Bristow Man Pleads Not Guilty To Involvement In 1992 Triple-Homicide

An attorney representing a Bristow man, who is charged with accessory after the fact in a 1992 triple homicide, entered a not guilty plea on his client’s behalf Friday morning in Creek County District Court.

Prosecutors allege Grover Prewitt, 60, intentionally helped his now-dead mother and other family members cover up the murders and conceal the bodies of Wendy Camp, 23, Cynthia Britto, 6, and Lisa Kregear, 22, effectively avoiding prosecution for more than two decades. They also said Prewitt interfered with the investigation by apparently sabotaging a recent undercover operation in which he was fit with a wire and asked to obtain information.

5/4/2013 Related Story: OSBI: Remains Found In 1992 Triple Homicide; 1 Person Arrested

At the time of the killings, Camp was in bitter custody battle with her ex-husband, who is Prewitt’s nephew. Nearly 21 years after she and the others disappeared, skeletal remains thought to be theirs were found buried under 8 feet of dirt on private property in Jennings. The land was owned by Prewitt and his wife at the time the people vanished.

Months ago, authorities received a tip about the cold case.

On March 28 -- 19 days before the dig in Jennings began -- Prewitt was interviewed by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, a probable cause affidavit says. Prewitt reportedly told District Attorney 24 Task Force Investigator Andy Howard that he owned 40 acres in 1992, but his mother, Ida Prewitt, bought 5 acres from him, moved a trailer onto her part of the property and never occupied it. He also said his sister, Beverly Noe, had him hire a backhoe driver and dig a hole by her trailer for a septic tank, according to the affidavit.

Prewitt then pointed out to investigators where the hole reportedly meant for a septic tank had been dug. He said the spot he showed investigators to dig was on the 5 acres he claimed to have sold to his mother, according to the OSBI.

The Cleveland American first reported on Wednesday that Pawnee County land records do not support Prewitt’s account that he sold 5 acres to his mother, Ida Prewitt, around 1992. The newspaper reported there is no 5-acre sale between Grover Prewitt and his mother recorded in deeds housed at the Pawnee County Courthouse.

The newspaper’s research cites deeds filed with the county clerk, showing Grover Prewitt and his wife purchased the 40-acre property in 1987, and a deed shows it changed into his mother’s name in 1995, three years after the females were last seen.

For an in-depth look into the land once owned by the Prewitt family, click here to read the American’s full story

According to an affidavit, Grover Prewitt said after the girls went missing, he never looked in the hole reportedly intended for a septic tank, "because he was scared of what he would see,” the affidavit says. In another interview nearly a month later -- six days after the remains were unearthed -- Grover Prewitt told investigators he remembered his mother asking him to deter dog scents by sprinkling black pepper on the area where the hole was filled in, documents say.

According to the Associated Press, a prosecutor said he believed Grover Prewitt lost the opportunity to ask for mercy in the case after blowing his cover when he was supposed to elicit incriminating statements from family members.

Grover Prewitt is due back in court June 28. He is being held at the Creek County Justice Center in lieu of $500,000 bond.

If he is convicted, accessory after the fact in first-degree murder carries up to a 45-year prison sentence in Oklahoma.