Murdered Kansas mother stabbed greater than 30 occasions, tried to defend herself: post-mortem

The complete post-mortem report for the second Kansas mother discovered buried in a freezer in a cow pasture after being reported lacking on a highway journey has been launched. 

The report, performed by the Oklahoma Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner, decided that Veronica Butler, 27, suffered 30 sharp drive accidents, together with 9 stab wounds. 

The report obtained by KOKH stated ten of the injuries had been in step with Butler making an attempt to defend herself, together with grabbing the knife blade together with her proper hand.

“Given the extent of Ms. Butler’s accidents, together with defects to each of her inside jugular veins with resultant exsanguination, it’s my opinion that her dying was very fast and sure occurred earlier than she was positioned contained in the freezer and buried,” the stories stated. “This opinion is moreover supported by the truth that her physique appeared to have remained precisely the way it was positioned contained in the freezer.”

COURT DOCUMENTS DETAIL CAUSE OF DEATH FOR MURDERED KANSAS MOMS

Jilian Kelley, left, and Veronica Butler, proper, had been heading to select up Butler’s kids to deliver them again to a birthday celebration in Hugoton, Kansas, once they disappeared. (Texas County Sheriff’s Workplace/Oklahoma Freeway Patrol/Shutterstock)

The post-mortem was launched over two weeks after the report on Jilian Kelley, 39, the opposite mother who went lacking on the highway journey, was launched, revealing extra particulars about her dying.

Kelley’s report listed the possible explanation for dying as a number of sharp drive trauma accidents, together with 9 stab wounds and 7 different cuts. She additionally died making an attempt to defend herself, based on the report.

The report stated Kelley was additionally most certainly useless earlier than being positioned within the freezer.

SUSPECTS CHARGED WITH KILLING KANSAS WOMEN BELONGED TO ANTI-GOVERNMENT ‘GOD’S MISFITS’ GROUP, AFFIDAVIT SAYS

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) arrested Tad Bert Cullum, 43, Tifany Machel Adams, 54, Cole Earl Twombly, 50, Cora Twombly, 44, and Paul Grice, 31, in reference to the womens’ deaths. (OSBI)

Butler and Kelley had been final seen on March 30 heading to select up their kids earlier than their automotive was discovered deserted close to the Oklahoma-Kansas border with foul play suspected, police stated.

Each ladies’s our bodies had been present in a cow pasture inside a chest freezer. 

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) introduced on April 13 that Tad Bert Cullum, 43, Tifany Machel Adams, 54, Cole Earl Twombly, 50, and Cora Twombly, 44, had been taken into custody in connection to the murders.

A fifth suspect, 31-year-old Paul Grice, was arrested shortly after the opposite arrests had been made. 

MURDERED KANSAS MOMS SUSPECT BOUGHT TASERS, BURNERS BEFORE WOMEN WENT MISSING, SEARCHED ‘PAIN LEVEL’: DOCS

Paul Grice was arrested and booked into the Texas County Jail on two counts of first-degree homicide, two counts of Kidnapping, and one depend of first-degree conspiracy to commit homicide in connection to the killings of Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley. (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)

The 4 belonged to a religiously affiliated anti-government group referred to as “God’s Misfits,” Fox Information Digital beforehand reported. It was unclear if Grice was concerned in the identical anti-government group.

Adams, one of many ladies arrested, is reportedly the grandmother of Butler’s two kids. Their motive, investigators say, was to get custody of the youngsters. 

Wrangler Rickman, Adams’ son, had custody of the youngsters however was confirmed to be in an Oklahoma rehab facility when the ladies disappeared. Butler was allowed supervised visitation together with her kids each Saturday and was prone to be granted unsupervised visitation throughout an upcoming listening to, per courtroom paperwork. 

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The state is arguing that every one the defendants ought to face a preliminary listening to collectively as a substitute of a separate listening to since they allege that every one 5 conspired and took part within the murders of Butler and Kelley.

The listening to for the Twomblys, Cullum and Adams is ready for Dec. 17, KAKE reported. Throughout that listening to, the decide will decide if there’s sufficient proof to carry somebody for trial.

Grice, whose bond was denied, waived his proper to a preliminary listening to and can be in courtroom on Feb. 18, 2025.