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Oklahoma sex offender found dead with family, missing teens,
kept family ‘under lock and key’
By SEAN MURPHY
yesterday
HENRYETTA, Okla. (AP) — A registered sex offender found dead on a rural Oklahoma property with his wife, her teenage children and two visiting teens kept the family “under lock and key” and always had to know where they were, the wife’s mother said Tuesday.
Janette Mayo, 59, of Westville, said Jesse McFadden’s controlling behavior was concerning, but the family didn’t learn about his criminal history until a few months ago.
“He lied to my daughter, and he convinced her it was all just a huge mistake,” Mayo told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday morning. “He was very demure. He was very standoffish, generally very quiet, but he kept my daughter and the kids basically under lock and key. He had to know where they were at all times, which sent red flags up.”
Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice said Monday that the bodies found near the town of Henryetta, were believed to include those of two missing teens, Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 16, along with McFadden, the felon with whom authorities said the teens had been traveling. But Rice said the state medical examiner would have to confirm the victims’ identities.
“We are no longer looking,” Rice said Monday morning, adding: “Our hearts go out to the families and friends, schoolmates and everyone else.”
Mayo said the sheriff’s office notified her late Monday that the other four victims were her daughter, Holly Guess, 35, and her grandchildren, Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17; Michael James Mayo, 15; and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13. Mayo said Tiffany Guess was close friends with Webster and Brewer, who were spending the weekend with the family.
So, I guess when the family found out what a monster their father was, they didn't bother to tell anyone, and, in fact, invited teens for a sleepover? That's how it appears.
While Rice declined to provide details of how they died, Mayo said the sheriff’s office told her that her daughter and grandchildren were all found shot to death on the property.
And, now, how does a rapist with 17 years in prison get his hands on a gun? Did he have a right to own a gun?
The grim discovery in Oklahoma keeps the U.S. on a torrid pace for mass killings in 2023 and could push the number of people slain in mass killings past 100 for the year.
The four people found shot to death in an RV in a small Mojave Desert community in California over the weekend represented the 19th mass killing of the year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in a partnership with Northeastern University, the most during the first four months of the year since data was first recorded in 2006.
Why can't they search the records for years prior to 2006? Surely the data are there, somewhere.
As of the Mojave shooting, 97 people had been killed in the 19 mass killings this year, exceeding the record set in 2009 when 93 people were killed in 17 incidents by the end of April.
The number killed is a fraction of the total number of people who died by homicide for the year. The database counts killings involving four or more fatalities, not including the perpetrator, the same standard as the FBI, and tracks a number of variables for each.
The bodies were found Monday during a search near Henryetta, a town of about 6,000 about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokesman Gerald Davidson said.
A missing endangered person advisory issued earlier Monday said Webster and Brewer were reportedly seen traveling with 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.
Brittany Brewer’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.
At a Monday night vigil, Brewer told hundreds of people: “It’s just a parent’s worst nightmare, and I’m living it.”
He said his daughter had aspired to be a teacher or a veterinarian.
“I am just lost,” he said.
Mayo described her daughter, Holly Guess, as a doting mother who cared deeply for her children.
“She was a fantastic mother. She loved her children beyond belief. She was overprotective,” Mayo said. “She was supportive if they wanted to do something. She’d go out 100%.”
Granddaughter Rylee Allen “had a talent with a paint brush,” she said. “Rylee wanted to be an artist and wanted to be a doctor so she could help people.”
Michael Mayo ran track and cross-country, and when he wanted to play football, his mother went out and bought the family T-shirts and sweatshirts to support the team, Mayo said. Tiffany Guess also ran cross-country, she performed in the choir and had just tried out for the cheerleading squad.
“She was the sweetest, most loving girl you’d ever met,” Mayo said. “We called her ‘Tiffasaurus’ because when she’d get mad at you, she’d growl.”
Henryetta Public Schools posted on Facebook and its website that it is grieving over the loss of several of its students.
“Our hearts are hurting, and we have considered what would be best for our students in the coming days,” the note said. Officials said school would be in session, and mental health professionals and clergy would be on hand to help counsel students. But they said they would understand if families want to keep their children home from school.
In a separate Okmulgee County case, the bodies of four men were found Oct. 14 in the Deep Fork River in Okmulgee, a town of around 11,000 people about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of Henryetta. Joseph Kennedy, 68, is facing four counts of first-degree murder in that case.
Former DOD Elementary Teacher Sentenced To Life In Prison
For Sexually Abusing Children As Young As 6 in Stuttgart
By Zach Jewell
May 3, 2023 DailyWire.com
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A 56-year-old elementary school teacher formerly employed by the Department of Defense Education Activity will spend the rest of his life behind bars for sexually abusing four students between 6 and 8 years old.
From 2001 to 2021, Stefan Zappey taught first through third grade at Patch Elementary, a school on a U.S. military base near Stuggart (Stuttgart), Germany. Zappey was convicted by a federal jury in January of four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and four counts of abusive sexual contact, according to the Department of Justice. He was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday.
“Zappey’s offenses are especially egregious because he was entrusted with teaching the children of our brave service members overseas,” said Kenneth Polite Jr., the assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Criminal Division. “The courage of the victims and the perseverance of investigators and prosecutors ensured that Zappey’s offenses were exposed and will prevent him from abusing even more children.”
One of Zappey’s former students came forward in 2020, telling Army criminal investigators that the former elementary school teacher touched her under her clothing while she was attending the school from 2009 to 2010. She also said Zappey called her to his desk during class and repeatedly fondled her. The victim, who was 8 years old at the time of the abuse, said she didn’t report Zappey’s crimes right away because she “didn’t know it was wrong,” according to court documents.
After launching an investigation, officials found that Zappey sexually abused at least four of his students by touching them on multiple occasions and placing his hands inside their underwear to touch their genitals.
Other students and even some faculty members said they saw Zappey hug students multiple times and had them sit on his lap, touching their backs and stomachs under their clothes, the DOJ press release said. One faculty member said Zappey “would train students to become ‘touchy-feely,’” according to court documents.
The FBI joined the Army Criminal Investigation Division in investigating the case. The case was a part of Project Safe Childhood, a DOJ initiative combatting child sexual exploitation.
Paedo handed execution date for beating 6 y/o girl to death with bricks
By PAUL WITHERS
10:41, Mon, Apr 24, 2023 | UPDATED: 12:35, Mon, Apr 24, 2023
Johnny Johnson has been handed an execution date for the brutal murder of Casey Williamson
(Image: AP/REX/Shuttestock)
A man who brutally beat a six-year-old girl to death with bricks and tried to sexually assault her more than 20 years ago has been handed an execution date. The Missouri Supreme Court in the US has said Johnny Johnson, 45, will be put to death August 1 at a state prison. Cassandra 'Casey' Williamson went missing in July 2002, with dozens of volunteers joined police in the search for the little girl who was a kindergartner at Valley Park Elementary School.
The vibrant youngster from Missouri was said to be a happy girl with a bright smile, who loved singing and riding her bicycle but tragically, her body was found in a pit buried beneath rocks and debris, less than a mile from her home.
Johnson, who was staying with friends in Valley Park, a small city in Missouri, confessed to the crimes. The drifter and ex-convict was 24-years-old when he killed Casey, who would now be 27 years old.
He had been invited to spend the night on the sofa of a home where Casey's father, Ernie, was also staying.
Ernie woke at 7am to see his daughter standing in the living room with Johnson but by the time he had returned from bathroom, Casey and Johnson had vanished.
Johnson had taken the six-year-old out of the house and down the street to an abandoned glass factory with a series of tunnels, old ovens and underground rooms.
But when Casey began screaming and kicking as she attempted to crawl away from Johnson when he tried to sexually assault her, the drifter and ex-convict killed her by battering the youngster with bricks and rocks.
Johnson washed himself off in the nearby Meramec River before returning to the house to collect a packet of cigarettes. He was later arrested by police.
After the girl's parents reported her missing, St. Louis County police, members of the FBI together and almost 100 volunteers launched a desperate search, combing nearby woods along the Meramec River.
Locals reported seeing Johnson carrying Casey in his arms, who was still wearing her nightgown.
He told police where they could locate the young girl's body, claiming she had died in an accident and that he buried her, but officers dismissed that story and determined Casey had died as a result of blunt force trauma from being struck by rocks.
Police said Johnson later admitted to kidnapping the six-year-old with the intention of raping and killing her.
In testimony presented at the trial by his defence Dr. John Rabun, the court heard Johnson had stopped taking medication for schizophrenia in the days and weeks leading to the murder.
He had suffered from mental illnesses from the time he was 13-years-old and was suicidal.
What are the odds that he smoked pot when he was 13? At that age you have more than a 1 in 6 chance of developing full-blown, incurable schizophrenia. I wish there was an investigation into drug use by teens who develop schizophrenia all of a sudden. I'm sure drugs are at the root of many such cases of mental illness.
Johnson was found guilty of first-degree murder, armed criminal action, kidnapping, and attempted forcible rape.
Initially, the ex-convict was diagnosed with depression but this was later changed to schizoaffective disorder, similar to schizophrenia.
During Johnson trial, defence attorney Beverly Biemdiek asked the 12-person jury to convict him of of second-degree murder, claiming the mental illness prevented him from cool deliberation.
But then-prosecuting attorney, Robert P. McCulloch, told jurors: "We are here for one reason and one reason only. We are here for what Johnny Johnson did. Don't let them guilt you into doing something. It was Johnny Johnson who bricked this little girl to death."
On March 7, 2005, Johnson was sentenced to the death penalty for the murder conviction and consecutive life sentences for the other crimes he had been found guilty of.
Since then, he has been on death row at Potosi Correctional Centre in Mineral Point, Missouri but in 2012, he made an attempt to overturn the sentence, something that was denied.
Why should it take 20 years to execute a monster like this?
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