Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / KANSAS MOMS IN HORRIFIC HOLE, 10 FT DEEP, DIRT, CEMENT CHUNKS, HAY: BURIED ALIVE?
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Breaking news Tonight, two Kansas moms ambushed on a remote
- 0:10Speaker 2: Oklahoma road, left behind multiple pools of blood and a
- 0:16Speaker 2: broken hammer found beside Mommy's empty car. Tonight, a bone
- 0:22Speaker 2: chilling discovery. Investigators follow cell phone pings to find a
- 0:28Speaker 2: horrific hole ten feet deep, the two moms at the bottom,
- 0:35Speaker 2: covered in a massive amount of dirt, cement chunks, and
- 0:40Speaker 2: hey were the moms buried alive?
- 0:45Speaker 1: Overnight, a fifth suspect arrested.
- 0:47Speaker 2: In the murders of the two Kansas moms, another so
- 0:49Speaker 2: called member of the cult God's Misfits. Good evening, I mean, see, Grace,
- 0:55Speaker 2: this is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for
- 0:57Speaker 2: being with us.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Paul Gryce arrest in the murders of Veronica Butler and
- 1:02Speaker 3: Jillian Kelly. Grice mentioned as an accomplice in the first
- 1:05Speaker 3: days of the investigation, but investigators interviewed him and let
- 1:08Speaker 3: him go. After court documents are released, however, police arrest
- 1:12Speaker 3: thirty one year old Grice. According to court documents, Gris
- 1:15Speaker 3: was part of God's Misfits alongside Tiffany Adams and the
- 1:18Speaker 3: other suspects, Cole and Cora Twombly. Allegedly blocked the road,
- 1:22Speaker 3: diverting Butler and Kelly to where Adams, Tad Cullum, and
- 1:25Speaker 3: Grice were waiting. Documents also reveal Gris claims he's not
- 1:29Speaker 3: a citizen of the USA. He claims that he is
- 1:32Speaker 3: not a sovereign citizen. He's not a resident, employee or
- 1:35Speaker 3: citizen of the United States Government. He goes on to
- 1:38Speaker 3: say that I hereby asserveate repudier and revoke my citizenship
- 1:43Speaker 3: if any ever existed with the legal fiction known as
- 1:46Speaker 3: the United States Government, USA, Inc. And any and all
- 1:49Speaker 3: subsidiary corporations, State, County City. He also claims that he
- 1:53Speaker 3: is a living soul living under God's law and his
- 1:56Speaker 3: grace alone.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Living under God's law and God's grace alone. I'm not
- 2:04Speaker 2: so sure how God feels about murdering two defenseless mothers
- 2:10Speaker 2: on their way to a kid's birthday party.
- 2:13Speaker 1: That said, let's talk about what we.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Know right now, in addition to a ten foot hole,
- 2:20Speaker 2: how long did that take?
- 2:21Speaker 1: Talk about premeditation under the law.
- 2:24Speaker 2: A ten foot hole found by investigators as they follow
- 2:30Speaker 2: cell phone pings, only to find the bodies of these
- 2:33Speaker 2: two mothers at the bottom, covered in it's got to
- 2:36Speaker 2: be a ton of dirt cement chunks and smoothed over
- 2:42Speaker 2: with Hey were the mom's dead before they were thrown
- 2:47Speaker 2: into the hole. Also in the last hours overnight and
- 2:51Speaker 2: arrest of a fifth suspect, who is Paul Grice, a
- 2:57Speaker 2: young man in his thirties, we are learning that he
- 3:00Speaker 2: claims he's not a citizen.
- 3:02Speaker 1: Of the US.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Really, then what's he doing in Oklahoma and Kansas? Not
- 3:06Speaker 2: a resident, not an employee? Does that mean he doesn't
- 3:09Speaker 2: have a job or a citizen of the US government?
- 3:12Speaker 2: He says, I a serveate his word, not mine, repudiate
- 3:18Speaker 2: and revoke my citizenship with the legal fiction known as
- 3:22Speaker 2: the US government, Oh dear, and claims he is a
- 3:27Speaker 2: living soul.
- 3:29Speaker 1: Okay with me an all star panel to make sense
- 3:31Speaker 1: of what we know right now?
- 3:33Speaker 2: Paul Grice, what does he have to do with this scenario?
- 3:41Speaker 2: I want to go first to Lauren Conlin, investigative journalist
- 3:44Speaker 2: who's been on the case from the beginning, host of
- 3:48Speaker 2: the wildly popular Outlier podcast.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Lauren, thank you for being with us.
- 3:52Speaker 2: Who is Paul gry and how the hey does he
- 3:56Speaker 2: fit in with these four other wing nuts that kill
- 4:01Speaker 2: two unarmed mommies.
- 4:03Speaker 1: Who is this guy? Lauren Conlin.
- 4:05Speaker 4: So when the arrest affidavits came out for all four suspects,
- 4:09Speaker 4: there was a fifth suspect named by the witness, by
- 4:13Speaker 4: the sixteen year old witness, and this was Paul Grice.
- 4:16Speaker 4: So I started digging and I ended up finding these
- 4:19Speaker 4: insane land records, and Nancy, I want to point out
- 4:23Speaker 4: there are forty four pages of this gobbledegook nonsense that
- 4:28Speaker 4: he actually addressed to the Secretary of.
- 4:31Speaker 5: State Anthony Blincoln.
- 4:33Speaker 4: I don't know if he actually sent this to him,
- 4:35Speaker 4: but it was addressed to him. And so Paul Grice,
- 4:39Speaker 4: he was said to be at the scene of the
- 4:41Speaker 4: murders with Tiffany Adams line.
- 4:45Speaker 2: I'm holding it his manifesto that he sends to blanken.
- 4:50Speaker 1: Okay, when somebody has the.
- 4:52Speaker 2: Time to write a manifesto like this decrying the US
- 4:56Speaker 2: government and more, he's got time for a job.
- 5:00Speaker 1: What does this guy do? Who is this guy? Do
- 5:02Speaker 1: you know that?
- 5:02Speaker 4: Bled by a few sources, he could be a farmer,
- 5:04Speaker 4: But I can't confirm that.
- 5:06Speaker 2: Okay, that tells me that he may very well not
- 5:11Speaker 2: have a job. And frankly, if he's got time to
- 5:14Speaker 2: write a manifesto like this.
- 5:16Speaker 1: I don't know how he's holding on a full time job.
- 5:19Speaker 2: Guys, did this whole thing stem from a custody dispute?
- 5:25Speaker 2: The grandma in this scenario may she rot in Hell
- 5:31Speaker 2: apparently was so enraged that her daughter in law, this
- 5:36Speaker 2: is Tiffany Michelle Adams, aged fifty four, so enraged her
- 5:42Speaker 2: daughter in law, whom she hated with all of her heart,
- 5:47Speaker 2: was going to get supervised visits or visits, not supervised
- 5:52Speaker 2: visits every Saturday.
- 5:55Speaker 1: She was so enraged by the.
- 5:57Speaker 2: Bio mom look at her getting to see her her
- 6:00Speaker 2: own children, that she hatches a murder plot. Now she
- 6:05Speaker 2: ropes in her boyfriend Tad Cohen, and she ropes in
- 6:10Speaker 2: Cole and Cora Twombly. And as Lauren Colin was telling
- 6:15Speaker 2: you at the get go, just break it down really simply, Lauren,
- 6:22Speaker 2: he was mentioned the new guy, Paul Grace aged thirty
- 6:26Speaker 2: one in the very beginning in the affidavits that he
- 6:30Speaker 2: was around and took part in the planning and part
- 6:34Speaker 2: of the execution of the murder plot.
- 6:37Speaker 1: We knew that at the beginning. What took so long
- 6:39Speaker 1: to arrest him? Yeah, that is the question. Because he
- 6:43Speaker 1: It stated on.
- 6:44Speaker 4: The affidavit, the new one that came out yesterday, that
- 6:47Speaker 4: he was interviewed only on the twenty third of April,
- 6:50Speaker 4: and then he was arrested yesterday on the twenty fourth.
- 6:53Speaker 4: I think all of us are wondering this. And in addition,
- 6:57Speaker 4: the affidavit also stated that Tiffany Adams bought five stun guns,
- 7:01Speaker 4: so we know all five suspects had them and we're
- 7:06Speaker 4: a part of this horrific, horrific act.
- 7:08Speaker 2: That's very important because by buying five stun guns at
- 7:13Speaker 2: the outset, and I guarantee you the state is going
- 7:15Speaker 2: to have surveillance video of her going in and out
- 7:18Speaker 2: of that gun store.
- 7:20Speaker 1: I mean, I think they will.
- 7:21Speaker 2: The fact that she bought five at the beginning tells
- 7:25Speaker 2: me that there were five cohorts, five suspects to start with.
- 7:32Speaker 1: Guys, in the last.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Hours, we learn of and arrest of a fifth suspect,
- 7:36Speaker 2: What if anything, did he have to do with the
- 7:39Speaker 2: entire scenario. We're learning a lot about Gryce, specifically that
- 7:43Speaker 2: he claims to be a member of the cult group
- 7:48Speaker 2: God's Misfits.
- 7:49Speaker 3: Listen, the OSBI determines the sect of God's Misfits includes
- 7:53Speaker 3: Tiffany Adams, Tad Cullum, Paul Grece, Cora Swombley, Cold Twombly,
- 7:58Speaker 3: Barry Cook, and Lacey Cook, and is anti government with
- 8:02Speaker 3: a religious affiliation, hosting weekly meetings at Twombly's and Cook's residences.
- 8:06Speaker 3: The leader of God's Misfits is in South Carolina, a
- 8:09Speaker 3: man who goes by the name Squirrel. He says the
- 8:12Speaker 3: murder suspects are not affiliated with him or his group,
- 8:15Speaker 3: and he has no relationship with them without equivocation, Squirrel says,
- 8:19Speaker 3: the God that I serve condemned such hate.
- 8:22Speaker 2: Joining me right now is the founder of God's Misfits,
- 8:27Speaker 2: who goes only by the name Squirrel. Mister Squirrel, why
- 8:36Speaker 2: do you say these people that are holding weekly God's
- 8:40Speaker 2: Misfit group meetings in their homes are not part of
- 8:47Speaker 2: your group, God's Misfits.
- 8:50Speaker 6: So I've just recently learned we're international national, which for national,
- 8:59Speaker 6: it's just minimal life.
- 9:01Speaker 7: And it was just me before I remarried. If people
- 9:08Speaker 7: actually go on my Facebook.
- 9:10Speaker 6: And website and everything and read, they realize I'm not
- 9:16Speaker 6: in with that kind of hate, and I tell you
- 9:19Speaker 6: something else. Scripture says that whoever takes God's name in
- 9:23Speaker 6: vain will not be held countless. They have taken God's
- 9:27Speaker 6: name in vain. When they have taken God's name owned
- 9:30Speaker 6: their heinous, demonic, hateful act, This is a hate crime.
- 9:38Speaker 7: And no, I don't have a chapter. Why would I
- 9:41Speaker 7: have a chapter.
- 9:42Speaker 6: There's only two of us, there's no chapters, there's no
- 9:48Speaker 6: I'm not the originator, It's just me. I'm just trying
- 9:51Speaker 6: to put videos out there, sharing the love with Jesus,
- 9:55Speaker 6: sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. And I don't know
- 9:59Speaker 6: how a cult comes up with their names. You know,
- 10:04Speaker 6: a cult chose God's misfits. Well, I wanted to change
- 10:08Speaker 6: it to something like maybe God's misfits of Jesus Christ
- 10:11Speaker 6: or something.
- 10:12Speaker 7: Will they won't follow me in that area.
- 10:15Speaker 6: Guarantee you theyd before God one day they can allow. Oh,
- 10:19Speaker 6: they want to face this nerve, but they can't lie
- 10:22Speaker 6: to a God that knows exactly what's in their heart,
- 10:24Speaker 6: knows exactly what they've done.
- 10:26Speaker 7: And they think they can get by all the grace
- 10:28Speaker 7: of God. Well, They've taken God's name in vain and
- 10:32Speaker 7: posted on this thing. Is that that they did?
- 10:35Speaker 2: I think that I would do a complete overhaul with
- 10:38Speaker 2: the name, because that name God's Misfits has been totally
- 10:45Speaker 2: contorted and is now associated with the double murder of
- 10:49Speaker 2: two young moms. I get where you're going that somehow
- 10:55Speaker 2: God and Christ could take the worst of us and
- 10:58Speaker 2: turn us into something new and wonderful. This has totally
- 11:03Speaker 2: destroyed that concept. Now do you have any idea why
- 11:10Speaker 2: they would pick your coult to claim there excuse me
- 11:14Speaker 2: your group to be associated with.
- 11:18Speaker 7: All thank fear is the devil?
- 11:20Speaker 6: Well Satan all they have or Satan is chosen me
- 11:25Speaker 6: to try to smeart something on me. I think maybe
- 11:27Speaker 6: God's got something bigger in store for me and my wife.
- 11:33Speaker 7: We know that we I'm a getting short. It's getting worse.
- 11:36Speaker 8: Out here every day.
- 11:37Speaker 7: The evilness is out here. And then when the evilness
- 11:41Speaker 7: claims to be from God.
- 11:42Speaker 2: Okay, hold on just a moment, squirrel, let me advise you,
- 11:46Speaker 2: and I see no reason what you would ever be
- 11:49Speaker 2: called in court as it relates to this case. But
- 11:52Speaker 2: if you do, do not say the devil did it? Okay,
- 11:57Speaker 2: because no jury's going to believe that. But Mster world
- 12:00Speaker 2: in a nutshell? Did these people ever contact you by phone,
- 12:06Speaker 2: by email, by letter. Have you ever met them? Have
- 12:09Speaker 2: you had any contact with them at all?
- 12:13Speaker 1: Prior to learning all of this.
- 12:14Speaker 7: I didn't know him. I never heard of him.
- 12:17Speaker 6: I had no way to know that my name had
- 12:20Speaker 6: made it down there, that they were getting smeared. I
- 12:22Speaker 6: didn't know anything was happening at all. But no, I
- 12:26Speaker 6: didn't know those folks.
- 12:28Speaker 7: I didn't have any idea at all until they started
- 12:32Speaker 7: coming Airway.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Could these two moms be buried alive? Could that have
- 12:51Speaker 2: happened in Jilly and Kelly and Veronica Butler ambushed on
- 12:56Speaker 2: the side of a rural road, diverted and then murdered?
- 13:01Speaker 1: Or were they murdered there?
- 13:03Speaker 2: Were they murdered right there where their car was found abandoned,
- 13:08Speaker 2: Huge pools of blood outside the car along with one
- 13:12Speaker 2: of the mom's glasses near a broken hammer with me
- 13:18Speaker 2: and all Star panel to make sense of what we
- 13:21Speaker 2: know right now.
- 13:22Speaker 1: But first I'm going to go out to Lauren Conlin.
- 13:25Speaker 2: Could you explain again where is the hole where the
- 13:30Speaker 2: moms were found at the bottom covered? It had to
- 13:32Speaker 2: be close to a ton of dirt cement chunks and
- 13:37Speaker 2: then smoothed over with Hay on top where exactly was
- 13:40Speaker 2: that as it relates back to the abandoned vehicle.
- 13:43Speaker 4: So it was about eight and a half miles away
- 13:45Speaker 4: from where the abandoned vehicle was found. And Tad Cullum
- 13:50Speaker 4: had rented this pasture. So he had rented a skin
- 13:54Speaker 4: steer and he dug, as you mentioned, about ten feet
- 13:58Speaker 4: underground and then covered it with hay and with cement
- 14:03Speaker 4: chunks and again disturbed soil. And so he had rented
- 14:07Speaker 4: this skid steer and the person who owned the property
- 14:11Speaker 4: noticed that it was gone on the morning of the thirtieth,
- 14:14Speaker 4: but there were skid steer tracks and listen people after
- 14:20Speaker 4: the women disappeared, people that had asked Tad, they had asked,
- 14:25Speaker 4: you know, others, hey, did you have this any involvement
- 14:28Speaker 4: in this? And Tad got nervous and he actually said
- 14:31Speaker 4: to the property owner, look, will you just say that
- 14:34Speaker 4: I did some work here because it looks weird that
- 14:36Speaker 4: the skid steer is gone. And the property owner said, yes,
- 14:39Speaker 4: I will no problem.
- 14:41Speaker 2: Joining me is doctor Kendall, Crown's chief medical Examiner Terrance County,
- 14:46Speaker 2: that's Fort Worth and lecturer at the Burnette School of
- 14:50Speaker 2: Medicine TCU.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Doctor crowns, thank you for being with us.
- 14:54Speaker 2: I don't know yet whether the moms were shot dead
- 14:58Speaker 2: and exanguinated blood out based on the huge amount of
- 15:02Speaker 2: blood found at their abandoned vehicle. The mom's vehicle and
- 15:06Speaker 2: the window is either shot out or beaten out on
- 15:10Speaker 2: the driver's side, but that amount of blood may signify
- 15:16Speaker 2: they blood to death right there.
- 15:18Speaker 1: If not, how can we.
- 15:21Speaker 2: Tell if the moms were still alive when they were
- 15:25Speaker 2: buried at the bottom of that ten foot hole.
- 15:27Speaker 9: There's a couple of ways. That's if they're still alive,
- 15:29Speaker 9: they could inhale the dirt and then have dirt in
- 15:32Speaker 9: their mouth and in their nasal passages. Also, if they
- 15:37Speaker 9: inhale it deeply enough, it'll be in like their mainstem bronchi,
- 15:40Speaker 9: which is the large bronchi taking air to your lungs.
- 15:44Speaker 9: Another way is if they're beaten in the head and
- 15:47Speaker 9: their sinus passage is also struck with the skull, the
- 15:51Speaker 9: hemorrhage will then leak into the mouth and nose, and
- 15:54Speaker 9: then they will inhale blood and you'll see a pattern
- 15:57Speaker 9: of blood in the lung It's called leopard spotting and
- 16:02Speaker 9: the lungs and that way, you know that they've aspirated
- 16:05Speaker 9: the blood because they were still alive in breathing.
- 16:08Speaker 2: Doctor Crown's joining us from the medical Examiner's office. Doctor Crowns,
- 16:13Speaker 2: you got me drinking from the fire hydrogen. There's just
- 16:15Speaker 2: too much, too fast. So doctor Crowns again, you mentioned
- 16:20Speaker 2: something about if they were bludding in the head, dirt
- 16:23Speaker 2: could leak into their nasal passages.
- 16:26Speaker 1: You just started at the beginning.
- 16:27Speaker 2: How can I tell if I went before a journy
- 16:31Speaker 2: in plain words, I don't have to be a medical doctor,
- 16:35Speaker 2: which I'm not to understand. How can I tell if
- 16:39Speaker 2: these moms were alive, even if I'm conscious, if they
- 16:44Speaker 2: were alive when they were buried under all that dirt
- 16:48Speaker 2: cement chunks in hay, So if.
- 16:50Speaker 9: They're still breathing when they're covered in dirt, you'll you'll
- 16:53Speaker 9: inhanal the dirt into your lungs, so you'll see dirt
- 16:57Speaker 9: in the nose, you'll see dirt in the mouth and
- 17:00Speaker 9: as well in the passages that take air to your lungs,
- 17:03Speaker 9: the bronchi. Also, when head trauma, if they're hitting the
- 17:08Speaker 9: head or shot in the head, the nasal sinus which
- 17:11Speaker 9: is kind of right in this area, or the maxillary sinus,
- 17:14Speaker 9: nasal passages right through here are compromised. Hemorrhage goes into there,
- 17:19Speaker 9: and then blood comes into the airways, and then you
- 17:22Speaker 9: are inhaling the blood and you get heemo aspiration, which
- 17:26Speaker 9: is inhaling the blood, causing this geographic pattern of blood
- 17:31Speaker 9: in the lungs which is known as leopard spotting.
- 17:35Speaker 2: Now, if they have leffer spotting or hemo aspiration where
- 17:39Speaker 2: you actually breathe in blood and it makes its way
- 17:44Speaker 2: down to your lungs, I don't understand how that blood
- 17:49Speaker 2: in the lungs would.
- 17:50Speaker 1: Prove to a jury that they were buried alive.
- 17:52Speaker 2: They could get blood to the lungs right out there
- 17:55Speaker 2: on the highway where they were bludgeoned, we now believe
- 17:58Speaker 2: with a hammer.
- 17:59Speaker 1: How do I know if they were buried alive with that.
- 18:03Speaker 2: Hemorrhage you're talking about, which I to me means blood hemorrhage, bruise, blood,
- 18:10Speaker 2: blood to the head, bleeding down. And I'm extrapolating that
- 18:16Speaker 2: if they were buried alive, dirt would get into that
- 18:20Speaker 2: blood somehow, they would aspirate it and it would go
- 18:23Speaker 2: down with the blood and create the leopard spotting, which
- 18:27Speaker 2: is blood in the.
- 18:28Speaker 9: Lungs, so the leopard spotting would be survival after the
- 18:31Speaker 9: head trauma, and then if you're buried alive, the dirt
- 18:35Speaker 9: in the airways is what you see with individuals that
- 18:37Speaker 9: are buried alive.
- 18:38Speaker 10: So it's kind of twofold.
- 18:39Speaker 9: You have the hemo aspiration or leopard spotting, blood in
- 18:43Speaker 9: the lungs from them surviving the initial head trauma, and
- 18:47Speaker 9: then dirt in the airways from them being buried alive.
- 18:51Speaker 2: Doctor Kendall Crowns, I don't know how to verbalize in
- 18:55Speaker 2: medical speak, but in order to see or look for,
- 19:00Speaker 2: whether you see it or find it or not, all
- 19:02Speaker 2: of that. When I see autopsy photos or when I've
- 19:05Speaker 2: attended autopsies, there is the giant the cut from the
- 19:10Speaker 2: shoulders to the chest and then it turns into a
- 19:13Speaker 2: y where you cut down the stomach in the center
- 19:16Speaker 2: and you physically open the body.
- 19:19Speaker 1: Is that correct?
- 19:20Speaker 7: Yes?
- 19:21Speaker 2: Okay, So how do you see if there's dirt in
- 19:25Speaker 2: the bronchio nasal area that does not require additional cutting?
- 19:32Speaker 1: Does it? You can just go like an E and
- 19:34Speaker 1: T and look correct.
- 19:36Speaker 9: Unlike an ent, we have the benefit of we can
- 19:38Speaker 9: remove the next structures and then see the tongue itself
- 19:43Speaker 9: outside of the mouth. Also, we can push the mouth
- 19:46Speaker 9: open and look in the roof of the mouth. You
- 19:49Speaker 9: can insert a nasal swab into the nasal airways and
- 19:52Speaker 9: pull that out, which will show dirt.
- 19:55Speaker 10: And then of.
- 19:55Speaker 9: Course removal of the brain, making an ear to ear
- 19:59Speaker 9: incision the scalp forward and backwards.
- 20:02Speaker 10: Cutting the top of the skull off.
- 20:03Speaker 9: Taking the brain out gives us access to the nasal
- 20:07Speaker 9: passages of sinuses because we can cut into the base
- 20:11Speaker 9: of the skull with a saw in c into those
- 20:13Speaker 9: as well.
- 20:14Speaker 2: So to Tom Smith joining me, former NYPD detective co
- 20:18Speaker 2: host of gold Shields podcast, Tom, how long do you
- 20:24Speaker 2: think you and I have both dealt with buried bodies?
- 20:27Speaker 1: Right? How long do you think it took them to
- 20:30Speaker 1: dig a hole ten.
- 20:33Speaker 10: Feet d Probably a couple of days.
- 20:37Speaker 11: And that goes to what you said at the beginning
- 20:40Speaker 11: to show the premeditation of it. This was very well
- 20:42Speaker 11: planned when where how all was planned out way beforehand.
- 20:48Speaker 11: They knew where they were going to hit them, they
- 20:50Speaker 11: knew what was going to take place at that scene.
- 20:52Speaker 11: And then getting them back to that hole that was
- 20:55Speaker 11: dug probably days beforehand, to utilize it in the getting
- 21:01Speaker 11: rid of their bodies.
- 21:02Speaker 1: You know, Tom Smith, and I asked you.
- 21:03Speaker 2: I did not anticipate your answer as being a couple
- 21:06Speaker 2: of days, But now that I think about it, you're right.
- 21:08Speaker 1: Now. We do know that one.
- 21:10Speaker 2: Of the purps, alleged perps may have used a skid steer,
- 21:14Speaker 2: which is like a tractor, which aided it.
- 21:16Speaker 1: But you're so right.
- 21:18Speaker 2: Garrett Oates is joining me high profile lawyer in this jurisdiction.
- 21:23Speaker 1: He is.
- 21:25Speaker 2: Was Veronica Butler's lawyer during her custody battle over these children.
- 21:35Speaker 2: Garrett Oates, I don't know if this makes you consider
- 21:37Speaker 2: another line of business that handling divorce and custody could
- 21:42Speaker 2: end up in a ten foot deep hole with two mothers,
- 21:48Speaker 2: young mothers thrown down in. They're like a sack of hay,
- 21:52Speaker 2: like a sack of potatoes, to the bottom of a
- 21:56Speaker 2: ten foot hole and in with dirt cement chunks. And hey,
- 22:05Speaker 2: what do you think did you ever imagine all the
- 22:08Speaker 2: time you've spend in law school, all the time you've
- 22:10Speaker 2: been in the courtroom, all the legal research, the arguments
- 22:13Speaker 2: you've made, that you would end up connected to a
- 22:17Speaker 2: case where two mothers.
- 22:18Speaker 1: May very well have been buried alive.
- 22:20Speaker 12: Well, you never plan on that, Nancy, Certainly, whether you're
- 22:24Speaker 12: in law school, you're prepping a case up for trial,
- 22:27Speaker 12: or anything like that, never plan on something like this happening. However,
- 22:31Speaker 12: there are situations in family law, certainly where either side
- 22:36Speaker 12: of the aisle is capable of doing pretty heteous things
- 22:40Speaker 12: as was done in this case. And so, yeah, you
- 22:44Speaker 12: don't plan on that, but is it possible? And are
- 22:46Speaker 12: people capable of pretty crazy things? Absolutely?
- 22:50Speaker 2: There's very little that I love more than digital footprints
- 22:57Speaker 2: in a criminal case.
- 22:58Speaker 1: Arguably I love blood evidence more.
- 23:01Speaker 2: But that said, I'm sure you've read the affidavit, Garrett
- 23:05Speaker 2: Oates with your usual attention to detail. If you towards
- 23:10Speaker 2: the end of the affidavit really parse the words and
- 23:15Speaker 2: really read it critically.
- 23:18Speaker 1: We find that the.
- 23:22Speaker 2: Cell phones the burners that Tiffany Adams grandma, the.
- 23:26Speaker 1: So called killer Granny, bought at a.
- 23:29Speaker 2: Gun store, two of them are in one spot, one
- 23:34Speaker 2: of them is at another spot.
- 23:36Speaker 1: What are the two spots.
- 23:38Speaker 2: At the abandoned vehicle, the mom's car, while the other
- 23:43Speaker 2: pings are at.
- 23:46Speaker 1: The disposal site the ten foot hole.
- 23:49Speaker 2: So somebody's down there waiting for the purpose to show
- 23:54Speaker 2: up with the two dead moms, with the whole doug
- 23:58Speaker 2: like a grave digger outside the local Methodist church, waiting
- 24:02Speaker 2: for everybody to come out. And the others are up
- 24:06Speaker 2: there at the vehicle where things quote didn't go as planned.
- 24:11Speaker 1: Those are the words that the.
- 24:13Speaker 2: Defendants said to a sixteen year old little girl. Well,
- 24:17Speaker 2: it didn't go as planned. It makes it sound like
- 24:20Speaker 2: it's a church choir special. Didn't go exactly.
- 24:23Speaker 1: How we plan it, but it came out all right.
- 24:26Speaker 1: So the grave digger is down there at the whole.
- 24:29Speaker 2: Waiting for these two young moms to be brought one
- 24:34Speaker 2: in a flatbed want to pick up down there to
- 24:38Speaker 2: be thrown unceremoniously to the.
- 24:41Speaker 1: Bottom of a whole. How do I know.
- 24:44Speaker 2: That because the affidavit tells me the burner phones were
- 24:47Speaker 2: into two locations simultaneously.
- 24:50Speaker 12: Way in the affidavit is certainly very enlightening and has
- 24:55Speaker 12: a lot of in depth information included in it. I'm
- 24:58Speaker 12: almost surprised how much information is actually included in it,
- 25:03Speaker 12: but I'm glad and it certainly shows the thoroughness of
- 25:06Speaker 12: law enforcement on this case and the investigators the joint
- 25:10Speaker 12: effort that was put into ensuring that when arrests were made,
- 25:14Speaker 12: that these defendants were not going to be able to
- 25:17Speaker 12: just easily get out of this.
- 25:20Speaker 1: You know, Garrett Oaks, I agree with you. I agree
- 25:23Speaker 1: with you. I was also surprised at the amount of
- 25:25Speaker 1: detail in the affidavit.
- 25:26Speaker 2: Why because why reveal all of your cards up front?
- 25:31Speaker 2: All I need is a judge or a magistrate is
- 25:34Speaker 2: enough to issue that warrant. But they gave me a
- 25:37Speaker 2: plethora of information and I am learning a lot. Hey, Garrett,
- 25:41Speaker 2: you represented Garrett Oates, joining us everybody of Veronica Butler's
- 25:44Speaker 2: lawyer during her life in a very hard fought custody battle.
- 25:48Speaker 1: Garrett Oates, tell.
- 25:49Speaker 2: Me what that battle was like for mommy Veronica Butler.
- 25:55Speaker 12: That custody case has been going on since twenty nineteen,
- 25:59Speaker 12: and I was on the hired on in.
- 26:01Speaker 10: September of twenty twenty three.
- 26:03Speaker 12: However, Veronica, when I filed my first motion in the case,
- 26:07Speaker 12: it was to ensure that she was getting any amount
- 26:10Speaker 12: of visitation with her children again, which she had been
- 26:13Speaker 12: deprived of since July.
- 26:15Speaker 8: Of twenty three.
- 26:15Speaker 7: And that's all in public record filings.
- 26:18Speaker 12: When we had our first hearing in November of twenty three,
- 26:21Speaker 12: Veronica was granted supervised visitation with her children on an
- 26:26Speaker 12: every Saturday basis, which was the pre existing order. It
- 26:29Speaker 12: was just not being allowed. She was being deprived of
- 26:32Speaker 12: that time with her children.
- 26:33Speaker 2: Wait a minute, right there, What do you mean she
- 26:36Speaker 2: had visitation but it quote wasn't allowed by who?
- 26:40Speaker 10: Correct?
- 26:41Speaker 12: She had an order in existence since December of twenty
- 26:44Speaker 12: twenty two that granted her every Saturday visitation with her children. However,
- 26:49Speaker 12: that was not being allowed by Miss Adams, Miss Tiffany Adams.
- 26:53Speaker 2: So was Tiffany Adams the granny now accused, the mother
- 26:57Speaker 2: in law accused of.
- 27:00Speaker 1: Your client Veronica. Is that correct?
- 27:03Speaker 12: That's who was not allowing the visitation between Veronica and
- 27:07Speaker 12: her children.
- 27:08Speaker 2: Yes, I got another question for you, Garrett. Isn't it
- 27:11Speaker 2: true that the so called killer granny mother in law
- 27:16Speaker 2: Tiffany Adams also would very often refused to let her
- 27:22Speaker 2: own biological son see the children.
- 27:26Speaker 12: That is accurate, and there was statements made on social
- 27:29Speaker 12: media by her own son, and in his own.
- 27:33Speaker 7: Words he.
- 27:35Speaker 12: Attested that his mother was withholding his own children from
- 27:39Speaker 12: him as well.
- 27:40Speaker 5: Associate District Judge Clerk Jet entered not guilty please on
- 27:43Speaker 5: the behalves of Adam's column Cora and Cole Twombly. Judge
- 27:47Speaker 5: Jet also assigned pro bono attorneys for each of the
- 27:50Speaker 5: four defendants and denied bail. According to the police affidavit,
- 27:54Speaker 5: the four suspects had quote resources sufficient to organize and
- 27:57Speaker 5: execute a complex murder, and therefore they all also had
- 28:00Speaker 5: their resources to flee if given the opportunity. The police
- 28:03Speaker 5: documents also say Adams and Culum owned numerous firearms, and
- 28:07Speaker 5: Culum had a rifle, ammunition, body armor, and a go
- 28:10Speaker 5: bag prepared at his home. Besides the multiple pools of
- 28:13Speaker 5: blood near the Kansas Moms, OSBI, FBI and Texas County
- 28:17Speaker 5: Sheriff's Department, officers find Butler's glasses on the ground near
- 28:21Speaker 5: a broken hammer. Jillian Kelly's purse is also found. Inside
- 28:25Speaker 5: the purse a gun magazine but no weapon. Police say
- 28:28Speaker 5: the victims were forced into another vehicle. Both the women's
- 28:31Speaker 5: phone stopped sending signals at nine forty two am and
- 28:34Speaker 5: have not been recovered. We now learn that all three
- 28:37Speaker 5: Burner phones bought by Tiffany Adams pined at Butler's car
- 28:40Speaker 5: at the time of the attack. Two of the three
- 28:42Speaker 5: phones pained at the ten foot deep hole. The bodies
- 28:45Speaker 5: covered with dirt cement chunks and covered with hay.
- 28:48Speaker 1: The women covered with dirt cement chucks and hey.
- 28:53Speaker 2: Back to Tom Smith, former NYPDN Coast of Gold Seals podcast,
- 28:58Speaker 2: thinking about the time and energy it took to skid
- 29:02Speaker 2: steer that hole.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Have you ever driven a tractor? I have you ever
- 29:06Speaker 1: done that?
- 29:07Speaker 10: Yes?
- 29:08Speaker 8: I have?
- 29:08Speaker 2: Well, for me anyway, it wasn't easy. I guess for
- 29:12Speaker 2: someone more experienced it is easy. But I'm just thinking
- 29:16Speaker 2: about with every dig and throw them back the dirt.
- 29:23Speaker 2: He's got time to think about murdering these two unarmed moms.
- 29:32Speaker 2: How dear he borrow a skids deer go out to
- 29:37Speaker 2: this land and dig a hole, knowing that two moms
- 29:41Speaker 2: would be thrown to the bottom of it.
- 29:43Speaker 1: Tom Smith, have you ever seen anything like it?
- 29:45Speaker 11: Well, it's definitely unique when you actually have so many
- 29:49Speaker 11: people involved as well. You know a lot of times
- 29:51Speaker 11: when holes are dug it's a one on one situation
- 29:54Speaker 11: or maybe two people. This group of people having this
- 29:58Speaker 11: really diabolical, waid out plan is disturbing, and like you said,
- 30:04Speaker 11: the hours, many hours.
- 30:06Speaker 10: And maybe a day or so.
- 30:07Speaker 11: Like I said before, to dig it gives you time
- 30:10Speaker 11: to think, and obviously he did not care about that.
- 30:13Speaker 10: They were hell bent on.
- 30:15Speaker 11: Taking this to this level and putting those bodies in
- 30:19Speaker 11: that hole.
- 30:26Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 30:32Speaker 2: Joining me right now, special guest Rachel Bernstein. She is
- 30:37Speaker 2: a cult expert and therapist host of.
- 30:42Speaker 1: The Indoctrination podcast.
- 30:46Speaker 2: You know, Rachel person, I've got so many questions to
- 30:49Speaker 2: ask you, but I just recently investigated and covered a
- 30:54Speaker 2: very high profile cult related case. I'm sure you're familiar
- 30:59Speaker 2: with cult. My Laurie Valo, take a listen to this, Rachel.
- 31:04Speaker 5: After meeting Chad day Bell Coltman, Laurie Valo became obsessed
- 31:07Speaker 5: with doomsday. In preparing for the end of the world,
- 31:11Speaker 5: Valo had drained her bank account and now believed she
- 31:13Speaker 5: was a resurrected being a goddess chosen to lead the
- 31:16Speaker 5: one hundred and forty four thousand alongside Chad da Bell
- 31:19Speaker 5: the prophet. Vallo believed she was married to day Bell
- 31:22Speaker 5: in the past and that she knows when the Second
- 31:24Speaker 5: Coming is happening. Fallow also believed that spirits or zombies
- 31:28Speaker 5: were ranked by a system of light and dark. Her
- 31:31Speaker 5: children were dark spirits, and the only way to get
- 31:33Speaker 5: rid of a dark spirit was to kill the human body.
- 31:36Speaker 5: It was in Vallo believed husband Charles Valow had been
- 31:39Speaker 5: taken over by a dark spirit named Nick Schneider. Charles
- 31:42Speaker 5: Valo was shot and killed by Laurie Valo's brother Alex.
- 31:46Speaker 2: Same thing, Rachel Burnstain, same thing. Under the cloak of
- 31:53Speaker 2: religion and doing God's will, two innocent people debt and
- 31:58Speaker 2: in that case with Colt Momlory Valo, may she wrot
- 32:02Speaker 2: in hell. She orchestrated the murders of her own children.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Little jj as.
- 32:10Speaker 2: I recall, seven or eight years old with the learning disability,
- 32:14Speaker 2: had no idea what was about to happen. And then
- 32:18Speaker 2: her daughter's sixteen year old Tylely. All that was left
- 32:22Speaker 2: of Tyley, and it pains me to say this, by
- 32:25Speaker 2: learned in front of jury's You have to just say
- 32:28Speaker 2: it and get it out. All that was left of
- 32:31Speaker 2: Tyley was a bucket of human flesh and fat burned.
- 32:37Speaker 2: That's all that was left of this beautiful girl. Why
- 32:41Speaker 2: because they were zombies? Because Coleman. Lourie Vali was so
- 32:45Speaker 2: enthralled with her new husband what was it, Jackie husband
- 32:48Speaker 2: four or five?
- 32:49Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 32:50Speaker 2: The prophib the prophet Chad Dabiel. His wife ends up
- 32:55Speaker 2: dead too. He's on trial for that. But she's so
- 32:59Speaker 2: enamored with jumping in the sack with Chad da Bell
- 33:04Speaker 2: that she thinks it's okay to kill her two children
- 33:09Speaker 2: and was convinced she was quote a goddess chosen to
- 33:13Speaker 2: lead the special one hundred and forty four thousand. Well,
- 33:16Speaker 2: if that's all it's going to happen, I'm just sol
- 33:19Speaker 2: here alongside the prophet, And now we've got two more
- 33:24Speaker 2: people murdered and disposed of like their trash, like a
- 33:30Speaker 2: sack of potatoes. As I said earlier, her, she's gorgeous,
- 33:34Speaker 2: she's full of love. All she wants to do is
- 33:36Speaker 2: be with her children. The other mom was a ride along,
- 33:40Speaker 2: helping out in a visitation. They're dead because of the
- 33:45Speaker 2: so called cult God's Misfits. Now, the founder says, I
- 33:50Speaker 2: have nothing to do with them, but I think all
- 33:53Speaker 2: their meetings.
- 33:55Speaker 1: Just recover for a reason to murder the to moms.
- 34:01Speaker 7: Right, I agree with you.
- 34:02Speaker 8: Whether they're connected to the group that is called God's Misfits.
- 34:08Speaker 8: You know, originally or they started their own. I think
- 34:12Speaker 8: they felt they had permission, they had the need to
- 34:17Speaker 8: protect the world from these people, to protect the grandchildren
- 34:22Speaker 8: from these sinners.
- 34:23Speaker 2: So I understand from our first guest, mister Squirrel, the
- 34:28Speaker 2: genesis of the name God's misfits. But these people banded
- 34:33Speaker 2: together and the same kind of anti government, anti us,
- 34:38Speaker 2: and then they mix in a little of their home
- 34:41Speaker 2: cooked religion. What's your expert analysis of this.
- 34:45Speaker 7: Right, It is home cooked.
- 34:47Speaker 8: It is their own version, and it is something that
- 34:51Speaker 8: I think made them feel very driven to be able
- 34:55Speaker 8: to do something that we find horrific, but that they
- 34:59Speaker 8: found necessary. Groups like this have their own form of morality.
- 35:04Speaker 8: They feel there above the law. And also, if you're
- 35:07Speaker 8: anti government and you think that God talks to you,
- 35:11Speaker 8: then you're going to feel that you have the right
- 35:13Speaker 8: to take matters into your own hands, and you can
- 35:16Speaker 8: hide behind God when you're doing it.
- 35:18Speaker 2: You know, in the law we call that mistake of fact,
- 35:22Speaker 2: Like you bring a truckload of cocaine across the state
- 35:25Speaker 2: lines and you go, oh, my goodness, I thought it
- 35:28Speaker 2: was a.
- 35:28Speaker 1: Truckload of turnips.
- 35:30Speaker 2: Well that's a mistake of fact, and you committed a crime.
- 35:33Speaker 2: These people that think they're saving the earth from what
- 35:36Speaker 2: two unarmed moms are saving the grandchildren.
- 35:39Speaker 1: From the two moms.
- 35:40Speaker 2: I mean they had even had discussions about killing the
- 35:43Speaker 2: judge on this case, that they knew her route to
- 35:47Speaker 2: the courthouse. Really yeah, My question to you is this,
- 35:52Speaker 2: Rachel Bernstein, cult expert and host of Indoctrination Podcast, this
- 35:58Speaker 2: is not, by any stress of the imagination, a legitimate
- 36:02Speaker 2: insanity defense, which means under the old Magnaughton rule brought
- 36:07Speaker 2: over from the UK, that you do not know the
- 36:11Speaker 2: difference between right and wrong at the time of the incident.
- 36:16Speaker 2: If they had not realized that it was right or wrong,
- 36:20Speaker 2: they wouldn't have been so surreptitious, so secretive about.
- 36:23Speaker 7: It, right.
- 36:25Speaker 8: I think it's a very good point. When this happened,
- 36:28Speaker 8: I was really struck by the horrific nature of it,
- 36:31Speaker 8: the heartlessness of it. But it's something I see a
- 36:34Speaker 8: lot where people just don't have compassion for people they
- 36:39Speaker 8: see as less than for people they see as lacking humanity.
- 36:43Speaker 8: If this person, Tiffany Adams, thinks the whole world is
- 36:47Speaker 8: a simulation, you don't have to feel bad for killing
- 36:50Speaker 8: someone within that simulation because you might have convinced yourself
- 36:55Speaker 8: that what you're doing isn't real. I think about the days,
- 36:58Speaker 8: the time she spent with those grandkids, knowing she was
- 37:00Speaker 8: planning their mother's murder, and that she could show herself
- 37:05Speaker 8: to be a compassionate, loving grandmother, all the while having
- 37:09Speaker 8: that on her mind, knowing she's going to be robbing
- 37:11Speaker 8: them of their mother.
- 37:13Speaker 5: The four suspects are being kept in the Oklahoma, Texas
- 37:16Speaker 5: County Jail, but that doesn't mean they will be having contact.
- 37:19Speaker 5: The individuals are being separated in the ninety six bed facility. Currently,
- 37:23Speaker 5: the building houses forty seven inmates, thirty six men and
- 37:26Speaker 5: eleven women in separate sections for each gender. According to
- 37:30Speaker 5: the sheriff, Tad Cullum and Cole Twombly are intentionally held
- 37:33Speaker 5: on opposite sides of the men section, separated by four pods.
- 37:37Speaker 5: The women, Adams and Cora Twombly are also separated by pods,
- 37:41Speaker 5: ensuring no contact.
- 37:42Speaker 2: Tom Smith joining me, former NYPD co host Girlshields podcast, Tom,
- 37:47Speaker 2: They're going to great pains to make sure that these
- 37:51Speaker 2: defendants are not close to each other and are not
- 37:54Speaker 2: having contact.
- 37:55Speaker 1: That is significant.
- 37:58Speaker 11: Why, Well, it's very significant because you want to keep
- 38:00Speaker 11: each story separate, and down the line, you want to
- 38:04Speaker 11: see which one you're going to use to roll on
- 38:06Speaker 11: somebody else. So you want to keep the integrity of
- 38:09Speaker 11: each interview on its own, so you can put it
- 38:13Speaker 11: together and come up with Marvus's substantial case and use
- 38:18Speaker 11: really rock solid.
- 38:19Speaker 10: Evidence and statements from each of them.
- 38:21Speaker 2: Okay, Tom Smith, I agree and disagree, But I look
- 38:26Speaker 2: at it like this. I don't want one of them
- 38:29Speaker 2: to roll over. I want them to all go down
- 38:33Speaker 2: for the maximum sentence, be it life without the possibility
- 38:36Speaker 2: of parole, or the death penalty that will be up
- 38:39Speaker 2: to a jury. So I don't want to go to
- 38:42Speaker 2: hell to get the witness to put the devil in jail.
- 38:44Speaker 2: I want them all to go down equally in the
- 38:47Speaker 2: murder of these two moms.
- 38:49Speaker 1: But the other part I agree with.
- 38:51Speaker 2: I mean, think about it, Tom, Look what they've already
- 38:53Speaker 2: done when they get together and scheme, they've planned and
- 38:57Speaker 2: executed a double murder.
- 38:59Speaker 10: Yeah, it's horrible. I didn't mean to give them a deal.
- 39:01Speaker 11: What I just meant by that was let them talk
- 39:04Speaker 11: and gather more information on the event that happened and
- 39:07Speaker 11: the crime that happened, not to necessarily give them a deal,
- 39:10Speaker 11: but to make sure they give proper statements and good statements,
- 39:14Speaker 11: either implicating each other or who was more involved than
- 39:18Speaker 11: somebody else, Not to give them a deal. What's the workers.
- 39:21Speaker 11: I am on the same page as you. They show
- 39:23Speaker 11: a rod for what they did to these two poor women.
- 39:26Speaker 2: And think about the children left behind, left behind without
- 39:30Speaker 2: a mom. Guys, as we wait for justice too unfold
- 39:35Speaker 2: and the murders of the two Kansas moms, we stop
- 39:38Speaker 2: and remember an American hero, Sergeant Thomas A. Sanfratello. Sergeant
- 39:44Speaker 2: san Fertello passes away in the line of duty, awarded
- 39:48Speaker 2: the Deputy of the Year twice, loved serving as New
- 39:51Speaker 2: York community and spending time with his three children, leaving
- 39:57Speaker 2: behind a significant other Cole and children, Kyla, Alexis and
- 40:04Speaker 2: Ian American hero Sergeant Thomas A.
- 40:08Speaker 1: San Frantillo.
- 40:09Speaker 2: I want to thank all the guests for being with
- 40:11Speaker 2: us tonight, but a special thanks to you for being
- 40:14Speaker 2: with us tonight and every night.
- 40:17Speaker 1: Nancy Gray signing off, good night,