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Osage Reign of Terror

The Osage Reign of Terror started in 1921 and wint up to 1929. the native American tribe known as the Osage ware vary welathy for there land sat upon one of the largeist oil land fillds in the U.S.A. The Osage got a lot of money from the oli fillds and had mansions, Rolls Royce's, and all manner of exspensive things. The terror began in 1921 whin a young lady by the name of Anna Brown was found dead in a ravine with "a bullet hole in the back of her head and a empty whisky bottel by her side". about two months later her mother was found in her home dead the cause of death was never determined soon after that Anna Brown's sister and her husband ware found dead from an explosion in there home. Henry Roan Horse was found with a bullet hole in the back of his head. He was found in his car with a empty whisky bottel at his side. He was "partially frozen". This went on for two more years till the body count was at eight people. in 1923 the Osage Tribal Council ask help from the F.B.I (Federal Bureau of Inevstigtion). Witch was a newly found group. The F.B.I took full control over the inevstigation.

The plan that the F.B.I yoused to catch the killers was that a handfull of agents ware put undercover as catel farmers and or catel buyers this wint on until 1929 whin the F.B.I named William Hale as there killer and Ernist his nephew ware both sentenced to life in prison at Leavenworth State penitentiary in Kansas ten years later thay got out on parole.

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