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Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. The cause of death for two Kansas

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Speaker 2: moms who went missing in early April has been revealed.

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Speaker 2: Veronica Butler and Gillian Kelly disappeared as the two drove

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Speaker 2: to pick up Butler's children for a birthday party. Butler

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Speaker 2: was locked in a year's long custody battle with her

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Speaker 2: children's father. Jillian Kelly was filling in as a court

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Speaker 2: ordered supervised visit agent when the women missed the party

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Speaker 2: and did not return home as planned. Kelly's past, her husband,

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Speaker 2: and a friend went looking for them. Just three miles

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Speaker 2: from the women's destination in Eva, Oklahoma. The men see

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Speaker 2: law enforcement surrounding Butler's abandoned blue Kia on the side

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Speaker 2: of the road. Here's crimel Lynds Drew Nelson with more.

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Speaker 3: In a court filing, prosecutors have revealed that both Veronica

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Speaker 3: Butler and Jilly and Kelly were stabbed to death. Prosecutors

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Speaker 3: alleged the women were attacked just outside of Butler's car,

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Speaker 3: and their bodies were transported eight and a half miles

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Speaker 3: away to a ten foot deep hole that was dug

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Speaker 3: the day before. There the defended stuffed Butler and Cake

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Speaker 3: Kelly's bodies into a chest freezer along with incriminating evidence,

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Speaker 3: then lowered the freezer to the bottom and refilled the hole.

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Speaker 2: Police reveal the murderers were meticulously planned by five suspects,

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Speaker 2: the ringleader reportedly the paternal grandmother of Veronica Butler's children.

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Speaker 2: Here's the particulars. Tiffany Adams fifty four, Tad Cullum forty three,

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Speaker 2: Cora Twombley forty four, Cole Twomble fifty and Paul Grese

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Speaker 2: thirty one.

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Speaker 3: Prosecutors now allege that Paul Greyse stabbed Butler to death,

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Speaker 3: slicing his hand in the attack, and Tad Cullum stabbed Kelly.

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Speaker 3: Investigators have not revealed if the women were killed at

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Speaker 3: the same time or one after the other, but only

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Speaker 3: one knife was recovered from the burial site. The accessories

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Speaker 3: for that k bar knife found at Tad Cullum's home.

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Speaker 2: Again Drew Nelson, reporting the court filing details the five defendants' roles.

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Speaker 2: Prosecutors claimed Cole and Cora Twombley act as lookouts and

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Speaker 2: block the road, diverting the women to where Tad Cullum

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Speaker 2: and Paul Grese are waiting, Cullum and Gryce stab each

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Speaker 2: of the women to death, then change out of their

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Speaker 2: bloody clothes. The body is weapons and bloody clothes are

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Speaker 2: stuffed in the chest freezer that Gryce transports to the

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Speaker 2: hole Culum dog the day before. Colum then lowers the

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Speaker 2: freezer into the hole and buries the evidence. Custody of

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Speaker 2: the children is thought to be the motive. Here's Crime

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Speaker 2: online Stave Mack.

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Speaker 4: According to court documents, the elaborate plan to kill Veronica

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Speaker 4: Butler and Jillian Kelly began with a simple eye. The

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Speaker 4: day before the murders, Tad Cullum, the boyfriend of grandmother

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Speaker 4: Tiffany Adams, had asked the owner of the property he

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Speaker 4: rented for cattle grazing if he could do some work

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Speaker 4: in the pasture with his kids. Deer picture of heavy

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Speaker 4: duty front and loader with lift arms that can attach

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Speaker 4: to a wide variety of tools for attachments, especially once

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Speaker 4: for digging. Cullum reportedly said he wanted to cut down

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Speaker 4: a tree, remove a stomp, and bury some concrete. What

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Speaker 4: he actually did was dig a ten foot deep hull

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Speaker 4: eight and a half miles from where the group planned

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Speaker 4: to divert the women The intent was that if the

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Speaker 4: hole was discovered, it was explainable. If the landowner was

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Speaker 4: asked about the disturbed dirt and track marks, he could

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Speaker 4: honestly answer that some dirt work had been done and

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Speaker 4: concrete had been buried. The landowner just didn't know there

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Speaker 4: were bodies underneath. News reports also say there was hey

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Speaker 4: placed near and on the digging site to draw Cullum's

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Speaker 4: cattle to the spot to trample the earth, further disguising

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Speaker 4: the dig.

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Speaker 2: For more on this investigation, tune into Crime Stories with

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Speaker 2: Nancy Grace on Doctor Phil's Merritt Street Media six and

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Speaker 2: nine pm Eastern, or follow the Crime Stories with Nancy

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Speaker 2: Gray's podcast on your favorite podcast app. More crime and

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Speaker 2: justice news after this. Now to a missing father who

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Speaker 2: never got to meet his son. Jared Chavez nineteen moves

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Speaker 2: to Houston, Texas after finishing his service with the Air Force.

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Speaker 2: Jared lives with a cousin while taking college courses. Jared's

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Speaker 2: girlfriend is pregnant with their first child. January thirteenth, twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Jared isn't answering calls from his mom, Angela Smith, who

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Speaker 2: he talks to on a daily basis. It wasn't like

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Speaker 2: Jared have to answer because Jared talked to his mama

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Speaker 2: every day. She says, some man you know, some man right,

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Speaker 2: and a Monday's instinct when some are right. Mother nos.

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Speaker 2: Jared's father, Willie Smith, calls some of Jared's friends to

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Speaker 2: try to find a son. Jared's best friend says he

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Speaker 2: didn't come home last night after he, Jared and Jared's

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Speaker 2: cousin went out with an acquaintance, Bolt Swave. Nancy explains

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Speaker 2: what Jared's friend told Smith.

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Speaker 1: Swave picks the men up at a CVS parking lot,

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Speaker 1: where Jared leads his car on the right of the club.

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Speaker 1: Swave gets into an argument with another driver and fire

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Speaker 1: shots out the window. Jared's friend and cousin run from

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Speaker 1: the car, but lose sight of Jared. They assume he'll

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Speaker 1: meet them back at the CVS. When they get there,

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Speaker 1: his car's gone.

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Speaker 2: Willie Smith immediately reports his son missing, feeling like that

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Speaker 2: story doesn't add up. Four days into the search, Jared's

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Speaker 2: missing car is found abandoned a few blocks away. It's

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Speaker 2: unlocked and the inside has been cleaned out. Jared's seat

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Speaker 2: covers are gone, the glove box is empty. And all

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Speaker 2: the surfaces were wiped down. There's been no other clues

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Speaker 2: in Jared's disappearance in the last six years. His family

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Speaker 2: desperate for answers, unsure of what to tell his son,

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Speaker 2: now in the first grade.

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Speaker 4: This Keke will have me questions. I want to get asked.

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Speaker 3: Someone seen you something. If someone knows of this, I'm

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Speaker 3: big I'm right now, I'm bigging and I'm praying. I'm

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Speaker 3: pleaning to y'all. Please.

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Speaker 1: Jared's African American five eight, one hundred and seventy five pounds, short,

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Speaker 1: black hair, brown eyes, wearing a red hoodie, jeans, and

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Speaker 1: orange Lebron James sneakers.

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Speaker 2: If you have information on Jared Chavez, please call Houston

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Speaker 2: PD at eight three two, three nine four one eight

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Speaker 2: seven to two. For the latest crime and justice news.

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