Osage Murders and the Birth of Modern Justice

In the 1920s, the Osage Nation of Oklahoma was among the wealthiest people per capita in the world, their sudden prosperity fueled by oil buried beneath their land. But with wealth came a chilling wave of violence. One by one, Osage men and women were found poisoned, shot, or blown up, their deaths dismissed by local authorities as accidents or illnesses. Behind the veil of respectability, a ruthl...