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October 2023

JaNae Collins, Lily Gladstone, Cara Jade Myers and Jillian Dion in Killers of the Flower Moon,  coming soon to Apple TV+.
Lily Gladstone, second from left, plays the wife of Leonardo Dicaprio's character in the movie Killers of the Flower Moon, in which love complicates a murder-for-money scheme. Melinda Sue Gordon/Apple TV

Last spring, an email arrived with the power of a comet jolted from its ancient orbit. It bore a faded newspaper clipping from 1920s Tulsa — a half-page pictorial of the driveway murder scene of my father’s parents, noting the spot where he had watched it as a teenager.

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