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Texas man flees after wife catches him raping 14-year-old girl in bed, arrested after 30-minute police chase

The man's wife came home early from work and grew suspicious after she found her bedroom's door locked when it was normally kept ajar
UPDATED AUG 7, 2020
Paul Beecher Russell (Wichita County Jail )
Paul Beecher Russell (Wichita County Jail )

WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS: A 51-year-old Wichita Falls man was caught raping a 14-year-old girl in his house. Paul Beecher Russell is accused of indecency with a child, sexual assault of a child and evading arrest with a vehicle in recently unsealed indictments, according to court records. The records reveal that his wife came home from work to find the horrifying sight. Russell had been indicted by a grand jury in Wichita Falls in Texas last week over the sickening incident that is believed to have taken place in May. 

Russell had asked his wife, who has not been identified, to stop by the grocery store on her way home from work that evening when she decided not to, Metro reveals. When the wife entered the house, she noticed how their bedroom door had been shut though it was always left ajar. When she tried to open the door, she found the door locked. It is reported that Russell then yelled out 'just a minute. I'm using the restroom' from behind the door which led to the wife using her own key to open the bedroom door. 

According to Times Record News, the woman entered the room to find her husband naked and top of a minor girl who was not wearing any pants or underwear. The woman screamed and yanked the child away from him before running from the scene and calling the police. The relationship of the child to Russell has not been revealed in order to protect her privacy. After his wife found him, Russell reportedly fled from the scene in his 1991 Chevy Camaro. 

Russell has been charged with two counts of child indecency regarding the May incident as well as two more assaults which took place in January, earlier this year, and November last year. Russell is being held in Wichita County Jail on $258,000 in bonds, according to online jail records. Russell made the police chase him for around 33 minutes before his car was brought to a stop by an officer using the 'pit maneuver' move at the Home Zone Furniture at 3927 Fairway Boulevard. The chase lasted about 33 minutes and covered nearly 27 miles. Russell endangered the public during the pursuit. He reached speeds of about 70 mph, drove the wrong way in traffic at least once and sped through a busy parking lot at a Love's Travel Stop, so in addition to his sex crime charges, he was also charged with evading arrest. 

If Russell gets convicted, he is looking at 51 years in prison. Court documents have revealed how Russell had also been charged with a misdemeanor unlawful carrying of a weapon after authorities found a gun in the car he had been driving. 

We had earlier reported another story of a terrifying and shocking rape incident in Texas that saw the kidnap of a teenage girl who was held against her will for around three months. The teenager was repeatedly raped while she was in captivity. The victim, 15, disappeared on January 28 this year outside a business on Westheimer Road, Houston, according to KHOU. Trevion Shields, 20, the perpetrator, grabbed her by the arm and took her away. He took her to his home in the 7900 Block of Westheimer Road and, in the three months that followed, he allegedly raped her multiple times and gave her drugs and alcohol to "numb her." 

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