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Oil and Blood: The Osage Murders

2023/10/20
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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
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Pushkin: 本集讲述了20世纪20年代发生在美国奥赛奇地区的系列谋杀案，这些谋杀案与石油财富、种族歧视和美国政府的政策密切相关。该事件也改编成了电影《杀戮之花月》。 奥赛奇酋长Wati Ankar: 奥赛奇人相信他们在新的土地上会幸福，因为白人不喜欢多山的地区，但白人最终还是来了，并对奥赛奇人进行了压迫。 Tim Harford: 讲述了奥赛奇姐妹Minnie, Anna, Rita, Molly的遭遇，以及围绕她们死亡和失踪展开的调查，揭示了石油财富带来的资源诅咒，以及种族歧视和腐败的政府官员如何助长了犯罪。 William Hale: 表面上是受人尊敬的社区支柱，实际上是幕后操纵者，通过各种手段谋取利益，并参与了对奥赛奇人的谋杀。 Molly: 作为奥赛奇姐妹中唯一的幸存者，她目睹了家人一个个被杀害，并积极寻求正义，但调查过程困难重重。 Ernest: 作为Molly的丈夫和William Hale的侄子，他参与了谋杀阴谋，并在审判中多次改变证词。 Bill Smith: 与奥赛奇姐妹结婚，并试图调查谋杀案，最终也成为了受害者。 Rita: 与Bill Smith结婚，最终在自家房子被炸毁中丧生。 Tom White: 作为联邦调查局的探员，他深入奥赛奇地区调查谋杀案，揭露了William Hale及其同伙的罪行，但调查过程充满了挑战和危险。 David Grann: 作为作家，他重新调查了奥赛奇谋杀案，并出版了《杀戮之花月》，揭示了更多隐藏的真相和奥赛奇人的持续斗争。 Margie Burkhart: 作为Ernest和Molly的孙女，她讲述了家族的悲惨故事，以及她父亲对家族悲剧的痛苦记忆。 Catherine Redcorn: 作为奥赛奇博物馆馆长，她解释了为什么博物馆中移除William Hale的照片，因为它太令人痛苦。 Lewis F Burns: 作为奥赛奇历史学家，他总结了奥赛奇人在磨难中幸存下来，但他们也付出了巨大的代价。

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The Osage Nation, once prosperous, faced displacement and hardship until oil was discovered beneath their land. This sudden wealth brought attention, and the Osage sisters became victims of a sinister plot.

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Minnie Smith grew sick quite suddenly. She had been young, fit and healthy - and the doctors were baffled when she died. "A peculiar wasting illness," they called it. Then, her sister Anna went missing. Her rotting corpse was found a week later, a bullet hole through her skull. When a third sister, Rita, was blown up in her own bed, a grim pattern was clear: the family was being targeted.Lawman Tom White strode into town to investigate - and uncovered a vicious plot that chilled him to the bone...This episode is based on David Grann's book, Killers of the Flower Moon, and is the first of two cautionary tales produced in association with Apple Original Films. The film of the same title is in movie theaters now. It's directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Robert DeNiro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone.

Next week, we'll hear more on this story from former Principal Chief of the Osage Nation Jim Roan Gray.

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