Brad Reay Found Guilty After Trying to Blame Wife’s Murder on His Daughter
What do you call a man who tries to blame his wife’s vicious murder, first on his wife’s lover, and then on his own daughter? You call him “somebody’s bitch in county”. You can also call him Brad Reay. The 47-year-old dad from Pierre, South Dakota got desperate when accused of killing 41-year-old Tami Reay after she declared she wanted a divorce. Days later, her naked body was found nearby, with several penetration wounds running to the hilt of the blade that had stabbed her.
During his court testimony, Reay testified that he had found his daughter Haylee by her mom’s bed, holding a bloodied kitchen knife. (It was just coincidental that this freak-out happened days after Brad’s marriage fell apart, you see.) After supposedly cleaning her off, Reay dumped his dear departed wife’s body, stripping her naked and shoving a condom up her ass to make it look like a rape.
All to protect his daughter. Right? Right.
Not surprisingly, Haylee had quite a different story. According to her, she woke up one day and found her mother gone - and her dad insisting that she not talk about it to anybody. She also maintained that her dad had always been cold with her, and that the two didn’t have a good relationship. The jury believed Haylee more than her old man, and found him guilty of first degree murder. The jury also considered manslaughter, but apparently decided that this wasn’t an act of passion or rage: it was an act of cold-blooded calculation.
The murder of Tami Reay is horrifying. But blaming it on your daughter? Lord, what a scumbag.
I can’t find whether the prosecution intends to seek the death penalty. Given that South Dakota hasn’t executed anyone since the mid-1970s, I doubt it. Ah well. He’ll rot the rest of his life in prison…and those of us on the outside will ensure his name lives on in infamy.
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3 opinions for Brad Reay Found Guilty After Trying to Blame Wife’s Murder on His Daughter
Anonomyus
Jan 31, 2007 at 1:54 pm
What an asshole, he should get the life in prison sentence for that shit, it’s his girl and he wants to pin it on her…. What a fucker.!!
DESCHRIS
Dec 4, 2007 at 8:11 am
WOW!! People are just sick!! Why dont they just leave the kids out of it!! UGH!! I hope he is in a cell with a big man that will have his way with him!!
rockdoll_71
Dec 4, 2007 at 10:53 pm
What a jerk! Blaming his kid for something like that. He was only thinking of himself.
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