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AFFIDAVIT FOR SEARCH WARRANT
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THE UNDERSIGNED PERSON, BEING DULY SWORN UPON HIS OATH,

DEPOSES AND STATES AS FOLLOWS:

I am Special Agent Jason Ott of the Oklahoma State Bureau of lnvestigation. I have been
a law enforcement officer in the states of Kansas and oklahoma for approximately 27 years and
served in the capacity of an investigator for over 20 years. I have conducted an investigative
inquiry into the matter below regarding the above-named vehicle and from these facts and
statements, report as follows:

THAT, your Affiant has probable cause to believe that in the vehicl e, above-listed,
known as:

1991 Chewolet 1500 pickup blue and grey in color, bearing OK tag: IJF605, VIN:
2GCEC19Z2MI 175252 belonging to Cole and cora Twombly. The vehicle is in the
custody of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, in Texas County Oklahoma.

All within the County of Texas, State of Oklahoma, there is now being concealed certain
evidence, namely:

cellular phone owned by VERONICA BUTLER with phone number (620) 391-g307,
jewelry wom by BUTLER or JILLIAN KELLEY, cellular phone owned by KELLEY
with phone number (620) 428-5788,.380 acp Taurus handgun with silver slide and black
handle loaded with a full magazine of JAG .380 acp hollow point ammunition, one live
round in the chamber and a cloth holster, stun gun(s), oil dry or kitty litter used for liquid
absorption trace evidence, biological/DNA evidence, digital photographs, spacial scans,
and all other evidence of the crime of murder.

All of which is subject to being lawfully seized as evidence of the following crimes, to wit:

Count I 2r o.s. $ 701.7 Murder in the lst Degree

Count 2 2l o.s. $ 701.7 Murder in the I st Degree
Count 3 21 O.S. $ 741 Kidnapping
Count 4 2r o.s. $ 741 Kidnapping
Count 5 2l o.s. $988 Conspiracy
 FURTHER, YOUR AFFIANT STATES, IN SUPPORT OF THIS APPLICATION
AND FOR SHOWING THAT THERE IS PROBABLE CAUSE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A
SEARCH WARRANT, AS FOLLOWS:

FACTUAL BASIS:

On Saturday, March 30, 2024, the Texas County Sheriffs Office requested Oklahoma
State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) investigative services with the suspicious disappearance of
veronica Butler (27) and Jilian Kelley (39) from rural rexas 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 problonatic custody battle with Tifany Adams for the custody of Butler's two children.
The father of those children was wrangler Rickman, 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 of her three
approved individuals. Butler contacted Kelley ofHugoton, KS and planned to have her supenrise
the visit.

Butler told family monbers 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 bi(hday party, but after they did not arrive, the family
began looking for Butler. Melissa and Joey padilla, who are Butler's family mernbers, located
Butler's abandoned vehiclejust west of the intersection of Highway 95 and Road L. The padillas
then contacted law enforcement at 1209 hours. An examination of the vehicle and axea
surrounding the vehicle found evidence ofa severe injury. Blood was found on the roadway and
edge of the roadway. Butler's glasses were also found in the roadway south of the 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) Rickman and Butler's children
stayed the night with Barrett and Lacy cook. Adams said she planned to pick thern up that
moming before visitation. Adams said she called Butler at 0900 hours to confirm the mieting
and Butler told Adams something came up and she was not going to make it. Butler,s phone
records confirmed the call occurred; however, at the time of the call, Butler was in Hugoton, Ks
in the process of picking Kelley up to go meet Adams. Adams stated she was home ai the time
that Butler and Keltey went missing. Adams picked the children up before 1200, fiom 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 Ada.r could question the
children related to how Butler's approved visitation supervisors were. Butler and Kel'ley,s phone
records indicated their devices were actively sending signals to their carriers until approximately
0942 hours, after which the devices were no longer seen by the networks and stopped
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 tmnsmitting. Neither phone was found at the scene or within the vehicle and they are currently
missing. Adams was the last known person to communicate with Butler and was scheduled to
meet Butler and Kelley for visitation at 1000 hours on March 30,2024.

Through the child custody case, recordings were obtained where Rickman discussed
death threats by Adams and Adams' boyfiiend, Tad cullum. The custody battle began in
February of2019 with many hearings and court appearances. on March 19,2024 and March 20,
2024, motions were filed requesting extended visitation for Butler. A hearing was scheduled to
occur on April 17, 2024. Bfiler's attorney informed osBI that Butler was likely to receive
unsupewised visitation with her children at that hearing. At times, Adams refused to let
Rickman have his children, even though Rickman had legal custody of thon. Law enforcement
previously responded to a call for service where Adams refused to give fuckman his children.
Reportedly the officer told Rickman he believed the children were better off in Adams' care.

Rickman's grandmother, Debi Knox-Davis, reported that in mid to late February 2024,
Rickman told her they didn't have to worry about the custody battle much longer becauseAdams
had it under control, that Adams knew the path the judge walked to work, and ,,we will take out
Veronica at drop off." Rickman was confirmed to be in a rehabilitation facility in Oklahoma
city, oK at the time of the disappearance. The children remain in the custody of Adams.
Rickman denied having that conversation with Knox.

on April 1,2024, oSBI agents obtained a search warrant for Adams cellular phone,
oSBI agents performed an extraction on the device. Information gained from the device
included web searches for taser pain level, gun shops, prepaid cellular phones and how to get
someone out oftheir house.

on April 3,2024, osBI interviewed cw (age 16 years). cw is the daughter of cora

Twombly and Coby White. Cora is married to Cole Twombly. CW stated that she liad overheard
group conversations related to Butler not protecting her children from her brother. all in
reference to a sexual abuse allegation. cw advised that she was told by cora that Adams,
cullum, cora, cole, and Paul Grice were involved in the deaths of Butler and Kelley. she stated
that Adams provided "bumer" phones to use so they could communicate without using their
personal devices. cw saw two "bumer" phones charging on cora's nightstand in her bedroom.

cw described cora, cole, Adams, cullum, paul Grice as being part of an anti-
govemment group that had a religious affiliation. Through OSBI investigation it was leamed
that they call their group, God's Misfits. Regular meeting are held weekly al Twombly,s and the
home of Barrett and Lacy Cook.

cw was told by cora on March 29,2024, that cora and cole would not be home in the
moming when she woke and that they were going to be on a "mission". when cw awoke at
approximately 1000 hours, cora and cole were not home, but came home around 1200 hours.
cw knew that cole and cora took a blue and gray chewolet pickup owned by them and a blue
flatbed pickup, owned by clint Twombly, when they left and retumed in the same vehicles. cw
was told to clean the interior of the chevrolet pickup. cw asked cora what happened and was
told that things did not go as planned, but that they would not have to worry about her (Butler)
again. CW was told that Cora and Cole blocked the road to stop Butler and Kelley ani divert
them to where Adams, cullum and Grice were. cw asked about Kelley and why she had to die
and was told by cora that she wasn't innocent either, as she had supported Builer. cw asked

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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 of 2024, near Hugoton, Ks,
in which Adams, cullum, cole, cora and Grice 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 throw an anvil through Butler's
windshield while driving, making it look like an accident because anvils regularly fall off of
work vehicles.

cw was made to clean the interior of the blue and grey chewolet pickup, after coRA
and coLE retumed from the "mission". A friend of cw, identified and interviewed by oSBI
and known as AH, assisted cw in cleaning the pickup and observed a stain on the carpet that
helshe thought may be blood.

while in Kerrick, Tx, interviewing cw and her brother, cora and cole arrived and tried
to get access to cw and her brother, while drive the same blue and grey Chewolet pickup
identified by CW as taken on the "mission".

coRA and coLE were arrested on April 13, 2024 in rural cimarron county Texas,
driving the blue and grey Chewolet pickup. The pickup was secured by oSBI and is their
custody at this time in Texas county oklahoma. Your affiant identified the pickup as a 1991
chewolet 1500 pickup blue and grey in color, bearing oK tag: IJF605 and having vIN:
2GCEC19Z2M117 5252. Tltis pickup is the same one that your affiant saw coLE and coRA
driving in Kerrick, Tx. Your affiant has also seen this pickup at the Twombly residence since
March30,2024.

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, u Chert frLer", *us
excavated and opened. Within the chest freezer, the bodies of Butler and Kelley were located.

FFIANT
Subscribed and swom to before me , the undersigned Judge, / 7 day of Apil,2024
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VIN : 2GCEC I 9Z2Mt 17 5252
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To any Sheriff, Deputy, Peace Officer, Constable, Marshal, police Officer, Highway
Patrolman, Agent of the oklahoma state Bureau of Investigation. Agent of the oklahoma
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, or other law enforcement officer thereof, in the
County of Texas, State of Oklahoma:

Proof having been made before me, by swom Affidavit by OSBI Special Agent Jason
Ott, that he had reason to believe that in the vehicle described below:

l99l Chewolet 1500 pickup blue and grey in color, bearing OK tag: IJF605, VIN:
2GCEC19Z2MI175252 belonging to Cole and Cora Twombly. The vehicle is in the
custody ofthe Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, in Texas County Oklahoma.

All within the County ofTexas, State of Oklahoma, there is now being concealed certain
evidence, namely:

Cellular phone owned by VERONICA BUTLER with phone number (620) 391-9307,
jewelry wom by BUTLER or JILLIAN KELLEY, cellular phone owned by KELLEY
with phone number (620) 428-5788,.380 acp Taurus handgun with silver slide and black
handle loaded with a full magazine of JAG.380 acp hollow point ammunition, one live
round in the chamber and a cloth holster, stun gun(s), oil dry or kitty litter used for liquid
absorption trace evidence, biological/DNA evidence, digital photographs, spacial scans,
and all other evidence of the crime of murder.

All of which is subject to being lawfully seized as evidence of the following crimes, to wit
Count I 2l O.S. $ 701.7 Murder in the 1st Degree
Count 2 2l 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 2l O.S. $988 Conspiracy

THEREFORE, I am presently satisfied that there is probable cause to believe that the
iterns, so described; are presently located at the above-described vehicle, and that the foregoing
grounds for the issuance ofthis Search Warrant does exist.
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YOU ARE FURTHER COMMANDED to search the above-described vehicle for the
items, so described, serve a copy of the warrant upon the owner and operator of the property,
and make a retum of the iterns seized pursuant to this Warrant within ten (10) days of this date.

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The following described property was seized under this warrant on April 17,2024.
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From the vehicle, described as: FILEtr)
1991 Chevrolet 1500 pickup blue and grey in color, bearing OK tag: IJF605, VIN
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2GCEC|9Z2M1|75252 M. REN EE ELLI S

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The following items were seized:

l. Digital photographs taken of vehicle and contents.

2. White iPhone

3. Black iPhone

4. White cloth gloves

I, Special Agent Jason Ott, advise that this warrant was executed on April 17, 2024 and do swear
that the above inventory is a true and detailed account of the items taken by authority of the
warrant.

Affiant
Subscribed and swom to before me on thi, 4b-a day of Ae*,^ 2024

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