Authorities claimed remains found in rural Oklahoma were those of two Kansas women reported missing last month.
Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, were identified by the state's chief medical examiner on Tuesday by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
A custody struggle may have killed the ladies, who disappeared on their way to pick up one of the pair's children for a birthday celebration in Oklahoma last month, court filings revealed Monday.
The remains of the Hugoton, Kansas, women were located in Texas County, Oklahoma, where their vehicle was found last month. "It has been a tragedy for everyone involved," Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation director Aungela Spurlock told reporters. "Our condolences go out to the family."
Sunday's OSBI statement on X claimed its agents and Texas County sheriff's deputies found the deaths in a rural area. Saturday, four persons were brought into the Texas County Jail for first-degree murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy to murder. The suspects were charged.
Adams had a "problematic custody battle" with Butler, who had two children with Adams' son, Wrangler Rickman, according to OSBI Special Agent Jason Ott's affidavit.
Ott's statement supporting Adams' arrest stated that Butler and her friend Kelley were on their way for regular Saturday supervised visitation with her children on March 30.
Officials found Butler's automobile in Texas County with traces of a fight. Ott stated that Butler's glasses "were also found in the roadway south of the vehicle, near a broken hammer," and blood stained the ground.
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