If you watched Martin Scorcese’s film The Killer of The Flower Moon, you might be wondering how William King Hale died. The Academy Award-winning director’s latest film is based on the book of the same name by David Grann. The book recounts the series of murders of the Osage which William King Hale and his nephew Ernest Burkhart were the masterminds behind it. On why he decided to pursue a film adaptation of the Osage murders, Scorcese told Deadline, “What I responded to when I read David Grann’s book was the natural order of things. The idea that one could rationalize that if the Osage are not going to be of any use, if they’re going to be phased out anyway, why don’t we just, you know, help them go? And, ultimately, do we really feel any guilt for that?” Leonardo DiCaprio initially was signed on to star as FBI agent Tom White but Scorcese decided he should play Burhart. “Leo DiCaprio looked at me and said, “Where’s the heart in this movie?” This was when Eric Roth and I were writing the script from the point of view of the FBI coming in and unraveling everything. Look, the minute the FBI comes in, and you see a character that would be played by Robert De Niro, Bill Hale, you know he’s a bad guy. There’s no mystery. So, what is it? A police procedural? Who cares! We’ve got fantastic ones on television.” Robert De Niro who plays Hale in the movie, told the publication how it was important to tell the story. “It made the most sense to show what’s going on in that world, the dynamic between the nephew and the uncle,” he said. “I don’t know if you would call it the banality of evil, or just evil, corrupt entitlement, but we’ve seen it in other societies, including the Nazis before WWII. That is, a depressing realization of human nature that leaves people capable of doing terrible things. [Hale] believed he loved them, and felt they loved him. But within that, he felt he had the right to behave the way he did.” He continued, “Tom White and the FBI set up law and order in the Wild West, where laws were made by the people who were right there and felt they could do anything. They were entrenched in the community, and nobody was accountable. It was racism, really.” So what happened to William King Hale after the murders and how did he die? Read more to find out.
How Did William King McHale Die? What Happened After The Osage Murders
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