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Billy the Kid still a newsmaker in 2004 PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Thursday, 30 December 2004
By Mike Linn

Western legend Billy the Kid has been dead for more than a century, but you wouldn’t know that from the headlines the legendary gunslinger made in 2004.

An investigation spearheaded by a group of New Mexicans — namely Lincoln and De Baca County sheriffs Tom Sullivan and Gary Graves, and Capitan Mayor Steve Sederwall — sought to prove the Kid is buried in Fort Sumner. The effort brought renewed international interest in the legend, made the front page of The New York Times and was printed in roughly 2,000 newspapers across the world, according to Billy Sparks, deputy chief of staff to Gov. Bill Richardson.
Over the last century, at least two men surfaced claiming to be Billy the Kid. Those stories presuppose that Sheriff Pat Garrett killed the wrong man in Fort Sumner and lied about it and that the outlaw isn’t buried in a cemetery there.
Sparks said at least three other areas stake claim to the kid’s burial ground, including Hico, Texas, Arizona, and London.
“What precipitated this was other states claiming to have Billy the Kid,” Sparks said. “It’s a worldwide legend and it belongs to the state of New Mexico.”
Initially, Graves, Sullivan and Sederwall sought a court order allowing the exhumation of the Kid’s mother buried in Silver City to compare DNA samples with the “impostor” bodies in the graves in Arizona and Texas, Sparks said. The trio dropped the request in September after the state’s Office of the Medical Investigator said the results may not be conclusive.
But Sparks said that hasn’t stopped the investigation, which turned up additional letters and artifacts that should renew the state’s claim to the Kid.
The final report of the investigation will likely be presented to the governor before March, at which point Richardson will decide if there is enough evidence to grant a pardon the Kid requested from former Gov. Lew Wallace, Sparks said.
“The governor will still consider should he pardon or not pardon, a lot of it based on what he sees (in the final report). Was Billy the Kid promised a pardon by Wallace in exchange for cooperation for the investigation at the time and did Wallace renege on that? Was Billy the Kid really the outlaw they said he was at the time?”

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