Court documents detail cause of death of murdered mothers in Kansas

Court documents provide details on the cause of death of two Kansas mothers whose bodies were found after they disappeared during a car trip to Oklahoma to pick up their children.

In April, the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office positively identified the two Texas County deceased as 39-year-old Jilian Kelley and 27-year-old Veronica Butler.

Butler and Kelley were last seen on March 30 when they went to pick up their children before their car was found abandoned near the Oklahoma-Kansas border. Foul play is suspected, police said.

Court documents obtained by KSNW show that one of the defendants, Paul Grice, allegedly stabbed Butler, while Tad Cullum allegedly killed Kelley. Grice suffered severe cuts to his hand while killing Butler, the documents show.

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The bodies of both women were found in a freezer in a cow pasture.

According to the document, Grice threw the clothes he was wearing when he killed Butler, a stun gun and the murder weapon into the grave, KSNW reported. It also says that DNA found in the clothing included that of both Grice and Butler.

Cullum also allegedly threw his clothes in the freezer with the women's bodies, which allegedly had his and Kelley's DNA on them. Investigators found that accessories to the knife were found in Cullum's home.

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The suspects are accused of killing Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley. (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation – Authorized Page/Facebook)

Tifany Machel Adams, 54, one of the women arrested, is reportedly the grandmother of Butler's children. Court records show Adams was involved in a custody battle with Butler's children. The children's father is in a rehabilitation facility.

Adams, her boyfriend Cullum, and the couple Cole and Cora Twombly are charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the deaths of Butler and visiting director Kelley, a 38-year-old preacher's wife who was also a mother.

Bodies of murdered Kansas mothers found in freezer as gruesome details emerge in court documents

Paul Grice was arrested and booked into the Texas County Jail on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with the killings of Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley. (Oklahoma State Department of Investigation)

The document also claims that the Twomblys served as a lookout on the day of the murder and confided in their 16-year-old daughter in hopes that she would provide them with an alibi, KSNW reported. It alleges that Adams purchased the disposable cell phones, stun guns, yellow straps found around the freezer and even the pants Cullum wore and buried with the victims.

Interviews with the Twomblys' daughter and a review of Adams' phone and data from three disposable cell phones led investigators to find the women's bodies on April 14. The 16-year-old said her parents told her they “didn't have to worry about [Butler] again” and that the two may have been placed in a well, according to previous court documents.

The group's initial plan was to “throw an anvil through Butler's windshield while he was driving and make it look like an accident, since anvils regularly fall from work vehicles,” Cora is said to have told the 16-year-old.

(The bodies of both women were found in a freezer.)

Previous court documents showed that Adams searched for “Taser pain level” and other terms that could shed light on the women's gruesome deaths during a custody battle.

The four belonged to a religiously motivated anti-government group called “God's Misfits,” Fox News Digital previously reported.

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Her motive, investigators say, was to gain custody of Butler's two children. Wrangler Rickman, Adams' son, had custody of the children, but was confirmed to be in a rehabilitation facility in Oklahoma at the time the women disappeared. Butler was allowed supervised visits with her children every Saturday and was likely allowed unsupervised visitation during an upcoming hearing, according to court documents.

The state argues that all defendants should be tried together in a preliminary hearing rather than separately because they claim all five conspired and participated in the murders of Butler and Kelley.

Christina Coulter of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.