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Unsolved Mysteries Wiki. in: New Mexico, Texas, 1948, and 6 more. Brushy Bill Roberts. Billy the Kid. Real Name: Oliver Pleasant Roberts, posthumously renamed William Henry Roberts Case: Unknown Identity Date: 1948 Location: Hico, Texas.
His claim was explored in a 2011 episode of Brad Meltzer's Decoded and a segment by Robert Stack in 1989 on Unsolved Mysteries . Background. In 1948, a probate investigator from St. Louis, William V. Morrison, located an elderly man named Joe Hines, who had claimed the lands of his deceased brother.
- August 26, 1879
- Prospector
- American
- William H. Bonney (alias Billy the Kid, allegedly), Henry Antrim, Henry McCarty, Oliver L. Roberts
Nov 10, 2008 · Episode #14.41: Directed by Kabir Akhtar. With Dennis Farina. Murder w/ UD: Mia Zapata. Legends: Brushy Bill Roberts. Wanted: Maria Hernandez. The Unexplained: Glen Loney; Rhonda and Roxanne Anderson; Catherine Webb. Investigators w/ UD: 1987 Jane Doe.
- Kabir Akhtar
- 2008-11-10
- Documentary, Crime, Drama
- 60
Jun 7, 2017 · But now some people say that history is wrong. That Billy wasn’t the man in that grave. Sixty-eight years after Billy’s death, a man from Texas, named “Brushy Bill” Roberts, claimed he was Billy the Kid. Research historian, William Tunstill, believed the public was misled about Billy the Kid:
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The key was a thirty-five-year-old man named Bill Roberts, an enigmatic drifter who worked for Neal and was apparently the last person to see him alive. At the time, the two were living in a travel trailer parked in the backyard of Neal's friend's house in Dallas.
