Posted on 04/15/2024 6:12:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
* The two women were last seen March 30
* One woman was part of a bitter custody battle
* Four arrests were made, including the children's grandmother
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(NewsNation) — Two bodies were found in rural Texas County, Oklahoma, after police began searching for the remains of two Kansas moms who went missing more than two weeks ago, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) said Sunday night.
The deceased individuals will be transported to a medical examiner’s office to determine identification, as well as cause and manner of death, police said.
Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, from Hugoton, Kansas, disappeared March 30 without a trace except for an abandoned car found on the side of a road. Their car was found 1,000 feet off of Oklahoma State Highway 95 along a dirt path.
What we know about the 2 missing Kansas moms Tad Bert Cullum, 43, Tifany Machel Adams, 54, Cole Earl Twombly, 50, and Cora Twombly, 44, were arrested in Texas and Cimarron Counties, OSBI said Saturday.
All four were booked into the Texas County Jail on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree, according to police.
The OSBI, the FBI and the Texas County Sheriff’s Department found the bodies. Police have scheduled a news conference at 10 a.m. CT Monday to provide more details about the investigation.
Tad Bert Cullum, 43, Tifany Machel Adams, 54, Cole Earl Twombly, 50 and Cora Twombly, 44, were arrested in Texas and Cimarron Counties, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said Saturday.Read More »
Congregants of Hugoton First Christian Church are grieving, gathering for prayer and hymns outside the family home of Kelley following Sunday service. After two weeks of hope, two local families now know to mourn Kelley, a mother of four and Butler, a mother of two.
NewsNation spotted an extraordinary show of law enforcement as they served the four arrest warrants.
NewsNation crew, the only network on the ground to capture exclusive footage following more than 20 swat and police vehicles to various locations.
Outside one compound, NewsNation heard an officer on a loudspeaker announcing, “We have a warrant for your arrest!” All officers appeared heavily armed and wary of all who approached, drawing guns to turn people back, including NewsNation crew.
NewsNation learned Adams is the paternal grandmother of Butler’s children and Cullum is Adams’ boyfriend.
NewsNation previously reported Butler and the father of her children were embroiled in a bitter custody battle, and that just 10 days before the women went missing, Butler had filed a petition in court for more visitation with her children and was seeking full custody.
A court hearing was set for this Wednesday, when Butler was expected to seek full custody.
OSBI is not revealing details about what happened or the actions of each suspect, but a custody dispute may be linked to a motive.
Kelley was among four court-approved supervisors for Butler’s visitations. They never made it to the usual pickup point at an abandoned gas station in Texas County.
Butler’s family says the two were traveling together to Eva, Oklahoma, to pick up Butler’s two children. NewsNation has learned Butler’s children may have been living with Adams.
No word yet on the arraignments of the four suspects. Their alleged actions have left six children without their mothers.
Where are all of the kids?
anyone want to try and read this and give the rest of us the cliff notes?
4 scumbags arrested on premeditated murder of the two ladies that went missing around a custody battle. No word as the whereabouts of the kids in the custody battle or the kids being watched by the 4 that got arrested.
1st degree murder. They done F’ed around and found out.
th 2 killed were lovers?other moms? mom and daughter kids grandmom and mom?
I believe this is yet another lazy AI generated article. Foolish content producers think they are trend setters…they are, just not in a way they think.
The younger victim was the mother, suing for custody. The older victim was a pastor’s wife who was there to accompany the mother, who apparently was apprehensive about visiting her in-laws alone. The in-laws were more batshit crazy than either of them suspected.
Follow on to my previous comment: They were going to the in-laws to pick up the kids. Visitation during a custody battle resulting in death. This is not the first or last grandmother who killed her daughter-in-law during a visitation exchange.
They thought no one would figure it out.
The trigger men will never get out of prison in our state
Texas county Oklahoma far west panhandle my mom was born as raised there.
We had a very similar case here a year or so ago.
Custody case between a man and a woman over their one little girl about 3 or 4 years old, IIRC.
They met at a public restaurant parking lot in Navarre Beach to exchange the kid for the weekend and the woman was never seen alive again.
The car was still there, the man went back to Alabama with the kid to his parents farm and the woman was ‘missing’.
After a little investigation, the woman’s body was found buried inside an old barn on the farm in Alabama...............
No, one was a well respected preachers wife who was designated as a witness or chaperone during the mom’s visitations.
Totally innocent and murdered by those ignorant hicks.
When I was doing custody law at one point I went with my client to get the children with an order that mom release them. She had hidden where she lived but we tracked her down. But and here’s what these ladies should have done, I had the local police and sheriff deputies on standby.
This will be on Investigation Discovery soon.
KuhRayZee Azz Ozark looking ferals...
Collective IQ of a warm day in Alaska.................
Reminds me of this case:
An Ohio Family Plotted to Kill Another Family Over a Custody Dispute, Prosecutors Say
Eight members of the Rhoden family were fatally shot in 2016.
Where is/are the dad/s...
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