Prosecutors have said that they think five people killed two Kansas women who went missing in March.
The deaths of Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, were being looked into by police. They charged Tifany Adams, 54; Tad Cullum, 43; Cora Twombly, 44; Cole Twombly, 50; and Paul Grice, 31 with theft and first-degree murder.
In papers filed Thursday, asking the court to combine the cases, the killings were laid out in great detail, including how the women were said to have died.
Prosecutors said that Grice killed Butler by stabbing him and badly cutting his hand in the process. They also said that Cullum killed Kelley.
They said Cullum put his clothes in the fridge with the bodies, and DNA from both him and Kelley was found on the clothes.
The bodies of the women were then reportedly put in a freezer and driven to the cemetery.
The papers show that Grice buried Butler with the clothes he was wearing when he killed her, a stun gun, and a murder weapon.
The DNA found in the clothes was made up of both his and Butler’s DNA.
Court papers said the Twomblys were the lookouts on the day of the murder and told their daughter about it in the hopes that she could give them an alibi.
The filing says Adams bought the burner phones, stun guns, yellow straps found around the freezer, and even the pants Cullum wore and buried with the victims.
Butler and Kelley were last seen on their way to pick up Butler’s kids for a March-controlled visit. Adams is the grandmother of Butler’s children on his dad’s side.
Their father, Wrangler Rickman, had formal custody of the kids, but he was in a rehab center at the time of the disappearance, so the kids were living with Adams.
After two weeks, the five suspects were caught and charged with murder.
Court papers say that the state wants all five defendants to have a joint preliminary hearing because they all planned and carried out the killings together.