98: The Gitchie Manitou Campfire Killings | USA

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On the night of 17 November 1973, five teenage friends went to the Gitchie Manitou Preserve to hang out by a campfire. They were playing the guitar and singing along, passing around a joint. In the dark of the night, they heard something in the trees… What followed seemed to be a scene straight out of a horror film. By the end of the night, four of them were dead. One survived to tell the tale of what happened.

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0:54.6	A group of teenage friends headed out of Sioux Falls on a cold fall night in November 1973.
1:02.3	They headed for the Gitchie, Manitou State Preserve. Cold Fall Night in November 1973.
1:03.2	They headed for the Guiche-Manateu State Preserve, Lyon County,
1:06.2	in the northwest corner of Iowa on the South Dakota border.
1:10.0	It was what teens did back then.
1:11.8	They headed into the park, and there were often parties with bonfires,
1:15.1	and sometimes alcohol.
1:17.1	On this Saturday night, strangely enough, the park was quiet.
1:21.4	When the group from Sioux Falls arrived in their blue van, they quickly found a quiet place where they could build their fire.
1:26.0	It was a dark night with an ominous fog making it look rather spooky.
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