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BY JUAN A. LOZANO HE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON A convicted kidnapper who might be linked to other violent crimes has been helping investigators digging in a rural area of Houston look for the body of a teenager ho disappeared nearly 20 years ago, his attorney said Friday. William Reece, who is serving a 60-year sentence for a 1997 kidnapping, has been assisting authorities as they try to locate the body of Jessica Cain, said attorney, Anthony Osso. The 17-year-old girl disappeared Aug. 17, 1997, after leaving a restaurant in suburban Houston following dinner ith friends.

Her tan Ford pickup was later found abandoned on Interstate 45, about ve miles north of her home in the small village of Tiki Island near Galveston. At the time of her disappearance, investigators said there was no sign of a struggle and the truck was not ransacked. purse was found in the vehicle. met with him. I counseled him.

He is continuing to cooperate with Osso said of the 56-year-old inmate. Osso declined to comment on other details of the case or characterize hether Reece had confessed to a crime. For more than a week now, authorities have been digging at a pasture in south Houston in the presence of Reece, who was temporarily released from prison to the custody of Galveston County cials. On Friday, two excavators and a small bulldozer could be seen digging at the site. Osso said that Reece has been at the dig site working with investigators.

At the site, owers as well as red and yellow ribbons had been placed along a wire fence. A note had also been left that read in part, Sweet You never leave my mind. for The FBI, the Texas Rangers, and police in the Houston suburbs of Friendswood and La Marque are involved with the investigation. La Marque Police Chief Kirk Jackson declined to comment on what authorities were looking for at the dig site. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt.

William Kennard did not immediately return a call or email seeking comment. parents could not be reached for comment Friday. Her father, C.H. Cain, previously told KTRK-TV in Houston that his family still held out hope his daughter was still alive. leaving it in Cain told the station.

God allows us to have our girl back, be a big disappearance is not the only missing per- son or abduction case that Reece is connected to. In September, authorities in Oklahoma charged Reece with rst degree- murder and kidnappin in the July 26, 1997, abduction and slaying 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston. She was abducted from a car wash in Bethany, located northwest Oklahoma City. On Thursday, police in the North Texas city Denton announced that Reece is a person of interest in the July 15, 1997, disappearance of 20-year-old Kelli Cox, a University North Texas student who vanished after visiting a gas station. Denton Police Department remains committed to actively searching for answers to disappearance and will continue until the facts of her disappearance are known.

family remains in our thoughts and according to a police statement. Reece had previousl been named by police in Friendswood as the prime suspect in the April 3, 1997, abduction and murder of 12-year-old Laur a Kate Smither. Friendswood police spokeswoman Lisa Price declined to comment Friday on case, saying it was still an ongoin investigation. Reece has not been charged in the case. Reece was convicted in 1998 for the May 16, 1997, Houston-area abduction of Sandra Sapaugh, who told authorities Reece forced her at knifepoint into his truck after rst feigning to help her with a at tire.

Sapaugh was able to escape after jumpin out of the truck as it went along Interstate 45. 8B The Monitor, www.themonitor.com SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2016 MA-50011047 BY SETH BORENSTEIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Climate change doubters may have lost one of their key talking points: a particular satellite temperature data- set that had seemed to show no warming for the past 18 years. The Remote Sensing System temperature data, promoted by many who reject mainstream climate science and especially most recently by Sen. Ted Cruz, now shows a slight warming of about 0.18 degrees Fahrenheit since 1998. Ground temperature measurements, which many scientists call more accurate, all show warming in the past 18 years.

are people that like to claim there was no warming; they really claim that said Carl Mears, the scientist who runs the Remote Sensing System temperature data tracking. The change resulted from an adjustment Mears made to a nagging discrepancy in the data from 15 satellites. The satellites are in a polar orbit, so they are supposed to go over the same place at about the same time as they circle from north to south pole. Some of the satellites drift a bit, which changes their afternoon and evening measurements ever so slightly. Some satellites had drift that made temperatures warmer, others cooler.

Three satellites had thrusters and they stayed in the proper orbit so they provided guidance for adjustments. Mears said he was by xing these differences between the satellites. If the differences been there, I have done the NASA chief climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas said experts and studies had shown these problems that Mears adjusted and they both said those adjustments make sense and are well supported in a study in the American Meteorological Journal of Climate. The study refutes the idea of a pause in global warm- ing, frankly common sense and looking at ho Earth was responding over the past 18 years kind makes this nding a wrote University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd. Chip Knappenberger of the Cato Institute, who doubt that human- caused climate change is happening but does not agree with mainstream scientists who say the problem is enormous, said this shows messy the procedures are in putting the satellite data The other major satellite temperature data set, run by University of Alabama- Huntsville professor John Christy, shows slight warming after 1998.

But if 1998 is included in the data, it sees no warming. But that should change with a warm 2016, Christy said. In fact, Christy used his measurements to determine that February 2016 was 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit above the average for the month the largest such disparit for any month since records were rst kept, in 1979. Imprisoned kidnapper helping police find body Revamped satellite data shows no pause in global warming A man pours water on his face during a hot summer day on May 24, 2015, in Hyderabad, India. Mahesh Kumar A.

The Associated Press Photos by David The Associated Press At top: A card and note hang on a fence Friday, surrounding the area where authorities continue to search for human remains near Houston. Above: Authorities continue to search on Friday for human remains in a eld near Houston. Another missing case linked to kidnapper. MY monitor news.com met with him. I counseled him.

He is continuing to cooperate with Anthony Osso William attorney.