I’ve spoken with Porter Garrett, Pat Garrett’s grandson in Lubbock Texas 40 years ago. He told me that his grandfather indeed did not kill Billy. Couldn’t do it. That is why he only brought back Billy’s boots as proof and not his body or his horse as was customary at the time. Billy rode barefoot for Mexico and returned some time later and assumed the name Bill Robert’s and live to be an old man in Texas. That’s what Pat’s grandson, Porter Garrett who was in his 90s at the time we spoke some 40 years ago told me. I swear with God as my witness the above account is true and accurate.

It cant be that hard to believe that Pat might save him and collect his reward at the same time.

It's plausible, that Garrett really WAS Billy's friend. It's plausible that they conspired to stage Billy's death and allow Billy to live free and stop running

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He also had all the same scars. Also, when he went back and spoke with people that were still alive from that time, he answered their questions that only Billy would know.

Brushy Bill also had scars that matched bullets that Billy the Kid had taken, one of which was still lodged in his lower leg. I believe Brushy Bill was telling the truth. Thank you for your presentation.

If Garrett knew Billy, as what was known to be the case, he would have known immediately it was Billy he had shot and would not have been needing verification of who was laying dead in the floor.

garrett was saving himself. He shot the wrong man so passed him off as billy then made a deal with witnesses so he didnt get charged with murder and collected the reward.

Henry McCarthy, William H Boney to Billy the Kid, and now Bushy Bill. It’s all a Robin Hood Story. Personally, I don’t believe it. The kid got shot. I have looked at the famous tin photo of the Kid many times, and I don’t see a resemblance at all. The jaw line and nose are completely different.

It has been said that Billy and Garret were supposed to be freinds and when The Kid was captured at Stinking Springs and taken away to be judged and hanged, a few days before Garret left on some business which was strange that he didnt send any of his deputies to sort these things out as Billy was a Big outlaw name and i think any other sheriff would of stayed, then all of a sudden Billy finds a gun in the outhouse. I personally think that Garret didnt want his freind to die so he placed a gun for him in the outhouse and so he wouldnt be blamed or be a suspect of this, he left. When The Kid got away but didnt leave south of the border and news got back that Billy was in Fort Sumner, Garret took some men with him to go get the kid ( or at least thats what he wanted his deputies to believe). The night Billy got shot Pat Garret Knew it wasnt Billy but someone had to be taken down and thats why there isnt any death photos of the Kid and after all this Billy Knew that this time he really had to make an exit. All this as a Billy The Kid fan is what i wish had happened and that Billy lived out his life under the name of Brushy Bill Roberts

It's a nice fairytale, but it's almost certain William Boney was ended that night by Pat. People love a conspiracy even in modern times, I know people who still think Elvis is/was alive long after his death.

I remember an episode of Unsolved Mysteries covering Brushy Bill Roberts possibly being Billy the Kid. Very interesting. Young Guns was narrated by an old Billy the Kid. The only way out for Billy was either death or faking his death.

It would be cool if some kind of DNA test could be performed by some known relatives of billy the kid and the body of brushy bill, just a thought.

As the author of the book: THE STONE GARDEN: THE EPIC LIFE OF BILLY the KID, you might read it and see what you believe then. The 20th Anniversary edition is due out this fall.

Brushy bill looks nothing like Billy the Kid, people need their eyes tested.

Billy surviving is a valid thgeory, however he was NOT Brushy Bill. We know this because: -Brushy Bill did not know which side Billy fought on in the Lincoln County War. -Brushy was illiterate and knew little Spanish, while Billy was literate and spoke Spanish fluently. -Brushy claimed that Billy's escape from jail after being sentenced to death was peaceful and withoiut bloodshed , which is not true. Billy killed Deputy Bell and several people witnessed Billy horribly massacre Bob Ollinger with both barrels of his own 10 gauge shotgun. -Brushy claimed to be left handed, like Billy. This is because the only photgraph of Billy at that time was a picture of him holding his rifle in his left hand, so people assumed him to left handed. It was found out decades after Brushy's death that the photgraph was flipped and Billy was actually holdiung the rifle in his right hand. Historians now belive Billy to have been ambidextrious but used his right as his dominant hand. Billy surving is a valid theory, but if he did, he most likely escaped to Mexico and disappeared from history altogether.

I have no doubt in my mind that Bill Roberts was Billy, none. But, I was raised in otero county , lived in tularosa and grew up with the stories.

I believe it was him but I read that some said Brushy Bill didn't know spanish and was illiterate, whereas Billy The Kid could read and write and spoke spanish.

Yeah just like those woman claiming to have survived Bundy but only decades later.. no way Billy "hide" for decades only to claim to be billy in the 50s.. nah man I call that horseshit.

Thumbs up. Billy the Kid got a bad wrap. I've always wondered what would become of Billy if Tunstall hadn't been murdered.

Brushy Bill Roberts was born August 1879. Billy the Kid was killed July 1881. Bill Roberts was age 2 at the time of Billy the Kid's death

They also argued that billy was right handed while brushy was left. But it turns out that brushy was ambidextrous. So yeah im almost 100% convinced he was telling the truth. So not to mention that pat garrison said that based of billys corpse, he had grown out his beard ( something he was known to not be able to do in his early 20's) and tanned his skin to look like a mexican. One of the people who knew billy the kid was asked to dig his grave and he was convinced the body they had was that of billy barlow a half mexican boy who resembled billy the kid but was able to grew facial hair way before billy was able to. Idk im almost 100 percent convinced as well. It seems likely that if someone were going to come out with the story brushy told, they would wait 70 years to tell it if they were going to at all.

I'm becoming more and more convinced, that Brushy Bill, was none other than the person known as Billy The Kid. The first time I ever heard the claim, I felt that the matter would bear looking further into. He is perhaps one of the most improbable, accidental characters, of the Old West. It would seem, that he was slated by destiny, to be one of the great personalities of his time--and, perhaps for all time!

I've thought this for a long time..always thought it was pretty evident that brushy bill was telling the truth. so I'm with you on this 100 percent. Great video btw

Within minutes of the shooting the whole village of Fort Sumner was present at Pete Maxwell's Home. Billy’s body was NOT guarded all night and the lawmen did not keep people from viewing it. Billy’s body was taken by the local residents of Fort Sumner and was dressed and then was laid out on a carpenter’s bench where it was on public display all night! The following three statements below from eyewitnesses who were present when Billy the Kid was killed confirms this. It should also be known that no guy by the name of John Graham buried Billy the Kid's casket. It is known for a fact that the men who buried Billy’s casket were Jesus Silva, Vicente Otero, Saval Gutierez, and Antonio Savedra. It was Vicente Otero who dug the grave. Deputy John W. Poe…."Within a very short time after the shooting, quite a number of the native people had gathered around, some of them bewailing the death of their friend, while several women pleaded for permission to take charge of the body, which we allowed them to do. They carried it across the yard to a carpenter shop, where it was laid out on a workbench, the women placing lighted candles around it according to their ideas of properly conducting a 'wake' for the dead." Paco Anaya…."Don Pedro took the $25 and he and Don Manuel Abreu went to the latter's store and bought a beige suit, a shirt, an undershirt, shorts, and a pair of stockings. I, the writer, and my brother, Higinio Garcia, and several others of those that were there, dressed Billy with these clothes then we laid him on a high bed, one of those narrow ones, and we took him to the saloon where they held dances. There we watched, and on the next day we buried him." Jesus Silva...A few moments later I returned to the room, picked up the lifeless body of Billy and walking into a large hallway in the Maxwell home, laid his body on a long table. I there examined him again and ascertained without doubt he was dead. The body was then removed to an old carpenter shop where it was laid out. Of course an inquest had to be held. There was no justice of the peace at the old Fort, so we dispatched a messenger for Alejandro Seguro, justice of the peace at a little town 10 miles up the river. Seguro came and the inquest was held. Lie: George Coe never believed Billy the Kid was killed. Fact: The above statement is an absolute lie! George Coe himself said he KNEW Billy was dead in his autobiography “Frontier Fighter” on p. 228. Here is Coe’s statement exactly as it was written. "Just recently the newspapers carried a story to the effect that Billy the Kid was living in obscurity on a ranch near Odessa, Texas. Nothing could be farther from the truth. If the Kid were alive anywhere in the world, I should know it. There never was but one of his kind. A few years ago I decided to have his body removed to my place, and Miguel Otero came to see me, as he wanted the body taken to Santa Fe and given burial there. He went from my place to Fort Sumner and interviewed the commissioners there. He wrote me that neither he nor I could remove Billy's remains, as the commissioners said only a blood relation could have that done. So in a most remote spot at old Fort Sumner is the grave of Billy the Kid. It remained unmarked and unkept until 1932, when a headstone was erected through the efforts of Mr. Charles W. Foor.” Lie: Brushy Bill knew way too much about Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War to have read about it. He knew little details that were known to only a few people. Fact: Actually Brushy didn’t know much at all about the life of Billy the Kid. He not only made numerous mistakes in his interviews, but totally omitted many important facts, such as his time spent in the Silver City jail for hiding stolen laundry and the killing of “Windy” Francis Cahill in Camp Grant Arizona on August 17, 1877. I have listed Brushy’s numerous errors below. It is very easy to see that he made way too many mistakes to have really been there! There are enough holes in his story to ride a horse through! During his interview with New Mexico Governor Thomas Mabry in 1950 he choked up and forgot everything including Pat Garrett’s name! ." Fact: Aside from Brushy's fantasy gunfight with Garrett and his two deputies on the night Billy was killed, this is perhaps Brushy's biggest error. Frank Lobato definately did not bring him two horses, because he was not in Fort Sumner the night Billy was killed. This can be proven by Frank Lobato himself in a 1937 article called "Only One Man Living Who Saw Billy the Kid' in Both Life and Death" which appeared in the Clovis News Journal. Lobato said in this article that he was working on the old Pig Pen Ranch southwest of Melrose at the time of Billy's death, but that his mother, Marie Lobato was present and saw the body of Billy the Kid the morning it was laid to rest in the little cemetary down the valley. This proves he was definately not there and that more than likely Brushy completely made this up as well as the rest of his ridiculous claim. Brushy claimed that a man named Billy Barlow was actually shot by Pat Garrett instead of Billy the Kid. There is no proof that a Billy Barlow ever existed. There is a song called "Billy Barlow" that was written in 1834. Coincidence? You decide! In 1937 Jesus Silva was asked about the rumors that Billy the Kid might still be alive. Silva replied "That may be the rumor, my boy," he said, "but if there are dead men in this world, then Billy the Kid is among them. I know he is dead and as far as I know I am the only one yet living who saw him in death." Question: Why were there no photos taken of Billy's body? Answer: There were no photos taken of Billy's body simply because there was no photographer in Fort Sumner back then. Unless you have been there you may not realize just how isolated Fort Sumner is even today. Especially back then! The nearest photographer would have probably been in Las Vegas or Santa Fe. That would have been at least a three day ride for him just to get there. Question:When was Brushy Bill Roberts born? Answer: Brushy claimed many times according to Hico residents that he was born in 1868, which makes him too young to be Billy the Kid. Here is an exact quote from the booklet "Billy the The (alias Brushy Bill)The True Story" published by the Hico News Reveiw. "Brushy Bill had recounted often that his place of birth was Buffalo Gap in Taylor County, and the time was December 31, 1868, stating that he was born on the last day of the year. If correct, that would belie current tales being aired by daily newspapers linking his identity with that of a famous early-day character" 1868 is also the date which appeared on Brushy's original headstone. On the "improved" headstone his birthdate has been changed from 12/31/1868 to 12/31/1859. At the time of Brushy's death he was claiming to have been born 12/31/68, which would explain why this date was put on his original stone. Brushy's real birthdate is August 26, 1879, but of course no self respecting tourist would buy into that big of an age gap. Once Brushy got tired of claiming that he was a member of the James Gang, he then claimed to be Billy the Kid. At this time Brushy claimed that he was born in December of 1859 in Buffalo Gap, TX. There is one problem with this claim though. Buffalo Gap did not even exist at this time. In fact it was not founded until 1875! This can be confirmed by contacting the Buffalo Gap Historic Village at Po Box 818, Buffalo Gap, TX 79508. Brushy's niece Mrs. Geneva Roberts Pittmon however claimed in a letter to Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang founder Joe Bowlin that Brushy was born on August 26, 1879 and that she had the family Bible record to prove it. According to Geneva Pittmon Brushy Bill was her father Tom's brother. If that is correct, then Brushy Bill Roberts was only two years old when Billy the Kid was killed in 1881! Question: Was Brushy Bill Roberts literate? Answer: According to authors Frederick Bean and W.C. Jameson on p.204 of their book "The Return of the Outlaw Billy the Kid" "Evidence suggests Roberts possessed only rudimentary reading and writing skills. His wife, Melinda, wrote letters for him. Examples of his penmanship in the possession of the authors show a scrawl not unlike that made by a four-year-old child." Question: How many witnesses actually viewed Billy the Kid's body? Answer: There are at least 28 witnesses known to recorded history to have viewed Billy's body. They are: Pat Garrett, John W. Poe, Kip McKinney, Pete Maxwell, Dona Luz Maxwell, Paulita Maxwell, Deluvina Maxwell, Odila Maxwell, Don Manuel Abreau, Don Pablo Beaubien, Dona Rebecca Beaubien, Paco Anaya, Jesus Silva, Jose Silva, Vicente Otero, Sabal Gutierrez, Celsa Gutierrez, Marie Lobato, Lorenzo Jaramillo, Antonio Savedra, Milnor Rudolph, Charles Rudolph, Higinio Garcia, Henry Lola, Cruz Trujillo, Alejandra Segura, Manuela Bowdre, Tom O'Folliard's commom law wife, and Pedro Antonio Lucero. There is another NY Times newspaper article proving that Brushy Bill publicly and during a press conference claimed to be a member of the James Gang. Jesse James claimant J. Frank Dalton was proven to be a fake through DNA testing in the summer of 1995.

In addition, Roberts had allegedly claimed to be a member of Jesse James's gang, before deciding to come out as the authentic Billy the Kid.

My great great grandmother use to feed William and friends when they’d pass through Tularosa, NM. She wrote that he was always a gentlemen, dressed neatly and was well educated.

Idk if you all know this, but there's an obituary about Billy, from the time he "died". It says that "Billy the Kid grew a beard and stained his skin brown, to disguise himself as a Mexican". And another witness claimed that the body had brown skin. This makes sense, as Brushy said it was his Hispanic friend who got shot at Maxell's

Doesnt make sense for the simple fact of, all the sudden, Billy just decided, at the young age he was, as an outlaw, to lay low enough after that to never be heard of again? More then likely, if he had survived, that would not have been the last you heard of him!

I believe Brushy Bill was Billy the Kid.

What people tend to forget is Pat Garrett was considered to be just as much of a criminal as Billy the Kid before he became sheriff He used Billy the Kid to get famous If he would’ve never became sheriff and went after Billy the Kid no one today would’ve ever known Pat Garrett even existed I wouldn’t believe Pat Garrett if he told me the sky was blue💯

Brushy Bill's younger pictures, look identical to the known one of the Kid. Keep in mind the known picture of Billy the Kid, is slightly distorted and makes his face appear asymmetrical

I actually went into Helen Rice Grinder's law office here in Conway and asked if she would talk about the Brushy Bill Roberts's case off the record.......She never called me ......All I wanted was her opinion.....

I don't really think Garrett killed the kid but I also don't think Brushy was Billy. Brushy's own family says it's not true, not to mention they have photo's of a young Billy and young Brushy and they don't even resemble each other. Also, they were not the same age. Brushy has a record you can follow.

Great Story,...NO PICTURES TO Prove What Saying, Even In 1950 !!!!

Something that I don't think you mentioned was the fact that Brushy Bill said " If it wasn't for those black soldiers from Fort Stanton, we would have won the battle at the McSween house in Lincoln.

Awesome video man!!!! I believe you and have done research. Someone needs to pardon Billy so he can RIP 🙏

Thank you for an interesting report. I have always been interested in Billy the Kid and since hearing about Brushy Bill Roberts have had an open mind on his demise. I have read that someone said that Brushy Bill was not Billy because in the photos of both Billy and Brushy Bill the ears do not match, I have tried looking at the ears but for me it's difficult to tell, so now it's interesting that you say there is a 93 per cent proof that they are the same person, this goes against the idea that the ears are different. Another thing is I remember hearing about Brushy Bill being made to meet people who actually knew Billy and those people after speaking to him said, yes, that's really Billy. Another thing that people disagree on is that some say he was bad, but others say he wasn't and was just seeking revenge for the death of his friend and that the law in fact was corrupt. I'd like to think that he survived and became Brushy Bill. Thank you again for an interesting report.

Already been proven Roberts was not Henry McCarty.

Compare the DNA of Billy the Kid's mother Kathryn McCarty who is buried in Silver City Kansas to the DNA of Billy the Kid at Fort Sumner that should be enough.

There's proof from written records that there were black soldiers on the Murphy-Dolan side at the McSween house, but I've never heard anyone say that in modern times (yet Brushy Bill said that was the reason the regulators lost the McSween house battle).

Brushy Bill was illiterate and could only speak very few words in Spanish. Billy was intelligent, could read and write and was fluent in Spanish. Theory dead.

Garrett killed the wrong man. As technology prevails; so does history

I believe Brushy Bill. He knew so much about not only the town, but the people, including their correct names that historians had gotten wrong due to typos. The morning after Garrett supposedly killed Billy, Billy's horse, saddle, and his entire kit were gone. Brushy Bill was terrified that if they did accept that he was actually Billy he would be immediately imprisoned. He and his attorney set up what was supposed to be a private meeting with the governor. But when they arrived, the governor escorted them into a huge room full of press, with State Marshalls lining the wall. Brushy Bill about passed out. He became so weak that they had to carry him out to a room off to the side. Once Brushy Bill had recovered the governor basically said he wasn't going to be a part of the foolishness, and they left. Brushy Bill passed away three weeks later. His attorney felt horrible because he had already conducted many recorded interviews and had questioned Brushy Bill extensively. He would repeat questions later to see if Bill's answers were consistent.

I still find it hard to believe that Roberts was the Kid. The main reason for my skepticism is that after the kid was killed he just disappeared. There were no more killings, sightings, news reports, robberies, or other events attributable to him. Sure you could say he took advantage of the misidentification by Pat Garrett and went "underground" for all those years, but this seems unlikely to me. Until the issue is resolved by DNA I will always be a skeptic.

"You ask me if I have scars. Yes sir, I have my scars."

Those death photos wasn't difficult to look @ at all. Bonnie & Clyde got it MUCH worse.

The best evidence to disprove Brushy Bill as being Billy the Kid, is the same evidence that people use to claim that Brushy was Billy. Brushy was not Billy, in fact, Brushy left a very good paper trail throughout his life. William V. Morrison and C.L. Sonnichsen and William Tunstill all fabricated lies to prove Brushy was Billy.

I BELIEVE BRUSHY BILL ROBERTS WAS TELLING THE TRUTH !!! 😊😎✝️💯

I would recommend a book called " Billy the Kid the Lost interviews." By WC Jameson. They were audio tapes that were interviews of Brushy Bill done by a reporter in the 1950s. The tapes were lost until the 1990s and then they were transcribed as much as possible despite The condition of the tapes . It contains these interviews and also much more in-depth information concerning the circumstances of Billy the Kids supposed death in 1881.

Brushy Bill was born in 1879!

He was about 20 years to young to be the kid

But what about his age ? Brushy was born 1879 ? billy the kid was shot in 1881 at the age of 21 ? in 1881 brushy was only 2 years old ,do you know maths can you do maths .

Brushy Bill said he joined Roosevelt's Rough Riders under the alias William S Murphy. If you google the names of Roosevelt's Rough Riders, you'll find a William S Murphy. What you will not find is any record of William S Murphy before or after the Rough Riders

Facial recognition is not admissible as evidence to identify a defendant in the court of law in the US

Before casting stones at the US criminal Justice system, one might want to count the number of people in UK prisons for being “offensive” online.

Keep in mind pat was hard up for cash and was still a crook with the mind set of a crook. The guy he killed resembled Billy the kid close enough where he knew if he got his deputies to agree with identifying the body as Billy the kid, he could collect his cash reward. Helps to do your homework folks.

I'm Billy the Kid............ No I'm Billy the Kid.............. No I'm Billy the Kid.

Are we just going to forget the fact that he looks nothing like Billy the kid.....his eyes are totally different.

Robert's earlobe on the right is attached, Billy's is not... Robert's chin has a cleft, Billy's is rounded. Right eye shape is way off. It's close but these are the reasons I say their not the same person.

I don’t agree, but I don’t completely disagree. Garett already shot someone he thought was Billy already. I don’t think he would of stayed hidden or secret for 50 years.

Pat Garrett was a liar. On my musings, idk if he did this to allow Billy to go free because of their friendship, or if he wanted so badly to be the one to kill Billy, but the young man that he shot that night was not Billy the kid, it was a young man named Billy Barlow, a recent acquaintance of the Kids. Moreover, this was not the first man that Garrett had shot and killed in his haste to shoot and kill Billy the Kid. There were at least 2 others prior to Billy Barlow. There were no photographs taken of the dead man killed that night, and worse than that, they already had him buried before the sun came up, right there on the property without any of the witnesses who knew him so well, ever getting a glimpse of him. They rode back to town and declared that the kid was dead. The other 2 LE agents backing up Pats statement. I have recently been honored to listen to, and watch a documentary, that used the 4 or 6 hour audio tapes of Brushy Bill Roberts interviews. It is amazing, and fascinating!! Hee never hesitates, stumbles over words, or has to stop and think about anything when answering a question. He tells the entire story of how he became involved with each of the characters that we all have heard so much about, and seen portrayed in movies, and read books about, and how the whole Lincoln County wars started, and ended. He debunks many of the so called facts that have been written in the most popular books about the Kid. Yes, he had all of the same scars from bullet wounds and knife wounds.... I was kind of on the fence about whether he was for real or not until I had the opportunity to hear this fascinating tale in his own words, and I am now completely convinced that he was the real Billy the Kid. Btw, I never once believed that the Kid was killed. I knew that that was not the end of my favorite outlaw, Billy the Kid.

The comment on *"Black and White Thinking" is the 🔑 to everything that's the focal point in the USA today,* and yesterday. Very well said.

I think Pat Garrett let Billy go, with an understanding that he would leave & not commit anymore crimes & then started telling the lie that he & billy had already agreed upon

Some people has a way to tell their stories making every body think they telling the truth. Truth is actually gone.

Another point if similarity was the scars that Brushy Bill had. He is said to have had all of the same scars that Billy the Kid got in his early outlaw years. All of the evidence put together is overwhelming.

Overlooking the fact that plenty of people actually saw his body after he was killed. Being the same height with the same colour eyes means nothing. I'm 6'2" with blue eyes, maybe I should claim to be someone who died 70 years ago.

Jesse was not shot by Bob Ford Bob Ford shot the man that was living in Jessie's rent house in st.joe Missouri

How did he manage to escape and live the rest of his life?

Well Brushy’s chest full of his stuff is where? And the Brushy tapes are where? Why cant the public hear them? Brushy is a liar according to census and other records. And I read he did not have his teeth at the time of late photos. His daughter said he was not the kid. But he was an interesting cowboy that knew a-lot in his old age. We dont know how much he was coached for details. I checked him off the list when I found out he filed against the company that made billy the kid jeans for royalties.

My family knew Brushy Bill and I'd like to thank you for keeping this story alive

The story is quite fascinating. Being a South African and totally addicted to good western movies, I have done some research of all the great names of the old west. The exoneration of Billy The Kid in a modern review of circumstances etc. What would be more interesting though, is the whereabouts of Billy The kid at the time that Pat Garrett claimed that he shot Billy. What happened to him in all these years of his absence. Please elaborate more on that to support this story. Thank you for the research. Fourie.

We still have Billy the kids letters to Governor Lou Wallace. Yet I haven't heard of any writing comparisons to Billy the kid and brushy Bill Roberts. 🤔 I would still suspect that Bill Roberts still has some letters he wrote somewhere.

There's no photo of dead Billy the Kid because there wasn't a photographer in Ft. Sumner. The nearest was in Santa Fe, which would have been a long way by horse. I don't think Garrett would haul a rotting corpse to Santa Fe to have a photo taken. I don't think anyone would.

I believe I met the Great granddaughter of Billy the Kid, Jody Reballard, in a hotel in Cheney, WA. Her facial looked liked Billy's look, she. had big wrists and small hands... just like Billy's! We shared some bread. I had her autograph her relationship and autograph on a Spokane pamphlet but later lost the pamphlet camping somewhere in IA. She looked like Billy, period. I truly believe that I met the Great granddaughter of the one Billy the Kid .

Honestly I have studied billy the kid slot bug not brushy bills story as much , but brushy bill was not the only one claimingIng to be billy , but I agree never believe the main stream narrative with out doubting

Billy had a longer jaw and more of a pointed round chin, where Brushy Bill had a shorter jaw and more of a square chin this tells me they are two completely different people, bones such as the jaw bone do not change shape during age and this is one thing people fail to notice. My view Brushy Bill was no more than a Billy the Kid imposter and a massive attention seeker.

Pat Garrett and Billy the kid were probably like brothers

Brushy was barely a baby when Billy was killed.

Whether Garrett shot Billy or Brushy was Billy are two different questions. Let's assume Garrett didn't kill Billy. Brushy looked nothing like Billy and saying 93% certainty means nothing since the pics simply don't match up. View the pics yourself and you don't need software to know.

"He had the same color eyes.." Can you provide any proof of this? Because I've read that Brushy Bill had grey eyes and Billy had blue.

That's horseshit study using FBI photo recognition techniques at the University of Texas over to claim Brushy and Billy as a match from 1990. You don't need photo scanning and computers. Just look at the pictures. Brushy and Billy both have detached ears, but the mouth, jaw, chin and eyes are different.

Brushy and Billy the kid were the same person.... It's all I'm gonna say...

Even today Fort Sumner is just a small village of less than a thousand people. In 1881 it was even less. There was probably not a camera within a hundred miles of Pete Maxwell's house. Not to mention it was July. The hottest month of the year. And no refrigeration to preserve the body. He would have been buried as quick as possible.

you deserve more subscribers you also should've given more backstory on Brushy Bill

WOW That younger photo of "Brushy Bill" Roberts looks just like Billy "The Kid" I'm More convinced now thAt "Brushy Bill" was in fact Billy "The Kid"

My only thoughts on this, is Billy would have to have had the love of a “pal” for Pat Garret to abandon New Mexico after his supposed death. He could’ve brought personal disaster on Garret by riding through town in front of everyone on his way out of the state!

He could’ve bee the same guy. I can see either story being true. Does it matter?

They did facial recognition on 100 people, 45 people had a higher match than Brushy Bill

It doesn't matter what Brushy Bill knew or didn't know; he was not Billy the kid. Go look at the ONE photo of Billy and check the ears. Then look at the photos of Roberts and his ears. Billy had detached lobes, Roberts did not. Case closed.

Good video but you missed one fact Billy the kid was born in 1859 as for Brushy Bill Roberts was born in 1879. Billy the kids alleged death was in 1881 Brushy Bill would've have only been 2 years old at the time which makes it almost impossible for him to be Billy The Kid. No disrespect intended I just thought I'd point that out.

4:18 "93% match on the faecal recognition"

I 100% believe Brushy Bill is Billy Bonney. ❤

Did Pat Garrett really shoot Billy? Beats me. Well, there's a 99.9998 % chance that he DID. But that's not A HUNDRED. However, if Billy did live past July 14,1881, he was NOT 'Brushy Bill' Roberts.

Hi and thank you for your video. Im John im 71 I have definative proof Brushy Bill was in fact the kid

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Billy the Kid is dead

Bill Robert's was not Billy the Kid . He even claimed to be part of the James gang. And if you look when Robert's was born and then look at when Billy was born not even close. So stop the lie

This is a story for retired people that have very little to do in their lives. I am out of here!

One thing that bothers me though is do you really think Billy the Kid would stop his behavior and lead a normal, mundane life never to be heard from again? Hard for me to swallow, but the evidence is quite convincing.

Yes , I believe U ... that Billy survived & was Brushy Bill was indeed Billy the Kid . In fact , several yrs. ago before I got an actual job @ a restaurant ; I would houseclean old lady's houses . Anyways , this one old lady told me that the famous legendary outlaw Billy the Kid lived to be like 90 yrs. old . And , she claimed to be his Granddaughter. She also kept on going on & on about how I looked like her Grandmother Pauletta ( a Spanish Woman ) that secretly married Billy the Kid & had her as a child . She kept on going on & on that I looked like her Dear Beloved Grandmother ( or that I resembled her quite a bit !!! ) . And , @ 1st I didn't believe her . But then she described her Grandmother as if she was describing me !!! And , we do look similar !!! :O ( I mean I'm not Hispanic or Spanish , not in this life . I believe I was in another life , but that's an entirely different story . ) but , ya know how when U'r Gut instinct tells ya something or someone is telling U the truth ? ( It was like that ) . I just had a really big feeling / s , that the Lady that I cleaned her house that day was telling Me the truth . That Billy the Kid had survived being gunned down by Garret , & that I look like her Beloved Grandmother Pauletta . ( Billy's wife , whom he married secretly . )