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- The legend of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid says the two notorious outlaws died in a gunfight in Bolivia. But many southern Utahns in Cassidy's boyhood home say he faked his death, returned to the U.S. and died as an old man in relative peace.
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Jan 14, 1996 · Most historians believe that Butch and Sundance died in a shootout in San Vincente, a town in Bolivia, across Argentina’s northern border, where a patrol discovered them holed up in a...
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As Carlos Pero encouraged his mule to lumber up a rugged trail high in the Andes Mountains on the morning of November 4, 1908, little did the courier for the Aramayo, Francke and Cia mining company realize that his every move was being watched. Pero later recounted that after cresting a hill, he was surprised by two Yankees, whose faces were covere...
As a Bolivian soldier approached the hideout, the Americans shot him dead. A brief exchange of gunfire ensued. After it subsided, San Vicente mayor Cleto Bellot reported hearing three screams of desperation followed by a single gunshot, then another, from inside the house. When the Bolivian authorities cautiously entered the hideout the following m...
The man thought to be the Sundance Kid was slumped against a wall with bullet wounds to his body and a gunshot to his forehead. The man believed to be Cassidy was next to him on the floor with a bullet hole to his temple. Contrary to the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in which the outlaws go down in a blaze of glory amid a hail of bul...
At an inquest, Pero identified the corpses as those of the thieves who had ambushed himalthough all he had ever seen of the masked men were their eyes. But neither Pero nor anyone else ever positively identified the two dead men as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid before their reported burial in an unmarked grave in a San Vicente cemetery. Althou...
The researchers enlisted the help of Clyde Snow, the renowned forensic anthropologist who had conclusively identified the remains of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, and received permission from Bolivian authorities to exhume the robbers bodies. Guided to their purported grave by an elderly villager whose father had reportedly witnessed the shootou...
After a detailed forensic analysis and a comparison of DNA to the relatives of Cassidy and Longabaugh, Snow found there was no match. The skeleton was instead likely to have been that of a German miner named Gustav Zimmer who had worked in the area. Its possible that the bodies of the iconic desperados remain buried elsewhere in the San Vicente cem...
Sep 8, 2020 · In the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the two outlaws, played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford respectively, appear to go out in a blaze of glory during a gun battle in Bolivia...
Sep 12, 2011 · The legend of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid says the two notorious outlaws died in a gunfight in Bolivia.
Jul 14, 2020 · Two bandits were killed in Bolivia, but no witnesses who knew Butch and Sundance identified the bodies as them. In the 1990s, a TV program funded an expedition to Bolivia to find the truth. The gravesite long identified as the resting place of the dead bandits was dug up.
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Aug 19, 2022 · After fleeing to Argentina, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid blazed a new outlaw trail that ended in a shootout high in the Bolivian Andes. It wasn't like in the movies, and there's evidence that it was Butch who put the final bullet in Sundance.
Oct 28, 2020 · Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and Etta Place rode the outlaw trail until the world came after them. Did they die in a shoot-out? Or assume new identities and fool their would-be...
