2 missing Kansas women may have been killed in bitter custody battle, officials say
A custody battle might have led to the deaths of two Kansas women who vanished on their way to pick up one of the pair's children for a birthday party last month in Oklahoma, court papers revealed Monday.
A custody battle might have led to the deaths of two Kansas women who vanished on their way to pick up one of the pair's children for a birthday party last month in Oklahoma, court papers revealed Monday.
Remains were found in Texas County, Oklahoma, but have not yet been identified as those of Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, both of Hugoton, Kansas, officials said Monday.
"It has been a tragedy for everyone involved," Aungela Spurlock, director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, or OSBI, told reporters. "Our condolences go out to the family."
The OSBI had said in a statement X that its agents — along with Texas County sheriff’s personnel — recovered the bodies in a rural part of the county.
Four people were booked into the Texas County Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder Saturday in connection with the probe.
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