COMFORT, TEXAS – JULY 6: A Camp Mystic T-shirt found by a search and rescue volunteer, photographed in Comfort, Texas on July 6, 2025. The volunteer found the T-shirt yesterday along the Guadalupe River near Ingram, Texas. “I hope I find the person to return their belongings, not to find closure,” he said.Photo by Danielle Villasana for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Texas Rangers allege crimes in Camp Mystic flood investigation, affidavit says

An affidavit filed in Kerr County details an investigation into potential manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. No charges have yet been filed.

by · 5 NBCDFW

Newly filed paperwork in Kerr County details a Texas Rangers investigation into Camp Mystic and seeks phone and data records connected to Tweety Eastland, the camp’s matriarch.

The search warrant affidavit said the Texas Rangers investigating the case believed Camp Mystic LLC committed manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, among other crimes. However, as of this time, no charges have been filed.

The Texas Bullpen first reported the filing online and posted the lengthy affidavit.

The search warrant seeks records and data from Apple that investigators want as part of the Texas Rangers investigation.

The affidavit lays out investigators’ examination of weather conditions, previous floods and what Camp Mystic leaders did and did not do leading up to the flooding.

In the early hours of July 4, 2025, the Guadalupe River rose from 14 feet to nearly 30 feet within one hour as catastrophic flooding hit Central Texas.

The affidavit said the Texas Ranger who wrote the report believed Camp Mystic was aware of and consciously disregarded a substantial and unjustifiable risk of death to campers in its care.

Earlier this year, Camp Mystic halted plans to reopen this summer amid court hearings and legislative investigations. Those hearings examined the camp’s lack of detailed emergency flood planning and its missed opportunities to evacuate before conditions became too dangerous.

Paul Yetter and Richard Mithoff, two attorneys representing some of the families whose daughters died in the flood, released the following statement after the affidavits were made public on Tuesday: “Our clients need full transparency and accountability for the deaths of their daughters. These warrants show that decisions made by camp leadership before and during the flood may have been criminal. Twenty-seven girls should be alive today, and we will not stop seeking answers. This is a necessary step in that process.”