Grandmother killed her grandkids' mom, friend as they were on their way to take the children to a birthday party

An Oklahoma grandma convicted of murdering 2 Kansas moms who were kidnapped from their van portion going to prime up 1 of the victim's kids volition walk the remainder of her beingness down bars.

Tifany Machel Adams, 56, was sentenced to beingness without parole, section CBS affiliate KFDA reported Monday. According to Oklahoma tribunal records, she pleaded nary contention successful October to 2 counts of first-degree execution and different charges successful transportation with the 2024 deaths of Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39.

As Law&Crime previously reported, Butler and Kelley were traveling connected March 30, 2024, from confederate Kansas to prime up Butler's children successful agrarian Oklahoma for a day party, but never made it. Authorities recovered their abandoned car on Highway 95 and Road L successful Texas County, Oklahoma, adjacent the borderline with Kansas. The disappearance was considered suspicious and grounds indicated foul play.

Signs would yet point to a vicious custody quality betwixt Butler — who shared 2 children with Adams' lad — and members of an anti-government conspiracy radical that calls itself "God's Misfits."

Butler had court-ordered visitation with her children each Saturday and Kelley was 1 of the radical selected by the tribunal to supervise the visit. Cops accidental Adams and her co-defendants connected March 30 intercepted Butler and Kelley connected the road and kidnapped them. Authorities searched for much than 2 weeks earlier uncovering the victims' bodies successful agrarian Texas County.

Adams pleaded nary contention to six charges: 2 charges of first-degree murder, 2 charges of unlawful removal of a dormant body, and 2 charges of unlawful desecration of a quality corpse. In exchange, 3 further charges — conspiracy and 2 charges of kid neglect — were dropped, according to tribunal records. In a "no contest" plea, a suspect does not admit guilt, but acknowledges that prosecutors person capable grounds to unafraid a conviction.

Four different people, successful summation to Adams, person been charged successful the women's deaths: Adams' boyfriend, Tad Bert Cullum, Cora Twombly, and Cora Twombly's husband, Cole Earl Twombly, are charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and 1 number of conspiracy to perpetrate murder. A 5th person, 31-year-old Paul Grice, is facing the aforesaid charges.

Family members said Adams, Cullum, and the Twomblys are self-proclaimed members of an anti-government radical called "God's Misfits." They met play astatine each other's houses. Adams was also the Republican Party chair successful Cimarron County successful the acold occidental portion of the Sooner State's panhandle, according to State Sen. Nathan Dahm, who is the president of the Oklahoma State GOP.

Cora Twombly and Paul Grice person idiosyncratic plea agreements successful place, KFDA reported. In December 2025, the 2 gave grounds astir the murders. Grice volition not person the decease punishment successful speech for his testimony, and Twombly indispensable service 30 years successful situation earlier she is eligible for parole, the presumption reported.

Cullum's proceedings is scheduled for Oct. 16. According to KFDA, his attorneys person filed a question declaring the decease punishment unconstitutional and "cruel and antithetic punishment."

Cole Twombly's proceedings is acceptable for February 2027.