Tragedy at Camp Scott: The 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

On June 12, 1977, three young girls—Lori Farmer, Michele Guse, and Denise Milner—were sexually assaulted and brutally murdered at Camp Scott in Oklahoma during their first night of summer camp. Investigators soon focused on Gene Leroy Hart, a local fugitive and convicted rapist, after discovering a nearby cave containing stolen items from the camp and newspaper scraps that matched evidence found at the crime scene. While Hart was acquitted in 1979 due to insufficient physical evidence at the time, modern DNA testing and a comprehensive re-examination by experts in recent years have concluded that he was the person responsible for the crimes.