Killers of the Flower Moon

whether the witnesses and the jury became tainted. At Ernest Burkhart’s trial, the first panel ...

Hale (second from left) and Ramsey (third from left) with two U.S. marshals Credit 58 On July 29, as t ...

On July 30, the prosecution called Ernest Burkhart to the stand. There was speculation that Burkhart ...

went by. The next day, the deadlock continued. The Tulsa Tribune said that though the government’s case ...

Hale leaving the courthouse Credit 59 The government, meanwhile, began preparing to retry Hale and Ramsey for t ...

Springer, because he would demand delaying the second trial of Hale and Ramsey until his own case was resol ...

murdering his wife’s sister by blowing up her house while she was inside. “That is right,” he said. Hoping to p ...

Hale and Ramsey appeared shocked. The judge said to them, “A jury has found you guilty of the murder o ...

had gotten her sister drunk and then propped up her body while Morrison shot her in the back of the head—o ...

nothing. State’s Attorneys investigated and did nothing. The Attorney General investigated and did ...

Agent Burger had even written up fictional scenes, which were shared with the program’s produ ...

most dreaded places to be incarcerated. There had been allegations of corruption at the prison, and the assistan ...

21 THE HOT HOUSE It was like wandering through the catacombs of memory. As White walked along the cell block ...

who later worked under him recalled, “The Warden was strict with the inmates but would never stand fo ...

Hale would be “treated as other prisoners are treated.” White went out of his way so that Hale’s wife ...

conformed to prison regulations, he continued to scheme to secure his release. He allegedly arranged for ...

Mollie Burkhart Credit 60 Yet for the first time in ages life in Osage County went on without his o ...

According to relatives, their love was genuine, and in 1928 they were married. There was another dramatic ...

the manhunt. Planes were flying overhead. The inmates ran into a farmhouse and seized an eighteen-year-old gi ...

dangled uselessly. White didn’t mention one detail to Pyle: the girl who had been taken hostage credited White ...