Two Kansas moms killed during a child visitation in Oklahoma were ambushed in a scheme masterminded by one victim’s mother-in-law and her God’s Misfits gang members

Tifany Adams, 54, Tad Cullum, 43, were arrested alongside Cole Twombly, 50, and Cora Twombly, 44, in the killings of Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39

Each has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and a count of conspiracy to commit murder after the ‘ambush and murder scheme’ masterminded by one victim’s mother-in-law and her God’s Misfits gang members

Adams, the grandmother of Butler’s children, had previously hatched a failed scheme with boyfriend Cullum to kill Butler using an anvil

Butler was going through a nasty divorce and custody battle with Adams’ son Wrangler Rickman traveled to Oklahoma on March 30 to pick up her kids and attend a relatives birthday party

Jillian Kelley, a pastor’s wife, was one of her supervisors for her visitations with the kids The women did not show up for the party

Anxious relatives launched a search that led to finding Butler’s abandoned car and the discovery of the bodies in a makeshift grave on April 14  

Preceding the murders Adams looked up taser pain levels, purchased burner phones and stun guns, while Cullum secured the land to bury the bodies

The four suspects, all members of an anti-governmental religious gang known as ‘God’s Misfit’s’ conspired and implemented the killings, the Twombly’s teenage daughter told investigators

Arraigned in an Oklahoma court on Wednesday April 17, the suspects were denied bail

Tifany Adams [left], has been arrested alongside her boyfriend Tad Cullum [right] and two other members of their God’s Misfits gang for the killing of her daughter-in-law, Veronica Butler and a female visitation supervisor. Adams allegedly, who failed in a previous attempt to kill Butler, was the mastermind of the double-homicide, police said

The member of the religious gang who murdered two Kansas mothers had already tried to kill her daughter-in-law once before and planned out her killing this time around, newly revealed case details show. 
Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, were traveling together to pick up Butler’s children, ages six and eight, on March 30, when they disappeared about three miles from their destination.
Their bodies were recovered after ‘pools of blood’ were found next to their empty car. Butler was going through a nasty divorce and custody battle. Jillian Kelley, a pastor’s wife, went along to supervise Butler’s visitations with the kids.

Mother-of-two Veronica Butler, [photo], in the midst of a nasty divorce, went missing alongside Jilian Kelley on March 30, as the two were on their way to pick up her children for a birthday party. Their bodies were discovered April 14. Her children’s grandmother has been arrested for the killings 

Pastor’s wife Jilian Kelley, [photo], was one of the supervisors that watched over visitations with Butler and her kids but not the regular supervisor Butler who went in place of the regular supervisor who was not available on the day of the crime

Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelley vanished after leaving from Kelley’s home on the morning of March 30 to pick up her children for her supervised weekly visit. Their remains were found inside a hole in a pasture and covered with hay on April 14.
The duo were supposed to pick up Butler’s kids from mother-in-law, Tifany Adams and attend a birthday Party. A one hour arrived. They never arrived at the party.
Butler’s worried family launched a search, only to find her abandoned car and pools of blood.
Tifany Adams, 54, the children’s grandmother and her boyfriend, Tad Cullum, 43, were arrested alongside Cole Twombly, 50, and his wife Cora Twombly, 44, in a huge Oklahoma SWAT raid last week.
Each has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and a count of conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the killings of Butler, who had children with Adams’ son, and and her traveling companion, Jilian Kelley.

Cole Twombly [left] and Cora Twombly [right], also members of God’s Misfits gang were also charged with kidnap and double-homicide alongside Adams and Cullum. They told their daughter Kelley had to die because she was GUILTY by associating with Butler

Investigators are beginning to reveal what they’ve discovered about the killings and wrote in affidavits filed in court that this wasn’t even the first time Adams’ group had tried to kill Butler.
Jilian Kelley was was embroiled in a nasty divorce with estranged husband Wrangler Rickman, the son of Tiffany Adams.
Adams, 54, the children’s grandmother and her boyfriend, Tad Cullum, 43, were arrested alongside Cole Twombly, 50, and his wife Cora Twombly, 44, in a huge Oklahoma SWAT raid last week.
Investigators are beginning to reveal what they’ve discovered about the killings and wrote in affidavits filed in court that this wasn’t even the first time Adams’ group had tried to kill Butler.

Collage of Oklahoma SWAT arresting Tifany Adams and her boyfriend, Tad Cullum, alongside Cole Twombly and Cora Twombly in a huge raid last week

Adams’ son, Wrangler Rickman, technically had custody of his and Butler’s two children but he was confirmed to be in an Oklahoma rehab facility, leaving the kids largely under Adams’ supervision.
Butler had wanted more than the weekly mandated visits with her kids under supervisors such as Kelley, but Adams, who was also known to have kept Rickman away from the children, had no desire to accept wider contact between the mom and her children.
Adams and Cullum had plotted to kill Butler previously in February, according to a witness.
They pair hatched a plan to make it look like an accident, ‘because anvils regularly fall off of work vehicles,’ records said. 

Angered by Butler’s motion for more visitation time with the children, Tifany Adams [photo], searched levels of pain caused by tasing, various gun shops and how to buy prepaid phones, before purchasing three prepaid, unregistered phones from Walmart

The couple had gone as far as traveling to Butler’s Hugoton, Kansas, home to pull off the plan, however Butler never left her house on that occasion. 
Second time around however, Adams created a more detailed plan to eliminate her estranged daughter-in-law, the mother of her grandchildren.
Search records recovered for Adams showed she had looked up the level of pain caused by a taser, various gun shops and how to buy prepaid cell phones.
At about that time, Adams did an online search for how to get someone out of their house. She also looked up taser pain level, gun shops and prepaid cell phones, investigators said.
She bought three prepaid, unregistered burner phones from her nearest Walmart in February.
Days after Butler filed for more visits with her children in March, Adams bought five stun guns at a local gun shop.

Wrangler Rickman [left], technically had custody of the two children that he shared with estranged wife Veronica Butler [right]. Now confined to an Oklahoma rehab facility, leaving the children largely under the supervision of his mother Tifany Adams

According to the the charging documents, on Easter weekend, Butler was set to take the kids to a birthday party with family after picking them up from Adams.
Adams claims Butler told her she could not make the kids visit during a phone call the morning of March 30, but records show Butler was already on her way to picking up Kelley who was standing in for
the regular supervisor Cheryl Brune, who it is believed was unavailable that day.
Burne, however, told police that she had been available but Adams had called her and told her to take a couple of weeks off.  
Cora Twombly’s teenage daughter became a crucial witness to the investigators putting together the probable cause affidavit.
The four suspects belonged to a fringe anti-governmental religious gang known as ‘God’s Misfits,’ Cora’s 16-year-old daughter told police. The teen later told police the organization met weekly at either the Twomblys’ home or that of another member. 

Mastermind Tifany Adams [left], had conspired with boyfriend Tad Cullum [right], had failed in a previous attempt to murder her daughter-in-law. The pair were arrested for the double-homicide alongside along with accomplices Cole Twombly and Cora Twombly

On the day Tad Cullum left around 9 am to meet up with Adams, Cora and Cole Twombly, on a ‘mission,’ the teen told investigators. The group had discussed the safety of Adams’ children, saying that it was at risk if they were with Butler, she said.
The group had all been provided with burner phones so that they wouldn’t be using personal devices. Adams had left the grandchildren at the home of another ‘God’s Misfits’ couple that hosted meetings the night before the killings.

The search party found multiple puddles of blood near Butler’s vehicle which had been abandoned in the desolate Oklahoma panhandle. Remains of the missing women were found in a hole filled with hay near the car in a pasture 8.5 miles away

Cullum was working the night before on a pasture that he rented to let cattle graze and asked the owner if he could do some heavier work on the land.
The landowner told police he was going to use a skid steer and a bulldozer to remove a tree and bury concrete. 
When the Twomblys’ daughter woke up on Saturday morning, the day Kelley and Butler went missing, her mother and Cole Twombly were gone.
When they arrived home a couple of hours later, they ordered the girl to clean the inside of their Chevrolet truck.
When she asked her parents what had happened, they shockingly admitted to the killings. Responding that the mission had not gone as they planned but they no longer had to worry about Veronica Butler, the girl told police in an April 3 interview. 
The parents recounted to their daughter that they had blocked the road to stop Butler and Kelley and lured them to where the other members were waiting for them. 

Jillian Kelley, seen [right], with her pastor husband Heath Kelley, was found dead on April 14 after ‘pools of blood’ were spotted near the empty car she was in when she vanished

Cora Twombly was asked if they had put the bodies in a well. She responded: ‘Something like that.’
The daughter asked why Kelley had to die and Twombly said that her supporting Butler made her guilty by association. 
Adams picked up her two grandchildren around the same time the Twomblys got back home on March 30, according to police.
Melissa and Joey Padilla, two relatives of Butler, went out and searched for her after she didn’t arrive with the kids at the party. 
Around noon, they found the abandoned vehicle along with pools of blood and contacted police, who began their investigation. That sparked a missing person report and a request from the public’s help for information. 
Days later, police got search warrants for Adams phone, which unveiled the searches. On April 13, the four suspects were arrested despite not yet finding the bodies.
The next day, police found the bodies as the lack of traffic cameras extended the investigation. 
Police had tracked the burner phones to the property Cullum had worked on that night, about eight-and-a-half miles from where Butler’s car had been found.  Authorities said all three phones were discovered near Butler’s car around the time she and Kelley disappeared. 
Authorities discovered a hole that was dug, filled back in and covered with hay on the pasture. Inside the hole, they found two sets of remains confirmed to be Butler and Kelley.

Veronica Butler [right], vanished in Oklahoma on March 30, after leaving home in Kansas with Jilian Kelley [left], to pickup her children from her mother-in-law for a birthday party. The women never arrived at the party. Her car was found abandoned. The bodies turned up in a makeshift grave in a pasture on April 14

Investigators tracked all three of the burner phones to the area where Butler and Kelley disappeared – and at the time they disappeared.
Two of the phones pinged in the pasture used by Cullum, below a dam. A hole that served for the grave had been dug, filled back in and covered with hay.
Investigators believe Butler and Kelley were lured to the location, arriving there at about 9:40 a.m. They say the women were forced into another vehicle and confined there.
Officers found blood on the road and off to the side, and Butler’s glasses were on the ground, near a broken hammer. A magazine for a pistol was found in Kelley’s purse, but no gun.
Both their phones stopped sending signals at 9:42 a.m.

Veronica Butler [left] likely was finally going to granted unsupervised visitation with her children on Wednesday, April 17, the day her murder trial began, her lawyer said

Most tragically, it was revealed by an attorney for Butler that this past Wednesday was likely to be the day her client was finally granted unsupervised visitation with her children.
Instead, it was the first court date for Adams, Cullum and the Twomblys as they stand accused of killing the mother-of-two.
The suspects were arraigned Wednesday, April 17, at an Oklahoma court where they were denied bail.