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<\/div>\nThe state highway patrol had issued a missing persons notice earlier Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Seven bodies were found in the US state of Oklahoma on Monday during a police search for two missing teenagers, US media reported.<\/p>\n
The victims were not identified and authorities did not say whether they included the missing 14-year-old and 16-year-old girls, who were said to have been seen with a convicted sex offender, The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n
But authorities had called off their search for the teens after the bodies were found in the city of Henryetta, Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice told the newspaper.<\/p>\n
“We believe to have found everything that we were seeking this morning,” Rice said, adding that the case was being investigated as a homicide.<\/p>\n
The Tulsa World reported Rice as saying officials believed two of the seven bodies found were those of the missing girls.<\/p>\n
The bodies were found on a property where registered sex offender and convicted rapist Jesse L. McFadden resided, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n
The state highway patrol had issued a missing persons notice earlier Monday saying the two girls were last seen at 1:22 am (0622 GMT) in Henryetta and were both possibly traveling in a white Chevrolet Avalanche with McFadden, 39.<\/p>\n
He was due to go on trial Monday in Muskogee County on several charges, including “child pornography and soliciting sexual conduct or communication with a minor using technology,” the Times reported.<\/p>\n
A warrant for his arrest was issued after McFadden failed to appear in court on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
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