The Native American Osage tribe of Oklahoma inexplicably had many members die in the 1920s. This prompted the FBI and its new director, J. Edgar Hoover, to look further into the situation. Author David Grann recounts the terrible situation in his 2017 book "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" that was later adapted into a 2023 film. Grann famously stated that "the Osage reservation was soaked in blood because it was awash in oil". The Osage case is considered to be the first major murder case of the FBI.
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