HENRYETTA, OKLAHOMA: It has been revealed that Jesse McFadden, a convicted sex offender and a suspect in the Henryetta murder-suicide, had asked a Pittsburg County judge for a lighter sentence for his 2003 rape conviction. Meanwhile, police officers are under fire for not retrieving bloody clothes and other horrifying items from the crime scene.
Court documents reveal McFadden had entered an 'Alford Plea' 11 days after the 2003 assault, in which he pled guilty but adamantly defended his innocence, according to KFOR. He was given a 20-year prison term by a Pittsburg County judge. He simultaneously spent eight years for a grand larceny offense from 2003. Furthermore, McFadden addressed a letter to the judge before he had even served a year. The letter was written in October 2004 and requested a sentence reduction.
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'I feel very bad'
McFadden wrote, "I know what I done was a [horrible] thing to do to another person. I can't begin to understand how I've changed the victim's life or how I've made her or her family feel. I feel very bad for what I've done. It's something that I think about everyday," according to KFOR.
He added, "I sit and think about how I can change what I've done, but no matter how much I'd like to, [there's] no changing the past. So the future is all that’s left to me." McFadden also described his desire to improve himself as a person.
'I'll be 40 when I get out'
McFadden talked about getting his GED in order to "better my education." He also mentioned picking up a trade to make himself "better prepared for the world." He claimed to have drug and alcohol problems and had plans to enroll in a drug rehabilitation program.
McFadden stated that he wanted to enroll in a "sex offenders course," but was unable to do so since his facility did not offer such a course. He also mentioned that he wanted to repay his grandfather the $64,000 he stole from him.
The convict, who was 21 at the time, said it would become more difficult for him to live his life and earn a living the longer he remained behind bars. "I'll be almost 40 years old when I get out. Most people are getting settled into their lives and [preparing] for retirement. I'll be just starting out," he wrote.
The judge rejected McFadden's plea for a sentence adjustment and he spent an additional 16 years behind bars. Oklahoma law stated that he was qualified for release after serving 85% of his sentence. This indicates that McFadden was obliged to serve a minimum of 17 years. He was released in October 2020.
'We found bones'
In light of the letter's disclosure, the loved ones of the victims found dead at the Henryetta property are upset that authorities did not discover bloody clothing, bones, and other "horrifying things" there. McFadden killed his wife Holly Guess, 35, her three children, and two teenage companions before killing himself on Monday, May 1.
Guess' aunt Lynn Wiatt said, "Nothing can prepare anyone for what we had to find," according to NewsNation. She and the other family members discovered bloody children's clothing, an enigmatic ledger, scary photo binders, and other items that police had overlooked during their own search.
Wiatt said, "We found bones... We found other things. The other family members came, the police came. We found a lot of horrifying things." She also claimed to have discovered velcro shackles inside the home, but a police officer advised her to discard them because the residence was no longer a crime scene.
Wiatt said, "I'm not a crime scene investigator. I'm not a police officer. I should not have had to see those things. I'm not sleeping. I'm not eating." Police think McFadden, who was due to stand trial last week for soliciting child pornography, shot his victims numerous times in the head before staging a realistic-looking crime scene and killing himself, according to New York Post.
