Lieutenant Barry Ward
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Jimmy Ray Barnes did tell me that Reginald Reed offered him $50,000 to quote unquote knock off his wife.
Jimmy said he was known to carry a gun, but you fast forward 25, now 30 years, Reginald Reed was now an old man.
Reginald asked you if you would, quote, by your term, knock off his wife. And that means, you took that to mean to kill her, to murder her.
What was your response to that? Hell no. Did he discuss any money with you?
More than $5,000?
More than $10,000?
He offered you $50,000? Yeah. Is that a guess, or is that the amount he offered you?
I talked to Billy, and he said he took that polygraph test. And if Billy looked like you and was questioned over a murder that you took part in and he doesn't know anything about it, he's probably gonna pass that polygraph test. Would that be fair to say?
I would get phone calls through the years from prosecutors who had asked me to re-interview family members, find out additional information, test more evidence.
My initial response was to just get this guy off the phone.
I think he saw what I saw. I think that made all the difference in the world.
We were able to locate Jimmy. He was staying in the camper at his employer's place. We pulled up early in the morning when the sun was coming up, and he was coming out of this camper, putting a belt in his pants. And he said, hey, who y'all looking for? I said, you, Jimmy. And he goes, oh, you again.
A couple of weeks later, grand jury in Tenswell Parish returned second-degree murder indictments for both Reginald Reed and Jimmy Ray Barnes. Immediately, we went to Reginald's home. I knocked on the door, identified who I was, and that I had an arrest warrant for him for the murder of his wife. He really had no emotion.
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