Oh my...wonder how many more victims there could be...
"A Gregg County arrest warrant for Joseph Wayne Burnette reveals the convicted sex offender accused of failing to register his address was living with a woman whose body was found Tuesday in woods off West Birdsong Street in Longview....
A former Gregg County sheriff’s lieutenant in 2006 named Burnette as a suspect in a 2006 unsolved murder. Reports at the time said two hunters had found a woman’s still unidentified body, face-down in a burning wood pile, in woods off Fritz Swanson Road in the Kilgore area....
Timeline
Timeline of links between Joseph Burnette and Felisha Pearson
July 14 — Pearson reported missing by her mother
July 20 — Gregg County Sheriff's investigators executing warrant to arrest Burnette for failing to register as a sex offender discover he and Pearson had been living together but had left with no forwarding address.
Monday — Gregg County Sheriff's Office issues public plea for Pearson's whereabouts as missing person.
Tuesday — Gregg County Sheriff's Office issues public plea for Burnette's whereabouts. That day, a body
as found in woods off West Birdsong Street.
Wednesday — Burnette arrested in Upshur County.
Thursday — Longview police report body found on Tuesday was Pearson, 28. Same day, Burnette is transferred to the Gregg County Jail where he remained Friday on $500,000 bond on the failure-to-register charge and without bail on a bond revocation from the April 2017 indecent exposure count."
Warrant: Jailed man was living with woman who was found dead Tuesday in Longview