UPDATE: 5th Person Arrested in Brutal Murders of Kansas Moms, Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelley Previous Coverage The four people charged with the murders of two Kansas women who vanished in Oklahoma late last month conspired to kill them to stop a bitter custody dispute with one of the women — and had tried to kill …
A 10-year-old Oklahoma boy awoke Monday morning to find his parents and three brothers dead from a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father. Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Gary Knight said the child called 911 at about 9:30 a.m. and told a dispatcher that “everyone inside the home appeared to be dead.” “Investigators determined that sometime overnight, …
Prosecutors wrote in a motion to hold Tifany Adams without bail that the 54-year-old grandmother, accused of killing Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, allegedly admitted her involvement in the murders. Near the end of the motion, almost as an afterthought, Texas County District Attorney George H. Leach wrote that the “State would point out that …
The father of one of the murdered women had to be restrained Wednesday as the four suspects in the murders of two women in the Oklahoma panhandle made their first court appearances, each wearing a bulletproof vest over their orange and white striped jail uniforms. Tifany Adams, 54; Tad Cullum, 43; Cole Twombly, 50; and …
Oklahoma’s chief medical examiner on Tuesday positively identified two bodies found in Texas County over the weekend as Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, two women who disappeared while traveling from Kansas to Oklahoma on March 30 to pick up Butler’s children. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation made the announcement in a Facebook post that …
The OSBI announced Sunday night that two bodies had been found in rural Texas county, Oklahoma. While the identities of the deceased were not released, the update was made by sharing a social post that announced the arrest of four individuals in connection with the disappearances of Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley. Today, the OSBI, …
Oklahoma authorities have arrested four people for the kidnapping and murder of two women who vanished two weeks ago in the Oklahoma panhandle. Tifany Machel Adams, 54; Tad Bert Cullum, 43; Cole Earl Twombly, 50; and Cora Twombly, 44; have been charged with two counts each of first degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and …
Four people have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of two women who vanished two weeks ago on the Oklahoma panhandle while traveling to pick up the children of one of them. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation told KSN three of the people were arrested in Cimarron County and the fourth in Texas …
An Oklahoma man has been charged with the death of his 4-month-old son after doctors found the child had skull fractures and died from blunt force trauma. Duwuan Betancourt, 36, explained the injuries by telling detectives the infant rolled off the couch onto a soft foam mat a few days earlier and that he often …
An Oklahoma sheriff’s office served a 9-year-old boy with victim protective order this week, handing the document over at his elementary school. The boy is ordered to appear in court on April 18 in Shawnee, the document says. According to KFOR, the order stems from a complaint by the mother of a girl who accuses …
The Oklahoma woman accused in the death of 4-year-old Athena Brownfield last year is expected in court Wednesdya to be arraigned on a first degree murder charge. Brownfield was reported missing on January 10, 2023, after a mail carrier found her 5-year-old sister wandering alone outside the home of Ivon and Alisia Adams, their caregivers, …
An Oklahoma teen reportedly died earlier this month after being attacked at their high school. Dagny “Nex” Benedict — a nonbinary 16-year-old who used they/them pronouns — died on February 8, a day after being attacked in a girls’ bathroom at Owasso High School West Campus. The Oklahoman reported that one of Benedict’s parents contacted …
