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Authorities say there is now enough evidence to suspect foul play in the disappearance of Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, two Kansas women who disappeared over the weekend while traveling to pick up children, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI).
“Based on information obtained from the victim’s vehicle, our investigators believe there was evidence indicating foul play. We are still searching for these victims and there are no arrests at this time,” the OSBI said in a statement.
On Tuesday, OSBI public information manager Hunter McKee told Fox News Digital that the women are believed to be “in danger” as it has been days since they were last seen or heard from.
“We believe they are in danger because we haven’t heard from them for three days,” McKee said earlier. “The location where their vehicle was last seen was also a very rural area of the state. We have not found them yet. We are doing everything we can.”
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Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, were “traveling together to pick up the children” on Saturday but “never arrived at the pick-up location,” according to the Texas County Sheriff’s Office.
Instead, “his vehicle was found abandoned near Highway 95 and Highway L, south of Elkhart, Kansas, in rural Texas County,” the OSBI said.
The OBSI describes the situation as a “suspicious disappearance case.”
“Veronica has several tattoos, a Chinese symbol on her left forearm and a sunflower on her left shoulder,” a missing persons notice from the Texas County Sheriff’s Office says. “Jilian has a butterfly tattoo on her left forearm.”
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The alert describes Butler as 5 feet, 4 inches tall, with red hair and green eyes, last seen wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt and jean shorts.
Kelley has brown hair and blue eyes and was last seen wearing a long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans, and tan or beige shoes, the alert adds.
Kelley is also the wife of current Hugoton First Christian Church pastor Heath Kelley, who will become the new minister at Willow Christian Church in Indianola, Nebraska, according to the McCook Gazette.
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“We believe in the power of prayer and believe God will bring them home safe and sound,” Willow Christian Church wrote in a Facebook post Sunday ahead of a “prayer time planned for Jilian Kelley and Veronica Butler and their families.” .
The agency is now working with the Texas County Sheriff’s Office, Oklahoma Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies to locate the two women.
“We ask that anyone with additional information contact us,” OSBI said.
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