If both she and Ernest Burkhart had died, the inheritance would have flowed to his uncle Hale. Parallel tragedies: Osage Murders, Tulsa Race Massacre started days apart A photo of Mollie Burkhart ...

Ernest George Burkhart was born on Sept ... Osage oil headrights were hereditary — when their legal owner died, the ...

Ernest testified against his uncle ... He died in 1986. Mollie Burkhart died in 1937 at the age of 50, without a clear report on her cause of death. The script was adapted from David Grann ...

Ernest died in 1986, in a "mice-infested trailer just outside of Osage County," Grann wrote. Margie Burkhart, Ernest and Mollie's granddaughter, said in an interview with Grann that after Ernest's ...

Ernest Burkhart wound up receiving a life sentence, but was also eventually paroled and pardoned. After pleading guilty in 1926 to his involvement in the death of William Smith, the husband of ...

the investigators realized that the headrights of many of the victims had passed on to Mollie Burkhart and her husband. And ...

As part of Hale’s plot, Mollie Burkhart (above) was being slowly poisoned to death at the hands of her husband Ernest. Bettmann Archive That ranking entitled her to a valuable piece of the tribe ...

When Ramsey faced the death penalty, he recanted his confession. In 1926, Ernest Burkhart named Ramsey as Roan's killer, saying Hale originally considered using poisoned moonshine to kill him.

A few days after Anna's death, Ernest changed his plea to guilty and was later sentenced to life in prison. "Before being led away in irons to the state petitionary, Burkhart turned and smiled ...

With each death, Mollie — and therefore Ernest — inherited additional headrights. There was another reason Mollie Burkhart was a perfect candidate for Hale’s scheme: She was diabetic ...

According to People, despite Burkhart’s death in 1986, she still finds it difficult to comprehend her grandfather’s wickedness. “I have a lot of anger towards him [Ernest]. He took away my ...