William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid)

Perpetrator in Billy the Kid

Born Henry McCarty in New York; birth date given as either 17 September or 23 November 1859. Convicted of Sheriff Brady's murder; killed by Pat Garrett.

1878–1881 · Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory · Killed before trial

Convicted of killing a sheriff, Billy the Kid shot his way out of the Lincoln jail in 1881. Eleven weeks later Pat Garrett found him in a dark bedroom. Read the case.