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WASN'T BRUSHY BILL ROBERTS PROVEN TO BE A FRAUD YEARS AGO BY DNA EVIDENCE? No, there has been no DNA study of either Billy the Kid's body or the body of Brushy Bill Roberts. For one, the actual grave site of the Kid has been lost to history and there is no body.
Nov 7, 2005 · Over the last century, at least two men surfaced claiming to be Billy the Kid – Miller and Ollie P. “Brushy Bill” Roberts of Hico, Texas. Those stories presuppose that Garrett killed the...
Dec 2, 2003 · But in 1950, a Texas man named “Brushy Bill” Roberts claimed that he was the real Billy the Kid and that someone else had been shot in his place. He said he had lived incognito for decades...
Aug 27, 2016 · According to most sources, the infamous outlaw met his end at the tender age of 21 in the summer of 1881, when he was gunned down by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. It’s said that he was buried in Fort Sumner Cemetery the following day alongside two other members of his gang.
Apr 9, 2017 · Ollie “Brushy Bill” Roberts claimed to be legendary outlaw Billy the Kid. (Getty Images/Wikipedia) Bettmann Archive. Legend has it that William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, died at the tender age of 21.
Apr 17, 2024 · Another hypothesis is that Billy the Kid was in fact Ollie L. (“Brushy Bill”) Roberts, who escaped, lived in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest, rode in Wild West shows, and died in 1950 in Hico, Texas.
Oct 8, 2018 · Roberts, who picked up the nickname “Brushy Bill” while riding scout for a stagecoach line in the Black Hills of Idaho, had the look, the size, the eyes and even, according to those who knew the outlaw, the same laugh as Billy the Kid.
