Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LAS CRUCES, N.M., March 5 (UPI) -- Three New Mexico sheriffs are seeking a court order to exhume Billy the Kid's remains for DNA testing, the Albuquerque Journal said Friday. In the petition, the investigators say they are trying to "set the historical record straight" about the actions of Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett, who reportedly gunned down the Kid on the night of July 14, 1881, in a Fort Sumner home. Advertisement Over time, there have been questions raised if the man shot was really William Bonney, known as Billy the Kid. Lincoln County Sheriff Tom Sullivan, Deputy Sheriff Steve Sederwall and De Baca County Sheriff Gary Graves have filed a petition in state District Court in Fort Sumner seeking to exhume the remains. The investigators have another exhumation petition pending in state District Court in Silver City, where they want to unearth the remains of the Kid's mother, Catherine Antrim. Not everyone's happy, though -- Fort Sumner Mayor Raymond Lopez, who called the petitioners "three idiots," vowed to fight the effort to dig up the Kid's remains, as has the Billy the Kid Historic Preservation Coalition. Advertisement
