By Lynn LaRowe
Texarkana Gazette
BOWIE COUNTY, Texas -- Additional charges of invasive visual recording have been filed in Bowie County against a man accused of secretly filming two minors and their mother.
Jarrod Wade Dee, 36, was indicted March 10 in the alleged filming of an 11-year-old daughter of a childhood friend using a recording device hidden in the family's bathroom. Two additional charges involving another minor female and the mother of the 11-year-old were filed this week, bringing the total number of counts of invasive visual recording Dee is facing in Bowie County to three.
Dee was arrested in December by the Bowie County Sheriff's Office on a charge involving the 11-year-old.
Dee allegedly lived in a mobile home on the same property in Texarkana, Texas, as a couple and their children, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The girl's father reportedly told Bowie County Sheriff's Office investigators that he has known Dee since elementary school and that the two have been friends "all of their adult lives." While Dee lived behind the couple's home in a trailer and did not have a key to their house, he allegedly was free to come and go when they were home.
The couple found a digital recording device hidden under a bathroom cabinet Dec. 5. They removed the memory card from the device and put it into a home computer.
"The video appeared to depict Mr. Dee attaching the camera to its location under a cabinet in a bathroom," the affidavit states.
Dee allegedly was at the couple's home when the recording equipment was found and "immediately left upon seeing it had been discovered."
Deputies who responded to the couple's 911 call attempted to make contact with Dee that day, but there was no answer at his door and he did not appear to be at home. The memory card was turned over to an investigator with BCSO.
The device allegedly contains six two-minute video clips of a bathroom in the couple's home. The first video allegedly shows Dee placing the device. The other clips allegedly show the couple's 11-year-old daughter entering the bathroom, disrobing, entering a shower, exiting the shower, toweling off and getting dressed.
New allegations
Two additional charges of invasive visual recording were filed Wednesday in Bowie County.
Bowie County Investigator Scott Sartor reportedly learned in February that Dee allegedly left some personal property with another party prior to his arrest in December, including a cell phone, a memory card, a plug-in recording device and 92 printed photos.
More than 70 of the photos allegedly depicted nudity.
"A total of 63 of the nude photographs appear to be of a female in the bathroom by either using a cellular telephone camera aimed under the bathroom door or utilizing a digital recording device," the affidavit states.
Of the photos depicting nudity, 20 were allegedly of the 11-year-old, 29 were allegedly of the child's mother and 14 were allegedly of another minor daughter.
Dee's cell phone allegedly contained folders labeled with the names of alleged victims.
"A number of the videos on Dee's telephone appear to be of him walking around the (alleged victims') house at various times with the phone recording. At some times he records under the table as different females are sitting at the table with him and others are recordings in which it appears that he put the telephone camera under the bathroom door while someone was showering," the affidavit states.
Dee faces six months to two years in a state jail on each of three counts if convicted of invasive visual recording.
A prior conviction
Dee was convicted of invasive visual recording by a Cass County, Texas, jury in 2017 and sentenced to a maximum two-year term. The victim's mother, who was living with Dee in Bloomburg, Texas, found a recording in July 2015 of her daughter entering the bathroom, undressing and showering.
Dee is being held in the Bowie County jail with bails totaling $100,000. The cases are assigned to 5th District Judge Bill Miller.