Wade faces more felonies for secretly recording women

A local man is facing 51 felony counts of invasive visual recording in Bowie County after being accused of using a covert camera to secretly film a woman and her two daughters in the bathroom of the family’s home, according to reports.

Jarrod Wade Dee, 37, was taken into custody by Bowie County Sheriff ’s Office after a woman and her husband found a concealed recording device taped beneath a bathroom cabinet in their home on Dec. 5. 2021. Dee, reportedly a longtime friend of the husband, was living in a trailer on the family’s property on Clear Springs Road in Texarkana, Texas and had access to their home when the couple was present, according to a probable cause affidavit.

After removing the device from where it had been concealed in the bathroom, the couple placed the storage disc on their computer where they watched a video that allegedly depicted Dee hiding the device under the bathroom cabinet.

Upon learning the device had been discovered, Dee allegedly left the property and was arrested two days later on December 7, according to reports.

The full contents of the SD card, recovered by BCSO, revealed recordings of the couple’s 11-year-old daughter as she undressed, entered the shower, exited the shower, and redressed.

BCSO was contacted by the mother once again in February to report that Dee’s sister had gotten in touch with her to tell her that Dee had left some items in his sister’s care prior to his arrest, according to reports.

The box of Dee’s possessions that were turned over by his sister allegedly included photographs printed of the 11-year-old, the mother, and a second daughter whose age was not disclosed, as well as additional devices.

In March, Dee was indicted for a single count. However, a Bowie County grand jury issued six more indictments, with a to- tal of 50 additional counts of invasive visual recording involving the mother and both girls, according to court records. The recordings were allegedly made between August 29, 2021, and Dec. 5, 2021.

Each count is punishable by up to two years in state jail, though prosecutors could seek to enhance punishment based on Dee’s previous conviction in Cass County.

In 2017, Cass County convicted Dee of invasive visual recording after he was caught secretly filming the daughter of a woman he was living with in Bloomburg, Texas in July 2015.

According to court documents, the Bloomburg victim testified that because there was only one restroom in the home, she would inform others in the household when she was planning to take a shower so that if anyone needed to use the restroom they could take time to do so before she went to shower.

The victim told the court that just before she would enter the bathroom to shower, Dee would “enter and then exit the bathroom” and that there was no “gap in between” Dee’s exit from the bathroom and her entry. She said she was “basically just waiting for him to get out” so she could shower.

In July 2015, the Cass County victim’s mother discovered recordings of her daughter on a camera that she had seen Dee holding. After searching the contents of Dee’s camera, the victim’s mother found footage of her daughter in the bathroom, according to testimony.

The victim testified that her mother showed her footage and that “the recording showed her in the bathroom, entering and exiting the shower.”

Cass County sentenced Dee to two years in a state jail for invasive visual recording after the 2017 trial.

Dee has currently been behind bars since his Dec. 7 arrest in Bowie County, with bonds that total $100,000, and is scheduled to appear in October before 5th District Judge Bill Miller.