The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders: You Be the Detective

Three young Girl Scouts went to sleep at Camp Scott, Oklahoma, on the night of June 12, 1977. By morning, Lori Lee Farmer, 8, Michele Heather Guse, 9, and Doris Denise Milner, 10, were dead.Then the investigation took an extraordinary turn.Authorities focused on escaped convict Gene Leroy Hart, a man familiar with the surrounding wilderness. After a massive manhunt, Hart was captured and put on trial for the murders.The jury found him not guilty.But decades later, advances in DNA testing brought investigators' attention right back to Hart.So did a jury acquit an innocent man—or did the killer actually stand trial and walk away?In this episode of Murders, Mysteries, and Conspiracies, Glenn P. Clinger III puts you in the detective's chair. Examine the mysterious warning reportedly discovered before the murders, the crime scene, the evidence against Hart, the questions that created reasonable doubt, his acquittal, and the DNA evidence examined decades later.Was Gene Leroy Hart responsible? Did he act alone? Was the threatening note connected to the murders? And after nearly 50 years, do we finally know who killed the three girls at Camp Scott?Listen to the evidence.Examine the clues.Then decide for yourself.You Be the Detective.Keywords: Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders, Girl Scout Murders, Camp Scott murders, Gene Leroy Hart, Lori Farmer, Michele Guse, Denise Milner, Oklahoma true crime, unsolved murders, cold case, true crime podcast, DNA evidence, murder mystery, You Be the Detective, Murders Mysteries and Conspiracies, Glenn P. Clinger III