(Download Book) Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Writen By David Grann
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By : David Grann
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Book Synopsis :
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.In this last remnant of the Wild West?where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes such as Al Spencer, ?the Phantom Terror,? roamed ? virtually anyone who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization?s first major homicide investigations. But the bureau was then notoriously corrupt and
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Author : David Grann
Pages : 347 pages
Publisher : Vintage
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : B01CWZFBZ4
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