After weeks of investigation, United States authorities announced that The bodies of two women missing in Oklahoma were found in a Texas town. There are already arrests in this regard, but the details have left many impressed.
Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, both residents of Kansas, They were found on April 14 inside a freezer that was buried on land in a rural Texas county.
The place was being rented by Tad Cullum, who was arrested as a suspect, along with other four people who have been accused of kidnapping and killing the two women, This is according to official documents presented on May 15, to which the news agency had access. AP.
The events have left the inhabitants stunned, because on the land, which the man had supposedly rented for cattle grazing, clothing, adhesive tape, an electrical cord were founda combination stun gun and flashlight, plus a knife with what appears to be blood.
The accused, detained without bail, They have been identified by authorities as: Tad Cullum, 43 years old; his girlfriend Tifany Adams, 54; Cole Twombly, 50; Cora Twombly, 44; and Paul Grice, 31 years old.
Although the investigations continue, the file mentions that a witness stated that Grice had asked him, shortly after the bodies were found, How long would it take for a lab to process DNA evidence? and how much this element could remain in the soil and in the clothing.
A custody dispute may have ended in murder in the United States
Authorities are still investigating what exactly happened. However, until now the most accepted theory is that the people involved in the murder Veronica Butler was killed due to a custody dispute over her children.
Butler’s children are Adams’ grandchildren. Butler’s attorney told investigators that he was fighting to get the mother granted unsupervised visitation. But, Two weeks before the hearing was to take place, the woman disappeared.
According to the file, both Butler and Jilian Kelley, who was to supervise Veronica’s visit with her children, They disappeared on March 30 while driving to pick up the minors at Adams’ house. Nevertheless, the mother’s car was found near the intersection of a rural roadabout 418 kilometers from where they were to pick up the minors.
Investigators found Butler’s glasses near the car and then followed blood trails on the road. Finally, A couple of weeks later, they found the freezer buried with the bodies, about 14 kilometers ahead of where they had located the car.
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