Lois, the petite platinum blonde,

0:58.0

then forges business and personal checks

1:01.0

stealing about 11 grand from him and fleeing to Florida.

1:05.0

She stopped at several casinos and paraded across lobbies

1:09.0

and through gambling machines in full view of surveillance video.

1:15.0

Gammals to her heart's content stays in a luxury hotel

1:18.0

running up the tab with room service and pay-proviews.

1:23.0

Then surveillance video pops up in Fort Myers Beach.

1:27.0

It catches her talking with a petite platinum blonde doppelganger

1:33.0

named Pam Hutchinson at an oyster bar.

1:38.0

Well, Lois Reese now accused a befriending pamphlet murdering her,

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