Accused Texas child killer Don McDougal reportedly removed all of his clothes ahead of arraignment last week at the Polk County jail in Livingston.
ABC13 acquired the bodycam footage worn by Polk County sheriff’s deputies as they took McDougal from his jail cell for a February 21 arraignment before the justice of the peace. Upon opening the cell door, Polk County sheriff’s deputies found McDougal naked.
Deputy: “Come on. JP wants to talk to you. Where’s your clothes? Hold on!”
McDougal: “I ain’t got no clothes.”
Deputy: “Well, come on out here. Well, no, no, man. Come on, man, don’t disrespect me like that. Well, wrap up in that. Wrap up in the blanket. Come on. Come on.”
McDougal wrapped a towel around his waist and appeared to smirk at the deputy.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, McDougal, who lived in a trailer behind a Livingston home where 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham lived with her father, admitted that he agreed to take her to her school bus on February 15.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office issued an AMBER Alert after Audrii didn’t show up for school and didn’t board her bus that morning. On February 20, police found her body in the Trinity River. A criminal complaint obtained by The Docket indicated that she had a large rock tied around her with a rope.
Police found her Hello Kitty backpack downstream from where they located her body.
“Video footage and cell phone data places McDougal at three locations of interest,” the criminal complaint stated. “The rope used was consistent with rope that was observed in McDougal’s vehicle on a traffic stop two days prior.”
McDougal was arrested last Friday and booked into the Polk County Jail on unrelated aggravated assault charges. On Wednesday, he was charged with capital murder and ordered to remain behind bars without bail.
The condition police found the body in has not been released, the sheriff said, but she died from homicidal violence” and blunt force trauma to the head, according to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.
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[Feature Photo: Audrii/Polk County SO; McDougal/Montgomery County Jail]
