The FBI confirmed to Fox News on Friday that it has joined the search for Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelly, two Kansas women who disappeared in Oklahoma while on their way to pick up their children. Ta.
An Oklahoma City FBI spokesperson said the FBI is “providing additional resources to the investigation, but the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation remains the lead agency.”
Police said Butler, 27, and Kelly, 39, were last seen picking up their children on March 30, before leaving their car near the Oklahoma-Kansas border. was found abandoned, and “foul play” is suspected.
As of Friday, no arrests had been made in the case, and no suspects or persons of interest had been publicly identified by law enforcement.
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Police said Veronica Butler (left) and Jillian Kelly were last seen on March 30 while driving to pick up their children. (Oklahoma Highway Patrol)
“We urge everyone in the area to contact us if you know anything or have additional information,” Hunter McKee, public affairs manager for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, told FOX News Digital on Thursday. I continue to tell them that please do so.”
McKee told Fox News Digital on Monday that finding the women alive is becoming “increasingly difficult” as the days go by without knowing their whereabouts.
A missing person advisory from the Texas County Sheriff’s Office says Butler has “several tattoos, including a Chinese symbol on her left forearm and a sunflower on her left shoulder,” and “Jillian has a butterfly on her left forearm.” “I have a tattoo of.”
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Pastor Tim Singer of the Hugoton Assembly of God told Fox News that Jillian Kelly (left) and Veronica Butler (right) were taking Butler’s children back to a birthday party in Hugoton, Kansas. He said he was on his way to pick them up. (Texas County Sheriff’s Office/Oklahoma Highway Patrol/Shutterstock)
Butler is 5 feet 4 inches tall with red hair and green eyes and was last seen wearing a blue short-sleeve shirt and denim shorts, according to the alert.
Kelly has brown hair and blue eyes and was last seen wearing a long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans and tan or beige shoes.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said an abandoned car containing two women was found Saturday near the Oklahoma-Kansas border. (Google Maps)
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According to OSBI, the vehicle they were in was “found abandoned near Highway 95 and L Road in rural Texas County, south of Elkhart, Kansas.”
