At least one of the suspects in the murders of a Kansas woman and a court-appointed child visitation supervisor in March had extremist views that included “ownership” of his children and that the “fraud of the government” requires the sacrifice of their “lives and futures to benefit some foreign slaves and aborigines.”

Paul Grice, 31, proclaimed himself “an American State National, or Lawful Bloodline American” in court records filed in 2023, according to the British tabloid The Independent, which did not say what case the documents supported.

Grice was one of five people named in initial court documents as being responsible for the deaths of Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, on March 30 as they traveled from their Kansas home to Oklahoma to pick up Butler’s children for a scheduled visitation, as CrimeOnline has reported. Grice was the last of the five arrested, more than a week after the arrests of Tifany Adams — the grandmother of Butler’s children — Tad Cullum — Adams’ boyfriend — and married couple Cole and Cora Twombley.

All five were named in an affidavit supporting Adams’s arrest, identified by Cora Twombley’s 16-year-old daughter as responsible for the deaths of Butler and Kelley.

It’s not clear why Grice was not arrested when the others were taken into custody. Twombley’s daughter identified the five as members of a religious, anti-government group called “God’s Misfits” that met weekly at the home of the Twombleys or another couple, who were named in the document but not identified as having any connection with the murders.

Butler and Kelley’s bodies were found the day after the first four arrests, buried on land Cullum had been using for pasture. According to affidavits, both Adams and Grice admitted their parts in the murders.

According to the Independent, Grice made a series of outlandish claims in the court documents they found from last year.

“I am not a sovereign citizen. I am not a resident, employee or citizen of the United States government,” the court document read. “My relationship to that Federal entity as far as jurisdiction is that of a non-resident alien to the Corporate United States government, also known as an American State National, or Lawful Bloodline American.”

“I am a free and natural man, described by the Lord God in Genesis 2:7 as a living soul, living under God’s law and his grace alone,” he said.

“I claim my children,” the document says, adding that they are his “God-given property and subject to none other.”

“There is a maximum law that says ‘what one creates one controls’: the government did not create my children and therefore does not control my children,” Grice continued. “God created my children in their mother’s womb with my sperm and are my creation, my property, and I waive none of my God-given rights or duties in the upbringing of my offspring.”

Grice also said that the US “educational propaganda system is a joke, our children are taught only what the fraud of the government wants known and nothing more.”

“The awful knowledge and horror of betrayal by my own government of which I was once so proud, is now unbearable sorrow that I must now carry to my grave; but I shall do as a free man,” he said, before likening the American people to “the frog that is heated slowly to a boil in a pot of water.”

“If we had detected the heat sooner, we could have jumped out, saving both the Republic and ourselves,” he said.

“Will the American people just sit back like the frog and let the water boil, letting the government sacrifice their children’s lives and futures to benefit some foreign slaves and aborigines?” he asked. “I don’t think so, and i for one, in the capacity of a Citizen, want no part of this moronic agenda with that insane policy.”

One of his final statements in the documents names “the destruction of our unborn children” as the “vilest evil” – “a thing so horrible vile that even maggots in filth do not do.”

Grice’s wife and children reportedly left their home after his arrest. When he appeared in court last week and was asked by reporters if he had a message for his victims’ families, he replied, “Sorry for their loss.”

Little is known about “God’s Misfits.” A religious organization by that name has denied any connection with the murders and say they “are husband & wife spreading Jesus.” That group has shut down its website and plans to close its Facebook page as well, saying they are “tired of the hate.

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[Featured image: Tifany Adams, Tad Cullum, Paul Grice, Cole Twombly, and Cora Twombly/Texas County Sheriff’s Department]