Kristin Chenoweth is talking about her personal connection to the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders of 1977 for an upcoming Hulu docuseries. She appears in Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders, which looks at the reopened investigation utilizing new technology to solve and close the case.

In the trailer for the upcoming docuseries, Kristen reveals that she was a girl scout who “loved going to camp.” But her connection to the grisly murders that occurred at Camp Scott in Locust Grove, Oklahoma is much more personal than that. In the trailer, she says:

Chenoweth is a Tony and Emmy-winning actress, best known for her roles as Glinda in Wicked, Olive Snook in Pushing Daisies, and Annabeth Schott in The West Wing. She recently appeared on Apple TV+’s Schmigadoon! as Mildred Layton. In 2009, she published A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages, a memoir about her life. Chenoweth was adopted and grew up in a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She started performing at a young age, singing gospel at community churches.

“I should have been on that trip, but I had gotten sick. My mom said, ‘You can’t go. It has stuck with me my whole life. I could have been one of them.”

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Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders premieres on May 24 on Hulu.

Exploring the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

On June 12, 1977, girl scouts arrived at Camp Scott, where they were to stay two weeks. That night, as thunder and rain filled the sky, the girls were asked to go to their tents and write letters to their families.

Girl Scouts Lori Lee Farmer, Michele Heather Guse, and Doris Denise Milner were sharing tent eight, which was the farthest away from the counselors. All three girls were from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma– the same Tulsa suburb as Chenoweth. Each tent had space for four girls, but their fourth roommate was scheduled to arrive the next day.

The next morning, as a camp counselor walked to the shower facility that was located close to tent eight, she discovered a girl’s dead body in a sleeping bag. Soon after, she realized all three girls had been murdered, and their bodies were left on a trail close to their tent.

While a suspect, Gene Leroy Hart, was identified and taken to trial, he was acquitted of the crimes. However, he had been previously sentenced to prison for previous crimes and was to be incarcerated for 305 years.

Camp Scott never reopened.