At least one of the suspects in the murders of a Kansas woman and a court-appointed child visitation supervisor in March held extreme beliefs that included 'ownership' of his children and the belief that the government's deception benefits 'foreign slaves and aborigines'.
Paul Grice, 31, identified himself as 'an American State National, or Lawful Bloodline American' in court records filed in 2023. according to the British tabloid The Independent, which did not say what case the documents supported.
Grice was one of five people accused in the deaths of Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, on March 30 while they were traveling from Kansas to Oklahoma to pick up Butler’s children for a scheduled visitation. as CrimeOnline has reported. Grice was the last of the five arrested, more than a week after the arrests of Tifany Adams — the grandmother of Butler’s children — Tad Cullum — Adams’ boyfriend — and married couple Cole and Cora Twombley.
All five were named in an affidavit supporting Adams’s arrest, identified by Cora Twombley’s 16-year-old daughter as responsible for the deaths of Butler and Kelley.
It’s not clear why Grice was not arrested when the others were taken into custody. Twombley’s daughter identified the five as members of a religious, anti-government group called 'God’s Misfits' that met weekly at the home of the Twombleys or another couple, who were named in the document but not identified as having any connection with the murders.
Butler and Kelley’s bodies were found the day after the first four arrests, buried on land Cullum had been using for pasture. According to affidavits, both Adams and Grice admitted their parts in the murders.
According to the Independent, Grice made a series of outlandish claims in the court documents they found from last year.
“I am not a sovereign citizen. I am not a resident, employee or citizen of the United States government,” the court document read. “My relationship to that Federal entity as far as jurisdiction is that of a non-resident alien to the Corporate United States government, also known as an American State National, or Lawful Bloodline American.”
“I am a free and natural man, described by the Lord God in Genesis 2:7 as a living soul, living under God’s law and his grace alone,” he said.
“I claim my children,” the document says, adding that they are his “God-given property and subject to none other.”
“There is a maximum law that says ‘what one creates one controls’: the government did not create my children and therefore does not control my children,” Grice continued. “God created my children in their mother’s womb with my sperm and are my creation, my property, and I waive none of my God-given rights or duties in the upbringing of my offspring.”
Grice also said that the US “educational propaganda system is a joke, our children are taught only what the fraud of the government wants known and nothing more.
He expressed deep sadness about being betrayed by the government and compared the American people to a frog slowly heated in water.
He said if they had noticed the danger earlier, they could have saved themselves and the Republic.
He questioned whether the American people would allow the government to endanger their children's lives and futures and said he, as a citizen, did not want to be part of such a foolish agenda with an insane policy.
In one of his final statements, he called the destruction of unborn children the worst evil, comparing it to something even worse than maggots in filth.
Grice’s wife and children left their home after his arrest, and when asked by reporters if he had a message for his victims’ families, he replied, “Sorry for their loss.”
There is little information about “God’s Misfits.” A religious group with that name denied any connection to the murders and stated they are a husband and wife spreading Jesus. They have shut down their website and plan to close their Facebook page, expressing exhaustion from the hate.
[Featured image: Tifany Adams, Tad Cullum, Paul Grice, Cole Twombly, and Cora Twombly/Texas County Sheriff’s Department]