and then to know that it happened in your own family mm-hmm. how does that make you feel? well, there s a discriminatory kind of culture that i ve been sensitive to all my life even though i don t look particularly indian and i can pass certainly as a white man from time to time. but these murders made me very sensitive to these issues, and so one of the things that you live with is that some of your neighbors are now descendants of perpetrators, which really makes it hard. sybil bolton, joe bates, henry roan, mollie burkhart s sisters and mother. so many people lost their lives during the reign of terror. their families left traumatized by fear and grief.
but she had no proof. molly s family starts dying. molly s families family starts disappearing, and there s no good answers. molly went to the authorities, but they dismissed her claims. two years later, her ex-husband, henry roan, was also found shot and killed. and then molly s third sister, rita, and her husband died after a homemade nitroglycerine bomb was planted in their home. it exploded, and obviously you can see the wreckage. so just in complete ruins. she tells me about all the people molly lost. anna, lizzie q, rita, henry roan. so this is the family that was targeted.
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but the family didn t believe that sybil, who was a new mother, took her own life. instead, the conflicting facts led them to suspect foul play, and the man in charge of her money. so she had a guardian? she had a guardian who was her stepfather. this fellow his name was woodward was a prominent man. he was instrumental in gaining wards that he could be guardian of as well as passing them out to people. a.t. woodward was his name, and it turns out he had several other osage wards. all four of them died young under his guardianship. as the pieces started coming together, everything pointed to one thing. she was murdered for her head right, probably by her stepfather.