The Osage Nation and the Bureau of Investigation

By 1925, a grand total of 60 wealthy Osage had died in suspicious or outright murderous circumstances. The inheritors of their wealth were local lawyers and businessmen marshaled by the bloodthirsty kingpin himself, William Hale. Hale intended to marry his family into the Osage, then kill off all who stood in the way of his nephew's wife gaining the maximum amount of oil royalties. But despite the apparently airtight case against Hale and his henchmen, attempts to condemn them to prison floundered time and time again.