(Photo : Oklahoma Bureau of Investigations)
Tifany Adams, 54; Tad Cullum, 43; Cora Twombly, 44; and Cole Twombly, 50, face murder charges in connection with the deaths of Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelley.
Disturbing information against four people accused of killing two Kansas moms was revealed in court documents filed by the district attorney in a request to hold them without bail.
Tifany Adams, 54; boyfriend Tad Cullum, 43; Cora Twombly, 44; and her husband Cole Twombly, 50, are accused of brutally murdering Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelley.
The four were members of a small anti-government group who called themselves "God's Misfits."
Adams was in a bitter custody dispute with Bulter. Bulter had been married to Adam's son and she was the grandmother of the two children involved in the long-running dispute.
Prosecutors say Adams helped orchestrate the killings to keep Butler from gaining custody of the children. Kelley was not an original target but was apparently killed because she was driving with Butler to pick up her children as part of a court ordered visitation plan.
(Photo : Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)
Butler and Kelley disappeared on March 30 during a drive from Hugoton, Kansas, to Eva, Oklahoma, to pick up Butler's children from Adams. They were planning to take the children to a birthday party.
The killings were "complex and involved extensive preparation," according to court documents. And they apparently were ready to take out the judge in the custody case, if needed.
The prosecutor claims the members of "Gods Misfits" also said their problem would be taken care of because along with killing Veronica "they knew the path the Judge walked to work."
Prosecutors said the group had also previously had developed a plot to kill Bulter by throwing an anvil through her car windshield.
Police investigators said Adams and Cullum had a history of violent interactions, "including death threats and intimidation against individuals who disagree with their ideas."
They went on to state, "They abide by their own philosophy and have no regard for the sanctity of human life."
Butler and Kelley's bodies were discovered in a hay-covered hole on a property rented out by Cullum, two weeks after they mysteriously disappeared.
The judge entered not-guilty pleas on behalf of the defendants and denied them bail.
