What to know about the unsolved Girl Scout murder case that's the focus of Hulu's latest true-crime series
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Libby Torres
May 25, 2022, 20:09 IST
Kristin Chenoweth (inset) is featured in the new Hulu true-crime docuseries "Keeper of the Ashes," which investigates the murders of three Girl Scouts in 1977.ABC News
In 1977, three young Girl Scouts — aged 8, 9, and 10 — were found murdered after a camping trip.
Their story is the focus of a new series called "Keeper of the Ashes," which premiered on Hulu Tuesday.
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The rape and murder of three young Girl Scouts on a camping trip in 1977 shocked their small Oklahoma town, and spurred an investigation that eventually led to the arrest of local convict Gene Leroy Hart.
A new four-part docuseries from ABC News titled "Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders" tries to make sense of the killings and also explores new evidence that authorities say points to Hart's involvement in the crimes. Premiering Tuesday on Hulu, the series also features actress Kristin Chenoweth, who was supposed to attend that same Girl Scout camping trip in June 1977 but stayed home because she was sick that day.
Before watching the docuseries, here's what to know about the tragic deaths of Farmer, Guse, and Milner.
The 3 girls' bodies were found about 100 yards from their tent
As the series depicts, Farmer, Guse, and Milner were all staying in a tent at the edge of the Mayes County campground, where they'd planned to partake in two weeks of fun and outdoor activities at Camp Scott along with their fellow Girl Scouts.
"Unless something new comes up, something brought to light we are not aware of, I am convinced where I'm sitting of Hart's guilt and involvement in this case," Mayes County Sheriff Mike Reed told Tulsa World, the daily newspaper for the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, earlier in May.
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Chenoweth was supposed to attend the same camping trip
"This is a story I wish I never had to tell. It haunts me every day," Chenoweth says in the trailer for "Keeper of the Ashes."
According to the actress (who was raised in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a Tulsa suburb where some of the other Girl Scouts were from), she was supposed to go on the camping trip in Mayes County, but her mother ended up keeping her home since Chenoweth had recently gotten sick.
Chenoweth, who says in the trailer that she "could have been one" of the murder victims, decided to return home to Oklahoma to help find answers in the murder case, and bring closure to the victims' families.
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