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Book Signing & Author Talk - "The Usual Suspect"

Sun, Mar 02

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Jacobson House Native Art Center

THE USUAL SUSPECT: The story of the defense of Gene Leroy Hart in the Girl Scout murder cases as told for the first time by one of the two defense attorneys, Choctaw Author, Gary S. Pitchlynn.

Book Signing & Author Talk - "The Usual Suspect"
Book Signing & Author Talk - "The Usual Suspect"

Time & Location

Mar 02, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Jacobson House Native Art Center, 609 Chautauqua Ave, Norman, OK 73069, USA

About the event

THE USUAL SUSPECT: The story of the defense of Gene Leroy Hart in the Girl Scout murder cases as told for the first time by one of the two defense attorneys, Choctaw Author, Gary S. Pitchlynn.


The author, was a recent law school graduate working for a Native American nonprofit that served the urban Indian community of Oklahoma City. He was asked by the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to meet with a young Cherokee man, Gene Leroy Hart, following his arrest. Hart was accused of committing the most notorious crime in Oklahoma history, the killing of three girl scouts asleep in their tent on the first night of summer camp. Hart had been a fugitive and on the run for several years before the murders, but as the usual suspect in the area, this crime had raised the stakes for his capture. Expecting the assignment to be a…


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