A GRIEVING grandmother has revealed that her daughter and three grandchildren were found shot to death on the property of a convicted rapist.
Janette Mayo, 59, said her daughter, Holly Guess, 35, and her teenage kids were "manipulated and controlled" by convicted sex offender Jesse McFadden.
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"He lied to my daughter, and he convinced her it was all just a huge mistake," Mayo told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
"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," the heartbroken grandmother added.
Mayo told the outlet that the Okmulgee County Sheriff's Office revealed to her that her daughter and three grandchildren were all found shot to death on a rural property in Henryetta, Oklahoma, on Monday afternoon.
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The bodies of Guess, her kids, Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17; Michael James Mayo, 15, Tiffany Dore Guess, 13, as well as kidnapped teens Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 15, and McFadden were found on the property.
The Okmulgee County Sheriff's Office has not officially released the identities of the seven victims or their cause of death.
Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice confirmed that two of the bodies found on the property in Henryetta, about 50 miles south of Tulsa, were believed to be Ivy and Brittany.
Early Tuesday, Mayo revealed in a Facebook post that four of the victims were her daughter and grandchildren.
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"My heart does go out to Ivy's and Brittany's families, but they were not his only victims," Mayo wrote, citing information revealed to her by OCSO.
"My daughter loved her children and yes she married the man who killed them but she was fooled by his charm. I hurt just like the other families but he took my world from me.
"My grandchildren and my daughter. I have a hole in my heart that he created by his actions Jesse McFadden was a monster for his actions."
The post continued: "I loved Ivy she was a sweet girl, I really didn't know Brittany but she must have been a sweet girl for my Tiffany to care for her."
'I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG'
An Amber Alert was initially issued for Ivy and Brittany on Monday afternoon after they failed to contact their parents over the weekend.
Brittany's parents said their daughter was staying over at the McFadden family's home but knew something was wrong when the 15-year-old failed to contact them for their usual Saturday chat.
"I knew something was wrong ‘cause she wasn’t answering my—I mean, I tried to call," mom Malaina Schabell told NewsNation.
"I got online on her Facebook and I tried calling her, video calling her, and I messaged her and she wouldn’t respond, and it showed she was online and— but she wouldn’t respond, so I knew something was wrong.”
Brittany's father, Nathan Brewer, said his daughter had stayed with the McFadden family before without issue, but he was unaware of the suspect's criminal past.
Brewer described his daughter as outgoing and said that she was selected to represent the small town of Henryetta in an upcoming beauty pageant.
"And now she ain't gonna make it because she's dead. She's gone," Brewer told KOTV in a tearful interview.
"At this point, all I can say is for me and the Webster family, I know I don't have the money to bury my daughter, and I know the Webster family doesn't have the money to bury their daughter either," he said.
"I never thought in my wildest dreams that I'd be burying my own daughter. I figured she'd be burying myself," Brewer told The Oklahoman.
DARK PAST
McFadden, 39, was scheduled to appear in court Monday on charges filed in 2017 when he was accused of using his cell phone to solicit child pornography images of an underage girl.
The alleged criminal act occurred while McFadden was serving time for a 2003 rape conviction.
A bench warrant was issued after McFadden failed to appear in court.
Okmulgee County Sheriff officials executed the warrant on McFadden's property at 3pm local time on Monday, where they discovered the suspect's body and six others.
Ivy's family was "shocked" when they learned about McFadden's past.
“He should not have been out and it’s our justice system that needs to be harder,” Justin Webster told KOKI.
“Horrible. Truly tragic, especially because we’ve known this family for like two years now, and just unfortunate to know that Jesse was not a good man this whole time,” Ivy's brother Parker Webster said.
Meanwhile, Mayo told AP News that her daughter did not learn about his criminal history until a few months ago.
McFadden served 17 years in prison and was released in 2020.
Okmulgee County Sheriff Rice said they had not seen a case of "this magnitude" since he took the position 18 years ago.
"It's a tragic day in Okmulgee County again, and we just ask that you pray for the families," he said in a news conference.
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