Dirty Little Billy

Billy the Kid investigation resurrected - Science - MSNBC.com: "FORT SUMNER, N.M. - Two investigators say they have obtained DNA from a cowboy who claimed to be Billy the Kid.

Before dying in the 1930s, John Miller purportedly told friends and a son that he was the legendary Western outlaw.

Former Lincoln County Sheriff Tom Sullivan and Capitan Mayor Steve Sederwall say they obtained the DNA last May from Miller's remains, which are buried in Prescott, Ariz."

They say they will compare it with blood traces taken from a 19th-century bench that is believed to be the one the Kid's body was placed on after he was shot by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881. The bench was discovered on a Fort Sumner ranch.

Should the samples match, Sullivan and Sederwall say they could have a break that upends accepted historical accounts of the Kid's life and death.

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