Bodies found confirmed to be missing preacher's wife and her friend
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Both women, from Kansas, had gone missing while in Oklahoma last month. Four people have been arrested and charged with murder and kidnapping.
Two bodies recovered in a rural county of Oklahoma are confirmed to be that of a missing preacher’s wife and her friend.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said the chief medical examiner positively identified the deceased as 27-year-old Veronica Butler and 39-year-old Jilian Kelley.
Both women were from Kansas and had been missing since March 30.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with their loved ones, along with everyone throughout their community,” the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement on Facebook.
Authorities said Butler and Kelley had been driving in Oklahoma last month to pick up Butler’s children from a birthday party when the two failed to show up. The vehicle they had been traveling in was found abandoned near Highway 95 and Road L in Texas County. Police had said there was evidence to indicate foul play.
