you the whole time. that s a level of evil that it s hard to get your arms wrapped around it. the trial took place here in the pahuska courthouse. climbing these steps, i can t help but wonder what it must have been like to be molly burkhardt, to watch your own husband take the stand for helping murder your family. in the end, ernest confessed and was sentenced to life in prison for the killing of molly s sister and her husband. hale also got life for ordering the death of henry roan. the cases were seen by all white juries, and their convictions were seen as victories by the fbi and the osage people. but then people kept dying mysteriously, and there has never been justice for anyone else since these trials.