Good thing they didnt leave a trail of evidence leading back to the crime.
Posted on 04/16/2024 7:59:40 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
GUYMON, Okla. (KOKH) — An affidavit on Monday uncovered details about two missing Kansas women.
The details include more information about the four people arrested in the disappearance of Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, an anti-government religious group known as "God's Misfits", and a lengthy custody battle.
The Texas County Sheriff's Office requested the assistance of OSBI on March 30th after Butler and Kelley's vehicle was found abandoned near the Four Corners region in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
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According to the affidavit, law enforcement found the car and evidence of "severe injury" which included blood on the road, Butler's glasses near a broken hammer, and a pistol magazine.
Interviews with law enforcement lead OSBI to Tifany Adams. Adams was the grandmother of Butler's children. Wrangler Rickman was the father of those children. Rickman is Adams' son.
Law enforcement discovered Adams was in a problematic custody battle with Butler and had been since 2019. Rickman was in a rehab facility in OKC at the time of Butler and Kelley's disappearance.
Butler's visitation with her children was court-ordered to be supervised every Saturday. Adams had a particular person she preferred to supervise those visitations, and that person was not available on March 30th, she told law enforcement.
Butler arranged to have Jilian Kelley supervise the visitation.
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Butler and Kelley traveled from Hugoton, Kansas to the Four Corners region to pick up the kids on March 30th.
According to the affidavit, Adams told police she called Butler that morning, and Butler said something came up and she wasn't going to make it. Family members of Butler's became concerned when she didn't show up to a birthday party later that day, and located her vehicle near Four Corners and called the police.
OSBI agents then started their investigation.
OSBI said they interviewed the original custody supervisor whom Adams' said wasn't available that day. The person said Adams told her to take a "couple of weeks off from visitation" according to the affidavit.
OSBI agents also looked through the past history of the child custody case.
In one instance, they found recordings of Rickman (Adams' son) discussing death threats by Adams and Adams' boyfriend, Tad Cullum. According to the affidavit, Rickman's grandmother said Rickman had told her they didn't have to worry about the custody battle much longer because Adams had it under control, and that Adams knew the "path the judge walked to work" and allegedly said "we will take out Veronica at drop off".
A hearing was scheduled for April 17, 2024, in which Butler's attorney told OSBI that Butler was likely to receive unsupervised visitation.
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OSBI received a search warrant for Adams' phone on April 1. They found web searches for taser pain level, gun shops, prepaid phones and how to get someone out of their house, according to the affidavit.
According to the affidavit, OSBI agents later found out that Adams' had bought five stun guns at the Big R store in Guymon on March 23, 2024, just a few days before the women went missing. Agents also discovered Adams bought three pre-paid cell phones from the Guymon Wal-Mart in February. Agents said all three were in the area where Butler's car was found around the time of the disappearance.
On April 3, court records show OSBI agents interviewed the teenage daughter of Cora Twombly, one of the women arrested in the case. The teenager said she had overhead group conversations related to Butler and was told by Cora that the group was involved in the deaths of Butler and Kelley.
The teen also told OSBI agents that Adams gave the group burner phones to communicate on.
According to court documents, the teen told agents that Cora Twombly, her husband Cole Twombly, Adams, and Cullum were all part of an anti-government religious group known as "God's Misfits". Regular meetings are said to have occurred at the Twombly's home.
The teen also told agents that Cora and Cole Twombly told her they wouldn't be home the morning of March 29th because they were going to be on a "mission". Court documents said the pair told the teen later that things had not gone as planned but that they would not have to worry about Butler again.
The teen told OSBI agents that Cora and Cole blocked the road to stop Butler and Kelley and divert them to where Adams, Cullum, and another person were. The teen told agents she asked why Kelley had to die and was told by Cora that "she wasn't innocent either, as she had supported Butler."
The teen also told OSBI agents there had been other attempts to kill Butler in February near Hugoton, Kansas but Butler wouldn't leave her house. OSBI agents noted in the affidavit this was consistent with the web search discovered on Adams' phone about how to get someone out of a house.
The affidavit said the original plan was to throw an anvil through Butler's windshield while driving, making it look like an accident "because anvils regularly fall off of work vehicles".
Agents combed through cell phone records in the case.
According to the affidavit, they found two of the three pre-paid phones Adams bought pinged at a property below a dam near a pasture, about 8.5 miles away from where Butler's car was found.
Agents said they found a hole had been dug and filled back in and then covered with hay at the location. Comment bubble
Cora and Cole Twombly, Adams and Cullum are all facing murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy charges.
ribid people need to be removed from the human genome, regardless of race or creed.
Hey I bought a really nice used pistol off a fellow I never knew before just yesterday with cash and a hand shake. It was a good feeling AND I have a new (to me) deadly weapon I get to play with and fashion to my liking.
Have you ever seen such a motley bunch of people in your life - well, outside of the Manson gang? This was all pretty much covered on NewsNation last night with Dan Abrams and Ashley Banfield. I didn’t hear anything about a phone call the GRANDMA says she received from the mother of the children saying she couldn’t make it that day - that must have been one of ploys to set up an alibi. Isn’t that “boyfriend” of the grandmother a piece of work tho’?
I also wondered how the grandmother arranged to have a gal from Kansas accompany the mother of the children but apparently she called off HER CHOICE and the mother was forced to ask someone else to accompany her on the trip.
They said last night on NewsNation that several .38 caliber bullets were found in the friend’s purse left in the car - no firearm. Did the friend anticipate trouble and carried a weapon? DARN what a tragedy...This had us on pins and needles for days...Skip the trial - go straight to the chair or whatever they use in OK.....
I sure hope the 16 year old daughter of the married couple is safe and being protected.
Has anyone said where the kids are?
Thanks for posting there’s too many people involved to make sense of it on the local news but this is detailed so now I know
Good thing they didnt leave a trail of evidence leading back to the crime.
Local Miami Florida media ran this crap... Because it is a case of (apparent) lunatic white people murdering someone.
No doubt they’re kooks.
Funny, though, how the media in Miami doesn’t run stories about the murders in Chicago or Detroit....you know, where there are many more homicides but a dearth of them are committed by Caucasians.
I wonder how the judge feels knowing he was a target for murder?
Florida Man got trumped this week.
Yeah these people are definitely Loony Tunes
White trash doesn’t quite do it - I don’t know what you can call EVIL except EVIL!
OK has the death penalty in certain circumstances - TOO MANY in my opinion....what a smorgasbord to choose from....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Oklahoma
A friend of the Twombleys (or whatever) swore last night on TV that they WOULD NEVER be connected to such a thing - very good friends of the person speaking... seems to have been very good friends also of the grandmother and whatever that thing passes for that lives with her...
These people will never get out if they aren’t executed. They don’t even need to flip anyone to testify because the teenager already told them everything
NewsNation does a very good job of it...Ashleigh Banfield has been on it for weeks..Dan Abrams also covered it last night but it does get confusing...who said - what when and why....
“”I wonder how the judge feels knowing he was a target for murder?””
No doubt not too comfortable - double his security just in case.
I remember “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote - those guys who killed the Clutter family in KS were hanged and rightly so. There sure didn’t seem to be any drawn out hearings or long trial. Say your piece and go straight to the gallows!
We traveled from CA through OK years ago and that movie was scheduled to be shown. I had read the book and looked forward to watching it in the motel that night but it was not shown in OK....
We were at my mother’s in PA on vacation after those murders and my mother and stepdad didn’t lock their doors at night. I told them the story about the Clutters and it didn’t phase them. On a farm - out in the country and who is going to bother them? I told them the Clutters didn’t have the choice of changing their habits...They said, “we don’t keep cash around” and I said, “neither did the Clutters.”
There were no fewer than 5 doors leading into the house - from the back door to the cellar door and from there up the stairs...they may have slept well but my husband and I didn’t even tho’ he took a .22 rifle upstairs to our bedroom just in case...He had borrowed it from my brother in law to shoot woodchucks while were there.
My family travelled thru this area 3 or 4 times a years when I was growing up. Lubbock to Kansas/CO and I now live just a few hundred miles north of where this is.
I dont know what would get all 4 thinking this was a great idea. Brain tuhmah brought on by Drano meth?
Obviously killing the pastors wife was not part of the plan but didnt slow them down at all. They needed to have a car sized hole dug deep and ready to receive to have a hope of pulling this off.
They just existed in their own psychotic world of we are gonna do this and its gonna fix it. Eerie resemblance to Helter Skelter.
I forgot about the Clutter’s !! But not the BTK killer.
..and I moved out here for the peace and quiet!
Another perfect storm of stupidity. Criminals are people who do bad things. And they do those things badly.
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