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December 6, 1934 (age 40-41) Route 66, Amarillo, Texas, U.S. Cause of death. Gunshot wounds. Occupation (s) Outlaw; robber; murder. Blackie Thompson (born Irvin Thompson; 1893 – December 6, 1934) was an American outlaw and murderer active primarily in Oklahoma and Texas .
18. Mai 2017 · They released Blackie Thompson, a notorious outlaw, from prison, hoping to use him as an informant; instead, he robbed a bank and killed a police officer. Thompson would later be gunned down by...
28. Mai 2020 · Blackie Thompson was a bank robber who worked as an informant for the FBI to help solve the Osage murders in 1923-1926. He provided information that led to the arrest of Ernest Burkhart, who confessed to hiring a contract killer to blow up the Smith house and kill Bill and Rita Smith. He also implicated his uncle, Mollie Burkhart, who was a key player in the plot.
20. Okt. 2023 · According to Grann, the BOI “released an outlaw named Blackie Thompson, hoping he would work as an undercover informant, but he instead robbed banks and killed a police officer. At one point ...
- The Burkhart Family's Multiple Tragedies
- Oil Money Enriched The Osage
- Government-Appointed Guardians Targeted Osage Wealth
- Law Enforcement Largely Turned A Blind Eye
- The FBI only Addressed A Fraction of The Killings
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One by one, in the early 1920s, Mollie Burkhart’s family members turned up dead. Her sister Anna had been discovered in a ravine in May 1921 with a bullet wound to the back of her head. Following the shooting of a cousin less than two years later, Mollie’s sister Rita and her husband were killed when an explosion reduced their house to kindling. Mo...
As journalist and author David Grann details in his 2017 book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, adapted into a 2023 film by director Martin Scorsese, the Osage reservation was soaked in blood because it was awash in oil. Driven from their lands in Kansas, the Osage had bought a swath of northeast Oklahoma in t...
Even the Osage’s blessings turned out to be cursed, however. The great wealth lured not only desperadoes, bootleggers and criminals—but fantastic jealousy as well. “The Osage Indians are becoming so rich that something will have to be done about it,” reported Harper’s Monthly. “Prejudice provoked a scapegoating of the Osage for their wealth, and th...
As the body count rose in the early 1920s, the Osage saw no action from local and state law enforcement personnel. “There was a tremendous amount of corruption in Osage County. The power structure was able to buy off lawmen. In some cases lawmen were directly complicit or turned a blind eye,” Grann says. The tribe sent representatives to Washington...
But beyond the Burkhart case, which ultimately garnered national attention, many of the Osage killings remained unsolved. “Hoover was in a rush to close the case—really the case was closed prematurely,” Grann says. “The bureau didn’t reveal a deeper, darker conspiracy, and as a result many were able to escape justice.” In Killers of the Flower Moon...
The Osage murders were among the most chilling conspiracies in US history, and the FBI's first major homicide case. Learn how the FBI solved a shocking conspiracy involving oil money, government corruption and a gang of killers who targeted the Osage tribe in Oklahoma.
17. Juli 2023 · Urged on by the testimony of an incarcerated outlaw named Blackie Thompson, Burkhart confessed to his role in the plot and identified a man named John Ramsey as the "triggerman" who shot Henry...
19. Okt. 2023 · They released an outlaw named Blackie Thompson, hoping he would work as an undercover informant, but he instead robbed banks and killed a police officer. At one point Hoover wanted to get out of it and turn it back to the state, but after the scandal, he didn’t have a choice.” This is when he turned the case to White who carried ...
