THIS IS KOCO FIVE NEWS AT TEN. LATE BREAKING TONIGHT. FOUR PEOPLE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO THE TWO MISSING WOMEN OUT OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. ALL THANKS FOR JOINING US AT TEN. I’M MECCA RAYNE. LET’S GET STRAIGHT TO KOCO DAKOTA WATKINS. HE JOINS US LIVE AND DAKOTA, YOU JUST SPOKE WITH SPOKE EXCUSE ME WITH OSBI ON THIS INVESTIGATION. WHAT DID THEY TELL YOU? YEAH. MIKA FOUR PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED IN TEXAS AND CIMARRON COUNTIES ON MULTIPLE COUNTS RELATING TO THE DISAPPEARANCES OF 39 YEAR OLD JILLIAN KELLY AND 27 YEAR OLD VERONICA BUTLER. NOW, THIS THE SUSPECTS HERE ON THE SCREEN. 43 YEAR-OLD. TAD COLOME, 44 YEAR-OLD CORA TWOMBLY 50 YEAR-OLD COLE TWOMBLY AND 54 YEAR-OLD TIFFANY ADAMS WERE ALL ARRESTED TODAY ON TWO COUNTS OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER, TWO COUNTS OF KIDNAPING, AND ONE COUNT OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE. THEY’RE ALL CURRENTLY AT THE TEXAS COUNTY JAIL AND. UNFORTUNATELY, OSBI SAYS THEY ARE STILL CONTINUING TO LOCATE THE TWO VICTIMS AND ASK ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THE CASE TO CONTACT THEM. IT’S A LONG PROCESS. THERE’S THERE’S A LOT OF STEPS THAT GO INTO A, UH, INVESTIGATION LIKE THIS. BUT, UM, IN ORDER TO, YOU KNOW, ARREST THOSE THAT WE BELIEVE ARE RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE, UM, FOR THE DISAPPEARANCE OF VERONICA BUTLER AND JILLIAN KELLY. UM, IT’S SOMETHING THAT WE ARE VERY APPRECIATIVE OF. ALL THE HELP AND NOT JUST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, BUT THE LOCAL PEOPLE TO. NOW, AGAIN, THEY HAVE NOT FOUND THE BODIES. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION LAWT
4 arrested for first-degree murder in connection to 2 women missing from Oklahoma Panhandle
Two bodies were recovered on Sunday in rural Texas County, according to OSBI. They could not confirm if the bodies belonged to the two women.
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Four people were taken into custody Saturday as the search for two women who went missing from the Oklahoma Panhandle continues. | MORE | Community searches for answers after 2 women disappeared from Oklahoma PanhandleTad Bert Cullum, 43, Tifany Machal Adams, 54, Cole Earl Twombly, 50, and Cora Twombly, 44, were arrested in Texas and Cimarron counties. All four individuals were booked into the Texas County Jail on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. They were arrested after two women, 27-year-old Veronica Butler and 39-year-old Jilian Kelley, from Hugoton, Kansas, were traveling to Texas County to pick up Butler's children. Authorities later found the car they were traveling in abandoned near Highway 95 and Road L, south of Elkhart, Kansas, in rural Texas County. OSBI immediately began investigating the suspicious case. Two bodies were recovered on Sunday in rural Texas County, according to OSBI. They could not confirm if the bodies belonged to the two women. Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact the OSBI at tips@osbi.ok.gov or 1-800-522-8017. Top Headlines One person is dead after a back-to-back crash in Yukon Freedom supporting double homicide victims with benefit rodeo Video: Dog slurps water and interrupts owner's work call A man stabbed to death 6 people in a Sydney shopping center and was fatally shot by police
Four people were taken into custody Saturday as the search for two women who went missing from the Oklahoma Panhandle continues.
| MORE | Community searches for answers after 2 women disappeared from Oklahoma Panhandle
Tad Bert Cullum, 43, Tifany Machal Adams, 54, Cole Earl Twombly, 50, and Cora Twombly, 44, were arrested in Texas and Cimarron counties. All four individuals were booked into the Texas County Jail on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
They were arrested after two women, 27-year-old Veronica Butler and 39-year-old Jilian Kelley, from Hugoton, Kansas, were traveling to Texas County to pick up Butler's children. Authorities later found the car they were traveling in abandoned near Highway 95 and Road L, south of Elkhart, Kansas, in rural Texas County.
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OSBI immediately began investigating the suspicious case.
Two bodies were recovered on Sunday in rural Texas County, according to OSBI. They could not confirm if the bodies belonged to the two women.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact the OSBI at tips@osbi.ok.gov or 1-800-522-8017.
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