Don Steven McDougal affidavit for 2/16/24 arrest for 8/19/23 incident against David Stanley

That time Audrii Cunningham’s alleged killer stabbed a man in the back 3 times

“That guy stabbed me 3 times in the back in August and the sheriff’s department has still not charged him for it,” wrote David Stanley on Facebook about Don Steven McDougal, before Audrii Cunningham was found. “Whatever happens to that little girl is on their hands. I gave them the description of this vehicle back in August after he stabbed me and they just now charging him for it.”

On February 20, 2024, the same day that 11-year-old Audrii was recovered from the Trinity River, in Livingston, Texas, about 10 miles from her home near Lake Livingston, in a rural area north of Houston, I received information on McDougal’s arrest that landed him in jail on Friday.

The Records Division of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Texas sent me the…