Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Audiobook (Free)

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From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 NY Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder secret about probably one of the most monstrous crimes in American history

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were users of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After essential oil was uncovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured cars, constructed mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one at a time, the Osage began to be killed off. The category of an Osage female, Mollie Burkhart, became a leading target. Her family members were shot and poisoned. And it had been just the start, as more and more members of the tribe begun to die under strange circumstances.

With this last remnant of the Wild West-where oilmen like J. P. Getty produced their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the “Phantom Terror,” roamed-many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to a lot more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It had been among the organization’s 1st main homicide investigations and the bureau terribly bungled the case. In desperation, the youthful director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger called Tom Light to unravel the mystery. White come up with an undercover group, including one of the just American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest methods of detection. Alongside the Osage they started to expose probably one of the most chilling conspiracies in American background.

In Killers of the Rose Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which lots of people were murdered in frosty blood. Based on many years of study and startling new evidence, the publication can be a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment from the callousness and prejudice toward American Indians that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for such a long time. Killers from the Blossom Moon is completely compelling, but also psychologically devastating.