Cracking the Billy the Kid Case Hoax: The Bizarre Plot to Exhume Billy the Kid, Convict Sheriff Pat Garret of...
- ISBN-10
- 0986022675
- ISBN-13
- 9780986022678
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 1056
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-11
- Author
- Gale Cooper
Description
Cracking the Billy the Kid Case Hoax: The Strange Plot to Exhume Billy the Kid, Convict Pat Garrett of Murder, and Become President of the United States, a 1,056 page illustrated paperback with primary document appendix and extensive bibliography and index, is a riveting and rollicking whistleblower saga told by the author about her decade spent saving the iconic Old West history of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett from a huge historic/forensic hoax: a fabrication that Garrett never killed the Kid. Stopping that hoax used the Harvard educated author's background as an M.D. murder case consultant, her expertise in Billy the Kid history, and her willingness to risk danger. The Billy the Kid Case hoax was a self-serving publicity stunt by a governor, lawmen, and accomplices using illegal exhumations and faked DNA claims. The author's transforming personal journey exposed New Mexico's Santa Fe Ring corruption, debunked old-timer Billy the Kid pretenders, and enlisted aid from pre-eminent DNA experts and the modern family of Pat Garrett; until the author stood alone in a court as pro se to stop the hoaxers with penalties against them of a million dollars. Ultimately, cracking the hoax came from the author's finding a document revealing the hoax's secret and shocking motive. She was further amazed that the modern Santa Fe Ring's players matched the antique Ring players in the days of Billy the Kid. The Lincoln County War fought them in Billy's day; this modern fight was its rerun. OTHER BILLY THE KID BOOKS BY AUTHOR ARE: JOY OF THE BIRDS: A NOVEL; BILLY AND PAULITA: A NOVEL; MEGAHOAX: THE STRANGE PLOT TO EXHUME BILLY THE KID AND BECOME PRESIDENT; BILLY THE KID'S PRETENDERS: "BRUSHY BILL & JOHN MILLER; BILLY THE KID'S WRITINGS, WORDS, AND WIT; PARDON FOR BILLY THE KID: AN ANALYSIS.
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