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Who was Rita Smith? What was her connection to the Osage murders<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rita Smith and her husband Bill were murdered in 1923 after their house exploded. Rita’s brother-in-law and others had conspired to steal the family’s money, and nothing was going to stop them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about Rita Smith and the larger conspiracy that resulted in multiple murders in Rita’s family and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Family of Rita Smith<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The five-year-long Reign of Terror began in May 1921 with the discovery of the body of a murdered Osage woman named Anna Brown<\/a>. Anna had been married to a white man, as were her sisters, Mollie Burkhart<\/a> and Rita Smith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By July 1921, the local authorities wrapped up the investigation, concluding that Anna was murdered by \u201cparties unknown.\u201d<\/strong> They had surrendered the quest for justice for Anna. And that same month, another tragedy befell Mollie Brown when her mother, Lizzie, died from her wasting illness, so similar to how Minnie had died a few years before\u2014and to how many other healthy Osage seemed to have died of unexplained wasting sicknesses in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill Smith<\/a>, a white man and the husband of Mollie\u2019s sister, Rita, found the circumstances of Lizzie\u2019s death to be highly suspicious. He began to believe that she and other Osage had been deliberately poisoned and that her death was linked to those of Anna Brown and Charles Whitehorn<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He and his wife Rita, Mollie\u2019s sister, began to receive threats and intimidating \u201cwarnings\u201d as Bill appeared to get closer to the truth, especially after he discovered a connection between Roan\u2019s murder and local criminal kingpin and bootlegger Henry Grammer<\/a>. It seemed that Roan had told people he was headed to Grammer\u2019s ranch to get some illegal whiskey right before he disappeared\u2014and that Anna Burkhart had often visited Grammer\u2019s ranch as well. Bill and Rita Smith fled their home in early 1923, believing that they were being targeted. Bill confided to his friends that he \u201cdidn\u2019t expect to live long.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Explosion at the Smith House<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On March 10, 1923, the house that Bill and Rita Smith had moved into exploded in a thunderous blast, just before three o\u2019clock in the morning<\/strong>. Neighbors heard the explosion for miles around, with the force of the blast blowing out windows in the neighboring town of Fairfax. Nothing remained of the house but twisted metal and burnt furniture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A party of searchers, including Ernest Burkhart<\/a>, arrived on the scene and found Bill Smith, burnt nearly beyond recognition. Rita Smith’s mangled and charred remains were pulled from the rubble. The body of their young servant, Nettie Brookshire, was never found\u2014most likely, her body entirely melted away in the blast, leaving no remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill recovered consciousness two days later, in unbearable physical agony and emotional despair upon learning of his wife\u2019s death. The doctor, David Shoun, one of the two brothers who had presided over the autopsy of Anna Brown, claimed that Bill revealed no details of what he knew about the explosion or the murders that had preceded it before his death on March 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By July 1925, Tom White, an FBI agent, began to think Bryan Burkhart<\/a>, brother of Ernest Burkhart (Mollie\u2019s husband) and brother-in-law to Mollie and Rita, was the most likely perpetrator of Anna\u2019s murder<\/strong>. He was the last person to have seen her alive when he dropped her off back home the evening she disappeared. Tom believed this, even though Bryan\u2019s alibi was well-corroborated by people who claimed to have been in his company at the time of the killing, including his brother Ernest and his uncle, William Hale<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he studied the probate records, Tom discovered that many headrights<\/a> had come into the possession of Mollie Burkhart, married to Ernest Burkhart, nephew of William Hale<\/strong>. Ernest was known to be highly influenced by his domineering uncle. When all of this money came to Mollie, it would be easy for Hale to exercise control of it through his nephew\u2014though it would be even easier if Mollie were to be killed, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linking the Conspiracy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This explained the precise pattern and order of deaths in Mollie\u2019s family. <\/strong>The divorced and childless Anna had been the first to be eliminated, with her headright going to her mother Lizzie. Killing Anna first ensured that her assets would not be divided up between multiple heirs. Lizzie herself was the next target, having willed her headrights to Mollie and Rita, her surviving daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This also explained why the next victims, Bill and Rita Smith, were targeted in a bombing attack, which was an unusual method of killing. In fact, the Smith murders were done this way because it was critical that the two died at the same time. If only <\/em>Rita had died, her headrights would have gone to her husband Bill Smith. But because the couple died mere days apart, Rita\u2019s headright reverted to her only surviving heir\u2014Mollie. It all began to make sense as the outlines of the murderous plot became clear to Tom White. By conspiring to have all the members of Mollie\u2019s family killed, Hale was maneuvering to have all their headrights bequeathed to her. Once Mollie herself <\/em>was murdered, the oil wealth would be his to exploit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, White had also worked with the Oklahoma state attorney general to draft murder charges on the Smith bombing for use in state court, in the event that the federal government was found to be lacking jurisdiction. Hale and Ramsey were immediately re-arrested and put on trial for the murder of Bill and Rita Smith. Still, the trial would now be held in Hale\u2019s domain of Osage County, presenting the prosecution with a steep uphill battle<\/strong>. The government assembled an all-star legal team for the prosecution, while Hale hired his own team of high-powered attorneys, which he was confident would help him defeat the charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, William Hale and Ernest Burkhart were convicted of murder. The murders of Rita Smith and her husband Bill were a constant source of pain for Rita’s surviving sister, Mollie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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