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The four suspects charged with killing Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley after they vanished in Oklahoma in late March belonged to an anti-government group called the “God’s Misfits,” an affidavit alleges, as more details are emerging surrounding the two women’s deaths.
An Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation special agent, citing a 16-year-old witness, wrote in court documents that the group, which had a “religious affiliation,” held regular weekly meetings at the home of two of the suspects, Cole and Cora Twombly.
OSBI public information manager Hunter McKee declined to comment further about the group Tuesday when asked by Fox News Digital. FBI Oklahoma City also did not immediately respond to an inquiry on the matter.
Butler, 27, and Kelley, 39, were last seen on March 30 heading to pick up children before their car was found abandoned near the Oklahoma-Kansas border, with “foul play” suspected, police previously said.
The affidavit said the grandmother of the children’s father reported that he said in February she “didn’t have to worry about the custody battle much longer because Adams had it under control, that Adams knew the path the judge walked to work, and ‘we will take out Veronica at drop off.’” The father, investigators say, was at a rehab facility in Oklahoma City at the time of Butler and Kelley’s disappearance.
The affidavit also says Adams purchased five stun guns and three burner phones that allegedly were used in the plot to kill the women.
An interview with the 16-year-old daughter of the Twombleys, identified as CW, revealed that on March 30, Cora told her she and Cole “blocked the road to stop Butler and Kelley and divert them” to where Adams and Cullum were.
“CW asked about Kelley and why she had to die and was told by Cora that she wasn’t innocent either, as she had supported Butler. CW asked Cora if their bodies were put in a well, and Cora replied, ‘something like that,” the affidavit said.
Two of the burner phones were eventually found at a pasture Cullum rented for cattle grazing, about 8.5 miles away from where the abandoned vehicle was found, according to investigators. There, a “hole had been dug and filled back in and then covered with hay,” they said.
The area near the Oklahoma-Kansas border where the vehicle the two women were traveling in was found abandoned, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. (Google Maps)
The OSBI says two bodies that were recently found in rural Texas County were pending investigation by a medical examiner. But McKee noted at a press conference Monday there is “no” chance Butler and Kelley are still alive.
Fox News’ Stepheny Price contributed to this report.
