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'Everybody's dead': Seven bodies found at rural US property during search for teens

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Publish Date
Tue, 2 May 2023, 12:02pm
Oklahoma teen Ivy Webster has been found dead with six other bodies after going missing on Monday. Photo / Facebook
Oklahoma teen Ivy Webster has been found dead with six other bodies after going missing on Monday. Photo / Facebook

'Everybody's dead': Seven bodies found at rural US property during search for teens

Author
AP,
Publish Date
Tue, 2 May 2023, 12:02pm

Authorities discovered the bodies of seven people Monday while searching a rural Oklahoma property for two missing teenagers, state investigators confirmed.

The bodies were found near the town of Henryetta, a town of about 6000 located about 145km east of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokesman Gerald Davidson said.

He said the state medical examiner will have to identify the victims, but authorities were no longer searching for the missing teens or a man they may have been with.

“We’ve had our share of troubles and woes, but this one is pretty bad,” Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice told reporters.

“Everybody’s dead.”

Rice declined to confirm the identities of any of the victims, 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.

A missing endangered person advisory had been issued earlier Monday for 14-year-old Ivy Webster and 16-year-old Brittany Brewer. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol cancelled the advisory Monday afternoon.

The advisory for Webster and Brewer had said they were reportedly seen travelling with Jesse McFadden, who was on the state’s sex offender registry. Oklahoma Department of Corrections prison records show McFadden was convicted of first-degree rape in 2003 and released in October 2020.

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. A message left Monday evening with McFadden’s attorney in that case was not immediately returned.

In a separate Okmulgee County case, the bodies of four men were found October 14 in the Deep Fork River in Okmulgee, a town of around 11,000 people that is about 65km south of Tulsa. Joseph Kennedy, 68, is facing four counts of first-degree murder in that case.

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