Randall Kenneth ReedA laborer who killed a 70-year-old East Ridge woman by suffocating her in her Hardin Drive home in 2011 has been sentenced to life in prison for the crime.
Randall Reed was sentenced Tuesday by Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Rebecca Stern. He was found guilty of first-degree murder in the June 15, 2011, slaying of Jane Stokes.
Reed had done work on a fence at Stokes’ 707 Hardin Drive home before her murder and returned to steal her debit card.
Prosecutors said that, from working at the house, Reed knew the elderly Stokes lived alone and rose at 5 a.m. on weekdays for her job at local accounting firm Henderson, Hutcherson and McCullough.
The man bound Stokes’ hands behind her back with black zip-ties and wrapped her head in cellophane. Within hours of her death ATM cameras captured photographs of Reed withdrawing money from Stokes’ account.