Killers Of The Flower Moon Summary

David Grann. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. New York New York: Doubleday. 2017. The Osage Indians during the early twentieth century were murdered for their headrights from the oil boom on their land. The white United States citizens married the Osage Indians to gain control of these headrights. This made the white citizens rich and murderous. The murders became so frequent that the Bureau of Investigation took over the cases. David Grann, the author, wanted to educate the world about these murders and the birth of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mollie Burkhart, an Osage Indian, and her family were on the Osage Roll. They were some of the registered members of the tribe. The Osage Indians were

The man and Oda Brown were both arrested and then released because there was no evidence to convict either of them. While Anna Brown’s death was being investigated by the justice of the peace, Mollie and Anna Burkhart’s mother became more ill. During this time, due to a lack of evidence and suspects, Anna Brown and Charles Whitehorn’s cases were closed. Two months later, Mollie Burkhart’s mother died. Bill Smith, Mollie Burkhart’s brother-in-law, was suspicious about Mollie Burkhart’s mother’s death. He began to look into the death and became certain that Mollie Burkhart’s mother was poisoned. He started to think that all three of these deaths were connected. Since the authorities had closed the case of Anna Brown, Mollie Burkhart offered a $2,000 award for any information about the murder of her sister. Charles Whitehorn’s family also offered a reward. William Hale decided that it was time to hire a private investigator and hired private investigator Pike. The administer of Anna Brown’s estate, Scott Mathis, also hired a team of private investigators lead by William Burns. Months after the first murders, the private investigators did not have any more

Henry Roan, an ex-husband of Mollie Burkhart, was shot in the back of the head. After his death, people were even more scared. Bill Smith was gathering information with his own detective work. Soon after, Bill Smith and his wife were murdered when their house exploded. W.W. Vaughan became the new Governor for Oklahoma and discovered more information about the murders. Then, he was murdered for knowing too much information. The official death toll was up to twenty-four people and the government finally sent in federal investigators. The Bureau of Investigation sent Tom White to Oklahoma to look into the Osage murders. He realized that rich Osage Indians and Mollie Burkhart’s family were the targets of these murders. Tom White gathered a team of undercover agents to help him look for leads. Tom White and his team looked into everybody’s alibis and tried to narrow down who could possibly be the