Four people have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the case disappearance of two women in Oklahoma, authorities announced on Saturday. The remains of two bodies were also found, although they have not yet been identified, officials said Sunday.
Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, were last seen together in a vehicle that was later found abandoned on the side of the highway in a rural part of Texas County, Oklahoma.
Tad Bert Cullum, 43, Tifany Machel Adams, 54, Cole Earl Twombly, 50, and Cora Twombly, 44, were all arrested Saturday and charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. high-degree murder, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said.
Authorities have not provided any further details, including possible motivations, connections to the victims or evidence leading to the arrest of the four individuals.
Two bodies were discovered in Texas County on Sunday, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said. The two bodies were still awaiting identification.
Butler and Kelley were last seen traveling together in a vehicle on March 30 before disappearing, according to a missing person alert issued by the Texas County Sheriff’s Department. They had come from nearby Kansas to pick up Butler’s children, CBS affiliate KWTV reported. The missing persons alert said neither “returned to the pick-up location.”
Butler had been involved in a custody battle, KWTV reported, but it was unclear if that had anything to do with her disappearance.
According to the state Bureau of Investigation, the car the women were traveling in was found abandoned along the road near Oklahoma State Highway 95, just on the Oklahoma-Elkhart, Kansas, border.
Days after the car was found, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said “investigators believe there was evidence indicating foul play.” He did not specify what this evidence was.
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