A grandmother accused of killing two Kansas women during a child custody battle searched for “Taser pain level” and other phrases that offered insight into the women’s horrific deaths, court documents say. It became clear.
In the death of the 27-year-old mother, her grandmother Tiffany Machelle Adams, 54, her boyfriend Tad Burt Karam, Cole Twombly and Cora Twombly are all charged with two counts of first-degree murder and kidnapping. He has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. She is Veronica Butler and visiting supervisor Jillian Kelly, a 38-year-old preacher’s wife and her mother.
Investigators say their motive was to gain custody of Butler’s two children. Adams’ son, Wrangler Rickman, had custody of the children and was confirmed to have been in a rehabilitation facility in Oklahoma at the time of the women’s disappearance. Court documents say Butler is allowed supervised visitation with her children every Saturday and will likely be granted unsupervised visitation during future hearings.
Butler and Kelly were last seen alive on March 30, when they left Hugoton, Kansas, for a court-supervised visit with Butler’s two children in Oklahoma. I had just done that.
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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)
Butler’s family began searching for the two women after they failed to take Butler’s daughter to her birthday party as planned.
They found Butler’s car on the Kansas-Oklahoma border and found signs of serious injuries, including blood stains on the road and Butler’s glasses on the ground near a broken hammer. “There was evidence in and around the vehicle.”
Investigators found a pistol magazine in Kelly’s wallet at the scene, but the pistol was nowhere to be found, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital.
According to court documents, based on interviews with a 16-year-old Twombly family member, an examination of Adams’ cell phone, and data from three burner cell phones, investigators discovered that Karam had rented a cow on April 14. A woman’s body was found on the farm.
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Tiffany Machelle Adams, 54, is reportedly the grandmother of Veronica Butler’s children. She had searched for “taser pain levels” and purchased five Tasers days before the two women went missing, according to court documents. (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation – Certification Page/Facebook)
Adams told police that Butler and Rickman’s children had stayed overnight with family friends on March 29, and that Butler canceled visitation with the children on the morning of March 30. Ta. But Ms. Butler’s phone records show that she called Ms. Adams while on her way to pick up Kelly for her visit. Investigators wrote that Mr. Kelly was Mr. Butler’s preferred supervisor during his meetings.
According to court documents, Rickman’s grandmother, Debi Knox-Davis, reported to police that the children’s father told her the family no longer needed to worry about his custody battle with Butler. She told police that Adams “knew the route the judge walked to work” and planned to “take Veronica out when she got off.”
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation obtained a warrant to search Adams’ cell phone on April 1st. Searches conducted on the terminal included “taser pain levels,” firearms stores, prepaid cell phones, and “how to get someone out.” [your] House. “
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Tad Cullum, 43, is reportedly the boyfriend of 54-year-old Tiffany Adams, the grandmother of Veronica Butler’s children. (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation – Certification Page/Facebook)
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A subsequent search of a local gun store revealed that Adams had purchased five stun guns on March 23.
On April 3, the Twomblys’ daughter reportedly told police that she had been told that her parents, Adams and Cullum, were responsible for Butler and Kelly’s deaths. She said Adams gave the other three people cellphones so they could confidentially contact them about the plan.
The four belonged to a religiously affiliated rebel group called “God’s Misfits,” Fox News Digital previously reported.
A 16-year-old girl said she overheard a conversation between the four suspects about a “butler situation” before the women were last seen on March 30. [was] She failed to protect her children from her brother in connection with sexual abuse allegations. ”
Pictured are Cody Twombly and Cora Twombly. A 16-year-old daughter’s statement to police helped secure arrests in the murders of Veronica Butler and Gillian Kelly. (Texas County Sheriff’s Department)
The 16-year-old said her parents told her there was “no need to worry.” [Butler] Again.” According to court documents, the two may have been placed in a well.
”[The 16-year-old] asked why [Kelley] I had to die, and Cora told me, “I had to die. [Kelley] She was not innocent because she was assisting Butler,” investigators wrote.
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The group’s original plan was to “throw an anvil at Mr. Butler’s windshield while he was driving and make it look like an accident because anvils regularly fall off his work vehicle,” Cora said. told Butler.
The minor named a fifth party involved in planning the woman’s death who has not yet been arrested.
OSBI investigators found records showing Adams purchased three prepaid cell phones. Tracing the phone’s previous location led detectives to a “new earthwork” covered with hay, where the woman’s body was discovered.
OSBI said the woman’s body and cause of death are pending a coroner’s report, but there is “no” chance that Butler and Kelly are still alive.
“This incident is tragic,” said OSBI spokesperson Hunter McKee. KFDA. “Two people died and four committed an extremely brutal crime.”
