Murder case's lore, mystery keep growing
Thirty-one years later, the debate rages over whether Gene Leroy Hart murdered three Girl Scouts in the rain-soaked woods near Locust Grove .
To date, Hart remains the only person ever charged with those grisly slayings, and he was acquitted. The truth may have died forever when he dropped dead of a heart attack in 1979 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester while serving time for a string of rape, b...
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