Jilian Delores Kelley, a 39-year-old woman from Hugoton, Kansas, was killed on March 30, 2024, near Eva, Oklahoma. She and a friend, 27-year-old Veronica Butler, were traveling to pick up Butler’s children for a birthday party but never arrived. Their vehicle was found abandoned in a rural area of Texas County, Oklahoma, near the Kansas border, and the scene around the car showed signs of a violent struggle with severe injury and blood on the road.

An extensive search led to the discovery of both women’s bodies buried inside a chest freezer on a rural Texas County property on April 14, 2024. The autopsy report for Kelley found numerous sharp force injuries, defensive wounds on her hands, and a rapidly fatal spinal cord injury. Investigators arrested five people in connection with the case — Tifany Machel Adams, Tad Bert Cullum, Cole Earl Twombly, Cora Twombly, and Paul Grice — each charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Authorities say the killings grew out of a custody dispute and that the suspects had prepared for the crime, allegedly buying stun guns and burner phones.

Did anyone in the Eva or Hugoton area see the vehicle or the women on March 30, 2024?