A woman who was raped by the convicted sex offender found dead alongside six other people in Oklahoma – including two missing teens – fought back tears as she recounted her knifepoint attack and how she escaped his clutches, naked, to a neighbor.
Krystle Strong was 16 years old when Jesse McFadden, 39 at the time of his death, sexually assaulted her in 2003.
He was convicted of rape and after 17 years behind bars was released in 2020 — despite facing separate child porn charges.
Strong, now 36, went to the crime scene at McFadden’s home in Henryetta, where she described to The US Sun how her ordeal and harrowing escape unfolded.
She said it all began after she started hanging out with McFadden while he was dating her friend.
“He would make fun of me, he was just gross. He was a weird personality, not somebody I would date, never,” she told the news outlet.
Strong described how she and McFadden were at the same “keg party” and when she got tipsy, he offered to drive her home. He initially left her there, but re-appeared at 3 a.m. and forced his way into her house, where he launched his depraved attack.
“He was shoving a sock in my mouth and next thing I was being dragged through the living room, tied to my futon with one of my dad’s bungee cords. It was very traumatic,” Strong told The US Sun.
“When he was on top of me, he pulled out a knife he stuck it to my throat and kept pushing harder and harder saying, ‘If you don’t shut up, I swear to God, I’ll kill you right here!’” she continued.
“I was like, ‘Look, Jesse, we’re homies, we go way back. If you just quit and get off me I won’t tell anyone, it’s our secret.’ When the ordeal was ongoing it was brutal, and it was just like my soul left my body,” she said.
The brute then ordered her to take a shower and destroy her clothes, which she agreed to do before waiting for the right moment to flee.
“While he was pacing about I bolted — I ran a quarter-mile naked to the neighbor’s house,” where she raised the alarm.
Police caught McFadden near a river, where he was bleeding after slitting his wrists, according to the news outlet.
Referring to the current tragedy — which ended with McFadden shooting himself — she added: “That’s why I had a gut feeling today he would have taken his own life. Why was he not on parole? I told the police he was a predator. They should have done more.”
McFadden failed to show up to court Monday to stand trial on charges of soliciting sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography.
He had reportedly sent a series of chilling text messages to the victim in that case Sunday evening, seemingly blaming her for filing charges against him.
“I did exactly what I promised I would do when I got out,” McFadden texted the victim. “I got a marketing job making great money and was being advanced been there 2 years now and made a great life like I promised I would do with you.”
He reportedly added: “Now it’s all gone, I told you I wouldn’t go back … This is all on you for continuing this.”
While serving a 20-year sentence for raping Strong, he was accused of using a contraband cellphone to sext a 16-year-old girl in 2017 — but was nonetheless released three years early in 2020.
On Monday, the bodies of seven people were discovered on his property in Henryetta, a small city of about 6,000 about an hour south of Tulsa.
Two of the deceased were identified as Ivy Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 16, who had been reported missing when they never returned home after spending the weekend with McFadden’s family.
The victims’ relatives believe he fatally shot all six people — Ivy, Brittany, his wife Holly Guess, 35, and her three children: Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17; Michael James Mayo, 15; and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13 — before taking his own life.