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Kristin Chenoweth seeks answers to the unsolved murders of three Girl Scouts in June of 1977 in the new ABC News special Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders.
The 53-year-old, a native of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, opens up about her personal connection to the tragedy, as she was supposed to be at Camp Scott, the sleepaway camp where the murders took place, until an illness sidelined her from attending.
'I should have been on that trip, but I had gotten sick,' the Tony Award-winning entertainer said. 'My mom said, "You can't go." It has stuck with me my whole life. I could have been one of them.
The latest: Kristin Chenoweth, 53, seeks answers to the unsolved murders of three Girl Scouts in June of 1977 in the new ABC News special Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders
'This is a story I wish I never had to tell - it haunts me every day, but this story needs to be told.'
In the special, Chenoweth is back in her home state in an effort 'to find answers once and for all' to the 45-year mystery, in which Doris Denise Milner, 10, Michele Heather Guse, nine, and Lori Lee Farmer, eight, were sexually assaulted and killed at the sleepaway camp.
The special features interviews with while relatives of the victims speaking about their lives in the aftermath of the tragedy, as well as an attorney for an acquitted suspect in the case, a Camp Scott counselor and Mayes County Sheriff Mike Reed, who opened the case up again.
In the case, a man named Gene Leroy Hart - who had escaped prison four years before the murders - was charged and later acquitted
