'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"
ABC News Studios and Hulu recently released a trailer of their upcoming special "Keeper of the Ashes: The 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.
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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.
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"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."
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"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.