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Hey everybody. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is drop dead serious. Every so often there is a case that will come across my desk that makes me sit back and take a long deep breath and stare out the window looking for answers. It's not that I'm looking out the window trying to find answers about the case and but more so answers about the people involved in the case. Who they are and how they can commit such heinous and atrocious and cruel crimes and inflict so much suffering on their victims and then just go about their lives as though nothing ever happened. Grandma Tiffany is one of those people. And if you don't recognize that nickname, her case will chill you to the bone. Not because it's mysterious, but because it is monstrous. Grandma Tiffany is a 54 year old Oklahoma grandmother. Her legal name is Tiffany Mashell Adams. That's Michelle, spelled M A C H E L L E. Tiffany. Michelle Adams. But Grandma Tiffany just took her place in the front of an Oklahoma courtroom and copped to one of the most egregious crimes I have ever covered. She effectively threw in the towel and did the legal equivalent of a. You got me. Prosecutors have been building a case against her for months, saying that she was the mastermind of a plan to kidnap and torture and murder the mother of her two grandkids. All because of a child custody dispute that that mom was having with Grandma Tiffany's son. But there were two victims killed in this crime, not just Veronica Butler. Another woman was killed too. A completely innocent woman named Jillian Kelly. Also murdered. And not because Grandma Tiffany had a beef with her. It seems that Grandma Tiffany and her band of co conspirators decided to go scorched earth, killing anybody who got in the way of Grandma's plan to take out Veronica Gillian, as it turns out, was in the way, even though Gillian didn't even know it. And today Grandma Tiffany had to cop to that too. Veronica Butler was just 27 years old. Jill Kelly. Jillian was 39 and a pastor's wife. Not to mention Jill was a mother of four. The two women vanished on March 30, 2024, they had just set out driving from Hugoton, Kansas, and were headed over the state line into Oklahoma to pick up Veronica's kids for a visit. Those kids had been with their grandmother, Tiffany Adams, while their father was in rehab. But what those women did not know was that they were driving straight into a trap. When Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelly failed to show up for that pickup, family members immediately panicked. But here's the thing. They did. They did show up for the pickup. It's just that no one saw what happened at the pickup. And it's just that there weren't any kids at the pickup. They were all adults at the pickup. I'll get to that in just a minute. The planned visit was court sanctioned. And so when hours and hours passed with no sign of either woman, the police launched a search. And just a few miles across the state line in the Oklahoma panhandle, officers found their car. It was abandoned along a sort of dirt road off the highway, and the driver's side door was open. Inside the car, the investigators found the women's phones. And outside the car, the. The investigators found broken glasses and blood that was there on the dirt road. There was definitely a sign of a violent struggle, they said, but there was no sign of the women. The women were gone with no witnesses, no surveillance video, and no ransom demand. So it was really just a troubling mystery. Grandma Tiffany said she never showed up. She just never showed up. Haha. I'll get to that, too. For two long weeks, family and volunteers and police searched back roads. They searched farm fields. They even searched abandoned oil sites. Until finally, detectives made a gruesome discovery, One that ended all hope of finding these two women alive. On April 14, 2024, investigators uncovered a freezer. It was buried 10ft deep in the dirt on a remote piece of farmland in Texas county, Oklahoma. Inside that freezer chest were the decomposing bodies of both women who'd been missing for weeks. Gillian Kelly and Veronica Butler. Autopsy reports later confirmed what the scene was already screaming at the top of its lungs. Both women had been viol murdered. The autopsies showed that Veronica was stabbed nine times and had an additional 21 defensive wounds to her hands. She fought this. She fought this so hard. She fought like hell as she was being murdered out there on that county road. Jillian Kelly. Jillian, completely innocent, there to be a supervisor. The group wrote her off, apparently as, quote, unquote, collateral damage. She was also stabbed nine times, and she had seven shallower cuts as well as defensive wounds that freezer that was traced to a property connected to grandma Tiffany's boyfriend, a man whose full name was Tad Bert Cullum. And once police connected all the dots, the story that unfolded was almost too evil and barbaric to fathom them. And also idiotic. That's the thing. Evil and barbaric, but unbearably stupid. Investigators say this was not some random act of violence out there in the middle of nowhere. It was a premeditated conspiracy involving a small fringe group that called themselves God's misfits. How appropriate. Five people were charged. Tiffany Adams, the grandmother at the center of the custody fight and the alleged mastermind, her boyfriend, Tad Cullum. Cole and Cora Twombly, a married couple with a 15 year old daughter who eventually would tell police a few things that put some pieces together. And Paul Grice, the fifth guy, just dangling there, a family friend. All of them were charged with first degree murder, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder. According to court documents, Tiffany Adams planned the whole thing, starting with the ambush. She bought the burner phones so that they could all plot together and then get rid of those phones. She also bought stun guns, one for each of them, you know, because it was going to be a fight when they grabbed those women out of their car. And there were other supplies, other supplies that were bought that were planned in the days leading up to the women's disappearance and after the killings, those same burner phones were pinging near the burial site. One witness told investigators that Paul Grice, that fifth guy, family friend, even asked how long DNA lasts underground and how to get rid of it. Authorities say Grandma Tiffany's plan was to gather up her co conspirators and murder Veronica Butler. But the plan went sideways when Veronica showed up for that, you know, planned rendezvous to collect her two kids with a court appointed supervisor in the car. A supervisor who, by the way, was ordered to be present. Right. She needed to be there for that. Custodial visit was part of the deal. So, yeah, that was Jillian Kelly's only crime. Jill Kelly was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and she was going to have to die for it because, you know, witness, the pastor's wife and the mother of four, she was a witness, so she had to go. The group did this. When the plan was set in motion for Veronica Butler to drive out to a remote location and do the handoff with the kids, two members of the group diverted their car, right? Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelly's car was diverted off the main road and down a dirt road. And that's where the rest of the group was waiting with weapons and a diabolical plan. They pulled the women from the car using stun guns on them, and then they set to work stabbing them violently and repeatedly until they died. Well, almost died, because some reports said that at least Veronica may have still been alive when she and the body of Jillian Kelly were loaded into a truck and then driven eight miles off to a previously dug grave. Both women's bodies were stuffed into a freezer chest, and the killers then tossed into that chest several tools that were used to commit the crime, like phones and stun guns and bloody clothes. They closed that freezer chest and then threw it 10ft down into that pit, at which point a backhoe then began shoveling dirt back in and covering them up, filling the hole. The grave was dug on farmland that was leased to Grandma Tiffany's boyfriend, Tad Cullum. He's also charged as one of the conspirators. And the guy who owns the land, the landlord, said that, yeah, they. They came to me and they asked if they could do some tree removal, you know, that they were going to have some heavy equipment. And I said, sure, fine. He didn't know. And so he saw the backhoe going. A lot of it happened at night. There's a flag. But here's something else that happened in the days after this awful, awful scene, this horrifying murder of these two women. Grandma Tiffany still had the kids, right? Grandma Tiffany went on as though life were just normal. Nothing to see here, nothing unusual. She had the kids out and about town doing her errands. And surveillance video caught her at a drugstore as she was checking out, getting her groceries. And what broke my heart watching this video was how innocent those kids looked. We've blurred their faces for obvious reasons, but I've seen it, and I've seen their faces. They were laughing and joking with each other, you know, as kids do, like siblings will needle each other and try to get under each other's skin. That's what was going on as Grandma Tiffany was buying whatever the fuck she was buying in there. Those little kids had no idea. They had no idea that their mother was decomposing, jammed into a freezer chest with another woman 10ft underground. And I could only wonder at that moment, what did Grandma tell them? Why was mom not around? Why didn't they get their visit with Mom? Those poor kids having fun at the drugstore behind their evil grandmother with no idea what had just happened in the one or two days before. Prosecutors say the motive on this One was horrifyingly simple. That it was control. Veronica Butler, the mum of those kids, was fighting to regain custody of those two young children from their drug addicted father who was in rehab. A family court had allowed supervised visits for Veronica. And Grandma Tiffany couldn't stand it. In affidavits, Grandma Tiffany allegedly confessed that she, quote, took matters into her own hands because she didn't want Veronica near those kids. And now fast forward to this month, October 2025. Tiffany Adams is standing before a judge and pleading no contest to the murders of Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelly. She also pleaded no contest to kidnapping and conspiracy. But what Grandma Tiffany did not do when she stood up in that courtroom before the judge, she did not plead guilty. Grandma Tiffany did not admit any guilt was just no contest. You've heard of that before, I know you have. It just means, okay, you got me. I can't fight this one. You got me. That's all this is. This isn't. I'm sorry. I can't believe what I've done. Please have mercy on me. I am sorry to Veronica Butler's family. I am sorry to Jillian Kelly's family for the horrors that I inflicted on their, Their. Their loved ones and for the suffering that they will have for the rest of their lives knowing it and being without these women. I am sorry. Please take mercy and pity on me. No, she didn't do that. This horrifying said no contest. You got me. Gig is up, right? And as part of this plea deal that the prosecutors offered, and I still want to know why. Why'd they even offer a deal, right? Why you had her dead to rights. Okay, I get it. There's all sorts of reasons you offer a plea deal. You don't want to, you know, you don't want that 15 year old daughter of the Twomblies to have to testify to all this five times for all these conspiracies, right? You don't want her to have to testify against her parents and have to come into court for all these death penalty cases. I get that. I get it. But these are five of the most evil people that ever roamed this earth, right? So sometimes that awful necessity is a necessity that a child does have to testify. But okay, let's just say that they wanted to spare, that they had her without that kid. They even had her. The evidence that they had on grandma Tiffany was so strong. Even if they said to the 15 year old kid, you know, it's okay, you don't have to testify, they had her. So now let's Just say you're offering her a deal. Why are you offering her a deal where all she has to say is, okay, you got me. No contest. Why are you not offering a deal where she has to say, just like Coburger did, I did it. I am guilty of all of these things. I did it. I conspired. I masterminded this. I brought all those others in. I did this thing. That's not what they offered. At least that's not what they agreed on. I don't know if they ever offered it. And she said no and only said, I'll only do. No contest. But she's not holding the cards like this is what's driving me crazy. As part of the deal, the prosecutors agreed to drop the death penalty that was hanging over her head. So yeah, that's a no brainer. It's a layup. They also agreed to dismiss a few of the lesser charges, including two counts of child neglect and one count of conspiracy. Who cares? That's the least of your worries, you murderous bitch. Right.