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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.
Ernest Burkhart died in 1986. [ 49 ] In the early 1990s, journalist Dennis McAuliffe of The Washington Post investigated the suspicious death of his grandmother, Sybil Beekman Bolton, an Osage with headrights who died in 1925 at age 21.
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 [2].
18 paź 2023 · Ernest Burkhart was the husband of Mollie Burkhart, a wealthy Osage woman who survived a bombing that killed her sister and others in 1923. He was also the uncle of William Hale, a white rancher who allegedly masterminded the killings of many Osages to steal their oil money.
18 maj 2017 · The Rare Archival Photos Behind 'Killers of the Flower Moon'. A crop from the 1924 panorama showing members of the Osage Nation alongside prominent local white businessmen and leaders. Courtesy...
20 paź 2023 · Directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese, the film centers on the relationship between an Osage woman, Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), and white World War I veteran, Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo...
Ernest Burkhart was a nephew of William K. Hale, a powerful rancher and murderer of Osage Indians in the 1920s. He confessed to killing William E. Smith and testified against Hale and John Ramsey, who were also convicted of Osage murders.
