According to a medical examiner’s report, a missing Kansas lady who went missing this year and was discovered in a freezer buried in a cow pasture in the Oklahoma Panhandle was stabbed to death and suffered numerous wounds.
According to a report by the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Veronica Butler, 27, died from sharp force trauma and suffered 30 wounds, 10 of which were related to her attempting self-defense.
On March 30, Butler vanished along with Jilian Kelley, 39, a court supervisor involved in a custody dispute involving children. According to an affidavit submitted by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, their corpses were discovered on April 14 in Texas County, Oklahoma, fewer than 10 miles from their disappearance site.
The medical examiner concluded that Butler was probably dead when she was put in the freezer and buried, with a wound on her skull that might have been from a stun gun.
Five individuals are accused of murder, first-degree murder conspiracy, and kidnapping in connection with the deaths of the ladies.
The accused are Paul Grice, Cole Earl Twombly, Cora Twombly, Tifany Adams, and Adams’ lover, Tad Bert Cullum.
The Oklahoma Indigent Defense System is representing four of the five defendants. Tim Laughlin, the agency’s executive director, declined to comment on Thursday.
Thursday afternoon, a lawyer thought to be Cullum’s representative was not immediately available for comment.
According to court documents, Cullum leased the land where Butler and Kelley were discovered for livestock grazing.
According to the complaint, Butler and Adams got into a custody battle in February 2019. The court record indicates that Adams is the father’s mother.
According to court documents, Butler had asked for prolonged visitation, and her attorney informed the State Bureau of Investigation that she would probably receive unsupervised visitation during a hearing on April 17.
The father of the children also said in the investigative bureau’s declaration that, despite having legal custody of the children, Adams had occasionally denied him access to them.
Butler had intended to take her daughter to a birthday celebration on the day she vanished, which was also the day she had visitation.
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