Global Courant 2023-05-04 06:05:48
A convicted sex offender in Oklahoma shot and killed six people — including his wife and her three children — before turning the gun on himself, police confirmed Wednesday.
The details come after 39-year-old Jesse McFadden and the bodies of seven others were found Monday at an estate near Henryetta, Oklahoma, about 90 miles east of Oklahoma City.
Okmulgee police chief Joe Prentice said the victims had been shot one to three times in the head.
A missing person advisory released Monday by Oklahoma authorities. (OHP)
The victims were McFadden’s 35-year-old wife, Holly Guess, and her three children, Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17; Michael James Mayo, 15; and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13.
Two teenage girls, Brittany Brewer, 16, and Ivy Webster, 14, who visited the family over the weekend, were also found dead.
Jesse McFadden, 39, was convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl in 2003. (Jesse McFadden/TikTok, Oklahoma Department of Corrections)
Police found the seven bodies during a search for McFadden after he failed to appear at his long-delayed jury trial Monday in Muskogee County.
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McFadden was sentenced to 20 years in 2003 for the premeditated rape of a 17-year-old. He was released three years early despite new allegations of using a smuggled mobile phone in 2016 to trade nude photos with a 16-year-old girl.
Now relatives of the victims are wondering why McFadden — despite new charges that could send him back to prison — was released after serving just 16 years and nine months of his original 20-year sentence.
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment on the matter.
FILE: From left to right: Tiffany Guess, Michael Mayo and Rylee Elizabeth Allen, three of the seven people found dead on Monday, May 1, 2022 at a rural Oklahoma estate. (Courtesy of Janette Mayo via AP)
Court records show that McFadden was charged with the new crimes in 2017 after the young woman’s relative alerted authorities.
He was released in October 2020, arrested the following month, and then released on $25,000 bail pending trial, which has been repeatedly delayed, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ominous text messages obtained by KOKI show McFadden appearing to blame his accuser – now a 23-year-old woman – for ending his “great life” and saying he was determined not to go to jail.
“Now it’s all gone,” he texted. “I told you I wouldn’t go back.”
He added, “This is all up to you to go through with this.”
This undated image by Ashleigh Webster shows Ivy Webster, one of seven people found dead in rural Oklahoma. (Courtesy of Ashleigh Webster via AP)
McFadden married Guess in May 2022; what she knew about his criminal record is not clear. Her mother, Janette Mayo, said the family only learned about her son-in-law’s criminal past a few months ago.
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“He lied to my daughter and he convinced her it was all just a big mistake,” Mayo told The Associated Press. “He was very aloof, generally very quiet, but he actually kept my daughter and the kids under lock and key. He had to know where they were at all times, which raised red flags.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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