In 2005, based upon results from DNA profiling, Reid was tied to the 1989 murders of Lannell Williams and Lisa Kelly, and authorities suspect him in more.

[1] In 2006, Reid was arrested at his home in Denver, and was charged with the murder of Lenell Williams, after investigators successfully identified a match in his DNA to traces of biological evidence found at the crime scene.

[1] After further examination, they also charged him for the murder of Lisa Kay Kelly, a prostitute whose badly decomposed body was found on March 24, 1989, on a mountain side.

Since the bodies were found at various stages of decomposition, any fingerprints or biological traces of the suspect could not be located quickly enough, therefore even if Reid was sought after in the deaths, no DNA evidence could conclusively tie him to them.

Witnesses who are reported to have seen the killer described him as a middle-aged white male, despite Reid being a younger black man at the time of the murders.