The FBI is unsuccessfully trying to bring B. M. Pike to the court. The FBI placed a charge of highway robbery as the reasoning for the trial. After mentioning Pike, he no longer appears as a suspect in the file, which is odd. The FBI tells his last location but the file does not mention any attempt to find him after the agents trail goes cold. (pg 1) Later the document reveals that Pike knew where Anna Brown meet three men the night of her murder. (pg 10) It is perplexing that Pike knew where Anna Brown was the night of the murder but was not a suspect.
While looking over the file the question arose who is Detective Weiss? Thomas Weiss, a Special agent until August 28, 1932, when he became a special investigator for the Governor and…show more content… Kinney. The file says that one of the reasons that Mrs. Kinney is a suspect is her location. She lives “one, one-half miles northeast of Belfort Bridge.” (pg2) Mrs. Kinney’s temper is another reason the FBI has chosen Mrs. Kinney as the suspect in the murder of Anna Brown. The file says “on June 4, 1924 she shot a number of times at Fred Tillman at Gythrie. Okla. Shooting him from his rear and hitting him three times,” (pg4). This exurb of the file it begins to show how detective Weiss has drawn the conclusion that Mrs. Kinney is responsible for the…show more content… Kinney said, “She told him several times that she believed Bill Hale and the Burkharts were responsible for Anna Brown’s murder.” (pg 7) Weiss does not appear to buy into the version of the story where Mrs. Kinney is innocent. Weiss seems to stay true to his notion that Mrs. Kinney is the guilty party until George Bigheart dies in the hospital. Weiss suspects that Bigheart’s death was not of natural causes saying “Shortly after George Bigheart’s mysterious death in a hospital” (pg 9) implying that someone is responsible for Mr. Bighearts death. The hospital death of Mr. Bigheart begins Weiss’s looking into the relationship between Mrs. Kinney and Bill Hale. The relationship between the two holds the key to the murder.
Mrs. Kinney’s motive is that of jealousy and not greed. She angry with Mr. Kinney for remarrying Anna Brown after Mr. and Mrs. Kinney had a divorce. The terms of her divorce left Mrs. Kinney with all of Mr. Kinney’s land along with $100.00 per month of alimony. With the land and monthly checks Mrs. Kinney received, Mrs. Kinney gained economically stability and would not gain from killing Anna
