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Today we’ll take a look at one of the most disturbing serial murder cases in American history, one largely forgotten because the victims were Native Americans on a reservation. In the 1920s, after oil deposits discovered in Oklahoma, members of Osage Indian Nation were among the wealthiest people in the world. Journalist David Grann says an appalling series of murders followed as local whites targeted the Osage for their money. “These were crimes committed by people who the victims trusted, in many cases thought they loved,” says Grann. “It involved a level of betrayal, an almost Shakespearean level of dishonesty, of hiding your face, hiding the conspiracy.” We’ll talk with Grann about his book, The Killers of the Flower Moon. ‘

Photo: Mollie Burkhart (second from right) lost all three of her sisters under suspicious circumstances. Rita Smith (left) died in an explosion, Anna Brown (second from left) was shot in the head and Minnie Smith (right) died of what doctors referred to as a “peculiar wasting illness.” The Osage National Museum/Courtesy of Doubleday

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Largely Forgotten Osage Murders Reveal A Conspiracy Against Wealthy Native Americans

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Experts think this photo suggests Amelia Earhart may have survived her last flight

The circumstances surrounding famed pilot Amelia Earhart’s 1937 disappearance have remained a mystery for the past 80 years, but a recently discovered photo may offer some answers.

The photo — found in a previously classified National Archives file — suggests Earhart may have survived the crash landing that many assume killed her.

The picture appears to show Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, on a dock at Jatuit Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

According to former FBI executive assistant director Shawn Henry this newly unearthed evidence suggests the pair was captured by the Japanese after successfully rolling out an emergency landing in the Marshall Islands.

Henry told People that the photo proves “beyond a reasonable doubt” that Earhart and Noonan were then held captive on the Japanese island of Saipan, where he said he thinks Earhart died two years later. Read more (7/5/17)

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