Seven bodies found while searching for two missing female students in Oklahoma

Police say seven bodies were discovered in the property of a registered sex offender.

Janette Mayo, 59, of Westville, Oklahoma, said on May 2 that her daughter and three grandchildren were among seven people found dead at a rural Oklahoma property during the search for two missing schoolgirls and a sex offender. The Okmulgee County Sheriff's Office had earlier informed her late on May 1 that the four victims were her daughter, Holly Guess, 35, and her granddaughters, Rylee Allen, 17, Michael Mayo, 15, and Tiffany Guess, 13.

According to KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice said that police initially searched for two missing girls, Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 16. And then found their bodies during a search of the house where convicted sex offender Jesse McFadden lived. We will stop the search because we believe we have found everything in the search, Mr. Rice added.

While Mr. Rice declined to provide details about the deaths — the tragedy occurred in a year marked by a rise in mass killings in the U.S. — Ms. Mayo said the sheriff’s office told her that her daughter and grandchildren were all found shot to death in different locations on the McFadden property.

The bodies were found on May 1 during a search near Henryetta, a town of about 6,000 residents about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City, the state’s largest city, said Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokesman Gerald Davidson.

Earlier in the day, local authorities issued a missing persons notice for Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 16. The notice was removed later that afternoon.

'She's gone'

"Brittany went on vacation with the McFadden family for the weekend and returned home Sunday night (April 30)," Nathan Brewe, Brittany's father, told KOTV. "She was outgoing, outgoing, and had been chosen as Miss Henryetta for the upcoming Miss Tulsa National Pageant, and now she can't because she's gone."

McFadden, 39, is scheduled to appear in a local court on May 1 for using a cell phone while in prison to send sexually explicit messages to an underage girl.

Oklahoma sex offender registration shows McFadden, who lived at the address where the bodies were found, was sentenced in 2003 to 20 years in prison for first-degree rape in the sexual assault of a 17-year-old and released three years early, in part for good behavior, despite facing charges that he used his cellphone to secretly exchange nude photos with a 16-year-old girl while in prison.

He was released in 2020 after serving 16 years and nine months, although the new charges could see him jailed for many years if convicted.

Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation spokesman Gerald Davidson said the Okmulgee County District Attorney's Office Violent Crimes Task Force said on May 1 that the two girls may have been in front of someone at a residence on Holly Street in suburban Henryetta.

Sheriff's deputies visited twice. It was the second visit that found the bodies, Davidson said.

The Henryetta school, which the victims attended, posted on its Facebook page and website that it was grieving the loss of several students. “Our hearts are broken, and we are considering what is best for our students in the coming days,” the post read.

Schools will have meetings, officials said, and mental health professionals will be on hand to help counsel students.

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