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'I could have been one of them': Kristin Chenoweth talks connection with Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

ABC News Studios and Hulu recently released a trailer of their upcoming special "Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders"

'I could have been one of them': Kristin Chenoweth talks connection with Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

ABC News Studios and Hulu recently released a trailer of their upcoming special "Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders"

SHOWS US THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN FILES. AN EMPTY TENT WHAT STEAM MATTRESSES AGENTS ARRESTED JEAN LEROY HTAR THE STATE’S FIRST TWO WITNESSES WERE FORMER CAMP COUNSELORS FOR TWO DAYS. WE’VE GONE OVER WHAT HAPPENED OUR CHILD, BUT STILL LACKING AT LEAST AT THE MID-AFTERNOON WAS ANY HARD EVIDENCE DIRECTLY LINKING HEART TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME THE, OKLAHOMA, SCOUTS MURDER AN UNSOLVED CASE. BASICALLY IT WASHE T MAJORITY THREE YOUNG GIRLS MURDERED AT MPCA IT WAS JUNE 12 1977 THE FIRST DAY AT CAMP SCOTT FOR EIGHT YEAR OLD LORI FARMER. NINE YEAR OLD MICHELLE GOOSE AND 10 YEAR OLD DENISE MILNER THE GIRLS ASSIGNED TO TENT EIGHT THE KIAOW UNIT THE MOST SECLUDED CAMPGROUND AND THE MOST SECLUDED TENT WITHIN THE THAT PARTICULAR CAMPGRNDOU LORI MICHELLE AND DENISE WERE ONLY THREE IN THEIR TENT ONE OF THE OTHER LITTLE GIRLS THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE HAD I THINK GOT SECOND AND NOT MEET AT THAT THAT WEEK AFTER A FULL DAY AT CAMP SCOTT. THE GIRLS WERE TUCKED IN AND PUT TO BED THERE WAS JUST A LOT OF ACTIVITY LIKE THAT GOING ON IN A LOT OF EXCITEMENT FORHE T FIRST NIGHT OF CAMP LAURIE WROTE A LETTER TO HER FAMILY THAT NIGHT AND TALKED ABOUT HER TWO NEW FRIENDS THAT SHE HAD MADE. AND THEN I THINK THEY PLAYED CARDS WENT WENT TO SLEEP A FEW HOURS LATER THEIR TIME AT CPAM SCOTT WOULD COME TO AN END SOMETIME IN THE MIDDLE THE NIGHT. SOMEONE ENTERED THEIR. AND MURDERED THE THREE LITETL GIRLS THEIR BODIES STUFFED INSIDE SLEEPING BAGS FOUND BY A CAMPOU CNSELOR THE NEXT MORNING. WE BELIEVE LORI AND MICHELLE WERE PROBABLY MOST LIKELY KLEILD IN THE TENT AND THAT DENISE WAS EITHER CARRIED OR MADE TO WALK TO THE LOCATION WHERE THE BODIES WERE FOUND. THERE WAS BLOOD ON THE MATTRESSES OF THE FIRST TWO CUTS OF THEWO T CUTS ON THE LEFT AND THERE WAS BLOOD ON THE FLOOR OF THEEN TT BESIDE EACH ONE OF THOSE BEDS FOUND NEAR THE BODIES TAPE AND A FLASHLIGHT. IT HAD A PIECE OF PLASTIC TAPED OVER THE TOP OF IT IN THE PLASTIC HAD A LITTLE PINHOLE. SO JUST A VERY VERY LITTLE AMOUNT OF LIGHT COULD COME FROM ATTH FLASHLIGHT INSIDE THE FLASHLIGHT NEWSPAPER. THEY JUST FIVE THROUGH 12 OF SECTION C OF THE TULSA WORLD NEWSPAPER. FROM AILPR 17TH 1977 THREE DAYS LATER THE REST OF FOUND INSIDE ISTH CAMP AN INVESTIGATION LINKED TO THIS MAN THE MURDER. THE 4:15 PM THIS AFTERNOON. AGENTSF O THE OKLAHOMA STATE BUREAU OF INVESTIGAONTI ARRESTED GENE LEROY HART AT A REAL RESIDENCE IN THE COOKSON HILLS IN SOUTHERN AIRE COUNTY GENE. LEROY HART WAS BROUGHT BACK TO THE MAIZE COUNTY COURTHOUSE FOR A YEAR. LATER. THE TRIAL WOULD BEGIN BUT AGAIN TODAY AS IN THE PAST TWO DAYS, THERE WAS NO TESTIMONY DIRECTLY LINKING. HEART WITH ANY OF THAT PHYSICAL EVIDENCE HEART WAS EVENTUALLY ACQUITTED HE DIED A FEW MONTHS LATER. AND REALIZED WE HAD DONE SOME DNA EVIDENCE IN 1989 AND NOTHING SINCE THEN IN 2010 ANDREA FIELDING DIRECTOR OF CRIMINAL. IS FOR OS. B ANALOGIES THEY RETESTED EVIDENCE COLLECTED AT THE SCENE LOOKED AT. ALL OF THE AUTOPSY SAMPLES THAT WERE SUBMITTED FROM THE THREE VICTIMS AS WELL AS SOME OF THE CLOTHING ITEMS AND SLEEPING BAG, BUT BUILDING SS AYDNA WAS TOO HARD TO DETECT UNFORTUNALYTE BECAUSE THE ITEMS WERE COLLECTED IN 1977 AND PRESERVATION TECHNIQUES HAVE CHANGED COLLECTION TECHNIQUES HAVE CHANGED AND TESTING TECHNIQUES HAVE CHANGED SOME OF THE ITEMS WERE NOT PRESERVED THEAY W THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN AND SO A LOT OF THE ITEMS WERE TWO DEGRADED TO ACTUALLY GET ANY DNA. OR ANY DNA RESULTS, BUT EY WEREN’T HEART. AS BEING UTTERED TO THAT DNA PROFILE THE OTHER PARTIALS CONNECTED TO THE VICMTI THERE THERE WERE NONE THAT WERE NOT LINKED TO SOMEBODY KNOWN IN THIS CASE NOW A COLD CASE CLOSE TO BEING CRAEDCK AS FAR AS THE OSBI GOES AND THE EVIDENCE THAT WE HAVE OUR BELIEF. IS THAT GENE LEROY HART COMMITTED THE MURDERS. AND AND THE EVIDENCE THAT WE HAVE DOESN’T EXCLUDE HIM. IT DOESN’T POINT TO ANYONE ELSE AND SO WE WILL CLOSE THE C
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'I could have been one of them': Kristin Chenoweth talks connection with Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

ABC News Studios and Hulu recently released a trailer of their upcoming special "Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders"

Kristin Chenoweth says she could have been one of the victims of the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders if she didn't get sick during the summer of 1977.>> Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders: A look into one of Oklahoma's most notorious cold cases Three young girls – 8-year-old Lori Lee Farmer, 9-year-old Michelle Heather Guse, and 10-year-old Doris Denise Milner – were sexually assaulted and murdered in June 1977 at Camp Scott in Locust Grove.Now, 45 years later, the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders is making headlines again as the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is ready to close the cold case.ABC News Studios and Hulu recently released a trailer of their upcoming special "Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders." Chenoweth, an Oklahoma native, discusses how she could have been one of the victims.>> Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders: The criminal history of prime suspect"I remember I should have been on that trip, but I had gotten sick," Chenoweth says in the trailer. "My mom said, 'You can't go.' It has stuck with me my whole life. I could have been one of them."Chenoweth returned to Oklahoma to participate in "Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders.">> Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders: Timeline of events"This is a story I wish I never had to tell. It haunts me every day. But this story needs to be told," she says in the trailer. "When I think of those three girls, I wonder, 'What's the best way to honor them?' That's why I came back home to find answers once and for all."Click here to watch the trailer for "Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders."Open the video player above to see KOCO 5's recent special on the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders.

Kristin Chenoweth says she could have been one of the victims of the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders if she didn't get sick during the summer of 1977.

>> Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders: A look into one of Oklahoma's most notorious cold cases

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Three young girls – 8-year-old Lori Lee Farmer, 9-year-old Michelle Heather Guse, and 10-year-old Doris Denise Milner – were sexually assaulted and murdered in June 1977 at Camp Scott in Locust Grove.

Now, 45 years later, the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders is making headlines again as the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is ready to close the cold case.

ABC News Studios and Hulu recently released a trailer of their upcoming special "Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders." Chenoweth, an Oklahoma native, discusses how she could have been one of the victims.

>> Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders: The criminal history of prime suspect

"I remember I should have been on that trip, but I had gotten sick," Chenoweth says in the trailer. "My mom said, 'You can't go.' It has stuck with me my whole life. I could have been one of them."

Chenoweth returned to Oklahoma to participate in "Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders."

>> Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders: Timeline of events

"This is a story I wish I never had to tell. It haunts me every day. But this story needs to be told," she says in the trailer. "When I think of those three girls, I wonder, 'What's the best way to honor them?' That's why I came back home to find answers once and for all."

Click here to watch the trailer for "Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders."

Open the video player above to see KOCO 5's recent special on the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders.