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 Halford, 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.

Okay, we are recording.

Yeah, are you controlling the recorder with your butt?

Correct.

This summer, coronavirus summer, the last archive's Dauntless Producer, Ben Nathaphery,

came to visit me in Vermont.

Picture, woods, fields, goats, dogs, a barn cat, the state was pretty much locked down,

and I couldn't let him in the house.

So we sat, as Vermonters say, a cow's length apart on the porch of a cabin in the woods.

Ben had driven up in a pickup truck, loaded with all of his fancy recording equipment.

But in the cabin, where there's no electricity, the conditions for recording were a little primitive.

That's like, we just need corn pipes.

This is like fully regressed last archive recording.

This is the last archive, 19th century tradition.

Okay, so the conditions were grim, the way so much of the conditions in the pandemic were grim.

But Ben had come a long way to tell me a story.

It's the trappings of a ghost story, basically.

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