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AFFIDAVIT FOR SEARCH WARRANT

THE UNDERSIGNED PERSON, BETNG DULY SWORN UPON HIS OATH,

DEPOSES AND STATES AS FOLLOWS:

I am Lieutenant Trevor Ridgeway of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. I have

been a law enforcement officer in the State of Oklahoma for approximately l7 years and served
in the capacity of an investigator for approximately 14 years. I have conducted an investigation
into the matter below regarding the above-named location and from these facts and statements,
report as follows:

That, your Affiant has probable cause to believe there is probable cause for believing that
evidence of the crime of Murder, to-wit:

Including but not limited to computer files, internet or website history, cookies,
cache files, photographs, videos, letters, email, logs of incoming and outgoing
phone calls made to or from this phone, and any evidence of when, where, and to
whom or from whom those calls were made or received, and evidence of
incoming and outgoing text messages and./or multimedia messages sent or
received by the devices and any evidence of when, where, and to whom or from
whom those text or multimedia messages were sent to or received from. All of
the above whether found on magnetic media such as tape, cassette, disk, diskette,
or on memory storage devices such as optical disks or any other medium. And,
items containing or displaying passwords, access codes, usemames, or other
identifiers necessary to examine or operate items, software, or information seized;

will be located within the data of a black iPhone and a white iPhone in the County of Texas,
State of Oklahoma, which were seized from a blue Chevrolet truck, Oklahoma Tag: KJF207. The
phones are currently being held as evidence by OSBI Agents in Texas, County, Oklahoma.

FACTUAL BASIS:

On Saturday, March 30, 2024, the Texas County Sheriff s Ofhce requested Oklahoma
of Investigation (OSBI) investigative services with the suspicious disappearance of
State Bureau
Veronica Butler (27) and Jilian Kelley (39) from rural Texas County after their vehicle was
found abandoned near Highway 95 and Road L South of Elkhart, KS. Butler and Kelley were
traveling to Oklahoma from Hugoton, KS.

Interviews were conducted related to the disappearance and it was discovered that Butler
was in a problematic custody battle with Tifany Adams for the custody of Butler's two children.
The father of those children was Wrangler fuckman, Adams' son. Butler's visitation with her
children was court-ordered to be supervised every Saturday. Adams had a particular person she
preferred to supervise those visitations and that was Cheryl Brune. The court ordered Adams to
pay for Brune to supervise visits if that was who she wanted to be present, otherwise Butler was
to pay for the person to supervise. Adams said Brune was unavailable to supervise the visitation
on March 30,2024, so Butler was required to arrange the supervision with one of her three
approved individuals. Butler contacted Kelley of Hugoton, KS, and planned to have her
supervise the visit.

Butler told family members she was going to pick up her children from Adams at 1000
hours at Four Comers (Intersection oi Highway 95 and US 64 West, a location in Texas County
OK). Butler and Kelley left Hugoton, KS, and traveled to Highway 95 and Road L about 5 miles
north of Four Comers. Butler and Kelley arrived at that location at approximately 0940 hours.
Butler planned to bring her daughter to a birthday pa(y but after they did not arrive, the family
began looking for Butler. Melissa and Joey Padilla, who were Butler's family members, located
Butler's abandoned vehicle just west of the intersection of Highway 95 and Road L. The Padillas
then contacted law enforcemenl at 1209 hours. An examination of the vehicle and the area
surrounding the vehicle found evidence of a severe injury. Btood was lbund on the roadway and
edge of the roadway. Butler's glasses were also found in the roadway south ofthe vehicle, near a
broken hammer. A pistol magazine was found inside Kelley's purse but no pistol was found.

Adams told OSBI that on Friday night (March 29,2024) Rickman and Butler,s children
stayed the night with Banett and Lacy Cook. Adams said she planned to pick them up that
moming before visitation. Adams said she called Butler at 0900 hours to confirm the meeting
and Butler told Adams something came up and she was not going to make it. Butler's phone
records confirmed the call occurred; however, at the time ofthe call, Butler was in Hugoton, KS
in the process of picking Kelley up to go meet Adams. Adams stated she was home at the time
that Butler and Kelley went missing. Adams picked the children up before 1200, from the
Cook's residence.

OSBI interviewed Bmne and she said she was available to supervise the visit that day but
Adams told her to take a couple of weeks off from the visitation so Adams could question the
children related to how Butler's approved visitation supervisors were. Butler and Kelley's phone
records indicated their devices were actively sending signals to their carriers until approximately
0942 hours, after which the devices were no longer seen by the networks and stopped
transmitting. Neither phone was found at the scene or within the vehicle and they are cunently
missing. Adams was the last known person to communicate with Butler and was scheduled to
meet Butler and Kelley for visitation at 1000 hours on March 30.2024.

Through the child custody case, recordings were obtained where Rickman discussed
death threats by Adams and Adams' boyfriend, Tad cullum. The custody battle began in
February of20l9 with many hearings and court appearances. on March lg,2o24,and March 20,
2024, motions were filed requesting extended visitation for Butler. A hearing was scheduled to
occur on April 17, 2024. Butler's attomey informed OSBI that Butler was likely to receive
unsupervised visitation with her children at that hearing. At times Adams refused to let Rickman
have his children, even though Rickman had legal custody of them. Law enforcement previously
responded to a call for service where Adams refused to give Rickman his children. Reportedly
the officer told Rickman he believed the children were better off in Adams' care.

Rickman's grandmother, Debi Knox-Davis, reported that in mid to late February 2024,
Rickman told her they didn't have to worry about the custody battle much longer because Adams
had it under control, that Adams knew the path the judge walked to work, and "we will take out
Veronica at drop off" Rickman was confirmed to be in a rehabilitation facility in Oklahoma
City, OK at the time of the disappearance. The children remain in the custody of Adams.
Rickman denied having told Klox that information.

On April 1,2024, OSBI agents obtained a search warrant for Adams' cellular phone,
OSBI agents performed an extraction on the device. Information gained from the device
included web searches for taser pain levels, gun shops, prepaid cellular phones, and how to get
someone out oftheir house.

On April 3,2024, OSBI interviewed CW (age 16 years). CW is the daughter of Cora

Twombly and Coby White. Cora is married to Cole Twombly. CW stated that she had overheard
group conversations related to Butler not protecting her children from her brother, all in
reference to a sexual abuse allegation. CW advised that she was told by Cora that Adams,
Cullum, Cora, Cole, and Paul Grice were involved in the deaths of Butler and Kelley. She stated
that Adams had provided "bumer" phones to use so they could communicate without using their
personal devices. CW saw two "bumer" phones charging on Cora's nightstand in her bedroom.

CW described Cora, Cole, Adams, Cullum, and Paul Grice as being part of an anti-
govemment group that had a religious affiliation. Through OSBI investigation it was leamed
that they call their group, God's Misfits. Regular meetings are held weekly at Twombly's and the
home of Banett and Lacy Cook.

CW was told on March 29,2024, that Cora and Cole would not be home in the moming
when she woke and were going to be on a "mission". When CW awoke at approximately 1000
hours, Cora and Cole were not home but came home before or around 1200 hours. CW knew that
Cole and Cora took a blue and gray Chevrolet pickup owned by them and a blue flatbed pickup,
owned by Clint Twombly when they left and returned in the same vehicles. Cenzie was told to
clean the interior of the chevrolet pickup. CW asked cora what had happened and was told that
things did not go as planned, but that they would not have to worry about her (Butler) again. CW
asked about Kelley and why she had to die and was told by Cora that she wasn't innocent either,
as she had supported Butler. cw asked cora if their bodies were put in a well, and cora replied,
"Something like that". CW also disclosed that other attempts to kill Butler occuned during
February of 2024, near Hugoton, KS, in which Adams, Cullum, and Cora went to Hugoton, but
Butler did not leave her residence, this is consistent with the web search discovered on Adams'
phone about how to get someone out of their house. CW stated that Cora told her that the plan to
kill Butler in Kansas was to get in front of her while she was driving and to throw an anvil
through her vehicle windshield. The thought was that anvils lall off of work trucks regularly in
the area.
 OSBI investigation showed that Adams purchased three pre-paid cellular phones from
Wal-Mart in Guymon, OK on February 13,2024. The phones were identified by phone numbers
(620) 417-5752, (806) 390-9141 and (806) 390-9085. Search warrants for information related to
location services and phone usage were completed for each device. It was leamed that all three
phones were at the area where Butler's car was located and the last known location of Butler and
Kelley, at the time of their disappearance. After their disappearance, between 1016 and 1035
hours, it was determined that phone numbers (620) 417-5752 and (806) 390-9085 were at a
property owned by Jamie Beasley. below a dam, in the pasture, where fresh dirt work was
located by your affiant. Concrete was moved from a location near Beasley's residence,
approximately 150-200 yards to below the dam, where it was discovered that a hole had been
dug and filled back in. It is believed by your affiant that the moved concrete is in the hole. The
location where Butler and Kelley disappeared from and where Butler's vehicle was located is
approximately 8.5 miles away from the location below the dam on Beasley's property, giving
drive time from the location of where Butler's vehicle was located to Beasley's prope(y, well
within the 34 minutes between the time of Butler/Kelley's phones stopping transmission and pre-
paid phone numbers (620) 417-5752 and (806) 390-9085 arriving at the dam on Beasley's
property. All pre-paid phones stopped transmitting on the moming of March 30, 2024, at
locations near Twombly's residence and Beasley's property.

OSBI investigation showed that Adams had searched for gun shops on her cellular phone.
A search of local gun shops showed Adams buying five stun guns at the Big R store in Guymon,
OK. The purchase was made on March 23 ,2024.

On April 13, 2024, a search warrant was executed at Beasley's property and an
excavation of apossible burial site was commenced. On April 14,2024,the hole was excavated.
The bodies of Butler and Kelley were located. In the hole dug by law enforcement, after the
bodies were removed, personal items were located. These items did not belong to Butler or
Kelley. This information was not released to the public.

When Cora and Cole Twombly were arrested they were driving a blue Chevrolet pickup
with Oklahoma tag #KJF207 . A search warrant was issued for the search of the vehicle and
during that search, the two previously mentioned iPhones were found and seized, and are the
subject ofthis search warrant.

In your affiant's training and experience, it is common for suspects of criminal activities
to continue communications related to their actions and locations of evidence. It is also common
for people to revisit crime scenes and locations of concealed evidence. In this particular
investigation, it is known from cellular communication records that those believed to be involved
communicated via cellular devices. Cellular devices store locations and that information could
lead agents to evidence.

Your affiant wishes to search the cellular devices and review information taken from it
including call detail records, text messages, website history, and cache files that reflect contacts
with those involved as it may provide evidence of the murders.

That your Affiant intends to submit the device for a forensic, scientific or digital analysis.
Your Affiant will provide the court with a retum following the receipt of any evidence obtained
during the search.
 That 22 O.S. $ 1231 states, if the search warrant authorizes a forensic, scientific or digital
analysis of items or samples already in the custody of law enforcement, the search shall be
commenced within a reasonable time and the retum shall be made with in ten (10) days following
the completion of said search.

Wherefore, your affiant prays that a search warrant be issued according to law directed to
any Sheriff, Policeman, or Law Enforcement Officer in Texas County, Oklahoma, commanding
him./her to search the above-described property, including attached storage devices such as SIM
or SD cards.

Subscribed and swom to before me, the undersigned Judge, this 4!ou, of Apnt 2024,
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Recommendation by District Attomey

I recommend that a warrant be issued.

District Atto 's Offi istri One

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SEARCH WARRANT

To any Sherifl Deputy, Peace Officer, Constable, Marshal, Police Officer, Highway
Patrolman, Agent of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Agent of the Oklahoma
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, or other law enforcement officer thereof, in the
County of Texas, State of Oklahoma. Probable cause having been shown this day by the affidavit
and/or oral testimony of Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Affiant, for believing that the
crime of Murder to wit:

Including but not limited to: computer files, internet or website history, cookies,
cache files, photographs, videos, letters, email, logs of incoming and outgoing
phone calls made to or from this phone and any evidence of when, where, and to
whom or from whom those calls were made or received, and evidence of
incoming and outgoing text messages andl/or multimedia messages sent or
received by the devices and any evidence of when, where, and to whom or from
whom those text or multimedia messages were sent to or received from. All of
the above whether found on magnetic media such as tape, cassette, disk, diskette,
or on memory storage devices such as optical disks or any other medium. And,
items containing or displaying passwords, access codes, usernames, or other
identifiers necessary to examine or operate items, software, or information seized;

will be located within the data of a black iPhone and a white iPhone in the County of Texas,
State of Oklahoma, which were seized from a blue Chevrolet truck, Oklahoma Tag: KJF207. The
phones are currently being held as evidence by OSBI Agents in Texas, County, Oklahoma.

That the said property is subject to seizure upon one or more grounds as set forth in
section 1222 of Title22 of the Oklahoma Statutes including but not limited, to wit:

l. Evidence, instruments, fruits of violations of law

THEREFORE, I am presently satisfied that there is probable cause to believe that the
item, so described; is presently located on the above-described person and that the foregoing
grounds for the issuance of this Search Warrant do exist.
 THEREFORE, being presently satisfied that there is probable cause to believe that the
items of evidence so described are presently being concealed in the above-described electronic
device and that grounds for the issuance of this Search Warrant do exist. Further, this search
warrant authorizes a forensic, scientific or digital analysis of items or samples already in the
custody of law enforcement.

YOU ARE FURTHER ORDERED to conduct a search of the device for evidence listed
above and if found, you are to seize the same and to preserve and produce said evidence or items
as required by law.

Dated tnis 4)aday of April 2024, at I /: 4{ am/atr..

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The following described property was seized under this warrant on the 26thday of April2024:
Device I - ,4,68 cB of Extraction Data

Device 2- 3{.'l GB of Extraction Data

I, Lieutenant Trevor Ridgeway, the Officer by whom this warrant was executed on the 26tt of
April, 2024, do swear that the above inventory contains a true account of all property taken by the OSBI
on this warrant.

SUBSCRIBED AND SwoRN To BEFoRE ME rHIS L{o" oe tO4 t ,2024.

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