The bodies of seven people, including two missing teenagers and a convicted sex offender, were found Monday afternoon on property near the small Oklahoma town of Henryetta, according to the county sheriff.
The bodies believed to be 14-year-old Ivy Webster and 16-year-old Brittany Brewer were found when officers searched the property where the sex offender, Jesse McFadden, lived, Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice said. in a press conference published by KOTV in Tulsa.
Other bodies likely included McFadden and members of his family, Rice said, noting that none of the victims had been formally identified by the county medical examiner.
The county issued an amber alert early Monday saying the two teens were missing, but the alert was canceled after the bodies were found.
“Our hearts go out to the families, friends, schoolmates and everyone else,” Rice said. “It’s just a tragedy.”
Rice said officers arrived around 3 p.m. (2000 GMT) to search the property and found the bodies.
KOTV reported that Brittany Brewer had gone to spend the weekend with the McFadden family, citing her father, Nathan Brewer. She was supposed to have come home Sunday night, but she never came.
“Brittany was an outgoing person,” Brewer said. “Actually, she was selected to be Miss Henryetta in July for the national Miss pageant in Tulsa, and now she’s not going to make it because she’s dead. She’s gone.”
McFadden, 39, was scheduled to start trial Monday for using a phone while in prison to send sexual messages to a teenage girl.
Oklahoma’s sex offender registry shows Jesse Lee McFadden, 39, who lives at the address where the bodies were found, with a photo that matches the one of McFadden used in local media. He shows that he was convicted of first degree rape in Oklahoma in 2003.
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