Girl Scout Murders
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Essay title: Girl Scout Murders
Case Outline
Date: June 12, 1977
Location: Girl Scout Camp Scott. Kiown Section, located at the
western most end of the 410 acre property. This location may have
been chosen because of it's remoteness. The closest tent to the crime
scene was 75 feet away, the nearest consoler tent was 100 yards away.
The Victims:
Michele Heather Guse Age 9
Doris Denise Milner Age 10
Lori Lee Farmer Age 8
Events Leading Up To The Crime
Strange events were talking place around Camp Scott leading up to the murders.
A man's effigy was found hanging from a tree by it's neck, personal
items were disappearing from tents. The most interesting event was
the discovery of a note in April, it read "we are on a mission to
kill 3 girls in tent 1". The note was considered a prank and never
given to police.
The crime
A storm had hit and area around 6pm causing heavy rain. Because of
the weather the campers were sent back to their tents.
Approximately 1:30AM moaning was heard near Kiowa. Carla a camp
consoler checked out the nosie and described it as a low guttural
moaning. It would stop whenever the beam of her flashlight came near.
Carla was standing at the intersection of the trail, 150 yards from
tent 8 and a dirt road leading to the main camp.
Approximately 2AM the tent flap of #7 was opened. 3 of the girls
inside were sleeping. The 4th girl stated that she noticed a beam of
light moving about the interior from outside, with the silhouette of
a large figure behind it. The figure moved off toward tent # 8.
Moaning sounds were heard throughout the night. Not just by those in
the Kiowa section but in 4 other units of the camp.
Approximately 3AM a girl in the Cherokee section across the woods
heard a scream come from the direction of Kiowa about 2 city blocks
away. A girl in Quapaw also heard a scream. The scream seemed to be
momma. momma.
The girl thought it may have been the voice of Lori Farmer
Approximately 6AM Carla found sleeping bags under a tree near the
intersection in a pile.
The Bodies
Doris Milner was found nude from the waist down, her PJ top was
pulled up underneath her arms. Her hands had been tied behind her
back with duct tape and she had been beaten about the face.
Around her neck a cord and an elastic bandage were visible. A round
cylinder shaped object about 4 inches long made of terrycloth was
attached to the cord. The elastic bandage had been used as a
blindfold, the terrycloth object as a gag.
Michele Heather Guse and Lori Farmer were found inside their sleeping
bags. Both bodies had been bound into a tight compact fetal like
position.
Evidence
Guse and Farmer's sleeping bags contained bloody bed sheets that had
been used by the killer to wipe down the blood found on the wood
floor of the tent. Also found a roll of black duct tape and a
flashlight the murder had discarded.
Jack Shroff was