Court documents detail the cause of death of two Kansas mothers who went missing and were found dead while traveling to Oklahoma to pick up their children.
In April, the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified the two people killed in Texas County as 39-year-old Jillian Kelly and 27-year-old Veronica Butler.
Butler and Kelly were last seen on March 30, on their way to pick up their children, but their car was later found abandoned near the Oklahoma-Kansas border and suspicious activity was suspected, police said.
The court documents state: Obtained by KSNWOne of the defendants, Paul Grice, is accused of stabbing Butler to death, while Tad Cullum is accused of killing Kelly. According to the documents, Grice severely cut his own hand in the process of killing Butler.
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Pastor Tim Singer of the Hugoton Assembly of God Church told Fox News that Jillian Kelly (left) and Veronica Butler (right) had planned to pick up Butler's children on Saturday and take them home to a birthday party in Hugoton, Kansas. (Texas County Sheriff's Office/Oklahoma Highway Patrol/Shutterstock)
The bodies of both women were found inside a large freezer on a cattle ranch.
KSNW reported that the documents state Grice threw the clothing he was wearing when he killed Butler, the stun gun and the murder weapon into the grave, and that DNA recovered from the clothing contained both Grice and Butler's DNA.
Callum also allegedly threw his own clothes into the freezer along with the women's bodies, and the bodies reportedly had both Kelly and Callum's DNA on them. Investigators said knife accessories were found in Callum's home.
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The suspects are charged with the murders of Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelly. (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation – Official Page/Facebook)
One of the women arrested, Tiffany Machelle Adams, 54, is reportedly the grandmother of Butler's children. According to court records, Adams was in a custody battle with Butler's children, whose father is in rehab.
Adams, her boyfriend, Karam, and married couple Cole and Cora Twombly are charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to murder for their roles in the deaths of Butler and visiting supervisor Kelly, 38, a pastor's wife and mother.
Murdered Kansas mother's body found buried in freezer, court documents reveal gory details
Paul Grice was arrested and booked into the Texas County Jail on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with the murders of Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelly. (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)
According to KSNW, the documents also state that the Twomblys acted as lookouts on the day of the murder and confided in their 16-year-old daughter in the hopes of providing an alibi. They also allege that Adams purchased a disposable cell phone, a stun gun, a yellow strap found around the freezer and even a pair of pants worn by Karam and buried with the victim.
After interviewing Twombly's daughter and examining data from Adams' cell phone and three disposable cell phones, investigators discovered the women's bodies on April 14. The 16-year-old girl said her parents told her “there was nothing to worry about.” [Butler] Previous court documents suggest the two may have been “placed in the well” again.
Initially, the group's plan was to “throw an anvil at Butler's windshield while he was driving and make it look like an accident because anvils frequently fall from work vehicles,” Cora allegedly told the 16-year-old boy.
“Both women's bodies were found inside the freezer.”
Previous court documents have revealed Adams searched for phrases such as “taser pain level” that offer insight into the horrific deaths of women during child custody battles.
Fox News Digital previously reported that the four were members of a religious anti-government group called “God's Misfits.”
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Investigators say their motive was to gain custody of Butler's two children. Adams' son, Wrangler Rickman, had custody of the children, but he was in a rehabilitation facility in Oklahoma at the time of the women's disappearance. According to court documents, Butler has been allowed supervised visitation with the children every Saturday, and will likely be allowed unsupervised visitation at an upcoming hearing.
The state argues that all five defendants conspired together to kill Butler and Kelly and therefore should all be tried together for a preliminary hearing, rather than separately.
Fox News Digital's Christina Coulter contributed to this report.
