Kansas man arrested for kidnapping daughters, also finds two bodies

Authorities found two girls who were abducted from a Kansas home where two boys were found dead Saturday and a suspect is in custody.

The Kansas Amber Alert System said around 7 p.m. on Twitter that the girls were found by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol near Erick, Oklahoma.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation previously identified the girls as 3-year-old Aven Jackson and 7-year-old Nora Jackson.

Logan and Austin Jackson are pictured with their sisters Nora, 7, and Aven, 3, and a baby. Photo / Supplied

An Amber Alert said the suspect in the kidnapping is the girls’ father, Donny Jackson, 40. The Leavenworth County Emergency Management said in a Facebook post that Jackson is also a person of interest in the homicides.

The moment of the kidnapping and the murders is known. Authorities began investigating around 1:15 p.m. after receiving a 911 call from an adult who discovered the murder scene in the house where Jackson lived when one of the children failed to show up to a soccer game, the commander James Sherley of the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Department. he said at a press conference.

Less than an hour before the discovery was made, the Kansas Highway Patrol made an unrelated car stop on the suspect’s vehicle on US 169 near the Oklahoma border.

The stop was for a traffic violation, Sherley said.

The kidnapped children were in the vehicle, according to an update posted on KBI’s website.

The names of the murdered children were not immediately released. Sherley said she believed the boys were 11 and 14 and were the girls’ siblings.

The Daily Mail reported that the two children are believed to be Jackson’s sons, Logan and Austin, who were found dead in the family home.

The location of his mother, Tara, was unknown.

This photo provided by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation shows Donny Jackson. Photo / AP

The FBI referred the questions to the patrol, which said the sheriff’s office was answering questions about the case.

Sherley said there were “some goings-on with the family,” but the reason was unclear.

He added: “Right now researchers are trying to determine what happened to the family dynamics that led us to this point.”