The victims were Lori Farmer, eight, Michelle Guse, nine, and Doris Milner, ten. OSBI Agent Larry Bowles is on the left with OSBI Agent Bud Ousley on the other side. Doug Hicks/Tulsa World file, Gene Leroy Hart (center) is led into the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on April 6, 1978, after his capture. It does not appear that the OSBI pursued this informant as a suspect in the girl scout murders. Who was responsible for these infamous and terrible murders in the beautiful forest around Camp Scott? I mean, it doesnt diminish your pain, said Milner. This prisoner was 16 years old at the time and would later be convicted of killing his own three year old son. Officials said at that time that only 1 in 7,700 Native American males would have matched the profile. That's why I've come back home. The accused was Native American and the population was a large percentage Native American. Gene Leroy Hart (November 27, 1943 June 4, 1979), who was 34 at the time of the murders, had been at large since 1973 after escaping from the Mayes County Jail. It also transpired that the cave, and Camp Scott, were within walking distance of Harts mothers home. That's the frustration, said Reed. I don't know that. Sheri Farmer finally let herself believe they would get to the truth when agents suggested to Reed and OSBI to have some of the evidence re-tested for DNA. The cabin in the Cookson Hills in southern Cherokee County where Gene Leroy Hart was captured. Oxygen.com reached out to Sheriff Reed and the OSBI for clarification about the DNA testing in the case but did not receive an immediate response. Tom Kennedy (deputy director of the OSBI at the time) said that two pairs of shoes were already in evidence lockers. A seemingly straightforward camping trip for a group of Girl Scouts at Camp Scott in Mayes County, Oklahoma, turned into a nightmare when three young girls were murdered. The defense carefully dismantled the prosecutions case: The bloody footprint in the tent was too small to be Harts. It was 1977, when three young campers, Lori Farmer, Michelle Guse and Denise Milner were raped and murdered in Mayes County and even though a suspect was arrested and tried, he was also acquitted and that has led to questions and wild conspiracy theories ever since. S.M. I can show you documentation of 139 people OSBI interview and looked at as a possible suspect in this. In the immediate aftermath of the killings, the Mayes County police had one main suspect, convicted rapist and prison escapee Gene Leroy Hart but has the case of the Oklahoma Girl Scout killings ever been solved? Their story is the focus of a new series called " Keeper of the Ashes ," Tracker dogs were brought in after the bodes but discovered in Camp Scott, but they found no scent trail. Cigarette Butt from Site of Wash. Woman's 1995 Murder Helps Police Identify Suspect Decades Later, Suspected N.M. [7] Subsequent testing showed that they had been bludgeoned, and strangled. TULSA, Okla.The case against the main suspect in the 45-year-old murders of three Tulsa-area Girl Scouts is only growing stronger with time, authorities say, with DNA testing results recently made public pointing right at him again. Hart was tried in March 1979 and he was represented by Larry Oliver from Tulsa, Oklahoma. 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Hart was an escapee on the run, when he was arrested for the murders in 1978 after a ten-month long man hunt but a jury found him not guilty in 1979. Given the DNA results, you have to wonder if there wasn't also a female who took part in the murders.". Both tests were unsuccessful. Hart was arrested by the OSBI 10 months later in a backwoods shack in the Cookson Hills of Cherokee County. It has stuck with me my whole life.. Chenoweths drive to find the truth has been a lifelong journey. We have to talk about it. They tried to frame him, Harts attorney, Garvin Isaacs, tells PEOPLE. Sent back to prison after the acquittal to complete his prior sentence, Hart died two months later, in 1979, leaving the mystery of who murdered 8-year-old Lori Farmer, 9-year-old Michele Guse and 10-year-old Denise Milner officially unsolved for more than 40 years. Their bodies were then left on a trail leading to the campsite's showers, about 150 yards (140 meters) from their tent. Gene Leroy Hart is led into the Mayes County courthouse for his preliminary hearing on June 7, 1978. Initial evidence indicated they had also been raped. "I never thought I would still be haunted by these murders," she said. Murder suspect Gene Leroy Hart is led from the Mayes County Courthouse back to jail following his arraignment on April 7, 1978. Chenoweth said that the year the girls were killed, she had begged her mom to attend the same camp but ended up staying home. The samples tested were insufficient and too deteriorated. A rope and towel were wrapped around the childs neck. She headed east towards Quapaw camp and the Staff House. Red underwear, a picture of two women (which looked like a wedding photo), and a newspaper were found along with a pair of glasses that belonged to a Camp Scott counselor. Nearly three decades after the first DNA test, authorities conducted a new round of DNA testing in 2008, but the results were inconclusive because the collected sample had deteriorated over time, according to authorities. One report is of a single scream (may have been earlier, around 1 am), and the other is of a girl crying out for her mother. The butts tested positive for the same O-type blood as Hart. "It's a journey I wouldn't wish on anyone. As I've told him, you are family now. The jury acquitted him, clearly believing he had been framed for the murders because of his Cherokee roots. "I heard it forever when I was growing up, oh they just looked at one person. The sophisticated method of identifying people through comparisons of blood, sperm or saliva samples was first developed in 1987 and the FBI began using it in December 1988. VDOMDHTMLDOCTYPE html> Four decades after he was acquitted, the latest DNA testing in the case of the Oklahoma Girl Scout murders strongly suggests Gene Leroy Hart's involvement, officials say. DNA points to longtime primary suspect in 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout slayings, sheriff says The four-part series also explores the intricacies of the case, how authorities are still uncovering new leads and the impact of the killings on the victim's families. It was the largest manhunt in state history. The last story from a surviving witness is from the girls in tent 7, who said that their tent flap was pulled back and a man shone a light into the tent. In the 1980s, a decade after Hart's death, a DNA test carried out on case evidence showed three of the five probes matched Hart's DNA. Girl Scout Murders remain shrouded in mystery On June 12, 1977, nearly 140 Girl Scouts arrived at the heavily wooded Camp Scott for summer sleepaway camp. Not all Cherokee felt the same. Investigators eventually searched several caves surrounding the camp, finding one with grocery items, newspapers and duct tape that seemed to match the tape used to bind the three girls and newspaper found inside the flashlight. On June 13, 1977, at Camp Scott in Mayes County the bodies of Farmer, Milner, and Guse were uncovered inside sleeping bags on a trail leading to the camp showers by a member of camp staff, who recalls her discovery in the Hulu documentary, Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders. Reed said at this point, Hart excepted, theres no suspect attached to this case that has not been excluded in one way or another, whether its DNA, whether its alibi, whether its polygraph test, whatever.. Kiowa camp happened to be set furthest west and more isolated away from the trail than the others. They claimed evidence being planted to frame Hart, partly motivated by racial factors. Voices of Oklahoma interview with Nancy McDonald. There's no closure. Semen was found on each body, and a red flashlight was found next to them. Since then, the killings of Farmer, Milner and Guse have remained officially unsolved, despite numerous pieces of evidence that seemed to point toward Hart as the killer. [19][20], A 1993 documentary called Someone Cry for The Children: The Girl Scout Murders based on the book of the same name by Michael and Dick Wilkerson was released. Even without DNA, he added, the case against Hart remains rock-solid. Camp Scott opened in 1928, for girls from 10 to 18 years of age, and it was located a few miles south of Locust Grove, Oklahoma. He believed those found by the security guards were to be viewed as a separate piece of evidence, but nothing came of this lead. Mayes County Sheriff Reed said that new DNA evidence developed would have convicted Gene Leroy Hart of the murders of Girl Scouts Lori Farmer, 8, Michelle Guse, 9, and Doris Milner, 10, during the 1979 trial at which he was acquitted. After the rapes, in an apparent attempt to murder them, he closed off their noses and mouths with duct tape and left them to die in the woods. Although the local sheriff pronounced himself "one thousand percent" certain that Hart was guilty. You have babies, eight, nine and ten year old babies, innocent, that were beat to death and sexually assaulted, said Reed. "But through the years and knowing what's been investigated, I feel comfortable that that was the person in the beginning and it is still the person who committed our daughter's murder. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. But the fact that Hart had escaped Mayes Jail and evaded Sherriff Sherriff Glen Pete Weaver led many to believe there was a personal vendetta driving the manhunt. Lori Farmer, Denise Milner and Michele Guse. The victims were three. It was certainly a challenging time for relations between the different peoples of Oklahoma. Renfrow said the 12-year-old case is open but on inactive status. They were brutally I am not accusing them.". Agents caught Hart on April 6, 1978 in a shack near Stilwell and took him to prison for safekeeping. Gene LeRoy Hart, who had been acquitted of murdering three Tulsa-area Girl Scouts at Camp Scott near Locust Grove, died of a heart attack in the state penitentiary. Tulsa World File, Listen to the Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicle podcast chronicling the cold case that is now the subject of streaming series on Hulu and Fox. The film uncovers the case of the 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout murders and follows a new investigation of DNA evidence from the crime scene in an attempt to name the Reed said authorities originally questioned over 130 potential suspects in the case, and other names have surfaced through the years. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your device and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. Pigeon was convinced of Harts innocence and had let him live in his three-roomed shack for the previous 8 months. A year after Reed started looking over the case, he and OSBI agents went to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Virginia where 23 of the best homicide investigators and FBI Behavioral analysts and FBI profilers in the world, make up a cold case board and they all independently combed through every document and every piece of evidence. Investigators were able to retrieve what OSBI spokeswoman Kym Koch described as a "partial DNA profile from a female. When I think of those three girls, I wonder what Denise and Lori and Michele would have been like. Every day was a struggle. Gene Leroy Hart is escorted to the Mayes County Jail on April 7, 1978 by state law officer Roger Chrisco. The latest attempt to use DNA testing on evidence in the most notorious criminal case in state history -- the 1977 Girl Scout murders near Locust Grove -- have A boot print was also found that matched the size of the blood print in tent 8. It was described as a low, guttural sound, but she was not sure whether it was an animal or a human. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. But then, she decided she didn't want to go. If there absolutely was no DNA, whatsoever, just the information that I know now, that was not allowed to be shown to the jury, there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever, Gene Hart is the person who committed these crimes, said Reed. 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Richard Day (husband of Barbara), arrived on the scene and discovered the other two bodies in the sleeping bags. Reed, who spoke at length to ABC, said the latest DNA testing resulted in several partial profiles of the killer. DNA points to longtime primary suspect in 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout slayings, sheriff says. In 2022, Hulu followed Chenoweth back to her hometown as she hoped to breathe new life into the case and help the victims' families find closure.At the end of each camp, one of the girls would become the keeper of the ashes from the last bonfire. They probably were in the middle of finding their purpose, what they loved, what they would have been., 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. My daughter was one of them, said Milner. And that means everything to Sheri Farmer and her husband Bo, who are grateful to Reed, the OSBI agents and all the others, who have finally given them the truth. As she did so, she spotted something at the fork of the trail. Says Sheryl Stokes, Loris childhood friend: People just want to know what happened and who did this?. and it was discarded. The Tulsa World also participated in the series. Two hours later, at around midnight, Carla Wilhite escorted some of the girls from the toilets to their tents. The victims were three Girl Scouts, between the ages of 8 and 10, who were raped and murdered. Their bodies had been left on a trail leading to the showers, about 150 yards (140 meters) from their tent at summer camp. The case was classified as solved when Gene Leroy Hart, a local jail escapee with a history of violence, was arrested. To the detriment of the Oklahoma Girl Scouts case, Hart died at the age of 35 on June 4, 1979, from a heart attack. Developed pictures of women found in the cave were linked to escaped convict Gene Leroy Hart but it would take 10 months to find him. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, which was called in to assist with the initial investigation four decades ago, recently submitted physical evidence from the Girl Scout murders for new DNA testing with the Carla Wilhite, 18 Susan Ewing, 18, and Dee Elder, 20, were assigned as counselors to Kiowa camp and asked to look after 27 children. When you visit this site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. The results of the DNA testing have been known since 2019, but Reed claimed he did not make the information For decades now, Ive been fascinated and horrified by true crime and I know that its because of those three little girls, those three angels whom Ive never forgotten. "Mike is one of those people. Three young girls were found murdered after their first night at sleep-away camp. Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. Lori Farmer, 8, Michelle Guse, 9, and Doris Milner, 10, were brutally raped and murdered while away at summer camp in Locust Grove, Oklahoma nearly 45 years ago. Fortunately, the women managed to untie themselves and raise the alarm. "All evidence every bit of the evidence points directly to him. Although the DNA testing was officially inconclusive, authorities announced that the DNA evidence strongly suggested that Hart was involved in the crime and also eliminated several other potential suspects, according to Reed. I pray that theres something that weve done that gives the family a second of something that even resembles closure or acceptance or something, said Reed. After hearing the evidence, the jury took only 6 hours to deliberate. Sheri Farmer, the mother of Lori Farmer, said that the result of the trial added to the insurmountable amount of pain she and her husband already felt.I just assumed they're going to find him, there'll be a trial, all of this in a reasonable amount of time, said Farmer. Was it really Hart or did the authorities miss crucial leads which might have led to another suspect? OSBI spokesman Chuck Jeffries said the recent efforts to extract DNA from the pillowcase were not successful. In fact, Reed added, at this point, Hart excepted, theres no suspect attached to this case that has not been excluded in one way or another, whether its DNA, whether its alibi, whether its polygraph test, whatever.. New ABC News original docuseries 'Keeper of the Ashes' premieres on May 24 only on Hulu. He did spend the remainder of his life in prison on charges relating to kidnapping, raping of two pregnant women and first-degree burglary. They tried to frame him, Harts attorney, Garvin Isaacs, tells PEOPLE. However, Hart was acquitted in March 1979 after a jury unanimously returned a verdict of not guilty. On June 12th, 1977, 8-year-old Lori Farmer, 9-year-old Michelle Guse, 10-year-old Denise Milner set off for camp, but never came home. [I] could have, would have, should have been on that trip. WebThe Oklahoma Girl Scout murders took place on the morning of June 13 1977 at Camp Scott in Mayes County Oklahoma United States. They had been left on a trail leading to the showers, about 150 yards from their tent. Gene Leroy Hart, who died in 1979 while in prison on unrelated charges, was acquitted for the slayings two years earlier of Lori Farmer, 8, Michele Guse, 9, and Denise Milner, 10, at Camp Scott near Locust Grove. The rope and tape had recently been stolen from a farm a mile from Camp Scott. A hair caught in the duct tape that did not belong to any of the girls was also located. The murders hit too close to home, she said. In third grade, I told my mom I wanted to go to Girl Scout Camp, Camp Scott. It does bring us peace. But DNA evidence was not available then, plus, Reed's conclusions go far beyond DNA. When she shone her torch in the direction of the noise, it stopped. It was also leaked to the press that sperm was found in the semen evidence, but Hart was known to have had a vasectomy. The forest was so dense in parts that it was not uncommon for some of the 600 searchers to become lost on occasion. "There ain't nothing about this whole thing that is peaceful. Every bit of information weve gotten over the last 40 years has It is named after a grove of locust trees where the Battle of Locust Grove took place. Period.. He was staying at the home of a Cherokee medicine man in Cookson Hills of Cherokee County, 50 miles from Camp Scott where the girls bodies had been uncovered. "It was gradual. The aggravation is this, you do that, you are convicted of that, and you are paroled in two and a half years and back out on the road. Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders is streaming on Hulu now. Two weeks after the murders a farmer reported that he had seen Gene Hart on a hillside. He said you can never rule out touch DNA or DNA from skin cells left behind by human contact. I think about their life. On June 4, 1979, Hart collapsed and died of a heart attack, after about an hour of lifting weights and jogging in the prison exercise yard. There's never been a more intensive investigation and there has never been one iota of evidence found to ever indicate a second party was present." But she continued to hear the noise intermittently. Carla headed for the nurses station and as the nurse drives up to Kiowa camp, Carla heads to the Directors house to inform camp director Barbara Day of what they had found. Inside the empty doughnut box was a hand-written note, stating in capital letters, "We are on a mission to kill three girls in tent one." Three Girl Scouts between the ages of eight and ten were raped and murdered. The Camp Scott Girl Scout Murders occurred in Locust Grove, Oklahoma. Another frustration over the years, is Reed says he gets at least one phone call a month from someone saying they know who the killer is and there are plenty of people going on social media, spouting theories with no truth to them. To find answers, to find healing. Chenoweth's return to her hometown to investigate the murders is detailed in the Hulu special "Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders" premiering May 24, 2022. Sheriff Reed claims DNA would have convicted Gene Leroy Hart of the murders had the evidence been available during the Serial Killer Indicted in 1989 Murder of Author's Daughter, Denver Police Say Man Who Killed Cop 40 Years Ago Is Also Responsible for 4 Women's Murders, Fla. Police Say They've Identified a Serial Killer After 20-Year Investigation into 3 Women's Murders, 1995 Cold Case Murder of a 14-Year-Old Atlanta Girl Solved After More Than 25 Years, Suspect's Daughter Helps Wash. Police Solve 1959 Murder of 9-Year-Old Camp Fire Girl Out Selling Mints, My Daughter Was Killed at Girl Scout Camp: How an Okla. But inconclusive does not mean unhelpful, Reed said, and partial profiles can be used to eliminate suspects. "This DNA fingerprinting is nothing more than a subjective evaluation, X-ray type photographs and just like any other X-ray you get two or three people looking at them and they might have different opinions and interpretations," Isaacs said. Common sense, well that is two different knots, that's two different people, see there, got a track in there, two different people, two different knots, it's really not two different knots, it is the same exact pattern, it's the same exact everything, said Reed. Hart was acquitted in March 1979 after the jury delivered a unanimous not guilty verdict. He was eventually recaptured and he was known to have committed three burglaries in total, and in each case the victims were asleep in their houses at the time. Kristin Chenoweth travels to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. On arriving at the body, the nurse checked for any signs of life but it was clear the girl, later identified as Denise Milner, was dead. The semen was suspected to have been Hart's. You can find out more and change our default settings with Cookies Settings. [9] Raised about a mile from Camp Scott, Hart, a member of the Cherokee nation, was arrested within a year at the home of a Cherokee medicine man. 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