Police link DNA to accused killer Bloodstains found in Bowdoin home

WEST BATH – Investigators matched DNA from bloodstains from accused killer Olland Reese’s home with DNA from a Brunswick teen-ager whose body was found buried 150 yards away, according to court documents released Tuesday.

The state police affidavit was unsealed as Reese appeared in West Bath District Court for a bail hearing. Reese, who was arrested June 28, was ordered held without bail.

Reese, 19, was alone in his Bowdoin home when the victim, Cody Green, 17, arrived in a taxi May 25, and he gave three different versions when asked whether he saw Green that day, according to the affidavit written by Maine State Police Detective Forrest Crilly.

A friend of the victim reported to police that Green went to the home to buy cocaine from Reese and his girlfriend, Kara McGinnis.

Green was reported missing the next day, but her disappearance was treated as a runaway instead of a missing-person case.

Her body was discovered a month later in a shallow grave 150 yards from Reese’s Main Street home. She had a cut on her head, her wrists were bound with duct tape and her fully clothed body was covered in a floral sheet.

There was one set of footprints leading from the body to the home that Reese shared with his mother, the affidavit said.

Inside the home, investigators discovered a bloodstain on a wall in the hallway near the back door, as well as additional bloodstains on a small steel hatchet and on a futon in the living room, the affidavit said.

Tests are being run on the additional bloodstains to determine whether there’s a DNA match with the victim, investigators said.

Investigators were able to determine from records from the taxi company that Green was dropped off between 3 and 6 p.m. May 25. Reese was alone because his mother was in Rhode Island and his girlfriend was at work.

Crilly wrote that Reese gave three different versions of whether he saw Green on the day she came to the home.

In one version, he said he was in Old Orchard Beach May 25 but later he told another investigator that Green came to the house but left because Kara McGinnis was not home.

In the final version, Green said he was in the shower and saw the taxi leaving the driveway when he got out.