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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FIRST JUDTCIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF

OKLAHOMA STTTING IN AND FOR TEXAS COUNTY

THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, )


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Pl8intifi, )
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vs. ) Ccse No. CF-2m4- 0 I

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PAUL JEREMIAH GRICE )
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.IDDR:f )
Kcycs, OK 73947 )
DL: ..415098 ) TEXAS COUNTY
ssN: tr*-**-49t9
DOB: July, 19y2
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) FILED
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D€fendant(s). ) 3 202Ir
APR 2
INFORMATION M. RENEE ELLIS
COURl- CLERK
FOR: By--_._llk_ee+latr

COIJNT I: MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE - DELIBERATE INTENT - 2l O.S. S 701.7(A), , FEII)NY
COUNT 2: MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE - DELIBERATE INTENT - 2l O.S. S 701.7(A)' a FELONY
COUNT 3: KIDNAPPING - 2l O.S. $ 741, I FELONY
COUNT 4: KIDNAPPING - 2l O.s. $ 741, a FELoNY
COUNT 5; CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE _ DELIBERATE INTENT-
2l O.S. $ 421, s FELONY

STATE OF OKLAHOMA, COUNTY OF TEXAS:

I, George H. Leach III, the undersigned District Attorney of said County, in the name and by the aufiority ofthe
State of Oklahoma, give information that in said County of Texas and in the State of Oklahom4 PAUL JEREMIAH
GRICE did then and there unlawfully, willfully, knowingly and wrongfully commit the crime(s) ol

COUNT I: MIIRDER lN THE FIRST DEGREE - DELIBERATE INTENT - a FELONY, by aiding and
abetting in the commission of the deliberate and inaentional taking away of the life ofa human being, on
or about the 3fth day of March, 2024, and then and there willfully, unlawfully and feloniously without
authority of law, aid and ab€t in the death of veronica Butler, who was lured to the location of Highway
95 and Road L, in Texas county, oklahom4 and certain mortal wounds were inflicted and Veronica
Butler did in fact die as a result ofthe wounds inflicted.

This crime is punishable by death, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for life without parcle

COUNT 2: MURDER tN THE FIRST DEGREE - DELTBERATE INTENT -r FELONY, bv aiding and
abening in the commission ofthe deliberate and intentional taking away of the life ofa human being, on
or aborit the 30th day of March, 2024, ard then and there willfully, unlawfrrlly and feloniously without
authority of law, aid and abet in the death ofJillian Kclley, who was lured to the location of Highway 95
and Road L, in Texas Counry, Oklahoma, and certain mortal wourds were inflicted and Jillian Kelley did
in fact die as a result ofthe wounds inflicted.

for life without parole.


This crime is punishable by death, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment
COUNT3: KIDNAPPING - a FELONY, on or about the 30th day of March, 2Q24,by aiding and abetting the
forcible seizing of Veronica Butler at Highway 95 and Road L, County of Texas, Oklahom4 and
confining Veronica Butler without lawful authority and with the intent to cause Veronica Butler to be
confined/imprisoned against her will'

This crime is punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 yean'

couNT 4: KIDNAPPING - a FELONY, on or about the 30th day of March. 2024, w aiding and abetting the
forcible seizing of Jillian Kelley at Highway 95 and Road L, County of Texas, Oklahoma, and confining
Jillian Kelley without lawful authority and with the intent to cause Jillian Kelley to be
confined/imprisoned against her will.

This crime is punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years.

COUNT 5: CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER TN THE FIRST DEGREE - DELIBERATE INTENT -


a FELONY, by conspiring and agreeing with Tifany Adams, Cora Twombly, Cole Twombly, and Tad
Cullum to commit the crime of Murder In The First Degree, a felony, on or about or between the l3th
day of February, 2024 and dre 30th day of March, 2024, by arranging and planning, &e deliberate,
intentional, and unlawful taking away of the life of Veronica Butler and/or Jillian Kelley and the
defendant and/or co-conspirators did purchase burner phones, stun guns, and traveled to the area of
Highway 95 and Road L, County of Texas, Oklahoma" in furtherance of the conspiracy.

This crime is punishable by imprisonment for not morc than l0 years, or a flrne of not more than $5,000, or by botlt such
fine and imprisonmott.

GEORGE H. LEACH III


DISTRICT ATTORNEY

By:
III
Attorney

,lE
: sutzscribtil atd sworn:to before me day of Apn1,2024.

w I\
My Commission expires: )olto)uzt Notary Public

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WITNESSES ENDORSED FOR THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA

Jason Otq OSBI


Lt. Amie Gates, OSBI
Trevor fudgeway, OSBI
Ryan Beck, OSBI
Brian Exinia, OSBI
David Gatlin, OSBI
DarrEn Atha, OSBI
Matt Wallace, OSBI
Josh Dean, OSBI
Todd Doyals, OSBI
Heather Cropper, OSBI
Miles Keere, OSBI
Jason Lamo, KBI
Matt Lamatsch, KBI
Matt Boley, Texas County Sheriffs Office
Andy WalteE, Texas County Sheriffs Oftice
Seth Bartels, Texas County Sheriffs Oftic€
Monty Osbome, Texas County Sheriffs Oftice
Jason ColpeEer, Texas County Sheriffs Offtce
B€na Vel4 T€xas County Sheriffs Office
Jaron Rusch, Texas County Sheriffs Ofrice
Stanley Haryer, Texas County Sheriffs Office
Marco Crawfor4 Texas County Sheriffs OfEc€
Cale Halliburto[ Guymon Police Departnent
Carmela Gonulez, Guymon Police Deparrnent
Kevin Mclntire, DATF
Texas County/Guymon Firefi ghters
Tlacy PieE, Hugoton PD
Kenny Pfte, Hugoton PD
Melissa Padilla, C/O District Attomey's Omce
Joey Padilla, C/O District Attorney's Office
Patrick Vasquea C/O District Attomey's Oflice
Kenya Gonzalez, C/O District Attomey's Oftice
EIoy Tones, C/O District Attomey's Office
Jamie Beasley, C/O District Attomey's Oftice
C.W., C/O Disrict Anomey's OIfice
Cuinton White C/O District Attomey's Office
Debi Knox-Davis C/O District Attomey's Offtce
Cheryl Brune, C/O Distsict Attorney's Ofiice
Ganet Oates, C/O Distdct Attomey's Office
IN THE DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR TEXAS COUNTY' OKLAHOMA

Courthouse, Guymon, Oklahoma

STATE OF OKLAHOMA, Plainti{f, Docuet*: [('2o24'91


NAME: PAUL JD,REMIAH GRICE DEFENDANT(s),
D.O.B.: TEXAS COUNTY
Hgt/Wgt
07/1992
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Address M. RENEE ELLIS
Keys, OK 73947 COURT CLERK
By_-----tt&oaPld'r,-

AFFIDAVIT OF PRO BABLE C AUSE FOR ARREST WARRANT

The mdersigned, of lawful age, being first duly swom, upon oath, deposes and states as follows:

I am Special Agent Jason Ott ofthe Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. I have been a law
enforcement officer in the states of Kansas and Oklahoma for approximately 27 years and served in the capacity
ofan investigator for over 20 years. I have read and prepared certain offrcial investigative reports and
statements ofwitnesses regarding the above-named defendant and, from these statements and reports it appears
as follows:

On Saturday, March 30, 2024, the Texas County SherifPs Office requested Oklahoma State Bureau of
Investigation (OSBI) investigative services with the suspicious disappearance of Veronica Butler (27) and Jilian
Kelley (39) from rural Texas County after their vehicle was found abandoned near Highway 95 and Road L
South of Elkhart, KS. Butler and Kelley were traveling to Oklahoma from Hugoton, Ks.

Interviews were conducted related to the disappearance and it was discovered that Butler was in a
problematic custody battle with Tifany Adams for the custody of Butler's two children. The father ofthose
children was Wrangler fuckman, Adams' son. Butler's visitation with her children was court ordered to be
supervised every Saturday. Adams had a particular person she preferred to supervise those visitations and that
was Cheryl Brune. The court ordered Adams to pay for Brune to supervise visits if that was who she wanted to
be present, otherwise Butler was to pay for the person to supervise. Adams said Brune was unavailable to
supervise the visitation on March 30,2024, so Butler was required to arrange the supervision with one ofher
three approved individuals. Butler contacted Kelley ofHugoton, KS and planned to have her supervise the visit.

Butler told family members she was going to pick up her children from Adams at 1000 hours at Four
Comers (Intersection of Highway 95 and US 64 West, a location in Texas County OK). Butler and Kelley left
Hugoton, KS and traveled to Highway 95 and Road L about 5 miles north of Four Comers. Butler and Kelley
arrived at that location at approximately 0940 hours. Butler planned to bring her daughter to a birthday party,
but after they did not arrive, the family began looking for Butler. Melissa and Joey Padilla who are Butler's
family members, located Butler's abandoned vehiclejust west ofthe intersection of Highway 95 and Road L.
The Padillas then contacted law enforcemenl at 1209 hours. An examination ofthe vehicle and area surrounding
the vehicle found evidence ofa severe injury. Blood was found on the roadway and edge ofthe roadway.
Butler's glasses were also found in the roadway south ofthe vehicle, near a broken hammer. A pistol magazine
was found inside Kelley's purse but no pistol was found.

Adams told OSBI that on Friday night (March 29, 2024) fuckman and Butler's childrcn stayed the night
with Barrett and Lacy Cook. Adams said she planned to pick them up that morning before visitation. Adams
said she called Butler at 0900 houn to confirm the me€ting and Butler told Adams something qme up and she
was not going to make it. Butler's phone records confinned the call occurred; however, at thi time ofthe call,
Butler was in Hugoton, Ks in the process of picking Kelley up to go meet Adams. Adams stated she was horne
at the time that Butler and Kelley want missing. Adams picked the children up before 1200, from the
Cook,s
residence.

OSBI interviewed Brune and she said she was available to supervise the visit that day but Adams told
her to
take a couple of weeks off from the visitation so Adams could question the children relaied to how
Butler,s
approved visit&tion supervisors were. Butler and Kelley's phone records indicated their devices were
actively
sending sigrals to their carriers until approximately 0942 hours, after which the devices were no
longer seen'by
the networks and stopped transmitting. Neither phone was found at the scene or within the vehicle
aid they are
currently missing. Adams was the last known person to communicate with Butler and was
scheduled to m-".t
Butler and Kelley for visitation at 1000 hours on March 30,2024.

the
.Through thild custody case, recordings were obtained where Rickman discussed death threats
by Adams
and Adams' boyfriend, Tad cullum. -rhe custody battle began in February of 201
court appearances. on March 18,2024 and March 20, 2024, motions were filed
9 *itt
-ury u"*iog. *a
requesting extended visitation
for Butler. A hearing was scheduled to occur on April 17,2024. Butler's auorne!
iiri"."r& osgr mat Butler
was- likely to receive unsupervised visitation with her children at that
Rickman have his children" even though Rickman had legal custody ortn"-]
hearing. et ti**, ea"rrs refised to let
responded to a call for service where Adams refused to give Rickman his
r"* *ioi"".ent previously
chil&en. n"po.tJry tn" officer told
Rickman he believed the children were better off in Adams , care.

Rickman's grandmother, Debi Knox-Davis, r,eported that in mid to late February


2024, Rickman told her
they didn't have to worry about the custody battle much longer because Ad"r".
knewthe path the judge wa&ed to wod<, and'\re will take out veronica at drot;tr;;
tr"a'it*ai" contsol, that Adams
niiilnan
to be in a rehabilitation facility in oklahoma city, oK at the time of the disapp'earance. -rile
** coon.."a
ctritdren remain in
the custody ofAdams, Rickrnan deiried having that conversation with Knox.

on Aprit 1, 2024, oSBI agents obtained a search warrant for Adams cellular phone,
oSBI agants performed
an extraction on the device. lnformation gained from the device included
web ."*"uo roi u"". pain lwel, gun
shops, prepaid cellular phones and how to get someone out of their house.

on April 3,2024, OSBI interviewed cW (age t6 yean). CW is the daughter


of Cora Twombly and Coby
white' cora is manied to cole Twombly. cw stated-that ihe had overh"*G;;;;;;ations
related to
Butler not protecting her childre,n ftom her brother, all in reference to a sexual
abuse allegation. cw advised
that was told by Cora that Adams, Cullum, Cora, Cole, and Paul Grice w*" ir""rr"a'i.'tne
-she deaths of Butler
and Kelley. She stated that Adams pmvided 'burnei'phones to use so they could cornmunicate
u.ithout using
their personal dwices. cw s8w two 'tumer,' phones cirarging on cora', night.t-a
io t o-t-"ar*..
CW described Cora, Cole, Adams, Cullum, Paul Grice as beingpart of an anti-govemmcnt
group that
had a religious affiliation. Through osBI investigation it was to*"a-trrut
tr,"y frup, cod's Misfits.
Regular meeting are held weekly at Twombly's and the home of Barrett and
;"y"aiiij
a;k. --
was told by Cora on March 29, 2024, that Cora and Cole would not be home in the
-CW moming when she
wokc and that they were going to be on a'!nission". when CW awoke at approximately toog
hours, Cora and
Cole were not home, but came home around 1200 hours. CW knew that Cofe^and Cora
iook a blue and gray-
Chewolet pickup owned by them and a blue flatbed pickup, owned by Clint Twombly, when
they left aid
retumed in the same vehicles. CW was told to clean the interior of the Chewolet pickrip.
CW asked Cora what
happened and was told that things did not go as planned, but that they would not have ti
worry about her
(Butler) again. CW was told that Cora and Cole blocked the mad to itop Butler and Kelley
and divert them to
where Adams, Cullum and Grice were. CW asked about Kelley and why she had to die
arid was told by Cora
that she wasn't innocent either, as she had supported Butler. CW asked Cora if their bodies were put in a well,
and Cora replied, "something like that". CW also disclosed that other attempts to kill Butler occurred during
February of2024, near Hugoton, Ks, in which Adams, Cullum and Cora went to Hugoton, but Butler did
not
leave her residence, this is consistent with the web search discovered on Adams' phone about how to get
someone out of their house. According to Cora, the plan was to ttu'ow an anvit through Butler,s windshietd
while driving, making it look like an accident because anvils regularly fall offof worf vehicles.

OSBI investigation showed that Adams searched for gun shops on her cellular phone. A search
of local
gun shops showed Adams buying five stun guns at the Big R store i; Guymon, Ok.
The purchase was made on
Nf,arch 23, 2024.

_ OSBI investigation showed that Adams purchased three pre-paid cellular phones from wal-Mart in
qI"*, oKon February 13,2024. The phones were identifiedby phone numbers
I ard (806) 390-' Search warranh for information relatd to location ..*i"".<azoliil--,(g06) 390-
uia prrooe usage were
completed for each devioe. It was leamed that all three phones were at the area where
Butlei's car was located
and the last known location of Butler and Kelley, at the time of their disappearance-
ett g,r"" pt oo". *o"
: powered on and accessed the cellular network for the first time at or neardullum,s
residence at different times,
----'
priortoMarch30,2024.onMarch30,2o24,phonenumbers(806)390-ranarsooiiio-r,before
Butler and Kelley's disappearance, were at or near cullum's residence. after sutl;and
r"it.y,.
disappearance, at 1005 and 1016 hours, phone numbers (g06) 3gGlland (62q r;_-were in the area at
or near Culltm's residence.

. .Aftcr,
Butler and Kelley's disappearance, on March 30, 2024,bdwen 1016 and
daermined that phone numbers (620) 417-Ja and (806) 390-Fwere
1035 houn, it was
Beasley, below a dam, in the pasture, where fresh dirt work was locatea "t;
il;"rry;L fr-i"
Uy
by yorir a'ffiurit.ton'.r"t" *"" .or"a
from a location near Beasrey's residence, approximately 150-200 yards bel;*
that a hole had been dug and filled back in and then covered with iray.
A;;l*]i; it was discovered
Th"
disappeared from and where Butler's vehicle was located is approximately g.5
lo""ti;;;;;;iiter and reiley
miles arruy lo,, tt" to"atlon
below the dam on Beasley's pmperty, giving drive time from tire location
irii"i,s
to Beasley' property, well within the 34 minutes between the tkne of "i*n "" pil"i* vehicle
putlern<ellw'. .,"ppi"e
was located
transmission and pre-paid phone numb€rs (620) 417-f and (8M) 390---;;;;
foperry' A[ pre-paid phones stopled kansmitting on the moming or rraarct "'ii'" au- o,
ro, ioi+'ut'tiltio*
a"u"l"y,.
o"".
I
Twombly's residence and Beasley's property.

osBI leamed that Grice, cullum and Adams had cellular phone conversstions
nongst each other on
Mach30,2024, in themoming hours, prior to the disappearanc.
il [ll.y.Gl ana culum were
on the same day. '
together at Grice's homg after the disappearance, after-il0o hours"rsrtk

osBI investigation showed that Adams had searched for gun shops on her
cellular phone. A search of
local gun shops showed Adams buying five stun guns at the Big i.
made on March 23, 2024.
.,";;;;;;y-;;'oilrff"prr..n*" rr*
on April 13' 2024, a search warrant was executed at Beasley's property
and an excavation of a possible
burial site was commenced. on April 14,2024, the hole was excavatea.
rtre uoaie" of suG and Kelley were

on April 21,2024' Grice was interviewed and admitted thar he wS.a p_art of
the planning and killing of
both Butler and Kelley. Grice admitted to yow affiant that he participat"a
i, lrr" r.iiri"g iie",rtter ana reuey
and their subsequent burial.

WHEREFORE, affiant prays this court to issue a Warrant for the Arrest
-
Defendant, that he or she may be brought before a magistrate and hera to
of the within-named
,ns*"r io. ti" oil*",
or,
Count I 21 O.S. $ 701.7 Murder in the lst Degree
Count 2 21 O.S. S 701.7 Murder in the lst Degree
Count 3 21 O.S. S 741 Kidnapping
Count 4 2r o.s. s 741 Kidnapping
Count 5 2l o.s.988 Conspiracy

Affiant:

Subscribed and swom to before me this day of April,

{se4) - Cbrr€ffi/N q-@_--/


Commission Number O\oooo-15\, Expires o(/rl IarZe

FINDING OF PROBABLE CAUSE

,o,t,u": -ZA.
Ary 9f-aqril 2024, theabove styted and n1nlered case cirme on for hearing before me, the
undenigned Judge of the District court of rexas county, oklahomu" upon th"
requesting that a warrant of Arrest be issued for the within namea oerenaant, "bo;
*J r"."g".g emaLi
tut rr.yrt .igrrt be arrested and
held to answer for the offense of: "
PAUL JEREMIAE GRICE

Couot I 21 O.S. $ 701.7 Murder in the Ist Degree


Count 2 21 O.S. $ 701.7 Murder in the lst Degree
Count 3 2l o.s. $ 741 Kidnapping
Count 4 2l o.s. $ 741 Kidnapping
Count 5 21 0.S.988 Conspiracy

Based upon said affidavit, I am satisfied and do hereby find that the within
named Defendant has committed the
afor-oqgntioned offense, and that there is probable cause to believe th"
said offense and that a Warrant ofArrest should be issued.
*itlrin;; o"r"ra*t has committed

Datdthis 24 n day of Apil,2024.

J of thc ct Court

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