Ernest Burkhart
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Ernest George Burkhart 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. Sm
Burkhart in the late 1920s
Burkhart and Mollie in 1917
1926 newspaper illustration of Henry Roan, Rita Smith, and William Vaughn
The ravine where Anna Brown's body was found
Mollie Kyle
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Mollie Kyle was an Osage woman known for surviving the Osage Indian murders. She gained initial prominence in newspaper coverage during the trial of William King Hale and gained renewed prominence in
Ernest Burkhart
…Fairfax, Osage County, in search of fortune after the discovery of oil in the region. Five years later in 1917, he married an Osage woman by the name of Mollie Kyle (Molly Kile). Burkhart later plotted to kill her to inherit the Kyle family's headrights and oil money, which was worth $7 million at the time ($176…
Political cartoon depicting Mollie Kyle and William King Hale from the Enid Morning News Sunday edition on February 7, 1926