The Osage murders

There are people who say evil is does not exist. I don’t know of any other explanation for the murders in Osage County, Oklahoma. Greed is not a sufficient explanation. The murderers were evil.

“In the early 1920s, the Western United States was shaken by the murders of eighteen Osage Indians and three non-natives in Osage County, Oklahoma within a short period of time. Regional Colorado newspapers reported the murders as the ‘Reign of Terror’ on the Osage reservation. Some murders seemed associated with several members of one family.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Indian_murders

Because of oil on Osage lands, the tribe was the richest group of people in the United States. The federal government decided the Osage were not capable of handling wealth and appointed a guardian for each Osage of half blood or more. The appointed guardians were lawyers or businessmen and not Osage.

Short version: https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/murder-and-mayhem-in-the-osage-hills

A longer account: https://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2011/03/the-osage-murders-oil-wealth-betrayal-and-the-fbis-first-big-case.html