and Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone), a local Osage woman whose family was one of the community’s wealthiest. Robert De Niro stars as Ernest’s uncle, William Hale. As both Grann’s book and ...

“Some were hired by the Osage. Others were hired by William King Hale. Hale’s people muddied the waters and threatened witnesses.” Hale was a wealthy white cattleman from Texas who presented ...

Osage delegates visit Washington ... White realized that all roads seemingly led to one person: William K. Hale. Pike, the P.I. assigned to Anna’s case, alleged that Hale had actually hired ...

How the Osage got unfathomably rich — and the ... At the center of all of it was a single man: William K. Hale, a self-made Fairfax cattle rancher who spent decades steadily amassing power ...

Mollie Kyle was a single woman from a wealthy Osage family, which made her a target. In 1917, Ernest Burkhart, the handsome 20-something nephew of William Hale, married her at the urging of his ...

William King Hale (played by Robert De Niro) was a white cattle rancher who appeared to be a staunch ally of the Osage. Privately, though, he resented their enormous wealth and began plotting with ...

They are William Hale (Robert de Niro), so-called "King" of the Osage Hills; his nephews Ernest and Byron Burkhart (Scott Shepherd); and a massive web of co-conspirators, including doctors and ...

Though his father was a poor cotton farmer of little means, Burkhart’s uncle William King Hale was more ambitious. And when Burkart was 19, he decided to follow his uncle into Osage territory.

William Hale was convicted of links to Osage murders, but did he ever admit guilt? “There was something unquestionably evil about Hale, at his core,” Grann says. “According to the records he ...