Sex offender charged in deaths of mother, 2 girls

“This is probably the most heinous crime I've seen in 22 years as a prosecutor”

A West Virginia sex offender strangled a Carter County woman, raped and beat her 10-year-old daughter to death and then burned their mobile home, killing a 3-year-old child in the blaze, Kentucky State Police said yesterday.

The bodies of Jennifer Ison, 31, and her daughters, Shannah, 10, and Marissa, 3, were found early May 9 in the ashes of their mobile home in Hitchins. Marissa died of smoke inhalation, investigators said.

Robert L. Drown Jr., 27, was served with arrest warrants Wednesday in a Barboursville, W.Va., jail where he was taken into custody a week ago for failing to register as a sex offender. Read more

[Jennifer]

I am a mother of 3 here in Carter Co. and I am very upset at what this man did to these 3 people. I hope this man gets the death penalty for what he did to this mom and her 2 kids. They didn't deserve what had happened to them. Better yet, take him out and do to him what he did to them, that would be the right justice.

[rebecca]

When are they finally going to do something to stop these sick perverts from touching our kids. He already had a past record. I dont think they should be set free. Send them to Antartica or something.

[Proud of our town]

I think that was probally one of the worst crimes that has happened here, i think he should recieve the death penalty, he was in prison already once for rape, was released and has now raped and murdered 3 other poor victims, 2 of them innocent children , the very sad part is he was married to a pretty woman and she has 2 pretty girls, think how bad this must hurt his wife he also destroyed his own family , and its quite obvious there is definitely something wrong with this sicko!!!!! He needs to be killed the world is better off without these kind of disgusting freaks!!!!! And he also has proven, apparently he cant stop himself .

[Kandi]

The wonderful mother and her children were members of my family. Jennifer had a laugh that could make the whole room light up and the babies were so sweet. I strongly agree that this sick monster deserves the death penalty but not before he gets some "Welcoming Committee" attention first. other prisoners hate sex offenders and people who hurt children. I believe that you can not be rebilitated if you are a sex offender and should be castrated or some other drastic measure taken before you are set back out in to society to pray on the innocent. Just continue to pray for the family.