Summary of Killers of the Flower Moon E-Book

Alexander Cooper

• Herausgeber: Ben Business Group LLC
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

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Summary of Killers of the Flower Moon

David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI recounts how Tom White, an FBI investigator, straddled the divide between the old Wild West-style law enforcement and its new Progressivism movement predicated on rational, evidence-based, scientific investigation. In Osage County, Oklahoma, Tom White is tasked with solving the Osage murders case, in which twenty-four Osage individuals were suspected of being murdered, but nobody could figure out who or why these killings were happening. The case was four years old, and the Bureau of Investigation—still in its early years, and later transformed into the FBI—was under a lot of pressure to solve it, especially with a new, ambitious director named J. Edgar Hoover at the helm. He would go on to preside as director of the FBI (and Bureau of Investigation) for forty-eight years. At the time, however, Hoover was anxious to solve this troubling case and used its success as a springboard toward launching the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s genesis myth.
Tom White leads a team of undercover agents into Osage County, carefully eliminating suspects and probing witnesses until he discovers that William K. Hale, the “King of the Osage Hills,” is pulling countless local strings to deviate the investigation away from him. What follows is a breathtaking account of a true story filled with corruption and crime—a raw story of how law enforcement can bring out the rawness and depth of (in)humanity.

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Table of contents

SUMMARY of Killers of the Flower Moon

Introduction

Part I: The Marked Woman(CH 1-7)

Part II: The Evidence Man(CH 8-21)

Part III: The Reporter(CH 22-26)

Lessons

Questions

Answers

Conclusion

KEY PLAYERS

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SUMMARY of Killers of the Flower Moon

David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI recounts how Tom White, an FBI investigator, straddled the divide between the old Wild West-style law enforcement and its new Progressivism movement predicated on rational, evidence-based, scientific investigation. In Osage County, Oklahoma, Tom White is tasked with solving the Osage murders case, in which twenty-four Osage individuals were suspected of being murdered, but nobody could figure out who or why these killings were happening. The case was four years old, and the Bureau of Investigation—still in its early years, and later transformed into the FBI—was under a lot of pressure to solve it, especially with a new, ambitious director named J. Edgar Hoover at the helm. He would go on to preside as director of the FBI (and Bureau of Investigation) for forty-eight years. At the time, however, Hoover was anxious to solve this troubling case and used its success as a springboard toward launching the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s genesis myth.

Tom White leads a team of undercover agents into Osage County, carefully eliminating suspects and probing witnesses until he discovers that William K. Hale, the “King of the Osage Hills,” is pulling countless local strings to deviate the investigation away from him. What follows is a breathtaking account of a true story filled with corruption and crime—a raw story of how law enforcement can bring out the rawness and depth of (in)humanity.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Part I: The Marked Woman(CH 1-7)

Part II: The Evidence Man(CH 8-21)

Part III: The Reporter(CH 22-26)

Lessons

Questions

Answers

Conclusion

KEY PLAYERS

Introduction

David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBIrecounts how Tom White, an FBI investigator, straddled the divide between the old Wild West-style law enforcement and its new Progressivism movement predicated on rational, evidence-based, scientific investigation. In Osage County, Oklahoma, Tom White is tasked with solving the Osage murders case, in which twenty-four Osage individuals were suspected of being murdered, but nobody could figure out who or why these killings were happening. The case was four years old, and the Bureau of Investigation—still in its early years, and later transformed into the FBI—was under a lot of pressure to solve it, especially with a new, ambitious director named J. Edgar Hoover at the helm. He would go on to preside as director of the FBI (and Bureau of Investigation) for forty-eight years. At the time, however, Hoover was anxious to solve this troubling case and used its success as a springboard toward launching the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s genesis myth.

Tom White leads a team of undercover agents into Osage County, carefully eliminating suspects and probing witnesses until he discovers that William K. Hale, the “King of the Osage Hills,” is pulling countless local strings to deviate the investigation away from him. What follows is a breathtaking account of a true story filled with corruption and crime—a raw story of how law enforcement can bring out the rawness and depth of (in)humanity.

Part I: The Marked Woman(CH 1-7)

Part I: The Marked Woman

Chapter 1: The Vanishing

Mollie Burkhart of the Native American Osage Tribe in Gray Horse Oklahoma was worried about the disappearance of her sister Anna. Though she was known to leave for days on end to party in nearby Oklahoma City and Kansas City clubs, the discovery of another member of the Osage tribe’s dead body with execution style bullets in his head only a couple days earlier was reason for concern. Indeed a few days later, Anna’s body was found decomposing in a ravine.

Chapter 2: An Act of God or Man

As a coroner’s inquest composed of ordinary citizens began to determine whether Anna died at the hands of God or men, it was concluded that she had been shot in the back of the head. While Mollie prepared her sister’s funeral, the county sheriff, 58-year-old Harve M. Freas was called to pursue those responsible for the murder.

Chapter 3: King of the Osage Hills

As the murders of Anna Brown and Charles Whitehorn made a sensation, authorities didn’t seem to care much. Instead, Mollie turned to Ernest’s uncle William Hale who had been an advocate for law and order in the county and was a reserve deputy sheriff in Fairfax. One day, a man who had been arrested in Kansas claimed he had been paid by Oda Brown (Anna’s ex-husband) $8000 to murder Anna. He was arrested but subsequently released due to insufficient evidence. By July 1921, a couple of months after Anna’s murder, the justice of the peace had closed both inquiries when Lizzie (Mollie and Anna’s mother) died of a mysterious illness that doctors couldn’t diagnose. Mollie’s brother-in-law became convinced she’d been poisoned.

Chapter 4: Underground Reservation

The story of how the Osage tribe came to inhabit the parcel of land in Oklahoma that happened to be sitting on top of a large oil field can be traced back to the 17th century. At the time, the Osage had laid claim to much of central North America in today’s Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma in a territory that stretched all the way to the Rockies. Gradually throughout the 18th century, they were forced off their land as settlers massacred them, pillaged their graves and forced them to sell their lands at minimal prices. As their numbers shrunk considerably due to the forced migrations and diseases brought by the settlers, they finally moved to Wild Horse in Oklahoma. Having witnessed the land rushes that ravaged the Cherokee territory, they sent a talented young lawyer to Washington to negotiate their settlement in Wild Horse. In the 1906 Allotment Act that consecrated the negotiations process, a phrase was included that would later ensure the Osage’s wealth. It stated: “That the oil, gas, coal, or other minerals covered by the lands… are hereby reserved to the Osage Tribe.”