Butch Cassidy's DNA Proves History Books Got It Wrong!

Butch Cassidy's DNA Proves History Books Got It Wrong!

Butch Cassidy DNA test proves history books WRONG! For over a century, we've been told Butch Cassidy died in a 1908 Bolivia shootout. But when forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow exhumed the San Vicente grave in 1991, DNA evidence shattered everything we thought we knew about the Wild West's most famous outlaw.

The body wasn't Butch Cassidy - it was German miner Gustav Zimmer. So where did the real Robert LeRoy Parker go? Did he survive as William T Phillips in Spokane? His sister Lula claimed he visited in 1925. Multiple witnesses in Wyoming recognized Phillips as Cassidy in 1934.
This Wild West mystery involves DNA forensics, the Pinkerton Detective Agency, the Sundance Kid, and one of history's greatest disappearing acts. Join us as we investigate the true crime that rewrote outlaw history.

SOURCES:
History.com "Mysterious Deaths of Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid"
Washington Post 1992 "Shootout: Digging Up The Real Story"
NBC News 2011 "Did Butch Cassidy Survive?"
Wikipedia: Clyde Snow, Butch Cassidy, William T Phillips
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