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BREAKING: Two Bodies Found During Investigation Into Missing Mom And Preacher’s Wife

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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.

The OSBI statement read:

UPDATE- On April 14, the OSBI, FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation, Texas County Sheriff’s Department, and the Office of the Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner recovered two deceased persons in rural Texas County.

Both individuals will be transported to the Medical Examiner’s Office to determine identification, as well as cause and manner of death. This is still an ongoing investigation.

We are “Protecting Oklahoma one Partnership at a time.”

Four individuals, including Butler’s former mother-in-law, were arrested Saturday on murder and kidnapping charges as part of the investigation into the disappearances.

Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, disappeared on March 30 while traveling to Adams’ home from Kansas to pick up Butler’s children, as CrimeOnline reported. They never made it, and their car was found three miles from their destination on a dirt track 1,000 feet off State Highway 95 in Texas County, Oklahoma.

Tad Cullum, Cole Twombly, Cora Twombly, and Tifany Adams/Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation

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 one count of conspiracy to commit murder and were booked into the Texas County jail.

Adams is Butler’s ex-mother-in-law and Cullum is her boyfriend. the Tromblys are reported to be friends of Adams, but it’s otherwise unclear how they’re connected to the case.

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[Featured image: Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley/Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation]