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Exhumation may solve mystery of who was Billy the Kid PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 02 May 2007

STEPHENVILLE, Texas After more than half a century, the question of whether a Texas man was really famed outlaw Billy the Kid -- may finally be answered. Lincoln County, New Mexico, sheriff's Deputy Steve Sederwall has asked Hamilton City Council members for permission to exhume the body of Ollie P. "Brushy Bill" Roberts.

Roberts died of an apparent heart attack at age 90 in 1950 in Hico, Texas. Roberts is buried in Hamilton Cemetery. Roberts and at least one other man _ John Miller, whose remains are buried in Prescott, Arizona _ claimed to be Billy the Kid.

Those stories presuppose that the Lincoln County sheriff killed the wrong man in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on July 14th of 1881 -- and lied about it.
The Hamilton City Council tabled the matter until next week's meeting and asked Sederwall for more information.

http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=6454545&nav=0w0v
 
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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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