Hart Returned To Prison

              'WT TT  returned to  Tribune Wire Services  PRYOR — Gene Leroy Hart is  back in a cell on death row at the  state penitentiary at McAlester  today after being acquitted Friday  of three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the 1977 sex  slayings of three Girl Scouts.  And prosecutors who failed to convince a jury Hart was the man who  sneaked into a camp and brutally  raped and killed the three say they  will not reopen an investigation into  the slayings "at this moment."  Hart, an elusive jailbreaker with a  history of rape and kidnapping, still  owes the state 305 years in prison,  his attorneys said.  Tears   streamed   down   Hart's  cheeks and his lips quivered a  'diets were read. /Defense  y  Garvin  Isaacs threw his  ai  around his client's shoulders for  support.  Hart, who was cheered by frierii  and relatives after the* reading o  verdict, was immediately taken  Oklahoma Highway P>atrol troop,  from the Mayes County courtro<  in handcuffs and leg snac>        back  to prison.  Defense attorneys in the 26-day  trial produced witn< who indi  cated another man—inow in a Kan-  5 prison on a rapce conviction-  had been in the area at the time of  the killings and was a more likely  suspect than Hart.  Prosecutor thty are un<  tain if the investigation will be  reopened.  "I don't have anything to justify  reopening the investigation at this  moment,' said Mayes County District Attorr T. Jack Graves. A  state investigator said, "We ji  don't have any place else to look.  Everything we had pointed in one  direction  OSBI agent  Don, Sharp said,  "We're satisfied and I believe t  DA i isfied that Gene Leroy Hart  did commit the crime.  I think it  unlikely  that  any  information  will  ever be developed to a positive nature to indicate that anyone other  See HART, page 2A  her!