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The former boss of a person of interest in Audrii Cunningham’s disappearance told The Daily Beast he once threatened to kill him over $50.
Prosecutors plan to charge McDougal with capital murder in the 11-year-old girl's death.
Texas Department of Public Safety/Polk County Sheriff’s OfficeJail records revealed Wednesday that Don Steven McDougal, the suspect accused of murdering 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham and dumping her body in a Texas river, has been charged with capital murder.The charge comes after Cunningham’s mom penned a heart-wrenching Facebook post in which she wrote that she “failed my daughter.”That post, which is no longer publicly viewable, was reportedly made by Cassie Matthews before Cunningham’s body
Audrii Cunningham’s body was found in a river Tuesday, five days after she vanished on her way to school.
Polk County Sheriff’s Office; FacebookThe body of an 11-year-old Texas girl who went missing last week on her way to school was found Tuesday in a nearby river, the Polk County District Attorney confirmed Tuesday afternoon. Don Steven McDougal, 42, had been named as a person of interest in Audrii Cunningham’s mysterious disappearance on Feb. 15. He lived in a trailer behind her father’s home in Livingston, a small town about an hour from Houston. At a press conference, Polk County DA Shelly Sitt