{"id":2221496,"date":"2024-04-15T15:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-people-arrested-in-connection-to-2-missing-kansas-moms-2-unidentified-bodies-found\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:53:30","slug":"4-people-arrested-in-connection-to-2-missing-kansas-moms-2-unidentified-bodies-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-people-arrested-in-connection-to-2-missing-kansas-moms-2-unidentified-bodies-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Four individuals have been apprehended in relation to the disappearance of two Kansas mothers, with two unidentified bodies discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F4-people-arrested-in-connection-to-2-missing-kansas-moms-2-unidentified-bodies-found%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2221496&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Four people, \u200dincluding Tad Bert \u200cCullum, Cole Earl \u200dTwombly, Cora Twombly,\u2062 and Tifany Machel Adams, \u200chave been arrested \u200cas \u200dsuspects in the disappearance of \u200dKansas mothers Jilian Kelley and Veronica Butler. The arrests\u2064 were linked to eerie developments \u2063after\u200c the women failed to pick\u200d up Butler&#8217;s children in \u2063Eva, Oklahoma, sparking a grim search and subsequent discovery of two bodies in Texas County. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-rips-biden-for-being-too-weak-to-stand-up-for-police\/\" title=\"Trump criticizes Biden for lacking the strength to support law enforcement\">summary effectively\u2062 captures<\/a> the key details of \u2064the situation involving \u200cthe disappearance of the Kansas \u200bmothers and the arrests\u200c of \u200bthe suspects. \u2063It provides \u2064a concise overview of the events leading up\u200c to the grim discoveries in Texas \u200dCounty.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Four people have been arrested in connection to the disappearance of two Kansas moms who haven\u2019t been seen in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Tad Bert Cullum, 43; Cole Earl Twombly, 50; Cora Twombly, 44; and Tifany Machel Adams, 54, were taken into custody and identified as suspects in the disappearance of Jilian Kelley, 39, and Veronica Butler, 27, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/4-people-arrested-connection-2-missing-kansas-women-osbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>, citing the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI). The OSBI reportedly told the outlet that one suspect was arrested in Texas County in Oklahoma \u2013 where the women were traveling to pick up Butler\u2019s children \u2013 while the other three were arrested in Cimarron County.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were booked into the Texas County Jail on two counts each of first<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">-degree murder<\/a>, kidnapping, and one count each of conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree.<\/p>\n<p>Adams is reportedly the paternal grandmother of Butler\u2019s children, and they lived with her.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours after the arrests, two bodies were found in Texas County, the OSBI announced on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth individuals will be transported to the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office to determine identification, as well as cause and manner of death,\u201d the OSBI said. \u201cThis is still an ongoing investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The OSBI has not said officially that the two deceased bodies are connected to Kelley and Butler\u2019s disappearance, though they offered condolences to the families during <a href=\"https:\/\/fox59.com\/news\/national-world\/2-bodies-found-in-rural-oklahoma-amid-search-for-2-kansas-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a press conference<\/a> on Monday. The two bodies were found in the area where law enforcement was searching for Kelley and Butler.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley was traveling with Butler to pick up Butler\u2019s young children in Eva, Oklahoma, but they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/two-kansas-moms-disappeared-while-picking-up-kids-in-oklahoma-foul-play-is-suspected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">never arrived<\/a>. Their vehicle was found abandoned in Elkhart, Kansas, just a few miles from their destination, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OSBI.OK\/posts\/pfbid02RL17Ct1xfw5HmM9mHaEDLNch4Ah8JJZBt7xP1vvVE2zgpxHGzTDGKyk775K79axnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Facebook post<\/a> on March 31.<\/p>\n<p>What investigators discovered in the vehicle has led them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-joins-search-for-gabby-petito-travel-bloggers-disappearance-may-be-linked-to-national-park-recent-double-murder\/\" title=\"FBI Joins Search For Gabby Petito, Travel Blogger\u2019s Disappearance May Be Linked To National Park, Recent Double Murder\">suspect foul play<\/a> is involved, the OSBI said in an update. The bureau has not released what was found.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The two women were traveling to pick up Butler\u2019s 6-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son. Butler was reportedly involved in a custody dispute with the father of her children, Wrangler Cole Rickman, Inside Edition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insideedition.com\/evidence-in-car-veronica-butler-was-driving-when-she-and-jillian-kelley-vanished-points-to-foul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Rickman had been released from prison, where he was serving a sentence for possession of a firearm, just a week before the women went missing. But Lauren Conlin, an independent journalist, spoke to Rickman\u2019s grandmother, who said Rickman had been released from prison and ordered to go to rehab on the same day. She said Rickman was in rehab when the women disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Rickman] was checked into rehab on the 22nd- 30 days no contact and cannot leave any outings from the facility for 30 days, and has to be there for six months. OSBI confirmed he was there,\u201d the grandmother said, Conlin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conlin_lauren\/status\/1775368832963502376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> on X on April 2.<\/p>\n<p>Rickman has not been arrested or charged in the disappearance of Butler or Kelley, but his mother was one of the four arrested in connection to the disappearance.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four suspects, Tad B. Cullum, Cole E. Twombly, Cora Twombly, and Tifany M. Adams, were arrested in the case of the missing Kansas moms, Jilian Kelley and Veronica Butler, who vanished two weeks ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2221497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-15-Apr-2024-12-26-PM-8431-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-15-Apr-2024-12-26-PM-8431-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}