Fifth suspect arrested in Texas County
TEXAS COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has made a fifth arrest in connection to the deaths of two Kansas women in Texas County.
27-year-old Veronica Butler and 39-year-old Jillian Kelley reportedly went missing on March 30, and were later found dead in rural Texas County on April 14.
According to OSBI, 31-year-old 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 murder in the first degree.
Tifany Adams, 54, and her boyfriend, Tad Cullum, 43, both of Keyes, Oklahoma, as well as Cole and Cora Twombly of Texhoma, Oklahoma are also in custody in connection to the deaths.
According to an affidavit, Veronica Butler was on her way to a supervised visit with her two children when she and Jillian Kelley went missing.
Kelley was a court appointed supervisor for the visitation. Family got concerned with the two did not return home and went looking for them.
They found Butler’s car on Highway 95 and Road L, south of Elkhart, Kansas.
Court documents revealed the attack was planned. It also stated all four were part of an anti-government, religious group called “God’s Misfits.”