(Photo : Texas County Sheriff's Office)
Paul Jermiah Grice, 31 faces two counts of first-degree murder and kidnapping and a count of conspiracy to commit murder.
Oklahoma prosecutors have charged a fifth member of an anti-government group called "God's Misfits" in connection of the kidnapping and killing of two Kansas mothers who went missing and were later found dead.
Paul Jermiah Grice, 31 faces two counts of first-degree murder and kidnapping and a count of conspiracy to commit murder.
An affidavit in the case says Grice was interviewed in connection with the case on Tuesday.
(Photo : Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says he admitted to an agent that he took part in the killings of Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, of Hugoton, Kansas and their subsequent burials.
Grice is being held without bond at the Texas County Detention Center
Tifany Adams, 54, and her boyfriend, Tad Cullum, 43, of Keyes, and Cole, 50, and Cora Twombly, 44, of Texhoma, Oklahoma were already under arrest in the case.
(Photo : Oklahoma Bureau of Investigations)
Adams was in a bitter custody dispute with Butler. Bulter had been married to Adam's son.
Prosecutors say Adams helped orchestrate the killings to keep Butler from gaining custody of the children.
Butler and Kelley disappeared on March 30 during a drive from Hugoton, Kansas, to Eva, Oklahoma, to pick up Butler's children from Adams.
The killings were "complex and involved extensive preparation," according to court documents. And they apparently were ready to take out the judge in the custody case, if needed.
The prosecutor claims the members of "Gods Misfits" also said their problem would be taken care of because along with killing Veronica "they knew the path the Judge walked to work."
Prosecutors said the group had also previously had developed a plot to kill Bulter by throwing an anvil through her car windshield.
Butler and Kelley's bodies were discovered in a hay-covered hole on a property rented out by Cullum, two weeks after they mysteriously disappeared.
The judge entered not-guilty pleas on behalf of the initial four defendants and denied them bail.
Police investigators said Adams and Cullum had a history of violent interactions, "including death threats and intimidation against individuals who disagree with their ideas."
An affidavit continued, "They abide by their own philosophy and have no regard for the sanctity of human life."
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