Killers of the Flower Moon

She admitted that Rose had never told her any such story about the killing. In fact, a strange white ...

11 THE THIRD MAN Hoover immediately began pestering White for updates. Once, when White was in the field ...

A. W. Comstock with an Osage Indian Credit 38 Kenny had a history of mental instability—she claimed to be po ...

investigators. He had told agents that he was sure he could secure critical evidence—if only he could h ...

her about the night Anna disappeared. Oh, she’d heard the whispers about how Bryan was re ...

sure that the investigators were who they said they were. Talking to the wrong person about these ...

taken Anna home, but he’d eventually gone back out with her. As an agent wrote in a report, Bryan ...

Bryan Burkhart Credit 39 After that, there was no trace of Anna—she’d been ghosted. Bryan’s neighbor, tho ...

12 A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS By the end of that summer, White began to suspect that there was a mole insi ...

detectives’ “sole object,” adding, “Someone must be paying them to do this.” An agent reported that Mor ...

White found himself wandering through a wilderness of mirrors —his work more akin to espionage than ...

gone home too early to be the third man. It seemed as if the agents had once more been duped. But the ...

13 A HANGMAN’S SON The first time that Tom White saw a criminal hanged he was just a boy, and th ...

townsfolk beseeched Emmett to run for county sheriff, which he did, winning easily. And so Tom’s father becam ...

It was as if the Scripture were unfolding before his eyes: good and evil, redemption and damnation. One time, ...

born in them. Some seemed sick in the head, seeing things that other people couldn’t see. Many of ...

Tom’s father oversaw the county jail, in Austin. Credit 42 One summer day in 1892, when Tom was elev ...

Brutal Wretch.” Despite a grueling chase, the rapist eluded capture. In such cases, Tom’s father ...

Tom’s father hired a carpenter to construct the gallows near the southern wall of the prison, the only ...

no longer see Nichols’s face, but he could see his father holding the lever for the trapdoor. At two ...