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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 ...
Brushy Bill Roberts (August 26, 1879 – December 27, 1950; claimed date of birth December 31, 1859) also known as William Henry Roberts, Ollie Partridge William Roberts, Ollie N. Roberts, or Ollie L. Roberts, was an American man who attracted attention in the late 1940s and the 1950s by claiming to be Western outlaw William H. Bonney, (who actually died in 1881).
- August 26, 1879
- Prospector
- American
- William H. Bonney (alias Billy the Kid, allegedly), Henry Antrim, Henry McCarty, Oliver L. Roberts
Dec 25, 2018 · Though numerous attempts have been made, the most recent in 2004, to definitively prove that Brushy Bill Roberts was Billy the Kid, none have been successful. DNA testing has gotten off the ground and sophisticated facial match testing between photographs of Roberts and the Kid have proven tantalizing to believers, though ultimately the results ...
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Oct 11, 2015 · Eight months later, they took the dig 600 miles west, to an assisted living facility and cemetery in Prescott, Arizona, called Pioneers' Home. They were there to do what they hadn’t been able to in New Mexico: Exhume a body, extract its DNA, and see how the results compared with William Bonney’s accepted history.
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Oct 10, 2023 · The only way to solve the mystery is to perform a DNA test on the remains of Brushy Bill and the body buried in Billy the Kid's New Mexico grave.
It’s a story recounted in both “Young Guns II” and O’Reilly’s “Legends & Lies”: In the late 1940s, a man named Ollie Roberts a.k.a. Brushy Bill came forward claiming to be Billy the Kid.
The trio's goal was to exhume the graves of Billy the Kid in Fort Sumner and his mother, Catherine Antrim in Silver City and compare DNA to that of any Billy the Kid claimant, such as Brushy Bill Roberts and John Miller.