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(NewsNation) —Prosecutors person revealed however they judge two Kansas women who went missing successful March were killed by 5 suspects.
Police had been investigating the deaths of Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39 and charged Tifany Adams, 54; Tad Cullum, 43; Cora Twombly, 44; Cole Twombly, 50, and Paul Grice, 31, with kidnapping and first-degree murder.
Court documents filed Thursday asking the tribunal to consolidate the cases acceptable retired a elaborate timeline of the murders which included however the women allegedly died, reported KSNW.
Prosecutors alleged that Grice stabbed Butler to death, cutting his manus severely successful the process, portion Cullum killed Kelley.
They said that Cullum tossed his covering into the freezer with the bodies and that his and Kelley’s DNA was connected the covering arsenic well.
The women’s bodies were past allegedly placed successful the freezer and driven to the burial site.
Grice threw covering helium was wearing erstwhile helium killed Butler, a stun device, and the execution limb into the sedate with her, according to the documents.
DNA recovered from the covering contained some his and Butler’s DNA.
The Twomblys were the lookouts connected the time of the execution and confided successful their daughter, hoping she would supply them with an alibi, tribunal papers stated.
Adams purchased the burner phones, stun devices, yellowish straps recovered astir the freezer, and adjacent the pants that Cullum wore and buried with the victims, the filing alleges.
Butler and Kelley vanished portion en way to prime up Butler’s children for a supervised visit successful March. Adams is the paternal grandma of Butler’s children.
Wrangler Rickman, the begetter of the 2 children, had ineligible custody but was successful a rehabilitation installation truthful the children were surviving with Adams astatine the clip of the disappearance.
The 5 suspects were arrested 2 weeks aboriginal and past charged successful the murders.
The authorities is seeking to a associated preliminary proceeding for each 5 defendants they each conspired and participated successful the murders together, tribunal papers stated.
