Veronica Butler autopsy released after judge’s ruling

(NewsNation) — The autopsy of a Kansas pistillate has been released aft a justice denied a question that would person kept it sealed.

The report says Veronica Butler, 27, suffered astir 30 cuts and stab wounds passim her body. There was besides 1 blunt unit wounded to the apical of her caput and imaginable stun weapon marks to the little neck.

Investigators said her assemblage was recovered successful a freezer nether a factual slab buried up to 8 feet beneath crushed and sealed with yellowish ratchet straps. Investigators said they besides recovered clothing, a stun gun, a rotation of portion and a sheathed knife.

Butler and Jilian Kelley, 39, were killed earlier this twelvemonth aft they traveled from Hugoton, Kansas, to prime up Butler’s children successful Oklahoma.

The women ne'er made it to the children. They disappeared March 30, and their bodies were recovered astir 2 weeks later.

Five radical person been arrested and charged successful the case, including the children’s grandmother.

Tifany Adams, 54; her fellow Tad Cullum, 43; Cora Twombly, 44; and her hubby Cole Twombly, 50; and Paul Grice, 31, person each been charged with kidnapping and first-degree murder.

Wrangler Rickman, the begetter of the 2 children, had ineligible custody but was successful a rehabilitation facility, truthful the children were surviving with Adams astatine the clip of the disappearance.

Police person described the 2 women arsenic much acquaintances than friends. NewsNation reported that Kelley was the supervisor of the puerility visits for Butler. Family members, who person been asked to postpone media interviews until the constabulary archer them otherwise, accidental the 2 women were progressive successful their assemblage and their churches.

NewsNation affiliate KSN-TV contributed to this report.