A series of strange and violent deaths rocked Osage County Oklahoma a century ago.

Sisters Rita, Mini, Anna and their mother Lizzie all left behind lucrative rights to the

oil beneath Osage land, while lawman Tom White was horrified by the chilling plot he uncovered.

Join me, Tim Harford, host of the Corscht retails podcast, my new two-parter on the Osage

Killings, the story behind the book and film Killers of the Flower Moon.

Part one is available now wherever you get your podcasts.

There's a place in our world where the known things go.

A quarter of the mind, stocked with evidence, packed with proof.

I've got this one box in here with stuff from my childhood.

Old report cards, softball team photographs, Girl Scout badges.

In this Russia in Review, magazine I made out of magic markers and construction paper in 1979 when I was 12 and seventh grade for social studies.

It's got an article on the space race, a little history that starts with Sputnik.

There's a story about Samovars, a little biography.

Joseph Stalin, a Russian dictator, was a man who instilled terror in people.

His early life made been the cause of this.

Plus, fake ads.

Pepsky Kolska, the Communist of Kola.

I made up one article called, on tour in Moscow, where I meet people on the street and I say things like,

hello Miss, where American reporters would you mind a short interview?

I loved imagining myself as a foreign correspondent.

All expenses were paid.

I was all packed in money for my trip to Russia.

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