1992 Cold Case Arrest: 2 Women, 6-Year-Old Girl Found? (PHOTO)
After more than 20 years, an Oklahoma man may have helped police solve the mystery behind two missing women and one missing girl.
Grover J. Prewitt Jr., 60, came forward last month and told officials he believed the bodies of three missing girls could have been buried in land that he once owned. The case pertained to Wendy Camp, 23; her daughter Cynthia Britto, 6; and Lisa Kregear, 22. The three had originally gone missing in 1992 and were never seen again.
At the time one of the lead suspects was Camp's ex-husband, Chad Noe. The couple was in the midst of a child custody dispute over their young son, Jonathan. Noe, Prewitt's nephew, had repeatedly avoided meeting Camp, who had recently remarried a man named Leon Camp, during court mandated visits with her son. He eventually began to accuse Camp of molestation, which was later discovered to be unfounded.
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The day that Camp, her daughter, and her sister in law went missing, Noe had invited the group to meet with Jonathan. Neither of the women nor the girl ever returned. Prewitt informed police in March that around the time the women went missing, his sister had asked him to hire a backhoe driver to dig a hole for a septic tank that their mother was buying from him.
The hole remained empty until the women went missing; Prewitt was then told to have the backhoe driver fill it once again. His mother never moved onto the property.
"Grover never looked in the hole after the girls went missing because he was scared of what he would see," agent Melissa Gann wrote in an affidavit filed in Creek County Court obtained be the Associated Press.
Later, his mother told him to sprinkle pepper on the area in order to deter dogs.
"He told her he thought that was 'awful damn strange.' She said it would 'deter dog scents.' Grover did not question her on that matter and did as he was asked," Gann wrote.
Authorities said Thursday that the bodies, which were found last week in the hole, likely belonged to the three women. They are now asking for others to come forward. Prewitt was charged Thursday with being an accessory after the fact of first-degree murder.
