Post by hi224 on Aug 9, 2017 9:02:20 GMT
In June 1977, three young girls were part of a large group of Girl Scouts at Camp Scott, in north-eastern Oklahoma. When camp started, these three girls were assigned to a (relatively isolated) tent on the edge of the camp grounds. During the first night, a thunderstorm hit so most of the activities were cancelled, and everyone went to bed earlier than usual.
During the night, strange sounds were heard, but whenever any of the supervisors went looking, the sounds would stop. A girl reported that someone shone a light into her tent, and then screams were later heard by fellow campers, along with a cry for help. Just on daybreak, a supervisor found the body of one of the three girls on a path not far from their tent, still in her sleeping bag. The other two were later found in similar circumstances. All had been raped and brutally murdered.
This is where it gets weird...
1. Two months before the murders, a camp counselor had been on a training exercise in preparation for the camp and found a bizarre note warning that three girls would be murdered at that camp.
2. A man was seen at the campsite on the day of the camp who had no reason to be there.
3. Locals in the area who were up late at night reported seeing strange dim orange lights in the forest around the time of the killings.
4. Footprints found at the scene were described as that of "military boots".
5. Three sniffer dogs were brought in to search for leads. One died of heatstroke, the other ran onto a highway for no reason and was killed by a car.
6. When more sniffer dogs were brought in, all leads led nowhere. Like, all dogs reached a certain point and then stopped and looked up into the sky.
7. One of the supervisors reportedly left the area immediately following the discovery of the bodies and was never heard from again.
8. After more than a year, a suspect was found. He was put on trial but found not guilty of killing the three girls, due to poor evidence. He was still sentenced to jail time (over 300 years to be exact), and then he died in jail of a heart attack. Virtually none of the evidence ever suggested that he was there in the first place, even though there were reports he was living in a cave near Camp Scott.
By the time DNA tests were done, it was too late; most of the evidence was so degraded it was unusable. Camp Scott was abandoned and never reopened. So whoever really did it probably remains at large to this day.
Another interesting fact is that all the other tents had four campers in them, whereas the victim's tent only had three, and all the other tents were in close proximity to each other while theirs was away from everybody else. Was that just a coincidence, or intentional?