In his four seasons at Houston, Bass caught 105 passes for 1,821 yards and 16 touchdowns.
He did not have any regular season receptions in his last two years, though he did catch a touchdown pass in the Bengals 1981 win over the San Diego Chargers in the AFC championship game.
Billingslea was convicted of killing Bass in 1990 while serving a 25-year prison sentence for another murder.
He was paroled in 2007 and was convicted of a third murder in 2009, resulting in a 50-year prison sentence on top of the 11 years left for the original killings.
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