Nine-year-old Michele Heather Guse was among three Girl Scouts killed at Camp Scott in Mayes County, Oklahoma, in the early summer of 1977. Michele and two other girls, eight-year-old Lori Lee Farmer and ten-year-old Doris Denise Milner, had arrived for a two-week session on June 12 and were sharing tent number seven in the Kiowa unit, the camp’s most remote tent. Their bodies were discovered about 150 yards from the tent on the morning of June 13.

Investigators determined the girls had been sexually assaulted, bludgeoned, and strangled. The case prompted what was described as the largest manhunt in the state’s history and led to the arrest and prosecution of Gene Leroy Hart, a local man with a prior record who had escaped from the county jail years earlier. Hart was tried in 1979; the jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty. The murders remain officially unsolved.

Does anyone have information about Michele, her activities at Camp Scott, or memories of the investigation that could help bring new leads?