Four arrests have been made in the disappearance of two Kansas women who went missing in Oklahoma last month.
The two women — Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39 — were traveling together to Oklahoma on March 30th to pick up Butler’s kids but never showed up, according to NewsNation.
Their car was later found abandoned on the side of the road near puddles of blood, leading authorities to suspect the two had been shot and potentially even murdered.
Police suspect that both Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley were shot. Blood was found near the vehicle they were last seen driving. Meaning that two separate puddles of blood were found outside of the vehicle. Four suspects in custody currently. #Oklahoma pic.twitter.com/HQtVRZ3ofD
— Rose (@901Lulu) April 14, 2024
According to sources who spoke with NewsNation, the two women were acquaintances, not close friends, and Kelley had accompanied Butler on their trip to Oklahoma to assist with some sort of custody dispute.
“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,” as noted by NewsNation. “The court filings said things had not been going well between Butler and the children’s grandmother.”
Kelley has specifically been described as the “supervisor” of Butler’s visits with her children.
“The visit was a designated, court-approved visitation that takes place every Saturday. Four people, including Kelley, have been listed as approved supervisors,” according to NewsNation.
Fast-forward to Saturday, when the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation announced that it’d arrested four people for murder.
“On April 13, 43-year-old Tad Bert Cullum, 54-year-old Tifany Machel Adams, 50-year-old Cole Earl Twombly, and 44-year-old Cora Twombly were arrested in Texas and Cimarron Counties,” the bureau reported in a Facebook post.
“All four individuals 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,” the post continued.
FOUR ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO TEXAS COUNTY DISAPPEARANCE CASE
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APRIL 13, 2024TEXAS COUNTY, OK…
Posted by Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation – Authorized Page on Saturday, April 13, 2024
According to NewsNation, Adams is the grandmother of Butler’s children, and Callum is Adams’ boyfriend, suggesting therefore that if Butler and Kelley were murdered, it was because of a custody dispute.
That being said, Butler and Kelley are still considered missing.
“We are still telling everybody in that area that if you know anything or have any additional information to please contact us,” Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation public information manager Hunter McKee told Fox News on Thursday.
McKee added that “it’s becoming more and more challenging” to find the two missing women alive as the days tick by.
“A missing persons advisory from the Texas County Sheriff’s Office said that Butler has ‘several tattoos, a Chinese symbol on her left forearm, a sunflower on her left shoulder’ and that ‘Jilian has a butterfly tattoo on her left forearm,’” according to Fox News.
“The alert describes Butler as being 5 feet, 4 inches tall with red hair and green eyes, last seen wearing a blue short-sleeve shirt and denim shorts,” the reporting continues.
NewsNation notes that it was Butler’s fiancé who first raised concerns about the missing women.
All this comes days after the FBI officially joined the search for the two.
“The FBI has confirmed … that it has joined the search for Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, the two women from Kansas who vanished in Oklahoma as they were traveling to pick up children,” Fox News reported on Friday.
See some of the public’s thoughts about the case below:
Well that doesn’t sound good but glad they’ve arrested people.
— Trelynda Kerr (@tre0808) April 13, 2024
Progress! Hope they find the women in order to give their family’s closure!
— Diana Legg (@LadyDiLegg) April 13, 2024
Hopefully all truth will be revealed and hopefully Grandma had nothing to do with this!
— EliTAviles (@EliTAviles1) April 13, 2024
I wonder if the police have been monitoring the calls of the grandmother. Seems like she’s the one that has the most motive for harming this young mother. Looks like Grandma wants to own the grandkids.
— Mb (@justsayin60) April 13, 2024
So First Degree Murder charges. Can these 4 people be charged with murder on suspicion alone or does LE know for a fact that the two women were murdered? That makes me so sick. I’m happy the 4 are in jail. I feel so bad for those children possibly losing both parents.
— LindaE (@LindaE55) April 14, 2024
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