Newly-Released Evidence Points To One Killer In Girl Scout Murders
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2022
- The Girl Scout murders have haunted Oklahomans for 45 years, but investigators now say recent DNA testing done by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) points to one killer and rules out every other suspect brought up.
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Paroled for kidnapping and rape? Ordinarily these are considered capital crimes. Evil.
He escaped from Mayes County jail and left the area.
@@cynthiawashburn771 He was paroled 2 1/2 years after sentencing of raping two women. Funny they were raped and sodomized as were the girls.
@@cynthiawashburn771 Because he was on parole for the previous kidnapping and rape charges, the courts served Hart with roughly 350 years of prison time. After being returned to the Mayes County Jail for a hearing at the Mayes County Court, Hart escaped but was quickly caught by police.
@@shareis764 He wasn't quickly caught by police. He was on the run hiding in Cherokee County. FOR OVER 4 YEARS! They accused him of killing the girl scouts WHILE HE WAS ON THE RUN AFTER HIS ESCAPE remember. He made parole and then went back to jail on robbery charges. That is when he escaped.
@@cynthiawashburn771 It said clearly in this news story that after raping two pregnant women and leaving them for dead, he was paroled after just a couple of years.
The judge who released him after being convicted for raping the pregnant women should be held accountable also
As a Girl Scout troop leader this just breaks my heart in half. Those poor babies. People can be vile
Thank you for your time to be a troop leader!! I loved being a Girl Scout and I loved my troop leader!
@@MortgageGirl7 Thank you so much for saying that! I love my scouts like my own daughter and I couldn’t imagine something like that happening on a camping trip. Be blessed scout! 🙏🏽
I was at girl scout camp that summer....walahili. it's tragedy for sure.
@@chronicinokla Oh my goodness. I know this hits hard for you as well. Be blessed, Scout 🙏🏽
Thank you for being a Girl Scout leader. I guess another moral of the story is to only have leaders over the age of 21 or so who can actually detect deception and something that might be wrong when they hear something.
"He was in prison for another crime." What a funny way of saying that he went back to prison to finish his sentence for raping those two women he taped to trees. He had escaped, twice, and was on the run for four years when he raped and murdered those girls, then was captured and, following the miscarriage of justice, was returned to prison to finish his now 300+ year sentence (he had time added to his 150 year sentence for his escapes). This is part of the reason people hate the media. Tell the entire story. You have time.
Worse, I think he was paroled after 28 months or so for the rape/attempted murders, and it was a robbery or burglary that had him in prison LONGER after which he escaped. Only when he was resentenced because he escaped did his sentence get long. The horrific double kidnapping, rape and attempted murder (faces taped over, buried and bound left to die way out in the woods, and one was quite pregnant) cost him just a very few years and then he was paroled. He escaped form a second unrelated sentence!
This is why the death penalty should be enforced. No putting people in prison for 300 years. They can't kill people if they're dead. I'm not saying it should be used on everyone, but how many times has this happened? Paroled only to kill again? It is senseless.
@@nickev96 100%. Far less crimes in general when death penalty is there, as it curbs a lot of 'wanna be serial killers/burglars/gangsters etc etc' . Some criminals are glorified in movies and have more rights than their victims plus a lot of states still let them have their share of the movie/book released about them... the victim zero. How many rapists come out only to rape AND murder after been released. They murder so they can't be ID/silence the victim. Its very very sad.
Thank you for the information. and Taking the time
@@myfirstnamemylastname2994 exactly.. he raped and sodomized two pregnant women one managed to get the tape off of her mouth so she could breathe.amd she survived to tell.all about it.
He took her eyeglasses and was wearing them when he was captured. Law Enforcement took his mug shots with Gene wearing that pregnant woman's eyeglasses.
This is why my father always went with my 2 sisters when they went to camp and he didn't care what the scout leader said
We were that way with our kids, too, and we have no regrets. Bravo to your wise dad.
This is so sad and I can't believe the jury acquitted him. It makes me wonder how many other little girls did he killed after the girl scout murders.
He was convicted of the rapes of the pregnant women
Someone in the threads said that two months later he was back in jail so hopefully he did not really get to kill anybody else after them
He probably did so before hand tho...He was not paroled btw he escaped..
@@pentafast5097 he was paroled in 1969. His parole was then revoked after he was charged with robbery. He then escaped a few years later. Please recheck your facts.
None he died in jail two months later on a different charge didn’t you listen
My mom was a scout leader for our Brownie troop. We had a short but busy camping season in 1977 because my mom was 6 to 9 months pregnant that summer. The overnight camp (Gallahue) was set up much like Camp Scott. The assistant leaders daughter decided to tell us the story of Camp Scott but none of us believed her. Her family tended to exaggerate things. I was blown away when I found out her story was true!
Really bad choice for a campfire story, I don't think she should have done that!
I think the camp leaders had involved in some ways in the murder....
@@bushraothman3429 I've always thought that to, not involved in the killing s, but knows more.
"6" to "9" months pregnant & that was "1977" when she was pregnant.
Hmm, sounds like a cryptic message to me, "Allen".
Is that you BIRTH name ?
It's very hard to believe you wouldn't at least know your brother or sisters BIRTH month at least. Isn't it .
@@bushraothman3429you’re not very bright if you think that.
One of the worst parts about this was the fact the killer left a note for the counselors to find when they were opening the camp before the girl scouts got there saying he was going to do this.... the counselors thought it was a joke and threw the note away.
For the life of me I can't understand why they took that as a joke unbelievable 😒so sad 😞😢
You would think they would think OK someone left a note. The cops need to be called at least to be on patrol while the girls are
When my daughter's went camping with the school, I tagged along. I didn't care hearing about how overprotective I was. I needed to know my daughter's would not be violated and abused. Too many evil people roam the earth.
I can only imagine how sick and guilty the people who raised money for Hart in the local bars with mason jars full of loose change must feel now
They don't feel guilty at all. They wonder why the 3 guys that admitted to being in the woods that night wasn't charged. You can't convict a person of a crime when all the eye witnesses saw someone else there.
Well you can convict them when their DNA was the ONLY DNA at the CRIME SCENE.
@@YOUAreTheSecretToLife They didn't have DNA back then. Not like they do now. DNA was never a full match to Gene. Not a match means not a match🤷♀️
@@YOUAreTheSecretToLife *Girl, they DIDN'T USE DNA 45 YEARS AGO!!*
I can't stand ignorant people, sheesh!
@@cynthiawashburn771 Your comment was really uncalled for. Did you watch this news story to the very end? Let's see what the families and the real brains all decide.
Monsters walk among us. The scary part is we don't always know who they are until its far too late.
Then there are those that we know are monsters and nothing is done about it. That’s why I have to live mostly in hiding from my ex.
he was stalking the children & watching them from the woods like a monster. don't blame others for his actions.
I blame the parole board who let him out of prison for “good behavior” after only serving 28 months for kidnapping & ra.ping two women. The blood of those innocent girls is on their hands.
I "blame" satan bc this is one of the most depraved murder case in the country.then we have to keep dangerous violent offenders in prison not house non-violent drug offenders. women & children need to be protected from sexual predators like this monster. I can see why the Native American community just could not accept that he was capable of this but he was. horrible, horrible, horrible story
@@lindagrasse I know it is really beyond horrible. this particular offender was pure evil. how he was ever allowed to escape after he raped & attempted to murder two pregnant women.
I feel especially sorry for the mother of the little girl who made her daughter go when she didn't want to.
Me too. Her other child had dreams/premonitions that “everyone was going to die” before the event too
@@BlendedBarbieDoll Oh God that's awful. I didn't know that.
I know, and her letter to them from the first night was about how she didn’t want to be there :(
Yes, that broke my heart. She hated it there. Mom should have never forced her to go.
Hindsight is always 20/20.
I was a single mother with a 3 year old daughter when this horrific crime happened. Just a few hours away from us. I've thought of those poor little girls often over these 45 years. I pray the families and agencies can come to a mutual and confident conclusion, and maybe feel some relief that the killer is dead. Still such a sad, sad news story. 🙏⚘⚘⚘
@@martybass7376 You can't actually ask that question and have 2 brain cells to rub together. Go troll somewhere else. Idiot.
Dear Pamela: If you've REALLY "thought of those poor little girls often over these 45 years", then I would suggest that you have an empty and meaningless life with nothing better to do. Ditto for the mother of one of the murder victims who says she's been grieving for 45 years. Relatives of murder victims like her need professional psychiatric services to help her STOP living in the past and to start looking toward the future. Grief has been well studied and the VAST Majority of people (almost everyone !!!) eventually puts their grief behind them and moves on. The problem with grieving family members of murder victims is that the mass media, and Drama Queens like YOU make them believe that their never ending grief is actually normal. Some relatives of murder victims actually get hooked on the media attention, and decide to extend their 15 minutes of fame to a lifetime of fame by using the dead body of their loved one as a stepping stone to becoming a full time Media Hog as John Walsh did with "America's Most Wanted". People like Walsh have no motivation to resolve their grief as long as they get Ca$h and Fame for their eternal grief. People talk a lot about "victim's rights" but the one right that is NEVER mentioned is their right to professional psychiatric services, as well as their right to be free of True Crime producers who morbidly Ca$h In on their never ending grief. Real Life is NOT a Soap Opera, Pamela, but your comment tells me that you're Clueless about what that even means. Get A Life, why don't you ???
SO--what GENIUS on the parole board had the brilliant idea of releasing this thug back into society!?
He was beyond thug. He was inhuman monster.
Probably a liberal Democrat
there is still grossly inadequate laws to protect women & children from rapists & child molesters. if we don't learn from these cases more children will die. when a child is murdered there is a ripple effect. the family dies too only much more slowly & painfully. it's insidious. the mothers may be the real victims in the end. my love to all these families
I agree with you completely. The penalty for crimes like this should be death without exception.
@@Red-nz1on yes, and no. these serial killers who will absolutely kill again if they ever get out probably should be executed to protect the public. however, killing them destroys any chance investigators & the families of other victims may have to find the bodies of their loved ones. also, innocent people have been incarcerated & executed in the past. that is about the only thing that makes child murders worse if that's possible & that would be an innocent person imprisoned while the killer is out there looking for his next victim
@@lindagrasse815 DNA evidence proved this POS was guilty, and it can prove innocence as well. I believe in taking a firm hand and setting examples for the rest of them.
@@Red-nz1on although I agree wholeheartedly but studies show that these murdering raping mother fuckers aren't deterred by the death penalty. in the case of this creeper he was training hard in the prison gym preparing for his next escape. his next victims would not survive an attack as by then he was emboldened & felt untouchable until the hand of God struck his ass down. if they can be securely contained, they think they are smarter than the cops, & the bones for time dance can continue. find out where their other murder victims are buried. they only become better more lethal killers. they practice on animals. hart was a hunter
Yes and they should never get out for quote good behavior because they didn't get put in there for doing bad behavior out in the open. They aren't around children in prison. So of course they're not going to do what they did to get in there.
It's beautiful that the community came together to pay for DNA test to help prove a vile creature committed that shit. But it's crazy the government can give free vaccines/stimulus checks but can't have funding to help pay for DNA test to help prove who did things like this to help protect the public by putting vile creatures behind bars. That vile creature shouldn't have even been paroled for what he did to the pregnant women
They could have had the OSBI or FBI run the test for free. Since they already had the original testing results on file. And in 2019, when they ran DNA tests they found the only DNA left was too degradated to test and previous results still did not match Gene. So apparently Reed found new DNA somewhere and had to have it privately tested.
That's because forcing us to get the jab is helping "them" to put money in their pockets, putting money towards this, does them no good.
@@cynthiawashburn771You say the DNA was too old/degraded? Then how in the world can they find DNA from thousands of years ago for other reasons!??
@@susanlbk There is an awesome video of the investigator stating that the semen taken from the girls, the DNA found on a pillow, and hairs found in tape on one of the girls was all they had in evidence. The semen from the girls was used at the time of the murders. They looked at it through a microscope and compared it to Gene. So that was gone. So the tested in 2019 what was on the pillow and it was too degradated to use. They also tested the hair which the results from that matched male, native American. It's wasn't bone or tissue DNA. Which is what they generally use for testing old bones or bodies. Hope that helps.
There's no one to give them kickbacks for providing "free" DNA tests when it would be government labs doing the tests.
They can do it for the things you mentioned because those companies are being showered with taxpayer dollars, and then those companies can make campaign contributions, and there's a bunch of opportunities for graft along the way.
And since insider trading laws don't apply to members of Congress the way they apply to average citizens, they get advance knowledge on which companies are about to have a massive spike in profits, because they know where they are going to be shoveling your tax dollars towards.
DNA is going to do more to exonerate innocent people than it will to convict the guilty. both are equally important. time for us, as a society, to increase the penalty for rape & to remove the statute of limitations on crimes of rape & child molestation. we have a long way to go to protect women & children. I'm sure there are many rapes that are still not reported. date rapes are probably reported even less
and I believe we should all have our DNA in a database when born. That would stop a shit load of murders now today.
Marital rape even less... It happens and it is horrible.
Test all rape kits in all states! Find Serial killers. Doh! EZ
@@chrissearer1896 I've never had a rape kit done. I have been raped. It might be a good thing if rapes were taken seriously enough for police to run DNA just because they could.
@@thisbeem2714 Cheap and Lazy SOB’s! ☝️😎
I remember being in Girl Scouts. But, my mom would never allow me to sleep at the camp overnight.
I love your mom! I hated camping & girl scout camp most of all
I remember a counsellor IN THE CAMPING QUARTERS with us kids.
I was a girl scout in the 80s and when it came time for our camping trip, it was done in a locked and secured MALL with dozens of camp leaders keeping watch.
@@jessicashoop7109 well, I would hope so. I've never been into camping of any sort but being a small child shipped off to these camps in the summer. we all knew it wasn't for us it was for our parents to get a break. the bad experience has stayed with me my entire life. I just recently learned of this case & it is absolutely devastating to read what this guy did. creeping thru the woods, stalking his victims. a premeditated attack against three tiny little defenseless children
The platforms, tents, & beds shown are the exact same ones which were at my GS camp in Michigan. Same timeframe, too. I attended GS camp for two weeks every summer from ages 12 to 17. Nothing but good memories. Camp Anna Behrens was a desperately needed respite from the rage, fear, and dysfunction (almost typed “destruction” . . . okay, that too) at home. Camp really was a place of freedom for me. Nothing terrible happened there except the occasional minor injuries - like broken toes, etc.
Never heard of these murders until a few years ago. Stomach-churning. I simply cannot imagine the horror those young girls experienced when an unknown adult male entered their tent & did what he did.
So this monster had kidnapped and r 2 pregnant women, beat them and left them for dead and was found guilty, but he was let out after only two and a half years?? 30 months?? WTF!!!
The justice and penalty system in the US is way too lenient
I also read that when the jury aquitted Hart the audience clapped because they considered it a blow against racism.
Exactly right violent rapists shouldn't ever be let out. And another thing. They shouldn't be sent to special prison's for sex offenders. No perks give them to max security general lockup and tell the population what they are there for. Problem solved!
Sex offenders always get out early. It's crazy because they almost always reoffend.
@@asherhouseman6838 I was there and that never happened. This case had nothing to do with racism. Every one here has Cherokee blood. I mean we are by the reservation. Cherokee country. Smh
I was 12 years old at the time when I read about what happened at Camp Scott on the front page of The Boston Globe. I was preparing to attend Camp Menotomy, a Girl Scout camp in New Hampshire. It was unsettling. My tent was at the furthest point from the counselors' cabin and it was the same type of cloth tent with a wooden palette for a floor. The sides were secured at the corners and in the mid point. Anyone can sneak up, reach under the flaps and grab a girl in a sleeping bag as the four beds were on either side of the structure.
That's scary. I think this story is why I was never aloud to go on girl scout camping trips. I can't be certain as my mom is not here anymore but I'm sure it has something to do with it. I was never in trouble but I remember a stern, " 'NO', absolutely not!' "
@@heathermichelle2703 I wanted to go no matter what, if only to escape from my nutty family. I don't know if my parents read the article (I doubt it), but I was going no matter what. A fellow scout from my town was going and I was prepared to go with her if need be. I loved going to Camp Menotomy for many years. It gave me independence and freedom from my toxic home life.
That's creepy. Scouts camps should be more safe and should have more security.
I found a map of the campsites online and their tent was too far away from the others or any counselors.
Why was he let out after only 2 years from the first case & what went wrong with the prosecution on the girls case?
@@RobinBoBobbin The wording in this case has always been sus. Paroled? or Fugitive? I don't understand why they tried to cover up his escape and fugitive status by saying he'd been paroled. He went back to prison and died serving out the remainder of his sentence for raping those 2 pregnant women + the time tacked on for the escape.
He was paroled then sent back to prison for another crime, THEN escaped. No one covered up anything. @@HAUNTED-DOLL
After he was paroled why was he not kept on the authority radar ??
It was a lot easier to "disappear" I think. A lot of stories of husband's and father's going out "for milk" and never coming back- starting a new life somewhere else. Now, we are on the grid and cameras are everywhere.
1978
He was hiding out in a wilderness area near the camp. He had family and friends that were assisting him in hiding. It took them a long time to capture him after the murders to bring him to trial.
Why the f was he paroled at all after rape & attempted murder of two pregnant women? Especially after such an insanely short time? That was outrageous and incredibly irresponsible of the parole board!!!
@@horsepanther Most definatly. He should have never been released on parole. But he went back on parole violations. He went to county for a hearing and escaped from there. Pete Weaver let him roam free for 4 years.
I was a 9 yr old girl scout in 1977 I remember the stranger danger talks and worry among parents.
I knew about this story as a kid too and it never really leaves you. Later as an adult, I ended up having to 'sleep' by myself in a tent at a fire camp during a wildland fire where I knew for a fact there were prisoners helping to fight the fire. I spent most of the night wondering just how security was handled while taking a group of prisoners camping. I was reasoning with myself that SURELY the violent offenders were not out there in tents, that SURELY the prisoners were just Fremont County prisoners, not the nearby Supermax prisoners. But then niggling thoughts of convicted child murderer, life w/o parole, Lester Eubanks being allowed to go Christmas shopping unsupervised, escaping and killing another girl would keep my adrenaline pumping. Even with all the displaced, stressed wildlife running from the fire, fear of mountain lions, bobcats and bears was very low on my list of concerns!
Very sad I was a few years younger than these girls. I still remember it from the news when I was a kid.
I remember this too , I'm from Texas I was in 5th grade.
@@thehairywoodsman5644 you must have been traumatized. so will children the same age today as the children murdered in that horrible massacre yesterday. it's a dangerous world for children. that hasn't changed
I live about an hour from Locust Grove, Oklahoma. I was 8 years old in 1977 and later was in Cub Scouts. We went camping around 1980, on private land and every tent in sight of each other. I still couldn't sleep.
@@douglasdixon524 oh, that must have been terrifying. looking at the map of the campsites that tent was out in the middle of nowhere. those children were defenseless. I hated girl scout camp. hated it. & I didn't even know about this case!! why would they put those children in that kind of jeopardy? any creature could have gone in those tents. it's just another example of "humans are the most dangerous animal of all"
30k for DNA testing ??? That's Ridiculous
There’s many articles about this case online. One website I found a few years ago features a criminal profile that was written soon after this crime was committed. This kind of work was in its infancy at the time. But that criminal profile fits Gene Leroy Hart to a T. He was a fugitive on the run who had tons of friends and family members protecting him. He was a deviant psychopath. He was not some poor guy that was being railroaded. All of the evidence points to him and only him.
Yep. The incident with the 2 women he abducted and left for dead should have put him away for life. After he went to prison, his wife divorced him. In prison he helped a photographer who used inmates to develop film. In the nearby cave they found one of these pics with a woman who looked like his ex-wife.
It did point to him but also pointed to 2 others in this area also. All should have been looked at the same.
@@cynthiawashburn771 It was him and only him.
@@maryleachmanbeautyconsultant I would be inclined to agree with you except the DNA belongs to someone other than Gene. But having said that, the crime scene was not closed. Alot of people could have contaminated it. I live in this area. I want to be sure there isn't another child preditor here. Gene is dead so we don't have to worry about him but if there were others there, I want to know. Also, I don't think he was railroaded. There wasn't enough evidence to convict. That doesn't mean he didn't do it.
@@cynthiawashburn771 it was him
I was seven that kept me from joining the girl scouts and kept me from putting my children in boys and girls scouts ...this murder and the child molestation...that's a no for me
That place looked abandoned even in the old photos. The reporter mentioned " they set out" to camp. It was never mentioned that they were camping with the scout troupe or group. Why would 3 young girls be in a large tent alone with no adult. That was not a small pitch tent. That was a large stationary pre- constructed tent for a large group. So sad.
That was the way it had been since the camp was founded. 3 scouts in a raised tent with a wooded floor. No adult. I was in my late teens and couldn’t imagine no adult in the tent with 3 little girls but that was the norm. Crazy even for the ‘70’s.
@@elainehare8666 4 girls in a tent. We always had 4 girls together. There was 4 in every other tent.
When I went to Camp Quidnunc in 1968 as an 11 year old in the same type tent there were 5 girls. The counselors were in separate smaller tents
The adults were close by in the next tent. The killer led them away from their tent and took them into the woods.
Its almost like those 3 little girls were being offered up to someone to slaughter
It was a miscarriage of justice that he was acquitted of the crimes. It's like divine intervention that he died shortly after he was found not guilty.
OMG..I do not ever remember hearing about this. My mom was our girl scout troop from browning, juniors and senior then the daisy(they r the youngest) group came about at the end of my girl scout career.. I actually became an assistant leader to help with daisy group. We all would camp at our local girl scout camp in Alabama. Thinking back on how we were spread out in the camp leaving us so vulnerable. We never thought of any danger that could of happened. But this proves how wrong we were. And, lucky.
My heart goes out to these beautiful girls family and friends. I'm so sorry.
Mother Nature did what that jury didn’t.
and, then, of course, he went straight to hell
@@lindagrasse815 sadly hell doesn't exist his dead and gone.
@@angelvillegas9604 I used to believe heaven & hell are both on earth but one day while writing a story for the local paper on a suspicious death it turned into a story about life after death. it does exist. you don't go to a good place you go to a bad place if you are evil or you committed evil acts even just being a mean cruel person can send you there. it's been well documented for thousands of years. the message of the story was that the good we do in life is like putting money in the bank. when it's all said & done there is an accounting of what you accomplished in life. people like this. well, there's a special place in hell for anyone who murders children. it makes you ask yourself what your "spiritual" bank account looks like
@@lindagrasse815 we have no proof. Earth is already hell of all the brutally that happens to good ppl. Ones you die you don't exist anymore it's over.
@@angelvillegas9604 I totally used to believe that bc I thought the bible & organized religion were hogwash. until, of course, I saw a ghost. jesus was described as a ghost. the bible tries to explain the paranormal. the egyptians believed in a spirit world & so have native American peoples for thousands of years. I found out quite by accident how this works. I have pictures of spirits taken by another person who can see them. there is a lot of proof. would you like to read the story I wrote about this subject? it certainly changed my life
Excellently and sensitively done news story on such a horrible tragedy.
So sad, I always hoped they would find the monster that did that. I'm so sorry to the families, God bless.👍🏻❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
It is impossible to watch this vid...as someone has said...your heart sinks...
RIP!!!!
He passed two month after being acquitted 😁faster than the system would have fried him 👏 👏
I am so very sorry for these beautiful little girls who were taken too soon. Blessing's to them and their families
.My heart goes out to all affected. 🙏😥💔💞💞💞
Oh my god this is horrific
So he got away with it. I guess the justice system just completely failed us on every level. Go figure. I hope at least some of those original jurors are still alive to realize the gravity of their follie.
He died in prison 2 months after the acquittal. So while he may not have been convicted, he didn't necessarily get away with it. He wasn't out there all these years living a free life. At least he was never getting out of prison had he not died.
@@jessicashoop7109 That's good to know. Thanks. But I still think it is a tragedy he didn't have to do his last months in a prison while everyone around him was aware of his horrific crime against children.
@@ralphcantrell3214 he did spend his last months in prison before he died. He wasn't free when he died.
@@jessicashoop7109 I understand. However, my beef is that he was allowed to die of natural causes when some self-respecting "normal" miscreant would have probably shanked him straight to Hades in a heartbeat had they known about his sick, perverted crimes against children, that's all.
@@jessicashoop7109 ...Besides, the fact that he happened to die in prison in no way amends the mistakes made by everyone who dropped the ball on his prosecution for the girl scout crimes. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night had I been on that jury... but that's just me.
I hope I don't sound harsh. I've just fretted over this crime for over 40 years and am somewhat devastated there was never justice. Thanks for the commentary. Cheers!
Gene Le Roy Hart was the name I remember hearing when I was living in Granite, Oklahoma at that time. It has always been a mystery of who brutally murdered those little girls.
I read a book about this a few years ago written by an OSBI agent. There was TONS of evidence pointing to Hart but he got off because he was Indian.
Wow he died of a heart attack at 35 and his name is Hart. Crazy irony
Bless their hearts! Rest in peace Girls, you are not forgotten. Prayers of peace go out to the families and friends of the Girls.
It’s just so sad
Thank you for this update, great reporting. This was such a travesty of justice but in the end he received ultimate justice. Continued prayers for the families. 💔💔💔
I hope those jurors are proud of themselves.
They are considering the amount of people out in those woods that night, that shouldn't have been. Gene Hart didn't live in this area at that time. There wasn't sufficient evidence to convict considering the shoe print or finger prints wasn't his. You can't convict a person of murder just because a cop thinks he might have done it because the guy escaped his jail on his watch.
@@cynthiawashburn771 His mother lived real close by. Whatever you think, it looks to me like he is guilty. I have not heard of others in those woods, after the killing there were.
@@shareis764 Hart escaped from Mayes County jail. I assure you he didn't evade getting caught by staying where every one knew him. You are welcome to believe what you like. I know why things happened the way they did. You will be judged one day also. Remember that while you are judging others and don't have a clue what happened. Lol
@@cynthiawashburn771 I think your full of it. Some of the things between the rapes and murders are similar. As is the things found in cave which was on his mothers land. Eyeglasses which he took from rape victims, and glasses in cave, I find odd. And as I, you will be judged too. I am not judging him I have an opinion much like others.
@@cynthiawashburn771 He was also arrested for burglary and there were things found in that cave that coincided with those burglaries.
Thank you
45 yrs!! 😭💔...that is ridiculous!! This is such a horrible evil act!! God bless those of Lantern Rescue.🙏...my condolences to all families that are going thru and has been thru this .😭💔🙏🙏
Glad they got answered its too bad some of the family members are no longer here to hear it in the flesh but I'm glad these poor young ladies killer was identified too bad he was unfortunately taken away be fkre he could be approached but I it's good he couldn't have been tried again either way unless double jeopardy wasn't enacted in 1977.
Incompetence at the beginning and to call something evil makes it seem bigger than it is, the deed is evil, but u must treat as a crime
For decades now, don't send your children to places that you are not their.
This was such a heart-breaking story! I really hope that DNA will give the ultimate answer!!
Counselors were in each tent for the kids when they did scouting. That’s how it should have been!!
I went to Girl Scout camp in 1989 and there was not a counselor in our tent but there should of been.
If Oklahoma is a red state in care so much about its children then why the hell did they parole this guy into years
Oklahoma was a blue state in the 60s and 70s 🙄
So sad 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Why charge 30k to test results for missing children???????????
That is a good question considering no new testing was done. He is telling you the results of tests that were done in 2019. The results for GLH were inconclusive due to DNA degradation. Reed is saying DNA didn't match whatever other suspects they had either, so it had to be GLH.
Evil walks among us
I remember reading this story online about 5ish years ago. I read something about him being an Indian and being a part of the evil spirit realm, something about being able to morph into an eagle, something about those mountains out there. Pure evil. Those poor baby girls and their families.
I pray for justice for all victims.
I read about that also. I believe it to be true. His lies created his own curse. Rot in hell he will.
We indians do not turn into animals think about what your saying lol
Sad
My heartfelt and deepest sympathy goes out to the parents, siblings , grandparents, all other relatives, Girl Scouts and leaders, school chums and many more folks from this area....l am truly sorry for your loss folks....⚘⚘⚘
Our justice is messed up. Bless them babies.
Some people are just sickening and pure evil 😒
Praying for closure
Wow
That camp should have been closed down long before this happened that place was unsafe the staff was in no way trained to deal with that many kids and the way that camp was laid out meaning the layout and design and maintenance of the camp was at fault to begin with. That place was a disaster waiting to happen and it did. How any parent could have taken one look at that place and felt safe leaving their kids there is beyond me even in the seventies when life was much more carefree because I myself went to summer camps in the late seventies as is 10 and 11 and 12 year old for 3 years...I used to have nightmares about this case.
My sister was at the same girl scout camp.
How frightening!
Someone had a great lawyer or a confluence of circumstances in his favor. To be acquitted of the crime he did indeed commit is rare.
Thank you Ms. Lori and Mr. Reagan. RIP to the three gs.
I hate that law that denies some pertinate information to be withheld.
Selected pertinent information is withheld to protect the integrity of the investigation and case. They use that withheld information to prove an offender has knowledge of the crime that they otherwise shouldn't. Other information is withheld to protect the families involved and such. The random public needs to respect that they have a specific reason for withholding information.
@@jessicashoop7109 Cherokee nation has it now he was Cherokee and on reservation
I live in Oklahoma and I just live a few miles from them And this may be one of the worst things in Oklahoma
What a nightmare, feel so bad for those people ! Wish you all well 🙏
Horrific! Incredibly tragic ...
I understand $30,000 is a lot, but that's no reason why the state just didn't test it on their own. 3 little girls died. There's evidence to test. Thank God for the donors.
Great job investigators very proud of you! Great job neighbors who gave lots of $$$ to help solve this case, neighbor hero's! I was a girl scout, we slept in these tents and loved camping and the outdoors! Our world is so creepy when someone wants to kill for what for the devil! The poor parents! I love when cold cases get solved!
Pure evil. I can't help but wonder how could no one heard something? Were teachers looked at as suspect? It's insane to think somebody could have done this, and not leave one ounce of evidence. They're missing something.
There was thunderstorm that night from what I heard
That jury,which acquitted that monster,were a disgrace.
An overhand knot looks nothing like a half hitch or even 2 half hitches. One could confuse a clove hitch for an overhand knot, but if you can’t tell what a knot is I guess everything is an overhand knot
I don't believe in those sleep away camps. kids need their parents at all times.
Kids need adult supervision at all times, not parental. We're suffocating kids these days with parents not giving them room to grow. I loved my Girl Scout camp.
This 3 murders of innocent little girls is despicable. Why would three little girls be left alone farthest away from the counselors? They were the youngest girls at camp.
30,000$ to test DNA? Really? So if you need a DNA test done you have to buy the scientist a car? Or a computer?
I bet the idiots that acquitted him feel like fools now which they should.
This was the OJ Simpson case of Oklahoma.
When I was in Girl Scout back in early 2000 I heard about this story from a girl in my troop back when we went camping up In New Hampshire at the time and when she was done tell it afterwards a 10 year old me was scared that we when we where going hiking that night and I refused to go that night and so today I’m saying to myself it not fair that these poor girls never got to grow up but I got to be able reach to adulthood and into my early 30s I hope these families get closure because I blame the Girl Scout organization god rest the soul of those little angel
Were you at Camp Menotomy?
@@ddivincenzo1194 Yes I was
@@lizzyleverone7253 Cool place!! I was there three times during the late '70s. Like I said in a separate post I was there just after this awful incident happened, but never showed the Globe article to my mom. She would not have allowed me to go otherwise.
@@ddivincenzo1194 I have to agree I know this world is a scary place you never know what’s going to happen that day I was like in my mind I hope nothing bad happens to us
2.5 years and paroled? That’s just nuts.
Why were they unsupervised?
The Girl Scouts Association should have been held responsible to the family's for this! There were strange events that happened before the little girls arrived that should have raised concern for the need of tighter security!
I knew it was him. It is so obvious. There was so much evidence linking him. At least justice was served when he died of a heart attack in prison. That was karma.
I had a feeling too. I watched an old documentary about the crime years ago. One of his previous victims was interviewed and described the assault and the sounds he made while doing it. The night of the murders, one of the Girl Scout troop leaders discussed waking up and hearing strange guttural sounds at the time of the crime. Even the matter in which the girls were attacked were similar to what his previous victim described
@@toshland5687 yes, that's a good documentary. I saw it, too. I found it a couple of years ago, but i think it was produced in the 90s. Even though nothing can bring these girls back and their killer is dead, at least the world now knows who is responsible.
@@toshland5687 he left those women for dead. He should have been locked up forever for that crime.
Thank God 🙏
30 fucking grand to test DNA??!! WHY!!! who gets paid for that? What is the money covering?? They couldn't just test it on their own good conscience?? I don't understand how this system works, I feel like if I were able, and I worked at a lab, I would just test it without the ridiculous charge, why do they have to do that??
He should have never been free to kill them
I remember 20/20 (or one of those ABC shows back then) covering this incident & the father of the little girl was interviewed during that time (the little girl's mother who spoke in this segment). His daughter with those other little girls played soft ball together; I believe they had won a softball championship; & were allowed to go camping together. There was an Native American police chief who also investigated the case, along side the regular police department. They came up with the same conclusions that the perp spoken of in this segment was the killer; he was acquitted on a technicality. The Native American chief afterwards did a prayer ceremony asking the creator to bring justice against the perp who killed those little girls. After the prayer ceremony, this perp who got off, was out jogging, & then all of a sudden died of a heart attack. Right there, I said, the creator answered prayers, & justice was served.
To clarify, he was jogging and working out IN PRISON when he died. He had been working out for a couple hours and was jogging in the prison yard when he had the heart attack.
@@jessicashoop7109 Okay.
I always find it interesting that ppl who actually try to find a solution are ALWAYS called "conspiracy theorists"......a term coined by the govt to label any and everyone who disagrees with govt.
Other counselors and girl scouts heard screams, cries, moans and one of them crying for their momma but went back to sleep. Every tent should've had an adult in with those little girls.
Disgusting how some people can be so racially motivated to defend that man
Whos defending this creep and what does race have to do with it? This mans DNA is all over the dam place so he did it!
Racially motivated? We thought they should go after the 3 guys that admitted they did it. I mean eye witnesses placed them there and they admitted it was a satanic ritual so all of us that live here really thought it was them. Race had nothing to do with it.
So very true.
I feel like I’m one of a few people to hold everyone accountability, even if we share the same race. I see white, black, Hispanic and other races constantly make excuses when it’s one of them. All the time!
Yes. Evil is evil...no matter the color.
Why did it cost so much to do the DNA? A family could finally have some kind of closure on who killed their daughter from over 40 years ago and for some reason it costs 30 grand to test DNA. God bless that community to raise the money.
I was thinking the Same....why did it cost 30 grand? Would someone please explain that?
Yes. Considering he had no new tests ran! He is just saying the tests from 2019 results were inconclusive! They didn't match anyone They ran the DNA against. So what cost 30 grand?
@@cynthiawashburn771 I looked it up and it said they had to Re-Test the DNA with updated methods
@@cynthiawashburn771 Why would I do that? Stop stalking me. Thanks
@@gigi9301 to get accurate information. You crazy lady if you think I'm stalking you. I haven't said anything to you other than you clicking on my comments asking me questions and then arguing. If you want the truth call the court house, sheriff department or maybe watch the hulu documentary. No new DNA was tested. Only ran old test against old suspects. No matches were made. They are still saying Gene is the best suspect.
RIP 🪦 little angels 👼 you’re safe now
Great work. Those parents needed this.
My mom refused to let me go with my troop I so happy but sad for the girls 😍
We’ve known for years who the killer was. And gene died in prison the way the elders of the tribe said he would if he was guilty .
Yep.
Wow wow the jury then must feel like crap
This is a story worth reporting!