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October 31, 2022

October 2022 Bonus Review: Keeper Of The Ashes

Everything about it is a waste

the true crime that's worth your time

The crime
In the wee hours of June 13, 1977, three tentmates — Lori Farmer, 8; Michelle Guse, 9; and Denise Milner, 10 — were attacked and killed at Camp Scott, a Girl Scout camp in Oklahoma. Suspicion quickly fell, rightly or not, on Native American Gene Leroy Hart, a one-time high-school football star who had escaped from prison several years prior and was rumored to be living in the woods and hills near the camp.

The story
I don’t know quite where to begin talking about what a corny, off-tone misfire Keeper Of The Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders is.

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