In the waco area for very long. They were itinerant farm laborers, but it was not only Jesse Washington himself, 17 and mentally challenged, who was plowing the fields and working for them, but it was also his parents who lived in a little shack on their property with some other children. I think there was a younger brother, a teenager, and they were all doing some kind of work. She was found at the door to the seed barn with her head bashed in. It looked like she had been hit over the head really hard several times, and her clothes were somewhat disheveled, also. Of course, they called the investigating officers immediately, and they looked around and noticed Jesse Washington had been nearby all afternoon plowing a field, while the kids and mr. Fryer were off farther away from the house. And so they grabbed him. And one example that might demonstrate the fact that he was mentally challenged is that he was upset at first when he was arrested. But then he just went to sleep in the back