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Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

Kidnapping, Murder, and Conspiracy in Oklahoma | Laura Ingle Part II

Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

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4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

March 30, 2024, Veronica Butler and her friend Julian Kelly were traveling from Kansas to Oklahoma to pick up Veronica's children for a birthday party when they disappeared. Their abandoned car was found 3 miles from the intended meeting spot, on a desolate dirt road a thousand feet off the main highway. Arrests have been made.

Guest Bio and Links:

Laura Ingle is an award-winning veteran broadcast journalist specializing in True Crime. She served as a Senior Correspondent with Fox News Channel for nearly 20 years from August 2005-June 2023 based in New York City. Laura has been covering the disappearance of Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelly. She has been on the ground in Oklahoma, providing firsthand updates and analysis.

Listeners can learn more about Laura on X @lauraingle and IG @lauraingletv

In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum brings Laura Ingle back to give the breaking news of four arrests made in the two women missing in Oaklahoma case. Four arrests have been made, including the grandmother of Butler's children, Tiffany Adams. Tad Bert Cullum, Cole Twombly, and Cora Twombly were also arrested and charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder. Laura discusses the evidence found, the heroic actions of the 16-year old daughter of one of the suspects, along with the heartbreaking realities for the children left without their mothers.

Show Notes:

  • [0:00] Welcome back to Zone 7 with Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum  
  • [0:50] Breaking news of four arrests in the Oaklahoma case
  • [3:00] “When you're looking at means, motive, and opportunity, the biggest motive here are those children.” 
  • [4:00] C.W 16-year-old was key player of giving investigators information 
  • [6:00] Analysis of the affidavit - evidence of tasers, burner phones, and a brutal crime scene
  • [10:00] Revelations of previous murder attempts  
  • [16:00] Details on where the children were during the incident
  • [26:10] “But it's the children who ended up suffering and will suffer now.” 
  • Thanks for listening to another episode! If you’re loving the show and want to help grow the show, please head over to Itunes and leave a rating and review! 

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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Sheryl is also the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases.  

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0:00.0

Y'all, Laura Engel and I, we recorded last week, and now we've got breaking news, so we had to come back together to brief y'all on what has happened out of Oklahoma.

0:22.6

Arrest have been made of four people.

0:26.6

And Laura Engle's going to be here live again to break this all down.

0:31.6

So y'all just hang on.

0:33.6

Part two starts right now.

0:35.6

So, Laura, you have laid it out for us because, again, you have been there in person,

0:41.9

boots on the ground, but now we have got breaking news that they have arrested four people.

0:49.7

Tell us who has been arrested.

0:52.7

Well, we have got a stunning turn of events.

0:56.0

We, you know, we've long been talking about the idea that a family member could have been involved in the disappearance of these two women because of the bitter custody battle.

1:06.6

And in fact, Grandma, the woman that we had been talking about all along is in fact one of the four

1:13.5

that was arrested, Tiffany Adams and her boyfriend Tad and their friends, Cole and Cora Twombly,

1:23.0

who live in the general area of where Tiffany Adams lived.

1:29.0

And we did hear that bodies have been found,

1:33.8

but we are being kept, you know,

1:36.8

there's not a lot of details yet in terms of exactly what happened.

1:42.2

But now the devastating probable cause affidavit lays out some items that

1:50.2

were found near the car of where Veronica Butler, Veronica Butler's SUV that she was driving in

1:58.2

with Jillian Kelly. There are devastating items that we did not know about.

2:03.2

And, you know, the OSBI has been keeping us in the dark, obviously for good reason.

2:07.7

But we're hearing about stun guns.

2:10.3

We're hearing about that Veronica Butler's glasses were found on the side of the road,

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