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Camp Mystic owners face criminal probe after 27 deaths in 2025 flood

A criminal investigation is examining the role of the family that owns Camp Mystic after 25 girls and two counselors died in July 2025 flooding. The owners are fighting search warrants as investigators’ next steps remain ahead.

Camp Mystic owners face criminal probe after 27 deaths in 2025 flood
A criminal investigation into the family that owns Camp Mystic is underway more than a year after flooding killed 25 girls and two counselors at the Texas camp in July 2025. The Eastland family is challenging search warrants connected to the investigation. The warrants and the family’s response are now central to a legal dispute over investigators’ efforts to examine the family’s role in the tragedy. The investigation is ongoing. The available information does not identify any charges filed against the family, and investigators’ next steps have not been detailed publicly. The deaths followed deadly flooding at the camp in Hunt, in the Texas Hill Country. The criminal inquiry could bring accountability questions into sharper focus for families of those who died and communities seeking answers about how the disaster unfolded.

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