Killers of the Flower Moon

people.” Hale was even “giving ponies away to young boys.” One of the undercover operatives who was ...

18 THE STATE OF THE GAME Out of the blue, White received a tip. In late October 1925, he was meeting wi ...

In a series of interviews, Lawson explained that in 1918 he began working as a ranch hand for Bill ...

out a wooden container. Inside was a jug filled with nitroglycerin; a long coiled fuse was attached to t ...

message: “Congratulations.” As White and his men worked to corroborate the details in Lawson’s ...

poisoned whiskey had been one of the killers’ preferred methods, the priest sent word back warning Mollie ...

moment’s notice. Authorities feared that Hale had disappeared for good when he suddenly strolled into ...

“A newspaperman.” “I’ll not try my case in the newspapers, but in the courts of this county.” Hoping Hale might ...

confession. “You could look at him and size him up as the weak sister,” White observed. A prosecutor wor ...

White still didn’t know quite what to believe. But if Lawson was lying about anything, getting a conf ...

early investigation, had been released from prison as an informant, only to murder a police officer. ...

The outlaw Blackie Thompson Credit 54 It wasn’t clear if Blackie would ever agree to testify in court to these ...

“Well, I can go get him if you don’t think we have got him,” Agent Smith said. “Bring him in,” Burkhart ...

When White entered the box, he found Burkhart slumped in his seat, tired and resigned. Burkhart told ...

explaining, “You have got the wrong pig by the tail.” (Later, Lawson admitted to White, “All ...

Burkhart to confirm his statement to Ramsey. And Ramsey threw up his hands and said, “I guess it’s on my ne ...

While the authorities went to round up Morrison, they also made sure that a doctor went to ...

James Shoun and his brother denied any wrongdoing, and White could not prove who was ...

her saying, “My husband is a good man, a kind man. He wouldn’t have done anything like that. And ...

crime in Osage County.” White could not anticipate the bitter, sensational legal battle that was ...