Brutal Details Revealed in Alleged 'God's Misfits' Murders as Autopsy Reveals Victims' Final Moments

Two Kansas women who according to authorities were killed by members of a fringe anti-government group over a child custody dispute died brutal deaths, according to a new report. 

Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley were found dead in a freezer in Texas County, Okla., in April, nearly two weeks after they disappeared, with their car abandoned on a road in Oklahoma.

Tifany Adams, 54, her boyfriend Tad Bert Cullum, 43, Cole Twombly, 50, Cora Twombly, 44, and Paul Grice were all arrested and charged with murder in connection with the investigation, police said.

Butler, 27, and Kelley, 39, both died from multiple blunt force trauma, according to the Oklahoma Office of Chief Medical Examiner’s (OCME) summary report released in late October. 

Now, a full medical examiner’s report offers a glimpse into the last moments of the women’s lives. 

Both Butler and Kelley were stabbed multiple times, each sustaining wounds on or near their heads and faces, according to OCME’s reports released on Thursday, Nov. 21. 

During the attack, the women fought to save their lives, sustaining several defensive wounds, per the report. 

Butler’s fingers had been “sliced multiple times” as she tried to defend herself when she tried to grab hold of the knife with her bare hands, the report claims. 

Butler sustained several sharp wounds to her head, torso and legs, per the report. 

Kelley was stabbed in her cheek and had sharp force injuries to her jaw and temple. She was stabbed seven times and had two other sharp force injuries, per the OCME report. 

Owing to a “devastating” injury to her spine, Kelley likely lost the ability to move her body below her head and her ability to breathe on her own, the report stated, adding that her death was “very rapid.” 

Both women displayed signs of stun gun injuries to the back of their necks, but the report did not indicate whether those were from an attempt to subdue the women prior to the attacks. 

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All five suspects charged in the women’s murders were members of an anti-government religious group “God’s Misfits” who all had their individual roles in the killings, prosecutors have previously alleged. (The “God’s Misfits” group has denounced the crime).

The killings allegedly stemmed from a custody dispute between Butler and the paternal grandmother of her children, Adams, according to an affidavit previously cited by the Des Moines Register, FOX 25 and WRHN. 

Plea and attorney information for the suspects wasn’t immediately available.