Regional media had reported that the bodies of at least 25 and as many as 30 people, most or all of them children, had been discovered in a burial site near a home in an unincorporated rural area about 50 miles northeast of Houston.
Local station KPRC-TV reported that the property on which the burial site is located is at the intersection of County Roads 2048 and 2049, near Hull and between the towns of Hardin and Daisetta.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, a recent resident of a house at or near the location is 22-year-old registered sex offender Joe Lee Mason. Mason was convicted on two counts of attempting to sexually assault underage girls, one 12 and the other 14, in 2003, all of which fueled speculation about the supposed mass grave.
TXDPS - Public Sex Offender Registry - MASON,JOE LEE
If you look up the address in the Sex Offender registry, you will see that a sex offender lived at that house.
ReplyDeletehttps://records.txdps.state.tx.us/DPS_WEB/SorNew/PublicSite/index.aspx?PageIndex=Individual&IND_IDN=9755050
ReplyDeleteThis is from the address, took me a while to dig it up since the media isn't reporting the exact address.
Nice work, Asher! Well, we're media here, and now, thanks to you, we have got information that none of the other news sources are reporting on. That is called a "scoop"!
ReplyDeleteGlad to be a part of it!
ReplyDeleteLocal news stations are reporting on this. Also, no bodies have yet been found. Sorry to be a bubble buster.
ReplyDeleteLaura, nothing would make me happier than for there to actually be no bodies! But you are correct that there seems to be a lot of uncertainty associated with this whole story.
ReplyDeleteI am reading now that an apparent psychic led investigators to the house, and Texas Rangers have executed a search warrant.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff, Asher! Who is reporting on all that?
ReplyDeleteBoth local station KTRK (abc13.com) and KPRC (click2houston.com).
ReplyDeletePsychic's mass grave tip proves false:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7599979.html
Sex offender also, apparently, moved out a year ago, based on an interview with his father, the homeowner. He is believed to be in OH. I hope he registered there.
ReplyDeleteLaura, you move fast! This is certainly a dynamic story. Well, if Mason is only "believed" to be in Ohio, then I bet he did not bother to register wherever he happens to be ... I will update the story in any event. If there are any bodies, of course, then the fact that he has been gone awhile does not necessarily clear him of involvement.
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