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The Osage Murders: The True Story Behind "Killers of the Flower Moon"
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The Osage Murders: The True Story Behind "Killers of the Flower Moon"...
Throughout the mid-1920s, the Osage Nation suffered a series of mysterious murders, and the body count kept piling up until the federal investigators got involved. But who was killing all of these people, and why?...
Throughout the mid-1920s, the Osage Nation suffered a series of mysterious murders, and the body count kept piling up until the federal investigators got involved. But who was killing all of these people, and why?...
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SGT (Join to see) Sounds like an Excellent Movie! https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/ [login to see] /killers-of-the-flower-moon-is-a-monstrous-story-of-greed-masterfully-told
'Killers of the Flower Moon' is a monstrous story of greed, masterfully told
Martin Scorsese's epic 3.5-hour dramatization of David Grann's true-life tragedy about the Osage Nation stars Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
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SGT (Join to see) good day Brother Charlie, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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Osage Murders | 2022 PBS Short Film Festival
Official website: https://to.pbs.org/3bPL8ml | #PBSFilmFest“The Osage Murders” is a historical documentary focusing on the events that occurred on the Osage ...
https://youtu.be/C5OiFBNlYkY
1.) Murder and Mayhem in the Osage Hills
One by one, at least two dozen people in the area inexplicably turned up dead. Not just Osage Indians, but a well known oilman and others.
What did they all have in common? Who was behind all the murders?
That's what the terrorized community wanted to find out.
But a slew of private detectives and other investigators turned up nothing (and some were deliberately trying to sidetrack honest efforts). The Osage Tribal Council turned to the federal government, and Bureau agents were detailed to the case.
Early on, all fingers pointed at William Hale (pictured), the so-called “King of the Osage Hills.”
A local cattleman, Hale had bribed, intimidated, lied, and stolen his way to wealth and power. He grew even greedier in the late 1800s when oil was discovered on the Osage Indian Reservation. Almost overnight, the Osage became incredibly wealthy, earning royalties from oil sales through their federally mandated “head rights.”
SOURCE : https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/murder-and-mayhem-in-the-osage-hills
1a.) Osage Indian Murders Part 34 of 65
SOURCE : https://vault.fbi.gov/Osage%20Indian%20Murders/Osage%20Indian%20Murders%20Part%2034%20of%2065/view
1b.) OSAGE MURDERS.
Estimates vary, but approximately twenty-four Osage Indians died violent or suspicious deaths during the early 1920s.
The majority of these crimes occurred in or near Fairfax and were rarely investigated by local authorities; some were never solved. (The deaths of some alleged victims who lacked discernable wounds were simply ascribed to "indigestion," "peculiar wasting illness[es]," or "causes unknown.") The killings subsided after the arrest of William K. Hale in 1926.
A native of Greenville, Texas, Hale, the self-proclaimed "King of the Osage Hills," was perhaps Osage County's most powerful figure.
An affluent rancher with banking and business interests, he held political power and was active in Osage affairs. He was also the mastermind of a plot to acquire Osage wealth through murder.
SOURCE : https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=OS005
2.) KILLER OF THE FLOWER MOON -
Killers of the Flower Moon is based on the grisly true story of the Osage murders
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann is a twisting, haunting, true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.
Oklahoma, 1920s. The Osage Nation is the richest group of people in the United States. An oil boom on their land has afforded them an income large enough to pay for servants, automobiles, new homes, and whatever goods they need. However, the oil money quickly drew all kinds of trouble to this small corner of Oklahoma. Corrupt politicians, crooked lawyers, and fraudulent insurers descended into this last holdout of the Wild West as surely as moonshiners, thieves, and murderers.
And there are murders. A series of deaths plagues the Osage tribe. At the epicenter of these murders is the family of Mollie Burkheart, an Osage woman whose only crime has been going about her life. First, her sister is found shot, execution style, in a creek. Then, her mother dies a slow, lingering death—possibly poisoned. As if all these tragedies weren’t enough, her other sister and brother-in-law die in a house explosion.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI is a detailed, visceral true story by David Grann, author of the equally fascinating The Lost City of Z.
When the murders—gruesome and involving multiple levels of local and federal government officials—remain unsolved for years, they come to the attention of J. Edgar Hoover, the new boss of the Bureau of Investigation who will live on to be legendary in his investigative methods.
Hoover appoints Tom White, the law-and-order man from Texas—a man raised in a prison by his widowed sheriff father. Using all of his experience, a handful of undercover operatives, and his wits, White unveils a large, dangerous conspiracy.
SOURCE : https://www.criminalelement.com/review-killers-flower-moon-osage-murders-birth-fbi-david-grann/
Movie :
SOURCE 1 : https://youtu.be/WUm6tuVeFTU
SOURCE 2 : https://youtu.be/WjTLEfFuPeM
1.) Murder and Mayhem in the Osage Hills
One by one, at least two dozen people in the area inexplicably turned up dead. Not just Osage Indians, but a well known oilman and others.
What did they all have in common? Who was behind all the murders?
That's what the terrorized community wanted to find out.
But a slew of private detectives and other investigators turned up nothing (and some were deliberately trying to sidetrack honest efforts). The Osage Tribal Council turned to the federal government, and Bureau agents were detailed to the case.
Early on, all fingers pointed at William Hale (pictured), the so-called “King of the Osage Hills.”
A local cattleman, Hale had bribed, intimidated, lied, and stolen his way to wealth and power. He grew even greedier in the late 1800s when oil was discovered on the Osage Indian Reservation. Almost overnight, the Osage became incredibly wealthy, earning royalties from oil sales through their federally mandated “head rights.”
SOURCE : https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/murder-and-mayhem-in-the-osage-hills
1a.) Osage Indian Murders Part 34 of 65
SOURCE : https://vault.fbi.gov/Osage%20Indian%20Murders/Osage%20Indian%20Murders%20Part%2034%20of%2065/view
1b.) OSAGE MURDERS.
Estimates vary, but approximately twenty-four Osage Indians died violent or suspicious deaths during the early 1920s.
The majority of these crimes occurred in or near Fairfax and were rarely investigated by local authorities; some were never solved. (The deaths of some alleged victims who lacked discernable wounds were simply ascribed to "indigestion," "peculiar wasting illness[es]," or "causes unknown.") The killings subsided after the arrest of William K. Hale in 1926.
A native of Greenville, Texas, Hale, the self-proclaimed "King of the Osage Hills," was perhaps Osage County's most powerful figure.
An affluent rancher with banking and business interests, he held political power and was active in Osage affairs. He was also the mastermind of a plot to acquire Osage wealth through murder.
SOURCE : https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=OS005
2.) KILLER OF THE FLOWER MOON -
Killers of the Flower Moon is based on the grisly true story of the Osage murders
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann is a twisting, haunting, true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.
Oklahoma, 1920s. The Osage Nation is the richest group of people in the United States. An oil boom on their land has afforded them an income large enough to pay for servants, automobiles, new homes, and whatever goods they need. However, the oil money quickly drew all kinds of trouble to this small corner of Oklahoma. Corrupt politicians, crooked lawyers, and fraudulent insurers descended into this last holdout of the Wild West as surely as moonshiners, thieves, and murderers.
And there are murders. A series of deaths plagues the Osage tribe. At the epicenter of these murders is the family of Mollie Burkheart, an Osage woman whose only crime has been going about her life. First, her sister is found shot, execution style, in a creek. Then, her mother dies a slow, lingering death—possibly poisoned. As if all these tragedies weren’t enough, her other sister and brother-in-law die in a house explosion.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI is a detailed, visceral true story by David Grann, author of the equally fascinating The Lost City of Z.
When the murders—gruesome and involving multiple levels of local and federal government officials—remain unsolved for years, they come to the attention of J. Edgar Hoover, the new boss of the Bureau of Investigation who will live on to be legendary in his investigative methods.
Hoover appoints Tom White, the law-and-order man from Texas—a man raised in a prison by his widowed sheriff father. Using all of his experience, a handful of undercover operatives, and his wits, White unveils a large, dangerous conspiracy.
SOURCE : https://www.criminalelement.com/review-killers-flower-moon-osage-murders-birth-fbi-david-grann/
Movie :
SOURCE 1 : https://youtu.be/WUm6tuVeFTU
SOURCE 2 : https://youtu.be/WjTLEfFuPeM
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