The FBI confirmed to Fox News on Friday that it had joined the search for Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, the two Kansas women who missing in Oklahoma as they traveled to pick up children.
A spokesperson for Oklahoma City FBI said the agency is “providing additional resources to the investigation, but the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation remains the lead agency.”
Butler, 27, and Kelley, 39, were last seen March 30 walking to meet children before their car was found abandoned near the Oklahoma-Kansas border, “foul play” was suspected, police said.
As of Friday, no arrests have been made in the case and no suspects or persons of interest have been publicly identified by law enforcement.
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Veronica Butler, left, and Jilian Kelley were last seen March 30 while driving to pick up children, according to police. (Oklahoma Highway Patrol)
“We always tell everyone in this area that if you know anything or have any additional information, please contact us,” Hunter McKee, public information officer for the State Bureau of Investigation, said Thursday. Oklahoma State, at Fox News Digital.
McKee told Fox News Digital on Monday that “it’s getting harder and harder” to find the women alive as the days go by. no sign of their whereabouts.
A missing person notice from the Texas County Sheriff’s Office states that Butler has “several tattoos, a Chinese symbol on her left forearm, a sunflower on her left shoulder” and that “Jilian has a butterfly tattoo on her forearm.” left arm”.
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Hugoton Assembly of God Pastor Tim Singer told Fox News that Jilian Kelley, left, and Veronica Butler, right, were picking up Butler’s children to take them back to a birthday party in Hugoton , Kansas. (Texas County Sheriff’s Office/Oklahoma Highway Patrol/Shutterstock)
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 denim shorts.
Kelley has brown hair and blue eyes and was last seen wearing a long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans and tan or tan shoes, the alert adds.
The area near the Oklahoma-Kansas border where the vehicle the two women were traveling in was found abandoned Saturday, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. (Google Maps)
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The vehicle they were traveling in was “found abandoned near Highway 95 and Highway L, south of Elkhart, Kansas, in rural Texas County,” according to the OSBI.
