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Broken Arrow native, and Tony and Emmy award winner Kristin Chenoweth will be part of a new documentary series focused on the 1977 murders of three girls at a Girl Scout camp in Mayes County.
In a newly released trailer Chenoweth can be heard saying, “This is a story I wish I never had to tell. It’s a story that haunts me every day but this story it needs to be told. ”
Eight-year-old Lori Lee Farmer, nine-year-old Michelle Heather Guse, and ten-year-old Doris Denise Milner were raped and murdered June 13, 1977 at Camp Scott. Gene Leroy Hart has been the only suspect since.
In 1979, Hart faced a jury and after a trial was acquitted. He was returned to prison to serve more than 300 years on a previous sentence for kidnapping and raping two pregnant women. Sixty-six days after his return to prison, Hart died of a heart attack.
Forty five years later, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has new DNA technology allowing the OSBI to re-test DNA.
“I should have been on that trip, but I had gotten sick. My mom said, ‘You can’t go,’” Chenoweth explains in the trailer, above. “It has stuck with me my whole life. I could have been one of them.”
The four part docuseries Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders, debuts May 24 on Hulu.
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