Body of 11-Year-Old Texas Girl Who Vanished on Way to School Reportedly Found in River

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/body-of-11-year-old-texas-girl-audrii-
cunningham-who-vanished-on-way-to-school-reportedly-found-in-river

The 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 Sitton said his office plans
to charge McDougal with capital murder.

Cunningham was reported missing by school officials, who said the girl
never showed up last Thursday, according to Polk County Sheriff Byron
Lyons.

McDougal, who has a swastika tattooed on his left shoulder, was supposed
to bring Cunningham to the bus stop that day, Lyons said at a news
conference. He was the last person to have seen Cunningham before she
dropped out of sight, according to Lyons.

McDougal’s criminal history is an extensive one, with an arrest record
dating back more than two decades. It includes convictions for, among
other things, theft, driving while intoxicated, unauthorized use of a
vehicle, drug possession, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and
enticement of a child. His most recent conviction, on a 2020 harassment
charge, led to a weeklong stay in the Harris County Jail.

The victim in that case, Ted Booher, on Tuesday remembered McDougal as a
problem employee with a bad attitude and a hot temper. Booher had not
previously been aware of Cunningham’s disappearance, he said.

“He come at me, threatened to kill me and everything over 50 fucking
dollars,” Booher, who runs a private trash-hauling company in LaPorte,
told The Daily Beast. “Can you believe that shit? He’s a bad apple. He
ain’t worth a damn.”

Booher, 67, said McDougal accused the carting service’s bookkeeper of
shorting his pay in the Aug. 8, 2020 incident, after which McDougal “got
mad as hell.”

“And then he come at me,” Booher continued, saying he picked up a crowbar
to defend himself “because him and his buddies [were] about to attack me.”

“And I got the police on the line and they’re hearing every bit of what
this bastard’s doing,” Booher said.

Booher’s account of the crime is corroborated by court records, which list
911 audio in filings.

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Booher said he was able to hold McDougal off from physically attacking
him, but had nonetheless wanted to press assault charges against him.
McDougal pleaded guilty on Sept. 20, 2020 to a misdemeanor charge of
verbal harassment, according to court records reviewed by The Daily Beast.
He was sentenced to a week in jail, with four days credit for time served.

McDougal’s attorney in the case, Hunter Hoaglund, did not respond to a
request for comment.

Another victim of McDougal’s, who worked alongside him at an auto repair
shop in Crosby, said he narrowly avoided being stabbed by McDougal in
2010.

“He got drunk one night,” Elic Bryan III told Fox 26 Houston. “We threw
him out of the house, and he came back with a knife, slashed tires, tried
to stab me with the knife. I had to run him off with a gun and the cops
finally came out with dogs and got him.”

Bryan said he wishes he “would have shot him, to be honest with you.”

“That’s my one regret,” he told the news channel. “Didn't want to do it
then because it would make you feel bad. But looking back, maybe I should
have. With all the allegations against him, he's not a nice guy,
apparently. Something is wrong with him in the head.”

On Monday, Lyons told NewsNation that Cunningham’s parents, who are
estranged, knew McDougal “had a background but did not know that there was
some sort of sexual background involving children.”

McDougal was not required to register as a sex offender after the child
enticement conviction in 2007, according to authorities. He was arrested
Friday on an unrelated charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
and remains detained in the Polk County Jail on $500,000 surety bond.

Cassie Matthews, Cunningham’s mother, did not respond to a request for
comment.


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