The bodies of seven people, including two missing teens and a convicted sex offender, were discovered in rural Oklahoma on Monday, officials confirmed.
Authorities found the bodies on a property near Henryetta, a town of about 6,000 located about 90 miles (145km) east of Oklahoma City, where the sex offender, Jesse McFadden, lived. They had been searching for Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 16, after officials issued an Amber alert earlier Monday.
Officials say they think they found the bodies of Ivy and Brittany and that the others likely included McFadden and members of his family, said Eddy Rice, the Okmulgee county sheriff. He cautioned that none of the victims had yet been formally identified by the county medical examiner but that authorities were no longer searching for the missing teens or McFadden.
“We’ve had our share of troubles and woes, but this one is pretty bad,” Rice told reporters.
Rice declined to confirm where the bodies were found or any details about weapons that may have been discovered on the property.
“We believe there’s no other threat to the community,” he added.
Officials had issued a missing and endangered person advisory earlier on Monday for Ivy and Brittany . The Oklahoma highway patrol canceled the advisory on Monday afternoon.
The teens were reportedly seen traveling with McFadden, who was on the state’s sex offender registry. He was convicted of first-degree rape in 2003 and released in October 2020, according to Oklahoma department of corrections prison records.
Court records show McFadden was scheduled to appear in court Monday for the start of a jury trial on charges of soliciting sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography.
Brittany’s father told KOTV in Tulsa that one of the bodies discovered was his daughter.
“Brittany was an outgoing person. She was actually selected to be Miss Henryetta … coming up in July for this Miss National Miss pageant in Tulsa. And now she ain’t gonna make it because she’s dead. She’s gone,” Nathan Brewer said.
Brittany had gone to spend the weekend with the McFadden family, her father told KOTV. She was supposed to have returned home on Sunday night but never arrived.
