Billy The Kid: A Man no one could see coming

05/09/2020: So you want the millions of $$$ Billy the Kid big money?? Your willing to go to any extent to get it? For the near past 10 years, here’s the short list of “accomplishments” in my pursuit of the Billy the Kid American Dream:

1) I lost the ability to even see my only child, my daughter. 

2) I lost my place of residence, ended up homeless, and have been living off and on the streets ever since. Its become difficult to hold a job, and keep it. Poverty. Anger. Impatience. Intolerance. Sweating for pennies from someone else, all the while believing I should’ve been a millionaire, and owned a business of my own.

3) The fame of my Billy the Kid Mystery in Upstate tintype inevitably led to theft of it, and almost prompted me to commit suicide. Completely shattered. Never recovering any trust.

4) The torment of coming this close to tasting success, only to have the plate pulled away more times than I can count. Slammed doors. Sabotaged by people I put on a pedestal.

5) Being harassed by a hundred others. Thoughtless, and careless about my own fight, simply trying get me on board, and verify their pictures. 

6) Every day, watching out for people illegally reproducing my stolen tintype trying to profit off of my work, while I never made a single dime.

7) Wasting thousands of hours of my life, researching, chasing a long dead ghost without ever coming up with a single shred of conclusive proof about who he really was.

So you want this American Dream? Your willing to go to any extent to get it? I hope your ready…

 

UPDATE: November 2018. After you finish reading this chapter, I encourage you (the reader) to check out my 2nd chapter: Billy the Kid: Back from the Dead. I will show you why Billy the Kid was underestimated, overlooked. How he got the best of his enemies before they even knew who he was… Thank you.

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December 2018: I have removed, and renovated much of this chapter…. The bulk of this chapter was written like patchwork between the years of 2014 to 2018. While I was still emersed deep in research and the fight of my life. It sort of bounced all over the place, but rather than erase and rewrite the chapter 50 times, I put this piece here, this thought there, and tried to make it all fit.

William Henry McCarty, William Bonney, William Antrim, Patrick Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid, and a Strong Grip of a Master Mason standing next to him. If only I’ve would’ve known that when I discovered the provenance for this tintype (below), I would upset a stasis of purported History. This image of Billy the Kid was found within the 1882 wedding album of William Marcus Jones and Anastacia Campbell. Its a very true provenance. Its been documented that BTK knew the Heiskell and Barbara (Ma’am) Jones family of the Pecos very well. Their 3 oldest “Boys” were friends with Billy. The Jones family thought of BTK as a son. Billy had his horse stolen, and had been left to die in the desert. Miraculously, he stumbled upon the Jones Ranch. Back in those days there was next to nobody living in the Pecos, only murderous indians, and bandits. Ma’am took Billy in, and nursed him back to life. Billy’s feet were mangled like ground beef from wandering the desert for who knows how long. Billy cared so much for the Jones family he would sleep on their roof, to stop raiding indians. There’s only a small problem with the Upstate tintype provenance though. The Jones fought on the Murphy-Dolan-Riley side of the Lincoln County War, the Kid on the Tunstall-McSween side…….. Fast Forward: The Kid’s locked up in the Lincoln jail… Bob Olinger wasn’t so smart, and a drunk, and started running his mouth about what he was going to do to Billy the Kid. Bob enjoyed tormenting Billy the Kid while the Kid was in handcuffs. A drunk Bob bullied a prostrate Billy. Bob Olinger was a member of Murphy-Dolan-Riley faction, wore a tin badge, and was Billy’s appointed jail guard. As Olinger was running his mouth, Billy said a simple reply to Bob, “many slip, twixt the cup and the lip.” Believe it or not, that’s Billy the Kid quoting Aristotle, for those who think Billy was a brainless thug. The very next day (I believe) Billy found the mysterious gun in the outhouse. How did the gun get there??? To this very day, no one knows for certain. Some people believe it was hidden in there by Billy’s sneaky Mexican buddy, Yginio Salazar… Anyway, after Billy shot, and killed the outhouse guard, Billy ran & scooped up Olinger’s own double barrel shotgun that was leaning against the wall, or a tree. Billy made the jail break, but before he did, Billy stopped & unloaded BOTH barrels on Bob himself!… Rewind: Its documented Bob Olinger had shot (in the back) and killed John Jones, his own fellow member of the Murphy-Dolan-Riley faction. Olinger just didn’t like John Jones for some reason, especially since Jones beat John Beckwith to the draw when Beckwith was gonna try to sneak kill Jones. John Jones was 1 of young Billy’s best friends & Heiskell and Ma’ams oldest son. Theres no known pictures of John that I’ve seen. I believe John Jones is the standing man…

     

Click Here To View Billy The Kid Mystery In The Upstate

Images below: I’ve blown up the 3 Billy the Kid faces, and put them close side by side… Look at the lips. Their jaunt, like a trigger fish because his front tooth was crooked, and forced his lips to draw up like that! Look closely at the chin, right underneath the lower lip is a circular chin/bone protrusion. Look at the eye on the (converted) right side, notice how it droops? It gives Billy the Kid almost “puppy dog” looking eyes. The women said Billy was handsome man. Perhaps its also a reason why Billy the Kid was almost always underestimated by men trying to kill him until it was too late! 1 part Angelic, 1 part Demonic looking. The ears are not forced out by the hat, but they appear the same for what can be seen. Check out the distance between the eyes, he’s slightly looking sideways in the Trio pick. Check out the approximate distance or width of his face cheekbone to cheekbone. The chin, the nose (the lighting shading the base unfortunately). The Trio pic is giving a real look at what “The Kid” looked like without a hat…….. Charlie Bowdre, I am so tired of public domain shots not giving the public a chance to see what the men really looked like! Distorted, pixel blocks. Low dpi scans. High dpi scans cost money. Its garbage. Their saving the real images for auction. That’s why my website will bring the pictures unblemished, unadulterated, unaltered, almost uneverything they won’t let you see. Including the truth!

I mean if you want the truth about Billy the Kid, try wrapping your mind around Billy the Kid’s original “Biographer” Ash Upson being friends with the Jones family I mention above. Ash accompanied Heiskell and Ma’am to the Pecos. This Ash was contracted by Pat Garrett to write the 1st book ever on Billy. Pat had problems with Ash’s original draft because it was so melodramatic, but Ash said the book was all about the money. So here we have the man who created the Billy the Kid legend in cahoots with, historically speaking, Billy’s enemies. Better yet, we have Billy the Kids sworn enemy and “killer” Pat Garrett tied to some of Billy’s secretive real friends as well. Talk about some serious flip flopping! Back to Pat Garrett, how authentic could the biography be when you were telling the enemies side of the story anyway?? Hell if that’s the case, maybe Hillary Clinton is qualified to write Donald Trumps bio…

Billy  the  Kid 

The composites here are converted to a positive image, and some as shown on the tintype…

You can bet your bottom dollar The Kid hated the Dan Dedrick owned picture! Billy’s ears stuck obscenely out, his mouth was open exposing his crooked tooth, and it looks like the poor fella was in the process of blinking when the camera finally snapped the shot. Perhaps he was intentionally keeping his eyes semi closed (identical to the Upstate image.) Squinting, I used to do that for pictures taken of me. In Billy’s history of the Lincoln County War, cattle rustling, horse stealing, and outlaw life; Dan Dedrick wasn’t his good friend, in fact, Dedrick was really just a blip on the radar for the Kid. They barely knew each other. That’s probably why Dedrick got the bad picture of Billy. Billy didn’t want it! BUT Dedrick and the Kid did know each other for a short period of time. And for that short period, I am sure they were friends… However, the men pictured with Billy in this trio picture below, these were his good friends! Tombstones will tell you they were.

Above, left, is an 1870s tintype or a painting, called a photographic portrait (??) that was claimed to be a mid-teen aged Billy the Kid. Looks like a photograph taken of a painting to me! What do you think? Does he look like the “El Chivato”? Sure does to me… Almost 40 years before the $2.3/$5 million “estimated” Billy the Kid photograph craze, this image was said to be him… I am constantly on the lookout for images reported to be BTK, doing analysis, looking for the Kid’s discernible characteristics. This newest side by side composite is reported to be the Kid/William Bonney age 13, and is found within the University of Arizona’s archives. It shows the “trigger fish” jaunt lips with the lower lip upcurl, and the circular chin protrusion. Note the ears don’t stick out like everyone ASSUMES the Kid’s did. My Pals tintype shows the Kid 7 years older with more defined face. Note in the University of Arizona’s 13 year old image of Bonney/The Kid, the same arching, drooping eyelid, and it looks like some type of scar or growth in the corner. For this composite I have switched the image to positive from the tintypes negative, and blown the image up at least 300x!

Since I fully embrace every aspect of the Billy the Kid conspiracy, I have composed a side by side for you of my Billy and the known image of claimed Billy the Kid son: Telesfor Jaramillo. Allow your eyes to do the talking. Was Paulita Maxwell’s claim true? While they are both young in these images, does this look like a father and son to you? Of course Telesfor’s mouth would be just a little bit wider than Billy’s because Telesfor didn’t have the front crooked tooth that caused his lips to draw up. The problem with this Telesfor picture, and Telesfor being Billy’s son (according to the “experts”) is that he was born after Billy was “supposed” to be dead. This could quite possibly be, History in the making. Perhaps this Hispanic family would be willing to submit a DNA test to see if they mysteriously have some close Northern European ancestry?

 

2016-2017: Billy’s lip scar

Charlie Bowdre:

Mr. Bowdre… Don’t let the nose fool you! The camera is down beneath both Billy and Charlie pointing up. It makes both their noses look slightly smaller. Bowdres especially. Its the same as the young Yginio pic beneath. For Charlie, look at those side by side ears and its inner cartilage. Very distinct moustache. Light blue eyes. I am sorry, no matter what I do, I cannot get the public domain/known images of Charlie to look good on the composites. Distorted.

 CLICK ON, and be sure to magnify all the way in on the trio “The Pals” tintype to see in large and great detail ABOVE… A double click off the site. Something happened during the scanning process, I am not sure why it seems to distort, but I did scan it at 1,200 dpi. I’ve included 2 sizes, in case anyone should decide to upload the image and it distorts, maybe 1 will work better than the other. When I zoom in, I notice the complete clarity of Charlie and Yginio’s faces, but Billy’s is ever so slightly fuzzed. Billy might have twitched a little when the flash popped!

YGINIO SALAZAR:

Yginio Salazar, age progression! Another Regulator and “Pal” to Billy and Charlie.

Pals

Written in Stone!… Pals: I’d pay my last red cent on that being Billy the Kid’s term for his closest friends.

Just for kicks, and so you can see the anomaly for yourself, I’ve included a picture of the man who claimed to be Billy the Kid after he faked his death, Brushy Bill Roberts… Not even close to the real Billy the Kid resemblance. As a matter of fact, Brushy Bill looks more like Yginio Salazar. To boot I’ve given you a side by side of Brushy against George Coe, another Regulator. This is a true game of Cat and Mouse, the misdirection is absolutely incredible. Organized crime. Funny how the original newspaper article where Brushy Bill and J Frank Dalton (on his deathbed) emerged together, Brushy doesn’t even claim to be Billy the Kid, he states he was just a member of the James Gang. And as far as the other guy who claimed to be a posthumous Billy the Kid, John Miller, I just don’t see it.

The Billy the Kid, Charlie Bowdre, and Yginio Salazar “PALS” tintype came from CORRY PENNSYLVANIA ALBUM in the menu at the top. This IS a very mysterious photo album! Click on it to see the entire album…The Trio tintype I believe is 1880, Billy the Kid: 20, Yginio Salazar: 17, Charlie Bowdre: 32

 

Make no mistake, that circular chin protrusion, and lower lip upcurl are certain Kid characteristics! I zoomed in so you could see the shading where the Kids tooth was possibly poking through. I don’t know if it was lightly painted over or if the lighting was shadowing it. I remember I noticed it right away back in 2011, but I never mentioned it in the WYFF 4 interview. Same spot, same everything.

Billy the Kid: cattle rustler. Christian convert. Comedian. Charming. Lady’s Man. Billy the Kid: DEATH DEALER! A viper? A victim? Billy the Kid: possible cattle rustling treasure vault protector? Count the coins. What? $1 is missing? BANG! Somebodies dead! Billy the Sentinel, or Enforcer. Billy the Kid: 33 Degree Freemason or above? Catalyst for the entire Lincoln Co. War. Played both sides of the fence? Massive money in the middle to be split one way. Senator Thomas Catron? Corrupt, he never cared about any of the means, only the “ends.” John Chisum? Trying to take a chunk out of Catron’s ego and greed? Sacrifice a couple of cattle and appear the victim. In that House, somebody definitely stacked the deck…  Billy the Kid: 21 dead by 21 years of age. The Kid could see his enemies coming before they even knew he was Billy the Kid. Billy The Kid: most definitely brilliant! Tons of aliases and history doesn’t even know his real name for certain. Did he really fake his death like, possibly 7 other Wild West mentioned on this website? Did he really live to be the tender age of 60 years old? Below: this is Joseph and Catherine McCarty, and they fit perfectly into the Knights of the Golden Circle map outline I have created. These McCarty’s were 130 miles away than none other than Gen/Gov Lew Wallace himself, and 83 miles from Indianapolis. Same hometown as outlaw Sam Bass. Just a few miles away from John Wesley Hardin’s mothers birthplace. Not Marion County, as consensus BTK history may suggest, but actually Marion Township. What do most people say who are from small towns? They say their from the closest big one! Mitchell, Indiana or Indianapolis, you do the math. I did some genealogy research on this couple, and their related to President Ford, the throne of England, and some other Ford’s to boot. Yet another coincidence I guess.

  

Could this be a flesh and blood photo of Billy the Kid’s real parents? This is Joseph and Catherine (Stevens) McCarty! They were married in 1856. I’ve tried to keep up with their trail in Indiana, but its very tough to. They were kinda like ghosts. Even the censuses are vague. 5 years ago, I discovered them while I was researching the Joseph McCarty in Cass county, Indiana (who claimed to be Billy’s dad.) Not much is known about the Cass county man, but an internet search connected him and this Joseph. Back then I also found the genealogy page detailing Catherine’s family ancestry. Going all the way back to Alfred the Great. It’s since disappeared, or I just can’t locate it again… PS: they have some Dalton’s in their genealogy too. This section, however, is pure speculation because it would make the William Antrim aspects and documentations complete forgeries. Also it would make Catherine dying young from tuberculosis a lie as well. Trust me when it comes to Billy the Kid’s real parents, I struggle just as much as everyone else does. The Kid was never real renowned for his truth telling, and once you find his actual History where it’s not supposed to be, you’ll find your mind forever open. ONLY the men who knew him personally might have known half of he was!

 

To all those who may not believe that Billy the Kid was a man of some certain secrecy, here’s the proof…. Before this tintype was stolen from me I discovered symbols literally stamped into the tree on the picture itself! These arrows pointing up were NOT part of the backdrop, because when they were pressed/ possibly branded into the tintype, the arrows caused the tin on the backside to bulge out. There could many meanings behind these hidden symbols in the Tree, including the Kabbala, or Cabal. Its also a symbol of “royalty.” Something that interests me is that Billy’s stomping grounds were right around Roswell, New Mexico. Arrows pointing up?

Mid-October 2015: I just read that a coin dealer, yes a coin dealer (no offense) assembled a team of experts, and authenticated yet another tintype of Billy the Kid… This time the Kid was playing croquet at a claimed wedding of his pal Charlie Bowdre… Judging by the distance of the picture, it had to be photographed at least 50 yards away! Yet thats close enough to say its the Kid, Charlie, and some of the Regulators. Somehow, someway the coin dealer found someone to appraise the picture for $5 Million big ones! Lets saturate the market and drive the price up! Sounds about right. Very American… Anyway, Kevin Costner is going to narrate a Nat Geo special on the actual picture itself. I reached out to Kevin Costner in the past, MULTIPLE TIMES, and never got anywhere close to contacting him. I was a broke, broke man and a friend gave me $75 to send him a package! Containing 5 of the highest resolution 8X10’s scan photocopies imaginable of my Wyatt Earp discoveries. I needed Kevin’s expertise. He starred as Wyatt Earp. I figured he was “in the Know.” There’s a possibility Costner never got the package I sent him. Maybe his Deadwood casino manager took the gift for himself because Costner never said a word, no response at all, and I couldn’t get the manager to speak to me at all afterwards either. The casino manager told me personally that Costner would get the package. I guess Kevin’s used to getting previously unknown pictures of Wyatt Earp everyday, instead of requests for his autograph. Needless to say, it stung quite a bit, but I can’t hold a grudge if Costner never got the package. Yet and still, Kevin remains 1 of my all time favorite performers… Anyway, here and now I got a picture of the Kid, Charlie, and Yginio up close and personal and I can barely get anybody to bat an eye! This is absurd. Somehow, someway the person who paid for the croquet pic only paid $2.00 or 67 cents for it, and it looks like their dream is gonna come true. Meanwhile, I put in more work, and research than anyone I know to try to make my dream come true, but its become apparent to me, this American Dream is only for the chosen few. I’ve debated and attempted to reason with men who refuse to accept facts, forensics, and a provenance for almost 6 years, and have been flat out, unreasonably denied without even a fighting chance. This is past sickening. By the way, facial recognition files were good enough to help confirm the Croquet pic, but NOT good enough for the Jones tintype. Or my Trio pic, but hell by now, I cant even get anyone to perform a facial recognition file. Blacklisted. As you can see below, I am seriously questioning WTF though? $5 million! That’s horrible. His lips look funny, like he’s getting ready to spit or something. I have noticed the left ear similarity between the croquet pic and my Upstate image though. However, just like the Kid would’ve done, I STICK TO MY GUNS. Perhaps the croquet pic is Billy, I want to see it like it can be seen on the tintype. Not distorted when I magnify in online. I hate to say it, but I think that what I see is a good as it gets. A fuzzy, far distanced face isn’t a positive picture. Perhaps, the picture was Charlie Bowdre’s wedding, and a time for celebration. And yes, John Tunstall probably loved croquet, but lets not confuse facts, and soften the big “picture.” The Real William McCarty was a split-second, turn on a dime, got the drop killer, not the croquet Kid! In Billy’s (William Bonney’s) letters to Lew Wallace (preserved in Indiana’s Historical Society), some interpret that Billy favored himself a Freedom Fighter, not an Outlaw. Jesse James was the same way. Many of these post Civil War KGC operatives favored “themselves” Freedom Fighters, not mercenaries, and certainly not agentur for a future slave baring United States. Did the real future of Billy the Kid hinge on John Tunstall, and when the Murphy-Dolan-Riley faction assassinated Tunstall, did they set into motion the true nature of the beast they unwittingly had unleashed? Lights, Camera, ACTION! Billy was a fantastic actor, was he simply putting on “a show” for Tunstall himself? Keep your friends close and your enemies closer… I’ve designed this website to enable you to pose questions you might not have thought could exist. There’s conventional BTK history, and then there’s the true depths of Billy the Kid’s darkness. You might even have some answers that I do not. The more hush hush history you’ve heard, the better. The misdirection, and clues scattered across all of America will drive you mad if you let it. As we dig the pieces up, the conspirators just continue to throw the dirt back over all of our efforts. If the truth is stranger/better than fiction, then why are we all settling for 2nd best? Some people are going 51/50 to keep these skeletons in the closet. That should tell you there is a definite flaw here. I’d almost trade the Pals tintype for 1 of those letters to Lew Wallace, especially the March 24, 1879 letter he signed “Billie!” Thank you Dr. Gale Cooper for your expertise. Why do we call him Billy when he referred to himself as Billie? Isn’t it about time to set the record straight before we turn the real Billie the Kid loose into Candyland?

Attached are 2 letter segments from the Lew Wallace/William Bonney collection. 1 signed Billie, 1 signed W.H. Bonney. Billy or Billie the Kid wrote both letters. Handwriting is an exact match. If The Kid favored himself Billie, perhaps rather than distorting factual History, we should follow his lead.

Everybody wants that money shot of Billy the Kid, and it has created a MAD craze to find it. Its not so much about the money anymore for me, its about the truth of who this mysterious legend was. What did he really look like? Granted it takes money to survive, but this is personal for me. I’ve poured way over 1,000 hours of pain staking research into Billy the Kid’s life without seeing a single dime. In fact, the behind the scenes war, picture theft, and nervous breakdowns I’ve been engaged in for over 7 years now is the only toll I’ve received. I (almost) won’t come out, and openly attack, or criticize any of the other people who claim to have a picture. I use this websites forensics and facts, and offer the people the opportunity to figure it out for themselves. Remember this: an item is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. If an “expert authenticates” an image and then says its worth X amount of money, their 100% full of shit! These “authenticaters” are not the person paying for the picture. $2.3 million to a multi billionaire is the equivalent of $23,000 to a multi millionaire. The original Billy the Kid tintype was only estimated to bring around $200,000. Now every new “authentic” Billy the Kid picture is worth $5 million. LOL! Compliments of all the insanity following William Koch’s purchase, I wonder if he can even recoup his money should he choose to sell it… The question I have is this, what have the rest of all these BTK photo claimants done to earn a real  market valuation? How much have they investigated, staked, or lost? The real value rests firmly in the lessons learned along the way. It’s painful but true.

You were right Charlie: it seems  “There are things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.”

I leave it up to you, the reader, to decide whether enough history has been mucked up, or would we rather know how deep the rabbit hole really runs. There is a greater story emerging here… I’ve come full circle with Billy, and the Kid will stick with me until the day I die. I believe the real Billy evidence is out here, I am always looking, but I’ll probably never know who this ghost truly was. I’ve accepted that. I think about the men that the Kid shot down, and how them & I share a strange kind of common bond: Nobody ever see’s lightning coming until, flash, it strikes!! and then its gone…