Murdered Kansas womens’ bodies found in pasture tied to accused grandma

The bodies of two murdered women who earlier this year disappeared in rural Oklahoma were eventually found buried on a farming property with ties to the grandmother of one of the women’s children, according to court documents. A series of search warrants, filed around the time law enforcement arrested five suspects accused in the killings and released publicly this week, detail a complex and grisly scheme allegedly devised by members of a group called “God’s Misfits,” seemingly to end a difficult custody battle.

Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, went missing on March 30 in Texas County, a sparsely-populated part of the Oklahoma panhandle, where Butler intended to pick up her daughter for a birthday party, according to court documents. She had driven from Kansas that day with Kelley, who was appointed to supervise the visit under a custody order.

Their car was found abandoned at a spot along Highway 95 in Kansas near the Oklahoma border, where prosecutors allege they were lured by the suspects who had been plotting to kill them. Authorities have not revealed what exactly caused Butler and Kelley’s deaths, but warrants noted that the scene around their car showed “evidence of a severe injury,” with blood left behind on the road. Police also noted Butler’s glasses, a broken hammer and a pistol potentially missing from a purse that belonged to Kelley were found at the scene.

Investigators discovered Butler and Kelley’s remains on April 13. They were found inside a chest freezer that had been buried in a pasture, which the grandmother’s boyfriend rented for cattle grazing and could access any time, authorties said. The freezer was inside a hole filled