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William King Hale (December 24, 1874 – August 15, 1962) was an American political and crime boss in Osage County, Oklahoma, who was responsible for the most infamous of the Osage Indian murders. He made a fortune through cattle ranching , contract killings , and insurance fraud before his arrest and conviction for murder.
A political cartoon depicts Mollie Burkhart and William King Hale from the Enid Morning News, Sunday edition on February 7, 1926. The Osage Tribal Council suspected that Hale was responsible for many of the deaths. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the Department of the Interior sent four agents to act as undercover investigators.
In Killers, De Niro’s Hale plays the self-proclaimed “King” of the Osage, a shrewd political mastermind in Osage County, Oklahoma, in the 1920s. He’s also the uncle to Ernest Burkhart ...
Officially, the count of the wealthy Osage victims reaches at least 20, but Grann suspects that hundreds more may have been killed because of their ties to oil. [13] The book details the newly formed FBI's investigation of the murders, and the eventual trial and conviction of cattleman William King Hale as the mastermind behind the plot.
At the center of both narratives is the sinister series of murders of members of the Osage Nation that took place in early 1920s Oklahoma. ... William K. Hale (Robert De Niro), the self-proclaimed ...
Hale died in 1962 in an Arizona nursing home, and Ernest lived out his days back in Osage County, Oklahoma after he was pardoned. Ernest died in 1986, in a "mice-infested trailer just outside of ...
Mollie Kyle (also known as Mollie Burkhart and Mollie Cobb; December 1, 1886 – June 16, 1937) was an Osage woman known for surviving the Osage Indian murders.She gained initial prominence in newspaper coverage during the trial of William King Hale and gained renewed prominence in the 21st century when she was portrayed by Lily Gladstone in the film Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
Grann’s investigation suggests that the unsolved killings could be tied to William King Hale, who was convicted in the murder of Roan and was suspected of several other crimes toward the Osage ...