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Ernest George Burkhart (September 11, 1892 – December 1, 1986) was an American murderer who participated in the Osage Indian murders as a hitman for his uncle William King Hale 's crime ring. He was convicted for the killing of William E. Smith in 1926, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The Osage murders began with Osage killings. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances.
Morderstwa Osedżów – seria zbrodni na przedstawicielach plemienia Osedżów dokonanych przez białych współmieszkańców (często członków rodziny) hrabstwa Osage w Oklahomie, trwająca od roku 1918 do lat 30. XX wieku. Okres ten jest również nazywany terrorem w hrabstwie Osage.
18 paź 2023 · Before long, they realized that much of the evidence pointed to two figures with close ties to the victims: William Hale and Ernest Burkhart.
20 paź 2023 · Based on journalist David Grann's 2017 best-selling book of the same name, Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the true story of how a white businessman and self-proclaimed "true friend"...
18 maj 2017 · Margie Burkhart, the granddaughter of Mollie and Ernest Burkhart. Aaron Tomlinson. She took me to a cemetery in Grayhorse, in Osage County, where many of her relatives who were murdered are...
20 paź 2023 · Robert De Niro stars as Ernest’s uncle, William Hale. As both Grann’s book and Scorsese’s film lay out, the cause for the murders trace back to the early 1870s when the U.S. government forced...
