Okmulgee County Sheriff Joe Prentice told reporters that evidence indicated “Jesse McFadden killed six people and then killed himself.”
He added: “I don’t know what he was thinking, if he did what he did with premeditation, and if so, since when did he start planning his crime,” according to AFP. .
The police chief said the seven dead were in addition to McFadden, 39, his wife, Holly Jess McFadden, 35, their three children, aged 13 and 17, and the two missing teenage girls, aged 14 and 16, who were family friends.
According to the local television channel “Fox 23”, the two girls went to the McFadden family to spend the night there.
The police chief confirmed that all seven bodies had been killed with at least one bullet to the head.
The seven bodies were found Monday in Henrietta, a small town in rural Oklahoma, in the southern United States.
On Tuesday, Janet May, the mother of Holly Jess Macfadyen, said her daughter had married a “monster”.
And she wrote on Facebook: “My daughter loved her children, and yes she married the man who killed them, but her magic tricked her.”
McFadden was convicted of rape in 2003, and he was also prosecuted on other new charges related to his previous crime.
McFadden was scheduled to appear in Muskogee County court Monday to face charges that include “child pornography and attempted solicitation of sexual conduct or communication with a minor using technology.”
But McFadden failed to appear in court on Monday morning, and a warrant was issued for his arrest and police searched his home, according to local media.
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