A missing Kansas woman who disappeared this year and was found in a freezer buried in a cow pasture in the Oklahoma Panhandle was killed in a stabbing attack that left her with dozens of wounds, according to a medical examiner’s report.
Veronica Butler, 27, died from sharp force trauma and had 30 wounds, 10 of which were consistent with her trying to defend herself, the state chief medical examiner’s office said in its report.
Butler and Jilian Kelley, 39, a court supervisor in a children’s custody case, disappeared March 30. Their remains were found in Texas County, Oklahoma, on April 14, less than 10 miles from where they vanished, according to an affidavit filed by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
Butler, who had a laceration on her head that may have been caused by a stun gun, was most likely dead when she was placed in the freezer and buried, according to the medical examiner…