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First-degree murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy to commit murder. Court documents show the attack was
planned, stating the four were part of an anti-government religious group known as God's
Misfits. God's Misfit. God's Misfit. Saturday, March 30th, 2024. 27year-old Veronica Butler hit the
highway. Her plan to go and retrieve her two children and to spend some time with
family. The kids were with their grandmother, Tiffany Adams. However, according to grandma,
Veronica never arrived to collect the kids. Veronica Butler and another woman, Jillian Kelly, who was traveling with
Veronica, were soon reported missing. Their car was later found in Texas County near the Kansas State
line. No sign of either woman was found there. However, very disturbingly, police found signs of foul
play. Days of investigation led detectives to a group calling themselves God's misfits. This is true crime
garage. An absolutely brutal crime. First-degree murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy to commit murder. Court
documents show the attack was planned, stating the four were part of an anti-government religious group known
as God's Misfits. God's [Music] Misfits. God's Misfits. Joining us for the first time
here in the garage, we have Lauren Conlin from Pop Crime TV on YouTube and the Outlier podcast. Welcome to the
garage, Lauren. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. Thank you guys so much
for having me. You're here to educate us about a case that is really it's fresh.
It's new. Unfortunately, it's a case that took place last year in 2024, and we are working through the processes
with this case as we go and trying to figure out exactly what happened. Now, at the center of this case, Lauren, we
have a young woman named Veronica Butler, just 27 years old. Who is Veronica Butler? Yes, Veronica Butler.
She's a beautiful girl, beautiful red hair. She's a 27-year-old mother of two children, loves her children, would do
anything for them. Veronica was in school. She was very busy. She was in school to become a surge tech. She was a
certified nursing assistant. and she also owned a a store called Sunflower Nutrition. She was known to be a really
great cook. So, she kind of incorporated her healthy cooking at Sunflower Nutrition in Hugatan, Kansas, where she
lives. And Hugatton, Kansas, I I've been there. It's a really small town. It's about 3500 people, let's say. And
everybody knew Veronica as as being just confident, kind, and and sassy. You had
mentioned she's the mother of two children, ages 8 and six, I believe. Who Who are the kids? What do we know about
Veronica's children? Yes, her children are eight and six. She has a boy and a girl. And she had these kids when she
was clearly a bit younger. and her I'll just call him her baby daddy Wrangler Rickman.
He has a bit of a a a history a history with drugs and arrest. So they they didn't work out as a couple and they
split soon after uh Veronica's daughter was born. And I guess I I don't want to go too much into the kids. They're
minors so I don't really know what else to say there, but I I know that that both parents do love the children
dearly. The daughter was born in 2018, I believe, in April, and then they split up. Wrangler and Veronica split up in
December of 2018. What were the arrangements and where were both of the parents living
during that time period from 2018 up until uh events that took place last year? Yes. Well, Veronica, she was not
awarded full custody of the kids uh until 2021, but they had been going through this bitter custody battle since 2019.
And one of Wrangler's, I guess, qualms here was that Veronica was moving. She was living in Kansas, then she was
living in Colorado, and she didn't tell him. And this is according to to Wrangler. And Wrangler had lived in uh
Gin, Oklahoma. in that area. And Veronica, the truth was she was working hard. She is a single mother. She was
trying to provide for her children and she was trying to create a stable environment for them. So at this point,
it's it's just becoming very contentious. Wrangler was getting into trouble. So that's why she filed for
full custody. And she was granted full custody again in 2021. And she also, I believe that same year, had filed a
protective order against Wrangler. She she just didn't like what was happening. She she didn't like that that he had
been arrested for drugs, and she didn't want that around the kids. She wanted somebody who would be an actual father,
and it seemed like Wrangler was more into partying and hanging out with his friends rather than being a a
responsible young parent. What was he up to in 2024? What's his story? Yes, Wrangler was actually arrested in 2023,
in November of 2023. And that that arrest is really interesting. Uh we'll probably get into it a bit later, but he
was arrested for uh feloniously pointing a firearm after a felony conviction. So,
that initially did not result in any jail time. He got a suspended sentence, but then he was rearrested in February
of 2024 for assault and battery. and that was followed by a short incarceration and then that was followed
by a stint in rehab. Is this a situation where opposites attract or is it a situation where she was just getting her
life together because she had kids? I mean, I've looked at Facebook posts from Veronica and Wrangler when it seemed
like their relationship was in a really good place, and it made me really sad because they both seem to be very much
into one another and they seem to be happy. But you guys get it. When you're young, you know, thing things change.
You're not the same person that you were in in your teens or your early 20s. So,
I do feel like it was young love. Maybe it was like a puppy dog thing at first, but I I do feel like Veronica really
matured and Wrangler just he wasn't there. They had different priorities. And Veronica is a she's a Christian. She
she loves her church. She loves God. She loves her family. And and you know, as we're talking about this case, you'll
you'll understand that Wrangler was into partying. What is the situation with the
children in 2024? We have dad who is in in and out of jail and also then attempting rehab. So he's in a facility.
And then we have Veronica who is as you said moving around at that time. What is
the custody situation for these two children just 6 and 8 years old early in 2024? Well by 2024 Veronica had lost
custody of the kids. And what had happened was in 2022, Wrangler's mother had actually
inserted herself and intervened with this custody battle. She said, "You know what? My son clearly wants to party. He
doesn't want to be a dad. So when it's time for his visitation, Tiffany Adams, Wrangler's mother, was going to step in
and take the kids." Now, at some point here, Tiffany actually withheld the children from both Wrangler and
Veronica. So, Wrangler and Veronica actually got on the same team for a hot minute and there were Facebook posts
from both of them saying, "Yeah, like Wrangler said, "My mom is withholding the kids from me." And uh, you know,
they were trying to fight this in court. and Veronica lost custody of the children because of something that
Tiffany Adams had filed in court about Veronica and about what Veronica had allowed when the children were with her.
And it turns out, guys, that this wasn't true. These allegations that Tiffany Adams made to get these children and to
get them taken for Veronica was was false. What are some of the details of those allegations because that plays a
big role in the in the story here? Oh, yes. It plays a very big role. And the allegations were that Veronica had
allowed her children to be sexually abused by a family member. And I want to be clear, Veronica did not allow this.
This did not happen. So, you're saying that sexual abuse never happened, period. or the fact that she didn't
allow I am saying the sexual abuse never happened period. But then we find ourselves in a situation where it
appears that Tiffany Adams, Wrangler's mother, the father's mother, is now in control and has custody of the
children because of these allegations. And it's almost like a role reversal here, right? where Lauren we
have Veronica who was in charge who had full custody at one point these these allegations come about and now Veronica
is finding herself where she is getting visitation with her children but it's supervised visitation and from my
understanding it was every Saturday was to be scheduled for each and every Saturday were the visitations supervised
yes they they were supervised and they had a handful I want to say maybe four or five courtappointed therapists. And
Tiffany Adams, she initially chose uh one or two women that she wanted and then I believe Veronica also chose a few
on her end as well. But what was going on before this was that when Tiffany Adams had the children, and it was
wrangler's time with the children, Tiffany Adams just would not give them back. And it got to be a huge problem,
which is, you know, where the the child stealing allegation comes in. And I just
I want to give you guys an idea about the area as well. This area in the Midwest, what I've learned is a lot of
families, they they want the kids to be homeschooled. They want them to split their day into, you know, learning at
home and then maybe working on the farm. So, I believe that Tiffany, she wanted to train these kids that way. And at a
certain point, Tiffany really felt like these kids were somehow hurt. And what she had been doing was she had been
cancelling the visitation with Veronica, saying, "Oh, the kids are sick." And you
know, Veronica's like, "I don't care. I'm their mother. I don't give a damn if they're sick. I want to see my
children." And then Tiffany would say, "Oh, I'll make up the visit." And she never did. So the court was catching on
here. And I believe it was I think they had a couple hearings set up for April of 2024 where Veronica was pretty much
going to be granted overnight visits with her kids that were unsupervised. That's the track that she was on and I
don't think Tiffany Adams was very happy about it. This type of raising children
is is this a economical thing or is this a religious? Well, I think in in this case, guys, it it's interesting. Tiffany
Adams and a handful of people in that area were part of this prayer group. And this prayer group was called God's
Misfits. They came up with this name as a joke, but I guess it kind of stuck. They had said, you know, we don't really
belong anywhere. But this group of people, let's say 15 to 20 people that we know of, possibly more, they would
meet twice a week on Sunday nights and Wednesday evenings at uh the homes of some of these people and they would
bring the kids and they would just have time to, I guess, discuss what they wanted to discuss and uh pray. And I I
just believe that this this group people were a little bit nervous about this group in the area. Tiffany Adams seemed
to have a lot of of power. It was like I said her uh her town and her county in Oklahoma also really small about 30 I
think it was Keys Oklahoma maybe a thousand people. the county of Gim where where she lived. I think that entire
county is around 20,000 people. So people knew Tiffany. She was on the hospital board. She was on school
boards. She was the the Simmeran County GOP chair and people knew about God's Misfits. So I think that there was, you
know, she was intimidating. So I think that back to your question, sorry that was very long-winded. Back to your
question about this being a religious thing or an economical thing. I think it was it was a little bit of both. This is
essentially a small flock, right? A congregation, a religion without a church or a steeple. It's we get
together for our meetings Wednesday night, Sunday during the day. And these meetings are held at different members
of this God's Misfits. It's come to you're welcome into my home and we will be praying and carrying out our church
service air quotes in my family room is pretty much what we're you're describing here. Correct.
Yes. And I I don't exactly know what went on like I said during those meetings. I believe it was prayer. I
believe it was fellowship to a degree. But I mean let's just say guys these people seem to march to the beat of
their own drums. a handful of them referred to themselves as sovereign citizens. And I mean, it's I I've seen
45page documents sent to Anthony Blinken describing that and and not to be gross,
but describing that their children come from their own sperm and their children don't have to do anything that the
government tells them to. It's it's wild. It really is wild. and and they went to conventions uh of people
speaking about sovereignty and it's it it makes me feel a bit strange uh just I guess knowing what was about to unfold
but but yeah that's that's what it was. So maybe a group of conspiracy theorist um doomsday preppers that type of
individual. Yeah, definitely. Uh definitely a a little bit out there. Conspiracies abound. Absolutely. Now,
some of these groups there becomes um a hierarchy within the group and and sometimes that leads to how do I say
this? Um the the hierarchy leads to a sexual component. Is there any evidence of that happening within this group? Uh
sorry, what do you mean by that exactly? where there becomes almost a leader and
because there is a leader that then if the leader is male that the female followers will become attracted to him
or ah or that male leader will use his power for for sexual advances on his followers. Got it. Tiffany Adams was
without a doubt the leader of this group. She was she had the the loudest voice. She had the most connections
within the town, within the county. And and I've been told, guys, that grown men
were scared of her. That's fascinating. And not to be, how do I say this? I guess not to be
shallow, but you can look up pictures of Tiffany Adams from 5 years ago and and she's beautiful. She's a beautiful
woman. She's in her her 50s and and if you see pictures of her now, and I'm speculating, but it's it's incredible
that drugs haven't really been mentioned, you know, when it comes to this case because her face and the way
that she looks is is alarming, I guess, compared to what she looked like just a few years prior. So, do you think that
was a part of this prayer group is drugs or do you think this was something outside of the group? I think that
within the group they would split up and certain people would click over here, certain people would click over here.
and and I'm I'm speculating, but I think that possibly it could have been something going on within the group, but
not the entire group was aware of it. You know, like I mentioned, they brought these their kids to these meetings. They
there was a lot of young children there and teens, so I don't think that if there were drugs involved that anything
would, you know, kind of just be be outright. But Tiffany is friends with a DATF agent.
His name is Kevin McIntyre. He was on the witness list, the OSBI witness list with this case. He he's publicly been
charged with embezzlement in 2007. He serves or he did serve on the Simmeran County Hospital board with Tiffany and
they were known to be friends. So, he has a Facebook group where where he talks about how he and his team have
seized all of these drugs from from crime scenes and and you know, drug houses. And so, I just I'm scratching my
head here like, man, this is pretty convenient. But again, I I I don't have proof that anything happened between
this DATF agent and Tiffany Adams, but I I do know they're friends. But to put it
plain and simple, the arrangements ordered by the court for the custody visits and
visitation with the two children, it's not working out. Regardless of who's to blame, it's not working out. It's not
going as planned. And this will lead us to the events of March 30th, 2024. Could
you take us through the morning of March 30th? Yes, March 30th. That's the day before Easter and Veronica Butler is
very excited because it's Saturday. She gets to see her children. They are going
to celebrate her daughter's birthday at a family member's house. And I I want to
just set up the the geography there, guys, because I mentioned Veronica lives in Hugaton, Kansas, and the kids are at
Tiffany Adams, her house, and that is in Keys, Oklahoma. Now, this is the panhandle, and and you're kind of right
on on the border there. So, it's really a 45minute drive uh between the two states. So that day, the quote unquote
normal courtappointed supervisor wasn't going to be there. She was told, you know, you don't have to work that day or
maybe she called in sick. I'm I'm actually not certain as to what happened there. But Veronica had asked somebody
else to fill in for her, a woman named Jillian Kelly, and she knew Jillian from her church. So Veronica and Jillian got
in the car around 9:00 to drive to Oklahoma. And what's so baffling to me is the fact that you've got this bitter
custody battle and a judge somehow thinks that it's okay not to do these type of handoffs at a a police station
or at the sheriff's. and they allow these handoffs to happen wherever Tiffany Adams feels like it. So on this
particular day, Tiffany says, "Okay, let's kind of meet in between or it's a little bit further for you guys to
drive, but let's meet off of Road L and Highway 95." And if you've ever been to this area, it's it's wild. It's it's
flat lands. And I guess I'm saying it's wild because I live in New York City, so
I've I've really never experienced anything like this where it's just empty and you've got one bar. But that's what
it's like out there. And that's where they were going to do this handoff. According to Tiffany, Veronica never
showed up to get her children. And that's the short of her story. I'm waiting here with the children. Veronica
never shows up. But Mhm. the alarm is raised at some point because there there were family gatherings scheduled for
later that day. I do believe that would be with Veronica and the children attending these visits as well and these
gettogethers as well. And so Veronica's extended family becomes concerned when she doesn't show up with the children,
knowing very well that she was excited to attend these events. Who first figures out that maybe there could be a
problem here? And where do they go once they figure out that that we might have an issue? You're correct. And you know,
something else about this that is is just something that I thought of is is like Tiffany Adams saying, "Oh, well,
Veronica just just didn't show up. I I I don't know what happened." I mean, Tiffany Adams hated Veronica. She wanted
to take her children. Wouldn't you think that she would be the first person to jump on social media and say something
like, "Well, the [ __ ] didn't show up. You know, I guess she doesn't love her kids." And it's just, you know, it it's
baffling to me that that her her claims here were just, you know, they just rolled off every everybody. No one
really thought anything of it. But yes, Veronica's aunt noticed that, hey, it's getting a little late. Where the heck is
she? This isn't normal. Veronica's not answering her phone. So, she decides to go and and look for them. And I believe
her aunt knew where the handoff was was going to be. Maybe Veronica told her. So
she did drive to where Veronica's handoff was supposed to be and she made a very troubling and chilling discovery.
She found Veronica's car veered off the road and things looked pretty nefarious,
you guys. There was a lot of blood around the vehicle and not only that, but there was a broken hammer and there
was a pair of glasses on the ground and there appeared to be kitty litter almost
there to to soak up some of the blood. So, of course, she panics and and the police are called.
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beyond the blood? Well, police saw the the broken hammer on the ground. They saw the the glasses and they saw the the
strange what they thought at the time maybe was was dry oil, but it was actually kitty litter and and they're
just like, "Wait, what is going on here?" And from what I'm told from sources, local sources, immediately
immediately, Veronica's family had said, "Okay, you need to go find out where Tiffany Adams is. you need to go figure
out where she is because you know there's something going on there. I did read a report that maybe a gun was found
at the scene, but I believe the gun may have belonged to Veronica. There was not
a gun found at the scene. There was a magazine found, but there was no pistol. And that belonged to Jillian Kelly, her
courtappointed supervisor. Could you describe this hammer for us? Well, the hammer was broken and that was very
troubling to me initially. I thought to myself, well, how hard do you have to hit something or someone with a hammer
to cause it to break? What are the next steps by law enforcement here? Because we have this information from Veronica's
family to go and talk to Tiffany Adams, who she was scheduled to meet with. Are they attempting to trace their phones or
or or look for phone activity that can be used to locate either woman Veronica or Jillian? What what are law
enforcement's next steps and and what do they find when they start on their investigation of what now is two missing
women? Yes. Well, law enforcement discover later when they start looking into the cell phones that around 9:42
a.m. Jillian Kelly and Veronica Butler's cell phones stop transmitting signals. So, by 700 p.m. that night, they issue
an endangered missing person's alert and that goes out via the Texas County Sheriff's Department Facebook page and
that's in Oklahoma. And and then it becomes national. And I I remember seeing that and thinking to myself, man,
this is really weird. You've got two women who are both mothers and they go missing at the same exact time. That
that just seems so rare. And so from there, the OSBI requested tips on social media, just anybody with relevant
information or if you know anything about their whereabouts to please come forward. And at that point, that's when
people start talking. And this is when a confidential witness who is a minor actually spills the beans, comes
forward, and and that's essentially what blew this case wide open. And that is also what allowed for for investigators
to uh get a search warrant for Tiffany Adams's phone. Let's talk about this because I want to have a good
understanding of this vehicle of Veronica's vehicle that is found. The two women are missing and we know
that they left in the 9:00 hour that morning. Where is this vehicle found in relationship to where the scheduled
meeting, the drop off meetup point was to be? Oh, it was there. It was at the same spot. Yes, it was just veered off
the road and it Yeah. When I So, detective arrives on the scene. We're looking for two grown women. One Jillian
Kelly, who we believe to be very responsible. I mean, she's the courtapp appointed supervisor and she may or may
not have been packing. She may or may not have been carrying a firearm with her at the time. We know the magazine
was found at the scene, but if I'm a detective, I'm arriving on the scene and I here's here's what I'm finding. The
car is abandoned where the meetup is supposed to take place. Their phones, the activity on their phones seems to
stop around the time that they would be arriving at this location. So everything
is pointing to that Veronica and Jillian upheld their end of the bargain of where
we are to meet at what time. And then the flip of that is we have Tiffany Adams who says, "No, I was there. They
never showed up." I don't know if she said I was there. Okay, I I'm not sure if she said that. She just said they
didn't show up. And look, I mean, whatever went down or whatever happened at the scene of the meetup, I would
speculate that things didn't go as planned because who would leave a scene like that, guys? Who would leave a
hammer and all the blood there? I mean, it appears that somebody tried to absorb
the blood like a dumbass. But I mean, like, I was thinking, well, something went wrong. And just to give you some
info about Jillian, she's a volunteer. She is a 39year-old mother of four. She's a pastor's wife. I mean, she is
Her and Veronica were friendly. They they met actually through Veronica's pastor, as I mentioned. And Veronica's
pastor knew Jillian's husband. And Jillian was was not your typical preachers's wife. She was a guntoing
motorcycle riding badass, you know, and so they were friendly, but they weren't exactly good friends, if that makes
sense. So, yeah, I mean, it was it was alarming to see that Jillian's magazine was there, but yeah, no pistol. It it
would appear to me that we have one of two possible situations that either this is a completely, you know, it's out in
the middle of nowhere. This is a complete random violent act that took place. we have two missing people or we
have a situation where the the missing people were removed from this location and oh, we happened to find their
abandoned vehicle before somebody could get back here and discard of the and get
rid of this vehicle. the the kitty litter. Obviously, if they put that down with the with the intention of soaking
up and absorbing blood evidence from the scene, then somebody was taking precautions to try to cover up this
crime or whatever took place at that location. Yes, that's correct. And who knew of this location for being the
meetup? Was it did it go beyond Veronica? Did it go beyond Jillian? Was As I understand, Veronica
knew, Jillian knew, Tiffany Adams knew, and possibly one or two of Veronica's family members knew because they wound
up at that location when Veronica never showed up to the birthday party. And now
we have missing endangered people. What What is our investigation and where does
it go from from this point? You had mentioned a search warrant for Tiffany Adams phone. Were they searching Tiffany
Adams properties or her I believe she had a boyfriend at the time? Yes, Tiffany Adams, her boyfriend is a man
named Tad Bert Cullum. And Tad Cullum, he was known to be this nice guy. He was very friendly to a lot of people in
town. And he was a farmer. And actually, Wrangler Rickman had previously been employed by Tad. He worked on Tad's
farm. And Tad was gosh, he was quite a few years younger than Tiffany. So Tad's in his 40s. And again, by all accounts,
Tad was a a pretty nice guy. Are the two of them living together at this time? Yeah. I mean, they they had their own
homes. Uh they owned their own homes, but they did uh coexist a lot or co cohabitate a lot. I would I would I
would compare it to you staying at a boyfriend or girlfriend's house, you know, for a few days at a time. So, do
you believe that law enforcement because we know where she was heading to pick up
her children? We know that she was supposed to meet her mother-in-law, quote unquote, do you think that right
away law enforcement knew who was responsible for this crime? I think that law enforcement knew which way to look. They
know they knew who to look at. They knew who they needed to talk to. And uh w with that being said, they were able to
get a search warrant by April 1st for Tiffany Adams's phone. And you know, Tiffany Adams was, you know, a willing
participant in this. She said, "Okay." And investigators found web searches for things like taser pain level gun shops,
uh, prepaid cellular phones, where to get them, and also a search on how to get someone out of their house or to
leave their house. Can you explain the last one a little more? The search is to get somebody to leave your house. Yes.
So, the last search that she made, it turns out, and we learned a lot when on April 3rd, this confidential witness was
interviewed by the OSBI. So, again, I mentioned this is what really blew the case wide open. And we learned that
Tiffany Adams in February of 2024 wanted to quote unquote get rid of Veronica. And she wanted to get rid of
Veronica by having her boyfriend Tad Cullum and another one of their friends throw a vice through Veronica's
windshield. And in order to do this, Veronica would need to leave her house. And they were kind of waiting for
Veronica to leave her house one day. Turns out that the day they had planned to do this, Veronica only went across
the street or something like that. So, the plan didn't exactly work out. So, that's where that Google search came
from. And so, yeah, investigators were like, "What the hell is this?" But, I mean, what they had there was pretty
damning. taser pain level gun shops. I mean, what? Well, and it's fascinating to me that she makes these horrible
accusations against the mother of her grandchildren and it it seems like the courts jump to this conclusion that
it's true. I mean obviously you have to take these claims very serious and I know that the hands of justice move very
slowly but you think the courts would have been on to the fact that maybe this person is making up these accusations
because they have a motive uh in doing so. Yes. And this is where, you know, it it's like, all right, do we have do we
have just oh, it's a small town and everyone knows everyone and people just know that by all accounts, Tiffany Adams
appears to be somebody that can take care of these grandchildren. She has a decent reputation of being on the board
here and and heading up the GOP. So, you know, is it is it that or is it is it corruption? Does does she have people in
her back pocket? The plan with the vice is interesting but seems a bit flawed. Right. So throwing the vice at a a heavy
metal object essentially at the the windshield of the vehicle while it's moving being operated by
Veronica. I guess the idea would be causing a her to go off the road or some type of vehicular accident that would
lead to her death and thus her death being ruled just a very basic and simple accident. One that unfortunately we see
regular on highways and and whatnot. But wait, Nick, do we see that regularly? Because I thought about that and I said
that is so stupid. Where where would this vice come from? Where would this I mean I I didn't really understand. That
was my portion of the flawed plan where if Okay. Okay. on the scene. Weren't aren't they people aren't just driving
around with a heavy vice in their car all the time? I mean, you could ex you could explain it as being picked up from
the hardware store or a recent purchase or something of that nature, but still that would stand out as well, this this
is some form of of an attack. Whether it be that she was targeted or not, it could be as simple as a a dumb teenage
prank, or it could be something very serious to the point where this woman was targeted for specific reasons. Well,
the motivation might not have also been homicide. The motivation could have been
this is going to be enough where she can't prove that she was targeted that maybe this was just a a situation a
stupid teenagers doing something stupid or or an accident but maybe it maybe the
motivation was just to scare her to start complying. It was not the motive. The motive was homicide and and yeah, we
learned this based on some future witness testimony here, but my my understanding and my opinion on this was
they Tiffany knew people. She knew people in law enforcement. And I I just don't think that if this actually
worked, this this plan with the vice, I don't think that she was thinking that law enforcement would sit there and dust
the vice for fingerprints, that they would do some big investigation. I think she she most likely thought that yeah,
it would be cut and dry and uh you know, nobody would ever know. That's why I love the police departments and the
sheriff's departments that when they arrive on a scene like that, they arrive with the idea that this is a homicide
until we can prove otherwise. With this story here, though, so Tiffany is the last breadcrumb when when you're
looking for a breadcrumb trail for your two missing people, she then becomes that last breadcrumb. So now you are
searching her phone and you learn all of these wonderful things about her when you're looking at the searches that she
has done on her phone with the stun gun and and burner phones and the the plot to attempt to kill Veronica in what
would look like a vehicular accident in February. You said that there was a a confidential informant or
witness that comes forward. Was that one of the children? One of Veronica's children. Or do we not know who that
that person is? No, we know who the confidential witness is. She is a minor and she is someone's child who was
allegedly involved in this plot. And I say allegedly because this case is not adjudicated yet, but she was very upset
and she drove to her brother's house in another state in Texas, but again, you know, a border state, and she called the
OSBI and said, "I have information and I need to tell you about it." And so she met with the OSBI and she told them
everything that she knew. And again, it blew this case wide open. And I have to say, I I just don't think that any of us
were really ready for a lot of what we heard. And this was the first time that we actually heard about God's misfits.
And that's when you were like, "Wait, what is is this some kind of cult?" Like what the hell is this? I mean, and and
just to be clear, there is another God's Misfits group out of another state. And
the leader, I mean, they had like 300 followers or something like that on Facebook. But this guy who heads up that
God's Misfits, he's like, "Wait, what? No, this has nothing to do with me or my group. I have no affiliation. What is
happening?" But but yeah, this this interview with the minor was was shocking. Well, God's Misfits was also
the name of my grind core heavy metal Christian band in in middle school. So, no way. Really? No, no, I'm just joking.
Oh, I was like, wait, you got me. Oh, jeez. Okay. Wow. I'm gullible, I guess. Um, we have a missing person's
investigation that starts on March 30th. We have phone searches, search warrant of Tiffany Adams phone being conducted
in early April of 2024. And now we have this confidential witness that comes forward
who you've not said what what they're telling law enforcement or at least what is believed that they told law
enforcement because there's a lot of this there's a lot of of horrific events that took place behind closed doors and
and if horrific events that several people wish that would not be brought into the light. How much do you think
this witness knew and how much do you think they were able to provide to law enforcement? Well, I know everything
that she knew and she told law enforcement everything that she knew and this is subsequently what led to
multiple arrests, guys. And a day after this confidential witness uh shared what
she knew, OSBI requested assistance in the investigation from the FBI. And the confidential witness, again, the minor
daughter of two people that were allegedly involved in the disappearance of Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelly.
Her parents had told her about what was going to happen. They had said, "We are going on a mission for God's misfits. So
when you wake up in the morning, we won't be here." And the minor had said, "Well, what are you going to do?" And
they kind of said, "Well, don't worry about it, but Veronica won't be an issue anymore." And she had said, "Well, wait,
what what about Jillian? What what did she do?" And they said, "Well, Jillian supported Veronica." The morning of
March 30th, when her parents had arrived home, they instructed this minor daughter to go and clean out their
truck. And the minor daughter said, "So, what happened? Did Did everything go accordingly?" And the answer was, "Well,
it didn't exactly go according to plan, but Veronica won't be an issue anymore. [Music]
Want to thank everybody for joining us here in the garage. Stick around for part two. So much more to get to. Until
then, be good, be kind, and don't litter. [Music]

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www.TrueCrimeGarage.com (http://www.truecrimegarage.com/) One year ago two women went missing. Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelly were traveling together to pick up Veronica’s children. At the time, the children were in the custody of their grandmother Tifany Adams. After the women were reported missing, Tifany instructed police that the two women never arrived to retrieve the kids. Veronica’s vehicle was discovered abandoned. At the scene of the vehicle police found signs of foul play. Days later the bodies of the women were discovered buried a little more than 8 miles from the vehicle. Someone went to great extremes in a failed attempt to conceal the bodies. This is the case that many refer to as "The Kansas Moms Murders."

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Brief Summary

Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelly went missing amid a custody battle, leading to shocking revelations about a group called God's Misfits.

Key points

Big Time Podcast Introduction. Steve Buscemi introduces his new podcast, Big Time, about misfits with big dreams.
Veronica Butler's Background. Veronica Butler, a 27-year-old mother, is described as confident and kind.
Custody Battle and Allegations. Veronica Butler faces a bitter custody battle and false allegations about her parenting.
Mysterious Handoff. Tiffany Adams recalls the day Veronica was supposed to pick up her children but never showed.
Chilling Discovery. Veronica's aunt finds her abandoned car with blood and a broken hammer nearby.
Two Missing Women. The case of two missing women raises alarms as their phones stop transmitting signals.

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