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This is a disappointing article, really interesting and building up tension and then . . . saying absolutely nothing about the vast murder conspiracy, who was b
by jboggan 9y ago
This is a disappointing article, really interesting and building up tension and then . . . saying absolutely nothing about the vast murder conspiracy, who was behind it, what the motivations were, etc. There's a single photo of one conspirator and not even a name given, or any denouement. This is George R. R. Martin journalism.
- danso 9y agoThe author mentions that this is in the context of his new book, e.g. this is one of those articles that comes out partly as publicity for the book. These kind of excerpts make up a non-trivial number of articles that get up voted to HN, I guess it's up to debate whether this one needs to be more than a content dump (I.e. More standalone from the book being publicized).
- gilgoomesh 9y agoThe article is promotion for a book. I guess they're avoiding spoilers? If you want details, read the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Indian_murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Indian_murders > William "Bill" King Hale was responsible for many of the [60+] deaths. [...] Hale and his associates were finally convicted in state and federal trials from 1926 to 1929. They just wanted the oil money. Motivation was simple. The case itself sounds highly complicated but also multiple times bungled case from a newly formed FBI. The biggest problem I see is that it took nearly 10 years and so many deaths before the matter was settled.