WOW!!!
RARE!!!
The Girl Scout Murders: A True Story of Violent Death and Indian Justice
by Charles W. Sasser
Condition: Very Good
This is a Very Rare book. Only days before it was to be released one or several of the families had the release stopped. Several copies were sent to the writer and publisher and rest were destroyed. I understand that less than twenty are known to exist. That was over twenty years ago. Less are thought to be in existence now.
This is a hardcover with Jacket; 1989, Delacorte Press; Jacket is a little edge-worn, otherwise good and intact. No wear to boards; Inside cover has the last name of the person this book was given to. All unmarked pages; Perfect binding with straight spine; Red & lack jacket with title in white lettering; 308 pages; "Girl Scout Murders: The True Story of Violent Death and Indian Justice, " by Charles W. Sasser.
Editorial Reviews
Publishers Weekly
In 1977 at a Girl Scout camp in Oklahoma, in the foothills of the Ozarks, three girls, the oldest aged 10, were raped and murdered. Sheriff Pete Weaver was convinced that the crime had been committed by Gene Leroy Hart, a Cherokee Indian and an escaped convicted rapist. Finding him took almost a year, for various members of the fugitive's family hid him. Sasser, a former Oklahoma homicide detective, brings alive the frustration of the search, especially since the media treated the story as persecution of an Indian by rednecks. Brought to trial, Hart was acquitted, even though, the author suggests, he committed the crimes. But, ultimately, justice was to be satisfied, at least according to the book, with the fulfillment of a medicine man's prophesy that the Great Spirit would strike Hart dead if he were guilty. Returned to prison to serve out his earlier sentence, he died three months later, of a coronary. Mystical resolution notwithstanding, the Girl Scout case remains officially open in Oklahoma, as it will in the minds of many readers.
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