A flood killed 25 kids and two counselors at Camp Mystic last year. Now the family that runs the camp could face criminal charges. Court papers show state cops looked for proof tied to the deaths. Cops used 14 search warrants. Most hit the family that owns the Kerr County camp.

Texas Ranger Brant Johnston is leading the case. He wrote in court papers that he began looking at Camp Mystic in March 2026. Johnston said he has talked to many camp workers and bosses. He also talked to witnesses. He talked to flood survivors too.

But six people tied to the camp would not talk to him. They are Edward Eastland, Mary Liz Eastland, Richard Eastland Jr., Cathryn "Catie" Eastland, Betsy Althaus, and Glenn Juenke. The Eastland family runs Camp Mystic. They have been sued many times since the flood hit on July 4, 2025.

The warrants ask Apple for the family's phone and computer data. That means browser history, call logs, emails, GPS location, and photos. Cops also want phone records for seven other people. One is a retired cop who worked as the camp's night guard. One is a staffer who oversaw the counselors. One is an office worker. One is a camp photographer. Three are women from Poland who worked in the camp kitchen. Camp Mystic often hired college students from Poland for kitchen jobs.

Cops are looking at five charges that could get filed. Manslaughter means killing someone by acting in a careless way. Criminally negligent homicide means a death happened because someone missed a risk they should have seen. Injury to a child means harm to a kid, even by accident. Abandoning or endangering a child means leaving a kid in danger or without proper care. Deadly conduct means putting someone at risk of serious harm or death.

Johnston laid out why he thinks those charges could apply. He wrote that camp leaders did not see the flood risk coming. He said the camp had no emergency plan ready. He said staff waited too long to move kids to safety in the July 4 storm. Johnston wrote that camp leaders were "aware of and consciously disregarded a substantial and unjustifiable risk of death to the campers in their care."

Court papers show at least two cabins did not have enough counselors. That broke a state rule on staff to camper ratios. The camp did have a plan to keep kids in place during a storm. But it had no written plan to get kids out during a flood. There were no drills. Staff and campers got no training on what to do if the water rose. Johnston wrote that the camp's emergency plan had not been updated since 1976.

Johnston described what he found as "a pervasive pattern of institutional complacency, regulatory non compliance, and a systemic and conscious disregard for mandatory safety standards and state law."

Cops reached out to Camp Mystic. They also called lawyers for the Eastland family. Neither one wrote back right away. Cops also called seven other people for phone records. Only one of them talked back. He said he had no comment. A DPS spokesperson said the agency will not answer more questions right now. The case is still open, the spokesperson said.

Once Texas Rangers finish the case, they will send it to the Kerr County District Attorney. That office will then decide if it files charges.

Twenty seven people died in the flood: 25 campers and two counselors. One camper, an 8-year-old girl, has still not been found more than a year later.

Lawyers for that girl's family spoke out after the search warrants became public. Attorneys Brad Beckworth, Christina Yarnell, and Blair Townsend released a statement. "For more than a year, families of the 27 angels killed at Camp Mystic have fought, begged, and pleaded with the Eastland family for accountability and answers," the statement said. "Instead, the Eastlands have held hostage the information and answers owed to parents who deserve, more than anyone, to know the details surrounding their daughters' final moments. We are not surprised the Texas Rangers had to get a search warrant for evidence the Eastlands could easily have provided long ago."

The attorneys said they trust the case. They said justice will come for the group of victims. Families have given them a name: "Heaven's 27."

No one connected to Camp Mystic has been charged with a crime. The search warrants are only part of an open case. The Kerr County District Attorney will decide later if any charges get filed.

Everyone is presumed innocent until proved otherwise.