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Family members of the victims are asking why sex offender, sentenced to 20 years in 2003 for first-degree rape, was freed three years early, in part for good behavior, despite facing new charges.
Authorities identified the man as Jesse McFadden, who was serving a 20-year prison sentence for rape. Officers found the bodies of McFadden, his wife, her son and daughters, and two other teens visiting the family.
Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said that the victims all sustained between one and three wounds to the head.
Jesse McFadden, the sex offender found dead with six others in a rural Oklahoma home, shot the victims in the head before turning the gun on himself, police announced on Wednesday.