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   A convicted rapist was charged with murder and attempted sexual assault Friday   
   in the killing of a visiting nurse at a Connecticut halfway house for sex   
   offenders in October — a crime that spurred calls for better safety measures   
   for home health care    
   workers.   
      
   Authorities added the charges against Michael Reese, 39, as he appeared in   
   state court in Danielson for a related larceny and drug paraphernalia case.   
   Police arrested him on those allegations as he was leaving the Willimantic   
   halfway house on the day    
   when Joyce Grayson was found dead in the basement on Oct. 28. Officers said   
   Reese had some of Grayson's possessions on him.   
      
   Grayson, a 63-year-old mother of six and a nurse for 36 years, had gone to the   
   house to administer medication to Reese. Police responded there when someone   
   reported she had missed later appointments.   
      
   Reese was charged with murder, felony murder and attempted first-degree sexual   
   assault, according to the court clerk's office. Additional details of the   
   allegations were not immediately available.   
      
   Reese's public defender did not immediately return phone and emails messages   
   seeking comment Friday.   
      
   New details of the killing emerged Friday with the release of the arrest   
   warrant for Reese. Grayson was strangled and was found naked from the waist   
   down, except for her socks, according to the warrant. She also had blunt-force   
   injuries to her head,    
   torso and extremities, the warrant said, citing an autopsy by the chief   
   medical examiner's office.   
      
   Testing also showed that DNA found on Grayson's body was highly likely Reese's   
   DNA, the warrant said.   
      
   Grayson's daughter called police to request a well-being check after Grayson   
   missed some appointments after Reese, the warrant said. The daughter said she   
   used a phone location app and it said Grayson was at the address of the   
   halfway house, according to    
   the document.   
      
   Police also said the Department of Correction recorded phone calls Reese made   
   while detained on the larceny and drug paraphernalia charges that appear to   
   implicate him in the killing.   
      
   “Basically, bro, it was a robbery gone wrong, bro. A robbery gone accident,   
   that's it,” Reese said on one of the calls, according to the warrant.   
      
   In another phone conversation, Reese said he had started using drugs again and   
   it led him to do “what happened," the warrant said. He also said that he   
   would take a plea bargain, according to the document.   
      
   “I'm going to take the first offer that they give me as long as the charges   
   are right,” he said, according to the warrant. “I don't care, like, I'm,   
   I've already come to terms that this is it for me.”   
      
   Grayson was a nurse for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and   
   Addiction Services for 26 years before serving as a visiting nurse for over a   
   decade, according to her family. She also was a beloved foster parent, taking   
   in nearly three dozen    
   children and being honored with the state’s Foster Parent of the Year award   
   in 2017.   
      
   After her death, state and federal lawmakers renewed pushes to prevent   
   violence against health care workers.   
      
   Reese, who was on probation after serving more than 14 years in prison for   
   stabbing and sexually assaulting a woman in 2006 in New Haven, was taken into   
   police custody while leaving the halfway house on the day Grayson was killed.   
   He was released from    
   prison in late 2020 and was sent back to detention two times for violating   
   probation, state records show.   
      
   Authorities said he had some of Grayson’s belongings, including credit   
   cards, and was charged with violating probation, larceny and using drug   
   paraphernalia.   
      
      
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