The Note They Called a Joke: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders
The Note They Called a Joke: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders
On the night of June 12, 1977, the very first night of summer camp, three young Girl Scouts, Lori Farmer, 8, Michele Guse, 9, and Denise Milner, 10, were murdered inside their tent at Camp Scott near Locust Grove, Oklahoma. Two months earlier, a counselor had found a handwritten note at that same camp declaring a plan to kill three girls in one tent. The camp director called it a prank and threw it away. Why was a written death threat never reported? How did the killer cross a sleeping camp unseen? And why, after the largest manhunt…
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