The Brutal Kidnapping and Murder of Arkansas Girl Kacie Woody by a 47-year-old Catfisher who Posed in Christian Chat Room as a 17-year-old Boy
Within hours of arriving at a two-week Girl Scout camp outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, three young girls, Michelle Guse, 9, Lori Farmer, 8, and Doris “Denise” Milner, 10, were raped and murdered, their bodies found stuffed in sleeping bags on a trail more than 100 yards away from their tent in the early morning of June 13, 1977. “It was the bogeyman story,” said Andrea Fielding, the Director of Forensic Science Services at the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. In the ensuing investigation, the police uncovered evidence in a nearby cave that linked to Gene Leroy Hart, a convicted kidnapper/rapist who’d escaped from a local prison in 1973 and been on the loose for the four years leading up to the murders. After a 10-month intensive manhunt, Hart was finally apprehended in the area and charged with three counts of first-degree murder. He was tried and ultimately acquitted of the triple homicide by a jury in March 1979. He died in prison two months later, where he was serving time for multiple prior burglaries. While not conclusive, recent DNA testing supports law enforcement’s theory that Hart was indeed the Oklahoma Girl Scout murderer. The following is a timeline of the events that occurred.
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