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Did Billy the Kid fake his own death?  Billy the Kid, Age 19  Brushy Bill, Age 17 CASE DETAILS Billy the Kid was easily the most notorious desperado of the Wild West. He reportedly killed 21 men, one for every year of his young life. History tells us that “The Kid” was born William Bonney in New York City in 1859. He later fought against rich ranchers in the Lincoln County Cattle War in New Mexico, and was given a death sentence for killing Sheriff William Brady.  Who is buried in Billy the Kid’s grave? According to most sources, Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett was eager to collect the $500 dollar bounty on Billy the Kid. In July of 1881, he tracked down Billy in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and killed him. History also tells us that Billy was buried the following day in a simple grave. 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:
 Brushy Bill or Billy the Kid? Most historians completely dismiss Brushy Bill’s story. But there is evidence to support his claim. It all started in 1948, when an attorney named William Morrison was told that Billy the Kid might not have died in 1881. A client said he had actually fought Billy the Kid in the Lincoln County Wars and that the Kid was still alive. Morrison was so intrigued that he decided to do some of his own investigating. He traveled throughout the West talking to other old timers about Billy the Kid, and he discovered that many thought that Billy was still alive. They said he was going by the name of “Brushy” Bill Roberts. Finally, in 1949, Morrison made the trip to Hico, Texas, to confront Brushy Bill in person. He wanted to ask Brushy if the rumors were true. According to William Tunstill, Brushy was at first hesitant:
 Plaque honoring Brushy Bill Brushy Bill finally admitted that he was, in fact, Billy the Kid, and asked Morrison to help him get the official pardon that New Mexico’s governor had promised him back in 1879. But Morrison wanted proof that he was indeed speaking to the infamous outlaw. It was then that Brushy Bill showed Morrison his scars, all of which matched the wounds received by the Kid during his time as an outlaw. To further convince him, “Brushy Bill” took William Morrison on a guided tour of some of Billy’s former haunts in Lincoln County. Morrison died in 1976, but his daughter, Barbara Kuchler, remembered her father’s trip:
Morrison then contacted five people who had known Billy the Kid during the Lincoln County War. Each of them, separately, met Brushy Bill in person. All five witnesses signed sworn affidavits stating that Brushy Bill Roberts was indeed Billy the Kid. If this is true, then one puzzling question remains … What really happened on the night the Kid was supposedly killed? According to Brushy Bill, on the night of the shooting, he was with his girlfriend, Celsa, and his partner Billy Barlow, at Jesus Silva’s house. Unknown to the Kid, Garrett and his posse were waiting for him across the yard. When Garrett opened fire, one of the first shots struck Barlow. The shots that followed struck the Kid in the head and shoulder. He passed out from the pain and woke up the following morning under the care of Celsa. She informed him that Barlow had been killed and was being buried in Billy’s place. According to William Tunstill, Pat Garrett knew he killed the wrong man:
By 1950, William Morrison felt he had gathered enough evidence to request a pardon from Governor Mabry of New Mexico. The Governor agreed to meet both men in person. But the meeting turned into a press circus. Brushy Bill was 90 years old at the time. He was confused and scared by the crowd of reporters. According to Barbara Kuchler, Brushy Bill’s testimony was all for nothing:
Morrison’s legal arguments and affidavits were not even entered into evidence. Brushy Bill felt he had been humiliated, his claims ridiculed. His pardon was not granted. Shortly after the meeting with Governor Mabry, Brushy Bill suffered a heart attack and died on a street in Hico, Texas. Was Brushy Bill Roberts the notorious outlaw, Billy the Kid? His friends and neighbors believe so and have even erected a memorial in his honor which reads, “…he spent the last days of his life trying to prove to the world his true identity. We believe his story and pray to God for the forgiveness he solemnly asked for.” Watch this case now on Amazon Prime in season one with Robert Stack and season three with Dennis Farina. Also available on YouTube with Dennis Farina. Various seasons available now on Hulu. |
Pat
It’s a great story regardless. That early photo of Billy looks so blank and hazy it’s impossible to tell. I’d say it’s not a match but who knows. The chin does look similar though in the Billy photo and Brushy Bill’s picture. It’s long and wide, pretty gigantic.
Gary
Has there ever been a hand writing analysis of Wm H Bonny’s letters to the Govenor compaired to that of Brushy Bill……that would solve the mystery!
MATT
billie didnt write them, someone wrote them for him.
Anonymous
Criminals in the 19th century (1800s) had limited technology to catch them. If they had Unsolved Mysteries, he wouldn’t have been a successful fugitive. All they had was wanted posters of old pictures of them in suits and ties. Something they almost never wore. In Jack the Ripper the only suspect without a photograph, is the one DNA later proved to be the killer. Without writing a book Billy was much too low pro to be flashing to cameras like Bill Robert’s. I wish counties would allow DNA testing to close the case.
Aaron B
I think we are all forgetting one thing the pictures other wise I think that brushy bill could have been Billy the kid
Fatboy
Brushy Bill bears no resemblance to Billy The Kidd Whatsover, absolutely nothing, not even close!!!
Butch
The ears look similar. I’m in my 70’s , and I look nothing like in my twenties. I don’t really know. Ask some of the psychics for their opinions.
Anonymous
Billy the Kid had a deceptive appearance to throw off law enforcement. The main thing he hid was his limp. He often wore Indian coats to hide his limp. Those coats covered his entire body. I don’t think his legs would have allowed him to walk if he lived to be 90. But without DNA we will never know. Medical care improved a lot during the later years of Bill Robert’s.
Michael Ram
If Billy’s lifespan was 1859 to 1881 and Brushy’s was 1879 to 1950, Brushy would have been about 3 years old when Billy died so Brushy heard about 20 + years of stories growing up. He must have heard the story that Garrett did’nt really kill the kid in order to say Billy survied and he was Him. for example, do you know how many Elvis’s are running around??
Anonymous
And that is a good point. Any can go over that public Elvis. And talk about the stage. It’s those private things only Elvis would know that should be questioned.
Michael Ram
the same night Billy was supposidly killed, Garrett was in pursuit of two other bank robbers and was called off to go to apprehend Billy. He knew that Billy lived with the Maxwell family in Ft. Sumter as they both worked as cowboys for Lucien Maxwell at one time and became good friends. When Pat arrived at Maxwells house, he devised a plan to give Billy a chance to leave New Mexico and start a new life and Pat thought $500.00 was worth more then turning in a dead bank robber for $200.00. In order for it to work everyone that was friends (all that were present) with Billy had to Identify the dead man as Billy the Kid! No Pat Garrett didn’t kill Billy the Kid, but then again Brushy Bill Roberts was not Billy the Kid either. All rights reserved.
Keith collins
I belive robert, s knew the kid however he,s not the kid one fact you can not go around billy did not have a sqaure chine I to love young guns 2 I belive pat garrett did not shot billy and billy lived but robert, s is not billy sorry to say
hokislot88
Yes! Finally something about slot online.
elena maes-brooks
My Great, Great Grandfather was Severo Gallegos and he would not have signed an affidavit stating Bushey Bill Roberts was THE KID! Back then your word was your honor and my Grandfather would NOT lie.
Barry
I believe you
Stephen Tucker
I have never actually seen the affidavit, but everyone seems to accept that there was?
Dan Moon
I read his affidavit and I believe you.
David
I believe that Bushy Bill was Billy the Kid,, history is always been rewritten and that’s a fact
pokerpelangi
Actually no matter if someone doesn’t understand afterward its up to
other uusers that they will help, so here it takes place.
Robert L Mitchell sr
Brushy Bills photos don’t even come close to the ones of the kid. Come on people get real
Daniel Webster
I don’t know what to think of the story a lot of his friends swore it was Billy the Kid some of the Mexicans who he was very close to said no es verdad my billito is dead he never comes to see me after that night and he would have. Billy like the Mexican man and the senioras he was fluent in Spanish they said he talked it like a native. So I don’t know if you give more credence to the Mexicans that swore he was dead or the other friends that swore it was Billy the Kid and that they rode with him. It’s likely we will never know for true but the pictures do not seem to match but unless I mistake and they’ve never proved that was actually a picture of Billy the Kid
Anonymous
The Bill the kid photos were hard to find. They were very formal when they were made and didn’t display casual characteristics. So it is possible for a completely different looking person to have been him.
JUDE DRIVER
TENDRA QUE DISCULPARME D. Piland PERO EL DESGRACIADO DE PATT GARRET INTENTO HACER FORTUNA CALUMNIANDO AL POBRE BILLY Y AFORTUNADAMETE NO LO CONSIGUIO, YO CREIA QUE EL GOBERNADOR LE TENIA QUE DAR A BILLY EL PERDON QUE LE HABIAN PROMETIDO HACE AÑOS PERO QUE EQUIVOQUE EL GOBERNADOR NO LE TIENE QUE DAR EL PERDON MAS BIEN PEDIR UNA DISCULPA POR LAS INFAMIAS SI ES CIETO QUE MATO PERO LO HIZO EN DEFENSA PROPIA Y SI ES CULPABLE DE ALGO ES DE VENGAR EL ASESINATO DE JOHN TUNSTALL QUIEN PARA MI FUE ES Y SERA SIEMPRE SU PADRE ADOPTIVO Y CREO QUE JOHN TUNSTALL DEBE SENTIRSE MUY ORGULLOSO “DE SU CHICO”
NO SE SABE CASI NADA DE SU PADRE BIOLOGICO A LO MEJO MURIO SIENDO EL UN BEBE, A LA MEJOR LOS ABANDONO, SU PADRASTRO LO ABANDONO CUANDO MAS LO NECESITABA PERO CUANDO BILLY NECESITO UN PADRE DE VERDAD TUVO UNO DE 24 AÑOS QUIEN ESTUVO PARA EL YA QUE PARA MI BILLY SUPO LO QUE ERA TENER UN PADRE GRACIAS A JOHN
HAY MUCHAS PREGUNTAS ACERCA DE BILLY Y YO CREO QUE LAS 2 UNICAS PERSONAS QUE PODRIAN CONTESTARLAS SON BILLY THE KID Y JOHN TUNSTALL BILLY POR OBVIAS RAZONES Y YJOHN PORQUE NO ES MUY DIFICIL QUE LE HAYA CONTADO TODO Y ADEMAS ERA EL QUE MEJOR LO CONOCIA.
RESPECTO A GARRET EL DESCONOCIA EL SIGNIFICADO DE LA AMISTAD POR LO QUE EL ASESINATO NO LO HIZO POR “SALVAR A SU AMIGO” SINO PORQUE NECESITABA EL CADAVER DE BILLY PARA COBRAR PERO COMO VIO QUE “EQUIVOCO” INTENTO DESESPERADAMENTE OCULTAR EL CUERPO ADEMAS ERA UN EMPLEADO DE DOLAN
HONESTAMENTE SOY ADMIRADORA DE BILLY THE KID Y ME SINCERAMENTE ALEGRA QUE HAYA LLEGADO A LOS 90 AÑOS Y QUE ESTEN JUNTOS LOS 2 EN EL CIELO.
Jude
YO CREO HONESTAMENTE QUE BILLY THE KID Y BRUSHY BILL SI FUERON LA MISMA PERSONA YO IGNORABA ESA PARTE DE QUE GARRET TRATO DE OCULTAR LA IDENTIDAD DEL CADAVER AUNQUE NO ME SORPRENDERIA YA QUE PARA MI GARRET NO FUE OTRA COSA MAS QUE UN COBARDE OPORTUNISTA QUE SIN IMPORTAR LO QUE HICIERA LLEGO JAMAS A SER NI LA MITAD DE HOMBRE QUE FUE BILLY A SU CORTA EDAD YA QUE BILLY FUE POR MUCHO MIL VECES MAS HOMBRE QUE PAT GARRET POR DECIR ALGO.
A BRUSHY BILL LO LLEVARON CON PERSONAS QUE NO SOLO CONVIVIERON CON BILLY SINO QUE REALMENTE LO CONOCIERON Y LO IDENTIFICARON COMO BILLY QUE AHI YO CREO QUE EL PROBLEMA ESTUVO EN QUE EXISTIA UNA PERSONA QUE A LA MEJOR LE HUBIERAN CREIDO MAS AL IDENTIFICARLO PERO EL PROBLEMA ESTUVO EN QUE ESA PERSONA YA ESTABA MUERTA ME REFIERO A JOHN TUNSTALL SI A LOS DEMAS “LOS HUBIERA ENGAÑADO” A EL NO LO HUBIERA PODIDO ENGAÑAR PERO REPITO YA ESTABA MUERTO PERO CONSIDERANDO LA IDENTIFICACION DE ESAS PERSONAS Y LAS EVIDENCIAS BILLY THE KID Y BRUSHY BILL SI FUERON LA MISMA PERSONA YO NO CREO EL BRUSHY MINTIERA
Jeffrey
I believe that Brushy Bill and Billy the Kid are the same. How do you know things another person couldn’t know as well as have the same scar wounds. Also the age thing a lot of people are saying the age thing is a factor yet a person can lie about their age as well to protect one’s identity. Billy was smart not dumb I am just saying.
————- J.
Anonymous
McDaniels, along with Severo Gallegos, Martile Able, Jose Montoya, and Bill and Sam Jones, all of whom had known Billy the Kid, signed affidavits claiming to verify that Roberts was in fact Billy the Kid.
william connally
McDaniels has always intrigued me. Sort of a dead end. Supposedly as deadly as the Kid. At one time on the same side in the War but end up on opposing sides. Like I said intriguing.BtabK
Anonymous
That would not be enough for a John Doe today. You need family to identify them. Billy’s mother lived in New Mexico. No matter how far he traveled, he always found his way back to her. Just him never seeing his mother again makes me skeptical. But they have his mother’s DNA. I wish she could tell us if that was indeed him or not. But those countries won’t allow the testing.
Anonymous
Consider this, most people have no idea what eventually happened to Pat Garrett. After suposedly killing Billy the Kid, he was replaced as sheiff by no less than one of the deputies with him that night, William Poe. Poe also said in a signed affidated, “I think you shot the wrong guy Pat.” Not only did Pat Garrett loose the election for sheiff but his book about killing Billy was a complete flop. It would seem the people of the day doubted Garrett’s claim and showed it. Afterward, Garrett left New Mexico for Texas where several years later he was murdered by a proffessional killer known as “Killer Miller”. Its not known who hired Miller or why, there are several different therories but the truth went to the grave with Miller. Maybe it had something to do with keeping Billy the Kid dead? It would not be the first time the killer was killed in order to hide the truth. If it where discovered that Billy the Kid was indeed alive and well, the future of people such as Gov. Lou Wallace could suffer the same fate as Garrett’s? The truth isn’t as hard to find as people seem to think,more often than not a simple question tell’s it. Ask yourself, if Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid, in a time when taking photo’s of dead outlaw’s was so popular. Why didn’t Garrett? After killing the most famous outlaw of the day??
Good points
You made a very good point about why didn’t Garrett take a photo of the “dead” Billy the kid
Angel
Pat Garrett was killed in Las Cruces NM off Hwy 70 E, not in Texas. I live right around the corner from the marker. He was buried in the Masonic Cemetery close to Mesilla, NM.
Cynthia Gavigan
I’ve said that for years, I dont think he ever killed him, no photo, no boots, belt guns, casket…..any pics of any of these things…..he didnt die that night
Anonymous
Brush was the kid, I’m from Texas and my grandpa was friends with billy and heard first hand the story’s. Billy was truly a amazing man and not the monster that some say he was. Billy fought for good reason not to just kill. I would like to think we all have a little billy the kid in us. Remember history is not always what it seems with all the cover ups that has been going on in our country and still going on. The real Story’s I heard about billy will live on in My memmeries forever and will be passed on to my children. See billy didn’t need any pardon cause God forgave him a long time ago. Long live Billy the kid
Michelle Williams
I have no doubt I know Bill Roberts was Billy the Kid there are just too many similarities and I believe wholeheartedly that he was Billy the Kid Garrett did not kill him sorry Garrett fans
Karen
If you would research Elizabeth Garret, Pat’s daughter, she supposedly told a reporter that her dad did not kill Billy the Kid. Go figure!
taylor
I have done about 5 years of research on billy the kid and I have no doubts the news papers had it all wrong about the kid better known as William H Bonney. I believe billy the kid was not shot that night by sherriff Garrott after all they were friends and no body that was living at the time really knew what the kid looked like up close and I think a gun slinger fitting the description and figure of billy was shot on purpose to cover for the kid so he could escape and start a new life under a new name. He had all of the right scares and knew how and where the shootings took place and why they did.
Anonymous
I believe it, but my question to those who don’t is … If Brushy wasn’t the Kid then who was he? Where did he get the matching scares why did people sign the affidavits?
Anonymous
I believe he wasn’t killed,…very well said… D piland
aisha
I also agree with you
Jim Johnson
You all are dead wrong. Brushy Bill was really Oliver Pleasant Roberts born outside of Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1879. If you have the guts, read my book. It contains all the evidence you need.
Kc
If you have the guts read your book? Is this a push to get your book sold? It appears to me there is strong evidence that Brushy Bill was possibly Billy the Kid. We might have a publicity seeker here to sell his book? Just sayin what it looks like.
Mary L Grayson
I don’t think I have the guts to buy your book
Ft. Sumner
I’m in agreement
Ft. Sumner
Yep, even brushys own family stated he wasn’t the kid
Anonymous
Roberts is a common last name. They even have some Indian ancestry. Faith healer Oral Roberts often talked about his Indian ancestors. You can find all kinds of information from DNA. But without DNA, you have an old man with no living parents to verify. You can’t even rule out without DNA.
TAZZ
If you are life was under a law to be hung and you were 90 years old and were promised a pardon Years and years ago, WHY THE HELL NOT TRY AT 90!!!! No offence but hell I would feel lucky to get my second chance but also now I can try my luck at a pardon at 90. Well 90 years old is real old back then, now he knew going to the governor office and admitting he was billy the KID, he could have been arrested by all rights, the poor guy just wanted to right the ultimate wrong!! I believe brushy bill was BILLY THE KID!!! Cause I sure the hell would take a different name and wait and wait till I was 90 and try for a pardon then also!! Smart not stupid!! He sure did not want the fame or be in the spot light!
Pat
I believe brushy bill was the kid same scars look closely same features such as long fingers nose ears it matches!
Michael mullinix
I believe it no doubt billy the kid had so much good luck i could see it and billy the kid and pat garrett were friend’s if u watch the first young guns movie it will show pat and billy chating and then in the second one where pat and the girl are talking about all the good times they and billy had together so it only makes sense that pat could have killed the wrong guy and covered it up to give his friend a second chance and get the bounty
Broad Ripple Jeff
How much do you want for the photo of Billy The Kid, Jesse James, Hitler, and Bigfoot? I heard a rumor Elvis was there.
red
why didnt brushy bill ever mention his brother (or half brother josie)
James C
I believe Billy the kid was in fact brushy bill because one of my uncles was a
friend of Billy the kid, ( PALS )
pat garrett
hi. I have a picture I took of billy the kid, jesse james, hitler, and bigfoot playing poker. anyone want to buy it?
Gary L.
A couple of things stand out to me on this whole conspiracy thing regarding “Brushy Bill”.
1) The man never sought public attention or recognition from anyone prior to his meeting with Mr. Morrison.
2) “Brushy” knew things only “the kid” would know, and had the same marks on his body (bullet wounds) as well.
3) Signed affidavids from those who knew “The Kid” swore “Brushy Bill” and “Billy the Kid” were one in the same person.
4) In a time when “outlaws” frequently used alias’, it’s not uncommon to forget key details when a person is trying to conceal their identity…………..especially for such a long period of time.
5) When the hearing took place for the pardon, it was treated as a joke………..and caused “Brushy” to have a stroke…………….which explains the possible lapse in key details about his past.
Just sayin’………
KC
I couldn’t agree more. Very valid arguments for Brushy Bill being Billy the Kid
Pucho
One more point, brushy bill claiming to be Billy the kid, if they prove he is in fact Billy the kid he’s saying the death sentence the kid got for Brady’s murder is in fact brushy bills, I don’t think it’s something someone is gonna fake.
Anonymous
May be an odd question. The night Pat Garrett allegedly shot Billy, what happened to the items Billy would have had or brought with him to that house? If he was barefoot or in sox, what happened to the boots that the person had? What happened to anything else that the person might have had?
Ron
It’s been proven that pat garret stole many things from the people he killed. He (pat) if did kill billy, would have kept everything of Billy’s for his own personal gain. He was crooked and a thief. He ambushed every person he ever killed, and in his own book
Stated he hid in darkness and didn’t give Billy any fighting chance. He killed many thinking they were Billy, I think he killed a Mexican servant in the darkness, the Mexican who had been checking on Pete because he had seen 2 men standing outside the room. Pat couldn’t beat Billy so he had to hide in darkness.
BBR Historian
There are five sworn affidavits from individuals who believed Brushy Bill was Billy the Kid. There is proof that 3 had never seen William Bonney, who was killed in 1881. Robert E. Lee, in his affidavit, said he first saw William Bonney in the summer of 1889. DeWitt Travis was born in 1890. Martile Able (née Martelia Bilberry) was born in 1873. She was living in her parents’ household in Lampasas County, Texas, in 1880. Tunstill, in “Billy the Kid and me Are The Same”‘ said Martile and her husband John Able, hosted Brushy Bill in El Paso when he returned from Mexico in 1884. Not possible. Martile was only 11; Martile and John Able married in 18989; and did not move to El Paso until 1902.
kgb
you were drunk when you wrote the memo 18189 keep the faith
Mary L Grayson
Your all mixed up, what are you doing just making up date’s and where there from to get your point across you really don’t make sense what you know these people personally do you
Anonymous
That would work with authenticating an autograph. But it is hard to dispute death certificates from medical examiners. Law enforcement would have to reopen it.
A McCarty
There are still McCarty ‘s that claim to be cousins to Billy the Kid. A good genealogist and a simple cheek swab will tell you who’s in what grave. The answer is really easy to aquire; seems no surviving Brushy relatives truly want to prove anything.
Anonymous
I believe Brushy Bill was Billy the Kid. The only part that confuses me is about his mother, her name.
Anonymous
That is a crucial detail very difficult to overlook.
It's possible
Most things we know about Billy the Kid are not set in stone, so Brushy may well have been the kid. So for now, I think it’s definitely a possibility.
Billy"the kid"Webster
I believe brushy bill WAS the kid! He could have cared less weather anyone else believed it.
Bowdre band
I also believe that “Killer Miller” was also friends with brushy Billy the kid and worked as a regulator earlier on under another name which I have yet to find but I believe that killer Miller is none other than John Miller a previous claimant to be the kid.
Interesting
Interesting theory
Larry G.
Killer Miller was known assassin deacon Jim Miller.
Bowdre band
I believe billy Barlow and Billy the kid were close friends and both present at maxwell house. I believe the kid and Barlow both were shot in the ambush but Barlow escaped. I believe Billy Barlow was Wait for it. Brushy Bill Roberts, I also have another possibility that being two Billy’s in the maxwell house and sumner that it’s possible brushy was actually Billy Barlow aka the real billy the kid and billy “kid Antrim” William h Bonney mcarty was killed but the real Billy the kid aka Barlow now known as brushy bill escaped with injuries.
Bowdre band
I believe billy Barlow and Billy the kid were close friends and both present at maxwell house. I believe the kid and Barlow both were shot in the ambush but Barlow escaped. I believe Billy Barlow was Wait for it. Brushy Bill Roberts, I also have another possibility that being two Billy’s in the maxwell house and sumner that it’s possible brushy was actually Billy Barlow aka the real billy the kid and billy “kid Antrim” William h Bonney mcarty was killed but the real Billy the kid aka Barlow now known as brushy bill escaped with injuries.
Pwilliamson
I believe Brushy Bill was “The Kid”. Pat Garrett supposedly kills the most wanted man in the state maybe the country and does not do what was common for the day to put his remains on display and have pictures taken with people standing around the body like it was a trophy Whitetail. Also all Brushy Bill (The Kid) wanted was the pardon he was promised. I believe he wanted that pardon so he could finally live in peace, not having to look over his shoulder.
Fjames
I believe it ho
Aaron Wilson
Always loved reading books on Billy the Kid
jennifer page
i wonder if elvis presley will will make a confession?
Anonymous
Jimmy Carter is still alive. They could do family DNA testing.
AL
My granddad knew Brushy Bill personally when he was a teenager. He said that Bill would tell stories of Billy the Kid in the third person, but would slip up from time to time and say, “then ‘I’ went….”, being caught up in the story. He said that Bill told him that Billy’s mother was a single mother (I don’t know what happened to his dad) and people would say things about his mother. He felt the need to protect her honor and became very fast at drawing his gun. Gun slingers heard this rumor and wanted to see for themselves. They would come up behind him and call him out. He was a very quick draw and it was “kill or be killed”. Pat Garrett WAS his friend and was glad to help him fake his death and start a new life.
It's true think about it -.-
There’s to much supported evidence and whenever you seen the end of the film the old rusty gun adds to it but the man was the same in every way an all he wanted was a pardon before he passed Billy the kid id say spent his young years gettin into unreasonable trouble and later years trying to make up for it but he didn’t have to have that pardon he had to have God on his side because he lived til 90 that’s not all luck truly would have been an honorable man to meet if you ask me
EJ
I Believe he was billy the kid. There needs to be a movie made called “The Legend of Billy” showing life of Brushy Bill after the Garrett killing. Supposedly led an crazy life. He rode with the Rosevelts Rough Riders , Rode with the nortorious Poncho Villa, and even worked the Wild West show under Bill Cody. All under different allias to protect him from getting hung or hunted down by the Pinkertons.
Russell Brown
I believe young guns 2 had told the real story of Billy the kid and brushy bill roberts one of the same person a person never lies about who they really are
Anonymous
That was a good movie. The Twilight Zone also had an episode of a lady singing “you killed Billy Robert’s”. It was a phrase acknowledging him.
Daniel Hill
I full heartedly believe brushy Bill was Billy the kid. (When a person tells you who they are…Believe them)
Wanda Stevens
I also believe Billy was not killed.
Thomas
it is possible he is Billy the kid. But his eyes tell a different story. Watching the show later on though, he IS Billy the kid, no doubt
Noonen
I believe it.
Anonymous
I believe it. Strange how many people can’t stand changes in history, or how it has been handed down regardless of evidence.
D. Piland
What many people don’t know is that the supposed Billy the Kid was ambushed by Garrett, who was waiting in a dark bedroom, and shot as soon as “Billy” entered the room, giving him no chance to defend himself. So, it seems very possible to me that Garrett could have killed the wrong man under those circumstances. Bad lighting and a shooting that happened very quickly. I have also read that, at one time, Billy the Kid and Garrett had been friends. If Garrett killed the wrong man, he might well have tried to cover up his failed attempt to kill Billy, covered for himself and his one time friend. Garrett tried to make his fortune from a book about his killing Billy, so it would have served his purpose to both cover up his mistake, while also giving Billy a chance at starting a new life. As for forgiveness, the people killed by Billy were involved in a very dirty range war, and those men killed by Billy were probably either killed in acts of revenge, or in self defense. Two were killed when Billy escaped from jail, to avoid being hung. Billy the Kid was said to have had amazingly good luck, this could have been one more case of “The Kid’s” good fortune. It all seems very possible to me that he took the second chance given him and led a quite life after he was supposed to have been killed. I like to think that was the case, Billy was not the evil outlaw he is so often played out to be in movies. More of a very
young kid who got into a very bad situation, and fought for those he was loyal to. Those he fought against were the ones who needed the forgiveness, IMO.
Robert Brown Jr.
I’m with you in that there’s so much evidence stating that he wasn’t killed by Garrett that night. You know how the media does anything for readers and money including lying. I’ve always been a big fan of Billy The Kid. Not that he was a murderer(I’m sure he never killed anyone that didn’t need it) but that he stood and took on corruption, especially when they were SUPPOSEDLY the law!!
Cynthia Gavigan
I totally agree with u on all your points….