PRYOR — Forty years after the sadistic murders of three young Girl Scouts at an Oklahoma summer camp, law officers are raising funds to find the answers that have remained elusive.

Mayes County Sheriff Mike Reed was 8 years old at the time of the slayings at Camp Scott, near the small community of Locust Grove. He grew up just a few miles away from the crime scene.

The murders of Lori Lee Farmer, 8, and Doris Denise Milner, 10, both of Tulsa, and Michele Guse, 9, of Broken Arrow, are currently the only unsolved homicide cases in Reed's jurisdiction.

"It's personal to me — it affected how we played outside that summer," Reed said. "I was about the same age as the girls that were killed."