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A religious group called “God’s Misfits”, based in South Carolina and led by a man calling himself “Squirrel’, has distanced itself from murder suspects allegedly operating under the same name.
Tifany Machel Adams, 54; Tad Bert Cullum, 43; Cole Earl Twombly, 50; and Cora Twombly, 44, have been charged this week with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder, in relation to the deaths of Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39.
The women were heading to Oklahoma to pick up Ms Butler’s two children from their grandmother, Ms Adams, when they disappeared on 30 March.
Their car was found abandoned at a rural crossroads near a trail of blood, broken hammer, a pistol magazine and one woman’s glasses. The bodies were confirmedto be those of Ms Butler and …