Killers of the Flower Moon

19 A TRAITOR TO HIS BLOOD The revelations of the arrests and the horror of the crimes held the nation in their g ...

year. Hale would come to the house and ask him to sell his inherited shares in land. Joe ...

guilty of these atrocious crimes. Yet White knew that America’s judicial institutions, like its policin ...

penalty. The assembled prosecution team was formidable. It included two high-ranking officials in the J ...

Prosecutor Roy St. Lewis reviewing the voluminous Osage murder case files Credit 55 Soon after the grand jur ...

Katherine, his wife, because she knew too much about the Anna Brown murder deal. Kelsie said that he wou ...

name, and referred to him by the alias “E. J. Ernest.” White later told Hoover, “We think that it is li ...

Court, but with a ruling not expected for months, Hale and Ramsey would have to be release ...

teaching evolution in a state-funded school. Many people in the gallery gossiped about an Osage woman ...

weeks: Ernest Burkhart. Mollie watched her husband as he walked unsteadily down the long aisle to the stand. H ...

a memo to Hoover, White explained that Burkhart’s “nerve went back on him and, after he was allowed to ...

attached wires to his body, and put a black hood over his head and a device like a catcher’s mask ...

White and his agents took the stand to refute the allegations. Still, William B. Pine—a U.S. senator from Okl ...

grabbed hold of Anna. She was too drunk to walk, Morrison recalled, and so they carried her down ...

you got ready to shoot a bullet into her brain?” “Yes, sir.” “Then when he got her just in the position ...

On June 3, in the middle of the trial, Mollie was called away. Her younger daughter with Ernest, Anna, ...

Leahy said. “Why don’t you tell your lawyers?” “I can’t tell them,” Burkhart said. Leahy looked at ...

time to blow up the Smith house. “I feel in my heart that I did it because I was requested to do i ...

Ernest Burkhart’s mug shot Credit 57 On June 21, 1926, Burkhart was sentenced to life imprisonment and hard ...

20 SO HELP YOU GOD! In the last week of July 1926, as the summer heat reached infernal tem ...