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4 charged with murder after bodies of missing Kansas women found [Video]

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Four people arrested in connection with the disappearance of two Kansas women are now facing multiple charges, including murder and kidnapping.

Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, of Hugoton, Kansas, disappeared on March 30 while driving into Oklahoma to pick up Butler’s children. Over the weekend, authorities found two bodies, which the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) has since identified as Butler and Kelley.

The medical examiner hasn’t yet released a cause of death.

Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39 (Courtesy: OSBI)

A day before the bodies were found, the OSBI said four people — Tifany Adams, 54; Tad Cullum, 43; Cole Twombly, 50; and Cora Twombly, 44 — had been taken into custody in connection with the case. Adams has since been identified as the grandmother of Butler’s children, and the girlfriend of Cullum.

The images below, captured by Nexstar’s KSNW, show Cullum, Adams, and the Trumbleys — …

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