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T's and C's apply. Throughout the second half of 1925, from July to December, the Osage witnessed a monumental

amount of progress in their murder cases.

The previous four years,

from the discovery of the bodies of Anna Brown and Charles Whitehorn in 1921 to June of 1925,

must have seemed like they were moving at a snail's pace. They crept forward in tiny increments, and frequently stopped and waited for more progress,

all while watching their friends and family members die.

But now they were rocketing forward at a profound speed.

In July of 1925, the acting director of the Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, assigned Special Agent Tom White to the case of the Osage murders.

White was the quintessential old-school frontier lawman.

He was a former Texas Ranger who didn't have much use for fancy scientific methods of investigation.

He looked at the evidence, talked to witnesses, identified

suspects, and then went after them. On the surface, it seemed like a pretty simple formula. Yet,

in four years, none of the other lawmen or private detectives who worked on the case had

made even a fraction of the progress that Tom White made

in his first month on the job. He started in July, and by August, he had eliminated the people

who were considered the prime suspects in two of the big three murder cases. White and his small

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