Fugitive Named In Girl Scout Murder

              named in Girl Scout murder  BULLETIN  Mayes County Dist. Atty. Sid Wise  iid today he is preparing a first-  degree murder warrant for the arrest of escaped rapist Gene Leroy  Hart in the killing of 8-year-old Lori  Lee Farmer, one of three Girl Scouts  found slain at Camp Scott.  By E.N EARLEY  and RALPH MARSH  The wedding photographs found  near Camp Scott where three young  Girl Scouts were murdered were  taken by an amateur photographer  assisted by a Locust Grove man who  has been a fugitive for four years.  The assistant, 33-year-old jail escapee Gene Leroy Hart, has served a  prison term for rape in which he  bound two young women with masking tape.  Jne of (he three young Scouts wa  bound with • and all three, Lori  Lee Farmer Doris Denise Milner.  10, and Michelle Gusc, 9, were sexually mole.  The mouths of two of the girls we  taped.  Hart, an Indian who fled Ma\  mnty jail in 1973 and is believed  hiding in the Locust Grove area, attended the 1968 wedding of a Man-  gum-area couple with amateur  photographer Lewis Lindse.  LLXDSEY, at the time, was I  cords clerk and photographer at the  Granite State Reformatory where  Hart was serving three concurrent  10-year sentences for rape and kidnaping.  Lindsey, now retired in Santa  Ana, Calif., said Hart went to the  wedding with him and later d  veloped the negatives and prints in  the prison darkroom.  Photographs of the wedding,  \  portedly found in a cave near Camp  Scott by investigators, were distributed statewide Wednesday and rec-  nized by numerous persons in the  Mangum area — about 30 miles from  the prison.  Lindsey said Hart had attended the  wedding with him as a trusty as-  gned to carry Lindsey's photography equipment.  Lindsey said he d not i  member Hart talking to any of the  guests at the wedding.  "He wasn't outgoing," Lindsey  said. "He would just sit around on the  side and sometimes take my pictures  for me."  Investigators with the Oklahoma  State Bureau of Investigation, had  said earlier that the pictures could be  a key element in solving the slayings.  4' We want to know how the pictures  taken at a wedding from Locust  Grove got where we found them, how  this weirdo, psychotic — if it was —  had these pictures out there," OSBI  director Jeff Laird, said when the  pictures were released.  The photographs were old and tattered, authorities said, as if someone  had carried them tor years. Crime  laboratory technicians restored the  pictures.  Lindsey said Hart had access to the  negatives but he did not know if the  convict kept copies after printing  them for the bride, who was a close  friend of Lindsey's family.  Hart was released from prison in  1969 — the year after the photos were  taken.  He was originally sent to prison in  1966 from Tulsa County, where he  had abducted two pregnant Tulsa  women outside a nightclub.  THE WOMEN, aged 18 and 19, said  he forced them into a car trunk and  drove to an isolated area between  Locust Grove and Chouteau on Oklahoma 33.  He bound the women with masking  tape, blindfolded, gagged and raped  them, the women said.  Hart admitted the attack to officers and said he threw the women's  underclothing and purses off a nearby Grand River bridge.  The young Scouts were found nude  from the waist down June 13, and it is  known searchers are looking for  bloody clothes in the Scout camp  area.  / M  Hart was paroled from the sentences in March 1969, but within  three months was again arrested for  trying to break into the Tulsa home of  a woman detective.  He was charged and convicted of a  total of four first-degree burglaries,  and sentenced to 305 years in prison.  Hart was sent to the state prison at  McAlester, then returned to Mayes  County in April 1973 as a witness. He  escaped from the jail shortly afterwards.  Mayes County Sheriff Glenn (Pete)  Weaver has said from the beginning  of the Scout slaying investigation  that he views Hart as a suspect because he thinks Hart has been hiding  in the Locust Grove area.  Several of Hart's relatives still live  in the Locust Grove area, within a  few miles of the Scout camp.  It was disclosed during Hart's rape  trial that Hart, who is the father of  one child and divorced, underwent a  sterilization operation.  PROSECUTORS AT the time said  the surgery explained why no sperm  GENE LEROY HART  . . . 1966 PHOTO  was found in the women whom Hart  had raped.  It is known that investigators have  See SLAY IN G^^^^^^^