S6 Ep18: The Girl Scout Murders on Cookie Trail Road
Crimes of the Centuries
Amber Hunt and Audioboom
4.7 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Dozens of Girl Scouts arrived at Camp Scott in the Oklahoma woods in June of 1977 expecting songs, crafts and campfires. By morning, three of the girls were dead, their bodies discovered along a dirt path called Cookie Trail Road. The investigation that followed became the largest manhunt in Oklahoma history, fueled accusations of corruption and racism, and left behind a mystery that still divides people nearly 50 years later.
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| 0:30.1 | A note before we begin. |
| 0:31.6 | This episode contains disturbing crimes against children. |
| 0:35.0 | Please take care. |
| 0:41.2 | Thank you. disturbing crimes against children, please take care. Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or even |
| 0:48.5 | earn the label, Crime of the Century. But the stories that made headlines in decades past aren't necessarily remembered |
| 0:56.4 | today. I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist, an author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine |
| 1:03.2 | a case that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened. This is Crimes of the Centuries. |
| 1:11.6 | When our alarm rang at the Monday morning, 18-year-old Carla Will had awoke to a crisp day in the woods that promised to be hotter than anyone would have liked. |
| 1:38.2 | It was June 13, 1977, and Carla was trying to get to the group showers before any of her fellow camp |
| 1:46.1 | counselors. The early bird gets the hot water. She saw that her two tentmates, also camp |
| 1:52.4 | counselors, were still dozing as she headed out. It was Carla's first year as a counselor at |
| 1:58.0 | Camp Scott. The Girl Scout camp located a bit east of Tulsa. |
| 2:02.8 | Some 140 girls had arrived the day before and had been sorted into their respective units, |
| 2:08.5 | and as always, that evening had been filled with songs and getting to no use. |
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