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Description edit
Traces the investigation following the (technically) never-solved murders of three Girl Scouts off at camp in 1977. Written by two of the police officers who worked on the case and who clearly never forgot.
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Characters/People edit
- Lori-Ann Farmer: Found dead after a single night at Girl Scout camp, in 1977
- Denise Wilhite: Found dead after a single night at Girl Scout camp, in 1977
- Michele Guse: Found dead after a single night at Girl Scout camp, in 1977
- Crying Wolf: A Cherokee medicine man who consulted with OSBI investigators, and who took steps on his own to make sure that the truth came out
- Ella Mae Buckskin: An amazingly well-connected local woman living a short distance from the place the girls were killed
- Garvin Issacs: Defense counsel
- Ron Grimsley: Newspaperman who became an important force in the melee following the identification of a suspect
- Jack Shroff: So upset to be considered a suspect that he checked into a hospital
- Barbara: In 1966 she was kidnapped and repeatedly raped at gunpoint, then left to wander blindfolded and bound, with her close friend Joan
- Joan: Alternated being locked in the trunk of the assailant's car, listening to him assaulting her friend Barbara and being released to be assaulted herself
- Michael Martinez: Stabbed to death, then run over by a train in Vinita, Oklahoma
- Charlotte: A 15-year-old Girl Scout who was kidnapped but managed to make her escape, just days after the other Girl Scouts were killed
Setting & Locations edit
Northeast Oklahoma
- Cookson Hills: A famously impenetrable corner of the world, where a person can disappear and stay missing for extended periods of time -- best-known as the hideout of many big-name bank robbers during the Great Depression
First Sentence edit
Locust Grove, Oklahoma, is similar to other small towns in Northeastern Oklahoma.
Glossary edit
- The Old One: Specially-raised and -treated tobacco used in Cherokee medicine; also called The Ancient One
- Stageny: The great owl that sleeps under the cedar tree; both of these have powers that Indians can draw upon in times of need
- Medicine: Can refer equally to medicine in the standard Western sense, or to Indian religious practices.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime: Perfect Crimes. (community list)
This book is in True Crime: Questionable. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Michael Wilkerson (Author)
- Dick Wilkerson (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 364.15230924
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