Further reading for The Oklahoma girl scout murders:
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1986 Ellen Halbert, a wife and mother living in an affluent town just outside of Austin Texas, if having a normal morning, drinking coffee, reading the paper jumps in the shower to start the day. It is when she gets out of the shower that she sees a man dressed in a ninja suit, ever part of his body covered in black except for his eyes. His right hand, raised over his head, healed a giant knife, the biggest she had ever seen.
Over the next two hours, she was raped, stabbed four times, once in the chest, twice in the back of the head and hammered a knife into the back of her head. In between beatings, he beat her in the head with a hammer and left her for dead.
Her attacker had been hiding in her attic for 2 days learning in the ins and outs of the family to know that nobody would be home throughout the day. Eventually, Ellen was able to drag herself through the house to get to the phone and she called her mother, her parents and police. The police tracked and arrested her offender to a nearby bank trying to cash a check he had forced Ellen to write (as he had her write it, told her his full, legal name).
Her attacker had been hiding in her attic for 2 days learning in the ins and outs of the family to know that nobody would be home throughout the day. In the end he was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced to life in prison.
and the saddest case ever….
June 13, 1977, Camp Scott a summer camp in in Oklahoma a camp counselor on her way to the showers found a girl’s body in her sleeping bag in the forest. Soon after it was found that all of the girls from tent #8, Lori Lee Farmer, 8, Doris Denise Milner, 10, and Michelle Heather Guse, 9, had all been killed and their bodies were left on the trail on the way to the showers. They had been raped, bludgeoned, and strangled.
A large red flashlight was found on top of the girls bodies, a fingerprint was also found on the lens, it was never identified. A shoe print was also found in the area as was blood in tent.
There are many stories of people hearing different commotions throughout the nights, but many of the people an counselors are young girls and the camp was a vast open woods so it hard to say what they heard or saw. Police also find things left behind in a cave not far from the murder scene that they are able to trace back to Gene Leroy Hart, a local jail escapee with a history of rape and violence.
There were other suspects but police focused on Hart who was on the run and able to stay out under the radar for over a year. After 5 hours of deliberation Hart was acquitted, as locals backed him thinking he would not have a fair trial due to his Native American Heritage.
This is truly a tragic story that is still left unsolved.
Episode 78
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