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 the owner of a farm 2 miles west of Camp Scott, his

house had been broken into some of the items taken were a sash cord,

a roll of duct tape, 3 bottles of beer and 3 identical crow bars. The

beer bottles were later found empty on the camp grounds.

Outside shroff's door a jungle boot style print was found. It matched

other boot prints found near the crime scene.

An other print had been found on the blood soaked floor of tent 8

Boot Print Size 10

Shoe Print(possible tennis shoe) size 7

Cause of Death:

Guse and Farmer were killed inside the tent. Struck by a heavy blunt

object in the back of their heads while they slept.

Milner may have been led out of the tent, raped then killed. When

found her face had been beaten with such force that the object

responsible had left behind its shape. She had died on the trial. Her

cause of death was blunt force trauma not strangulation.

At autopsy it was revealed that 2 different types of knots had

reportedly been used, head wounds on 2 of the victims indicated 2

different blunt instruments.

Analysis:

Physical evidence left behind at the crime scene and evidence

recovered during autopsy indicates that 2 offender's were