Texas Rangers believe Camp Mystic LLC may have committed manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in connection with the catastrophic flooding that killed dozens of young campers along the Guadalupe River on July 4, 2025, according to a newly filed search warrant affidavit in Kerr County.
No criminal charges have been filed as of this writing. The affidavit, first published online by The Texas Bullpen, seeks phone records and digital data from Apple connected to Tweety Eastland, the matriarch of Camp Mystic.
The Guadalupe River surged from 14 feet to nearly 30 feet in a single hour during the early morning hours of July 4, sending a wall of water through the camp and killing 27 girls. Investigators say the disaster may have been preventable.
According to the affidavit, the Texas Ranger who authored the document concluded that camp leadership was aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk of death to the campers in their care and chose to disregard it. The filing details investigators’ review of weather conditions, the camp’s history of flooding, and the actions taken or not taken by camp officials in the hours before the flood struck.
Previous legislative hearings and court proceedings had already raised serious concerns about Camp Mystic’s lack of a formal emergency flood evacuation plan and its failure to move campers to safety before conditions deteriorated. The camp later halted plans to reopen this summer amid those ongoing legal and legislative proceedings.
Attorneys Paul Yetter and Richard Mithoff, who represent families of girls killed in the flood, released a statement after the affidavits became public. They said decisions made by camp leadership before and during the flood may have been criminal and called the search warrants a necessary step toward accountability. They added that 27 girls should still be alive today.
The search warrant targets records held by Apple as investigators work to piece together communications and data from the period surrounding the disaster. The investigation remains active and ongoing.