Man Recorded by Wife, Admits to Crime

By MIRANDA GILBERT
Managing Editor
The man who kidnapped a 10-year-old Texhoma girl pleaded guilty Tuesday morning in an Oklahoma City court.
Terrance Lynn McGuire, 27, of Canyon, Texas, was arrested Aug. 7, two years and eight months after luring the girl into his car for "sexual gratification." His soon-to-be-exwife, who discovered he was having an affair, filed for divorce and turned him in to authorities in June, which led to the arrest.
After a failed sexual assault, the man freed the bound victim the day after her abduction over 200 miles away in Clovis, N.M.
In June 2009 a tip from the suspect's wife cracked the cold case wide-open, according to the detailed affidavit filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
A series of recorded conversations between McGuire and his wife gave authorities an overwhelming amount of details into the crime as it was committed, what happened in the hours he kept the victim, how he reportedly had so much guilt he gave her money and the Texhoma Police Department's phone number to call for help and released her at a gas station rather than kill her, and later took steps to cover up his crime.
The wife claimed she withheld information for over two years because they had two children, and she was scared of what he might do if she told. The suspect's mother also allegedly knew about the crime, and reportedly concealed his clothes worn during the abduction which were blasted through the media.
McGuire, originally from Liberal, Kan., sold and maintained weight scales for feedlots and grain elevators, and travelled from Kansas to his new home in Canyon often, which put him in Texhoma around 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 18, 2007, the day of the abduction.
In the affidavit, McGuire blamed his action on a lack of sleep from traveling and said he prayed for the little girl, insisting he is not the same person he was two years ago and begged her to not bring it up. He repeatedly questioned if she was recording him, and even said he felt like he was "writing my own sentence to prison."
Despite a reward of $25,000 leading to an arrest in the case, and the suspect's wife and mother knowing about the incident, the only lead investigators had was a witness who reported the girl was seen talking to a white male in a car.  When officers investigated the area, they only found her bicycle on it's side in the ditch nearby.
According to FBI Special Agent in charge of Oklahoma, James E. Finch, McGuire was charged Aug. 5, 2009, in the Western District of Oklahoma with violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1201 (a) (1), Kidnapping.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI, Texas County Sheriff's Office, Texhoma Police Department, First Judicial District Attorney's Office, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Guymon Police Department, Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Clovis Police Department.
The case is being prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office, Western District of Oklahoma.