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- Answer: Unfortunately, DNA testing cannot be done since Billy the Kid's grave marker was washed away in the Pecos River flood in September of 1904 and the grave was left unmarked for years until a new headstone was placed.
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Dec 2, 2003 · Graves has even opened an official homicide investigation file on the death of Billy the Kid (case No. 03-06-136-01, “opened 6/7/03”). But the mayors of Fort Sumner and Silver City say they...
Oct 11, 2015 · His village is a poor place; exhuming DNA that didn’t match Bonney’s would damage its prominent spot on the Billy the Kid tourist circuit. So Lopez opposed the exhumation. Fort Sumner doesn’t have a municipal lawyer, however, so there was no one to challenge the sheriffs’ petition in court.
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DNA samples from the remains were sent to a laboratory in Dallas and tested to compare Miller's DNA with blood samples obtained from floorboards in the old Lincoln County courthouse and a bench where Bonney's body allegedly was placed after he was shot.
In 2003, Lincoln County Sheriff Tom Sullivan, Capitan, New Mexico Mayor Steve Sederwall, and De Baca County, New Mexico Sheriff Gary Graves began a campaign to exhume the remains of Billy the Kid and his mother, Catherine Antrim, to prove through DNA analysis that Billy the Kid was buried in Fort Sumner.
May 14, 2020 · Unfortunately, the body isn’t available for exhumation and DNA comparison with Billy the Kid’s mother Catherine Antrim, who is buried in Silver City, New Mexico.
Nov 9, 2005 · Nov. 9, 2005, 3:20 AM UTC / Source: msnbc.com staff and news service reports. Two investigators say they have obtained DNA from a cowboy who claimed to be Billy the Kid. Before dying in the...
Jan 18, 2004 · The affidavit of Homer Overton was offered as evidence for exhuming the body of the Kid’s mother, Catherine Antrim, to compare her DNA with that of a Texas man who claimed until his death in...
