Members of self-proclaimed anti-government group ‘God’s Misfits’ held in killings of Kansas women

Published April 15, 2024 5:28 AM

By SEAN MURPHY and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities have confirmed the deaths of two Kansas women who went missing on a trip to pick up children for a birthday party. Two bodies were recovered in rural Oklahoma, a day after four people were charged with murder and kidnapping. Authorities say 27-year-old Veronica Butler and 39-year-old Jilian Kelley, of Hugoton, Kansas, were driving through the Oklahoma panhandle to pick up Butler’s children for a March 30 birthday party in Kansas. They never showed up. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation on Monday described an intense effort to find them, protect the children and make arrests without more violence.

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