WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Three of the five people accused in the murder of two Kansas women earlier this year are charged with some new crimes connected to the deaths. But they have also had some charges dropped.
Tifany Adams, Tad Cullum, Cole and Cora Twombly, and Paul Grice initially faced the same charges in the deaths of Jilian Kelley and Veronica Butler . The two Hugoton women disappeared in March while they were going to pick up Butler’s children in Oklahoma.
Adams is the paternal grandmother of Butler’s children, and court documents allege the group murdered the two women in Oklahoma because of a child custody dispute.
Documents reveal cause of death for Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley
The original charges for all five suspects were:
- Two counts of murder in the first degree – deliberate intent,
- Two counts of kidnapping and
- Conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree – deliberate intent.
But last Thursday, the district attorney of Texas County, Oklahoma, filed amended charges against Adams, Cullum and Cole Twombly. Those three suspects are no longer charged with kidnapping the victims. Instead, they face additional charges of: