Paul Grice, a member of an anti-government group called “God’s Misfits,” was the fifth member of the group to be charged in a murder case.

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    We’ve seen more and more sovereign groups trying to recruit people who are involved (in disputes) with child protective services,” McAdam said. “They really try to use the idea of this is an illegitimate government, this is an illegitimate court system trying to take your kids away, and maybe we can help.”

    On April 24, Grice became the fifth Misfit to be arrested. After two women went missing, law enforcement made four arrests in Oklahoma’s Cimarron and Texas counties: Cole Twombly, Tifany Adams, Tad Cullum and Cora Twombly. Adams was in a bitter custody dispute with the mother of her grandchildren and, according to court documents in the criminal case, the five were involved in a conspiracy to kidnap and kill. The plan was to ambush the children’s mother, Veronica Butler, and a court-approved supervisor when they came to pick up the children for a birthday party.

    FML that’s taking "grandparents’ rights’ to a different level. This woman must have been a monster.

    Their car was found abandoned along a dirt lane in Texas County, Oklahoma. Smashed windows, a broken hammer, a purse with a pistol magazine and blood at the scene indicated something violent had taken place. The women were the object of an intense search for two weeks after their disappearance.

    The bodies of Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, the supervisor, were located following the initial arrests. They had been mothers and church members in their hometown of Hugoton. Their remains were found in a freshly dug hole covered by dirt and hay at a rural property rented by Cullum for grazing cattle. Tifany Adams, according to an affidavit filed by prosecutors, had confessed to participating in the murder of the women.

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      It doesn’t mention in the article, but I’d like to know what happened to the kids after their mother went missing? Tell me they weren’t placed with the people who murdered her during the search and investigation

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        I don’t know, and I can’t quickly find anything, but the arrests happened fast, so I strongly doubt it.

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        Uninformed myself, but if a supervisor was present with the mother and they were driving hours to pick the kids up for a party, my guess is the kids were somehow in the custody of the grandparents at the time.

        ETA: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/21/us/oklahoma-double-murder-plot/index.html

        The children’s mother, Veronica Butler, however, wanted more access to her kids than the court-ordered supervised Saturday visits she was allowed.

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    Most likely MAGATs and they will not participate in the upcoming elections. Awe shucks.