CAMP SCOTT – Ok, folks, we are officially now onto the next installment of the pretrial transcripts. We have reviewed the testimonies of Elder and Wilhite, and today we will be going over Barbara Day’s pretrial testimony, the camp director for the Magic Empire Council of Girl Scouts. And we have a lot more pretrial transcripts to sort through, so it’s safe to say this will probably span the course of several months.

So, let's get directly into Mrs. Day's pretrial testimony.

CAMP SCOTT — For those of y'all following our multi-part series on the Girl Scout Murders of 1977, we've been working on several visuals to help make everything easier to understand.

This is the best depiction of Camp Scott that we were able to create based on publicly available maps, photographs, court documents, and other historical sources. While we believe it's a solid representation of the camp's general layout, please keep in mind that it is a reconstruction and is not intended to be an exact, to-the-foot recreation of Camp Scott.

LOCUST GROVE — Gene Leroy Hart was, and still is, the only person ever arrested and tried for the murders of Denise Milner, Michele Guse, and Lori Lee Farmer. In the end, though, a jury found him not guilty.

So, who was Gene Leroy Hart, and why did investigators believe he was the man responsible?

CAMP SCOTT — For those of you who have been following our Girl Scout Murders of 1977 series, we’ll be dropping the latest installment tonight.

This case is massive in the sense that there’s so much to review and discuss, so thank you for patiently waiting as we continue researching and reviewing the pretrial transcripts.

In tonight’s installment, we’re going to introduce Gene Leroy Hart and explain how he was taken into custody and tried for the murders of Denise, Michele, and Lori, but was ultimately acquitted.

CAMP SCOTT — As promised, here's Part Two of counselor Carla Wilhite's pre-trial testimony. Fair warning y’all, this one ended up being a little over eight pages long by the time we finished putting it together, so bear with us. There's a lot to unpack in this portion of her testimony, and we wanted to make sure we covered all our bases.

This portion of Carla's pre-trial testimony shifted away from the horrific discovery that morning of June 12th and focused more on the days leading up to the murders, camp security, the layout of the counselors' tent, and the personal items she later realized had gone missing.

CAMP SCOTT — We know several of y'all have been anxiously waiting for the next installment of our Girl Scout Murders series. The first pretrial transcript (Volume 1) we're diving into, which covers the testimony of two counselors, is more than 180 pages long. So it's taken us a little time to read through it and summarize it for y'all.

We are also going to have to split Carla's pretrial testimony into two parts because we're already at five pages long, and we don't want to make this one any longer than it already is so y'all's eyes don't get tired trying to read a novel on Facebook. So, with that being said, we'll be back with Part Two of her testimony later tonight.

CAMP SCOTT — In the days, months, and years that followed the murders at Camp Scott, investigators worked tirelessly to determine exactly what happened. The case eventually resulted in an arrest, a widely followed trial, and an acquittal. Despite decades of investigation, the murders remain officially unsolved nearly 50 years later.

To better understand the timeline and what unfolded that night, we dug through the pretrial transcripts and put together a summary of the firsthand testimony from the counselors assigned to the Kiowa Unit. We'll begin with the unit's chief counselor, Dee Elder. The other two counselors assigned to the Kiowa Unit were Carla Wilhite and Susan Emery, and we'll break down their firsthand testimony in the next drop as we continue piecing together the timeline of that tragic night.

CAMP SCOTT - As we continue digging into the 1977 Girl Scout Murders, we've realized this story deserves more than just a two-part series.

The deeper we've gone into the investigation, the more we've discovered. There is simply too much information to fit into two articles without leaving out important details, and we want to make sure y'all have the full picture.

So, we're changing things up a bit.

CAMP SCOTT — Today, we’re going back nearly 50 years to 1977 to take a closer look at the tragic and infamous Girl Scout Camp Murders.

We spent almost two full days elbows-deep in research on this case, and let us tell y'all, we did some serious deep reading. From what we found, there are tons of theories circulating about what may have happened that night, and we feel like we looked at just about all of them. But our goal today is simple: we want to present the facts as they were reported, separate them from the theories, and let y'all decide for yourselves what you think really happened.