Killers of the Flower Moon

donated it to the museum. As I read through the letter, I was struck by the buoyant tone. Hal ...

floor and shelves were stacked with thousands of pages of FBI documents, autopsy reports, wills and last ...

The case of Red Corn’s grandfather was one of those voids. Because there had been no investi ...

Weapon: a .32 revolver. Shot—twice—between the eyes. A professional hit? The reports noted that the attorney ...

also complicit. An informant told a private eye that there was no doubt Hattie Whitehorn was a “prime ...

Hattie’s sisters was heard yelling at Faulkner that he was an SOB and should stop extorting Hattie; Faulkner ...

unconnected to the systematic killings. The case did not fit into the bureau’s dramatic theory of the murder ...

25 THE LOST MANUSCRIPT You must go out there and see what is happening,” Kathryn Red Corn told me when ...

did not need a lease from the Osage. “We don’t disturb the mineral estate,” a representative of the project ...

The new windmill farm built above the Osage’s underground reservation Credit 71 New government environmental regul ...

Lewis took her daughter on a trip to Liberty, Texas, a small city about forty miles from Houston ...

impersonate her so that the friends could collect the headright payments. (This strategy was not unique—bo ...

26 BLOOD CRIES OUT I returned to the archives in Fort Worth and resumed searching through the endle ...

time. One had eleven Osage wards, eight of whom had died. Another guardian had thirteen wards, m ...

second-rate white boxer. According to a report from an official at the Office of Indian Affairs, her new h ...

ways the killers did this: “In connection with the mysterious deaths of a large number of ...

transcript of an interview with an informant, the agent said, “There are so many of these murder cases ...

guardianship of her children. But in July 1923, before she had enacted these changes, she, to ...

Tillie died, Marvin’s father, who was three years old at the time, became the next target, along with his ni ...

initially suspected his grandfather Harry, who was white. By then, Harry had died, but his second wife ...