Oklahoma murders: Jesse McFadden allegedly texted victim’s mom posing as slain teen
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Jesse McFadden is believed to have texted the mother of one of his victims posing as the murdered teenager, it has been revealed.
Ivy Webster’s mother told NewsNation that she got a final message from her daughter’s phone on Sunday morning but now thinks McFadden wrote the message pretending to be her daughter.
Authorities said on Wednesday that McFadden shot his six victims in the head with his wife’s gun before “staging” the grisly scene on his rural property.
The victims were identified as McFadden’s wife Holly Guess, 35, her children, Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17, Michael James Mayo, 15, and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13, as well as two other teenagers Ivy, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 15 – both of whom were friends with Guess’s children.
McFadden was a convicted sex offender who was sent to prison in 2003 for raping Krystle Strong. He was released early in 2020.
Ms Strong told The Independent that she begged several Oklahoma state agencies to halt his early release – which came despite McFadden being hit with fresh charges in 2017 after he was caught using a contraband cell phone to exchange nude photos with a minor.
McFadden was released three years early over 2003 rape
Authorities began a search after McFadden failed to appear at his long-delayed jury trial on Monday in Muskogee County. His body was later discovered along with his wife, her son and daughters, and two other teens who were visiting the family over the weekend.
Now family members of the victims are asking why McFadden, sentenced to 20 years in 2003 for first-degree rape, was freed three years early, in part for good behavior, despite facing new charges that he used a contraband cell phone to trade nude photos with the young woman in 2016. He was released in 2020 after 16 years and nine months, even though the charges could send him back to prison for many years if convicted.
“And they rushed him out of prison. How?” asked Janette Mayo. She said she was told that her daughter, Holly Guess, 35, and her grandchildren, Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17; Michael James Mayo, 15; and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13, were all shot to death.
“Oklahoma failed to protect families. And because of that my children -- my daughter and my grandchildren -- are all gone,” Ms Mayo told The Associated Press. “I’ve lost my daughter and my grandchildren and I’m never going to get to see ’em, never going to get to hold them, and it’s killing me.”
Victim’s mother says daughter had turned 15 just a week before she was found dead along six others
Brittany’s grieving mother Malaina Schabell told NewsNation that her daughter, who had just turned 15 last week, and Ivy had gone to McFadden’s home for a sleepover with Tiffany. Ms Schabell said her daughter had been to McFadden’s at least four times since Christmas without incident and that she was not aware of his convictions.
“She told me she’d call me later and I never heard anything from her which wasn’t normal,” Ms Schabell said through tears. “I knew something was wrong ‘cause she wasn’t answering, I tried to call. I got online on her Facebook and I tried calling her, video calling her, and I messaged her and she wouldn’t respond, and it showed she was online and but she wouldn’t respond, so I knew something was wrong.”
She added: “I’ve been trying, you know, sitting here all day trying to think positive thoughts that ‘She’s gonna come home, she’s gonna come home, she’s gonna come home.’ But you know, I didn’t want to believe she’s gone and I still don’t.”
Victims' families question release of Oklahoma sex offender
Relatives of four teenage girls who were among seven people shot to death on a rural Oklahoma property are questioning how a sex offender among the dead — a rapist accused of soliciting nude images from another teen while behind bars — was ever allowed to go free.
Law enforcement authorities have released no details about how they died or who killed them since the bodies were found on Monday. But a series of ominous text messages — sent by Jesse McFadden, 39, to his young accuser hours before his trial was to begin on felony charges of soliciting and possessing images of child sex abuse — suggest that he blamed the woman for ending his “great life” and that he was determined not to return to prison.
According to screen grabs of the messages, forwarded to KOKI in Tulsa by the young woman McFadden allegedly groomed from prison, he said he was having success at a marketing job and “making great money.”
“Now it’s all gone,” he texted. “I told you I wouldn’t go back.
“This is all on you for continuing this,” he finished.
Muskogee County District Attorney Larry Edwards said the young woman shared the text messages with him as well. “They are tragic. Let’s just say that. He more or less blames her for what he did and that’s the part I really have the problem with, because she didn’t do anything wrong,” Edwards told Tulsa-based KOTV.
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Jesse McFadden shot victims in head then ‘staged’ scene
Horrifying new details have come to light about the mass killing at the Oklahoma home of a convicted rapist.
Authorities said on Wednesday that Jesse McFadden shot his six victims in the head before “staging” the grisly scene on his rural property and then turning the gun on himself.
Seven bodies were discovered at the property on Monday during a frantic search for two teenagers who failed to return home from a slumber party with a friend.
The victims were identified as McFadden’s wife Holly Guess, 35, her children, Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17, Michael James Mayo, 15, and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13, as well as two other teenagers Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 15 – both of whom were friends with Guess’s children.
All six had suffered between one and three gunshot wounds in their head, Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice revealed on Wednesday.
The bodies were then moved with the scene “appeared to be staged” by McFadden.
Guess, Michael and Tiffany were found together outside on the property while the bodies of Ivy, Brittany and Rylee were found in separate locations – about 150 yards apart from each other, officials said.
Victims were killed by handgun bought by McFadden’s wife last year
Convicted rapist Jesse McFadden used his wife’s handgun to kill her, her three children and the children’s two teenage friends, it has been revealed.
McFadden’s wife Holly Guess, 35, her children, Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17, Michael James Mayo, 15, and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13, and teenagers Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 15 were shot dead by McFadden at his Oklahoma property.
He then turned the gun on himself.
On Wednesday, authorities announced that the six victims were “murdered” by McFadden with a handgun Guess had purchased in 2022.
Grandmother shares heartbreak after two grandchildren identified among seven bodies found in Oklahoma
OSBI spokesperson Gerald Davidson said during a press conference that although the victims have not been officially identified by the medical examiner, three of them were believed to be the missing teens, 14-year-old Ivy Webster and 15-year-old Brittany Brewer, and McFadden. On Tuesday, the other four victims were identified by relatives as McFadden’s wife Holly Guess, 35, and her children Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17, Michael James Mayo, 15, and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13.
Judy White-Allen, the grandmother of Rylee and Michael and former mother-in-law of Guess, said her family is still processing the devastating tragedy.
“My kids are hurting. My son lost his daughter and son,” Ms White-Allen told The Independent. “My other kids lost their niece and nephew. My grandkids lost their cousins. Rylee and Michael have [four] other siblings that will never know them.”
The grandmother also described her former daughter-in-law Guess as a “great mother” with a “big heart”.
Questions mount as to why McFadden was freed from prison
Questions continue to mount as to why Jesse McFadden was freed from prison to carry out the horror attack.
McFadden was convicted of first-degree rape in 2003 before being released in 2020.
However, during that time behind bars, he was hit with new charges of soliciting sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography.
McFadden had allegedly exchanged nude photos and videos with an underage girl from behind bars.
Despite the charges, he was released in 2020.
He was due in court on Monday morning for the start of his trial on those charges.
Lee Berlin, a Tulsa-based defense attorney, told The Associated Press that there was a “panoply of errors” in the McFadden case.
“I’m a sex-crimes defense attorney – this is all I do all day every day – and I’m like, how the hell does that happen?” he asked.
Victim’s mother says McFadden controlled her
The mother and grandmother of the shooting victims has spoken out about the control Jesse McFadden had over her daughter.
The victims were identified as McFadden’s wife Holly Guess, 35, her children, Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17, Michael James Mayo, 15, and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13, as well as two other teenagers Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 15 – both of whom were friends with Guess’s children.
Guess’ mother Janette Mayo told KJRH that Guess had moved from Westville to Henryetta with McFadden and that he was controlling of her.
“He was the one telling Holly where she could go, when she could go, who she could talk to. If we took one of the kids, he would track their cellphones,” she said.
She said that she only learned of McFadden’s past crimes a few months ago and tried to tell her daughter.
But, she said that McFadden “fed her a ton of lies” about what had happened.
Oklahoma sex offender texted victim ‘this is all on you’ hours before seven bodies found at his property
An Oklahoma convicted rapist texted his alleged soliciting victim the night before seven bodies were found on his property.
The Oklahoma State of Bureau Investigations (OSBI) announced on Monday that seven bodies were found on the Henryetta property of 39-year-old Jesse McFadden. The gruesome discovery was made after two teens went missing in the area on Sunday.
McFadden, who was on the sex offender registry, failed to show up in court on Monday morning to stand trial on charges of soliciting sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography. The victim in that case has since revealed that McFadden reportedly texted her the night before authorities found the seven victims.
“I did exactly what I promised I would do when I got out,” the text, exclusively obtained by FOX 23, read. “I got a marketing job making great money and was being advanced been there 2 years now and made a great life like I promised I would do with you.”
“Now it’s all gone, I told you I wouldn’t go back ... This is all on you for continuing this,” another set of texts stated.
Who is the convicted rapist who killed six people before turning gun on himself?
Jesse McFadden, 39, had been scheduled to appear in court on the same day that the bodies were found on his rural property.
Also killed were two teenagers who were reported missing and endangered on Monday morning after they failed to return home after being in his company.
The identities of the other four victims are yet to be publicly confirmed, but relatives named then as McFadden’s wife Holly Guess and her teenage children Rylee Elizabeth Allen, Michael James Mayo, and Tiffany Dore Guess.
The Independent’s Rachel Sharp has more:
Who is Jesse McFadden, the convicted rapist at centre of Oklahoma body discovery?
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