Grover Prewitt Arrested In 1992 Oklahoma Cold Case After Bodies Were Found In Septic Tank Hole

An arrest has been made in the case of three females who were missing since 1992. The assumed remains of Wendy Camp, 23; her daughter Cynthia Britto, 6; and Lisa Kregeear, 22, who was Camp's sister in law, were found under 8 feet of dirt that was once a hole initially dug for a septic tank. While the remains still need to be identified through DNA testing, clothing, a backpack and a purse found in the hole matched items the women had when they disappeared.

Oklahoma authorities have arrested Grover J. Prewitt Jr., 60, on accessory charges to first-degree murder, as the property in which the remains were found used to belong to him. Prewitt told investigators that he suspected in 1992 that the three were in the hole and he spread pepper in the area at his mother's request.

In late March, Prewitt told investigators that his sister Beverly asked him to hire a backhoe driver to dig a hole for a septic tank on 5 acres that their mother was buying from him around the time the three disappeared. The hole sat empty until the time three went missing; it was at that point Prewitt's mother, Ida Prewitt, asked him to backfill the hole. She subsequently never moved onto the property and later sold it.

"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.

Five days after his initial meeting with police, Prewitt met again and informed one of the investigators that "he really needed to look in that hole." The bodies were recovered on April 16^th. On April 22^nd, Prewitt recalled the black pepper incident during a police interview.

"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.

Ida Prewitt died in September 2011, the investigators said.

"He also remembered Ida saying one time she 'took care' of those three people," Gann wrote.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation wouldn't speculate on why Prewitt would step forward now, but OSBI spokeswoman Jessica Brown stated that, "after 21 years, a lot changes in people's lives.

"Now that it is open and out in the public, we need people to come forward," she added. "There are other people who know about this."

Prewitt's nephew had been married to camp and was in a custody dispute with her around the time of the disappearance.