Upbringing

Born as Henry McCarty, Billy came to the world in November or September of the year 1859. However, his birth date is a subject of dispute for the historians due to the lack of evidence corroborating the day he took birth on.  He was called William H. Bonney by his friends and relatives during his growing days. However, he rose to fame as Billy the Kid. This is true that Newyork was Billy’s birth town but he along with his family kept shifting from city to city after his father’s death. The family settled in Silver City in New Mexico. Billy got another blow when his mother said goodbye to the world when he was only 14 years old. 

The Stepping Stone

Now the little kid was not only an orphan but also helpless. However, he managed to get himself a space in a local boarding house. But the boy did not seem to be happy with his life, he wanted to do something big. So he indulged in his first crime in 1875, when he participated in a robbery. There was more he could do. 

Going Ahead

He did not stop there, in fact, the robbery had inflated him with the confidence and he even went on to do petty crimes too. Just after ten days of his first theft he along with his friend George Schaefer dared to steal clothes and guns kept in a Chinese laundry. However, the two could not run away further and soon got caught and jailed. The cops had not expected Billy to be so shrewd. The boy escaped the prison only after two days of his arrest.

Lincoln County War

Billy attracted disrepute when he joined hand with an ill-famed deputized group during Lincoln County War in New Mexico. The escaped prisoner journeyed straightly to Arizona Territory in order to get into that abhorred gang named The Regulators. Both the group got themselves involved in a number of fights. The thing became worst when The Regulators and Lincoln Sheriff Department battled a bloody fight that put a big number of people to death. One of them who became the victim of that horrible fight was prominent sheriff William J. Brady. Again he got thrown into the jail but he escaped the bar once more. But this time his destiny had another plan for him. The man was shot dead at the age of 21 by an officer named Garret. However many people believe that his death was faked.

Ran in Oblivion

Clearly, the man was running all his life. Furthermore, he spent his life out of the sight of the public. Naturally, nothing much could be gathered about this outlaw. And that is the reason why the professionals could not believe when Randy informed them about his discovery. In fact, they doubted if the photograph was authentic or not and the news of finding it in a local store was all the way more skeptical. Additionally, they had met a number of people who would come to them with a picture and would claim that to be original but after verification, they would turn out to be fake. So was this one a fake picture too.

Documenting It

Randy was very sure that the photo he just had found was an original one. And he was going to do whatever he could to prove that. Subsequently, Randy consulted a producer for National Geographic Jeff Aiello. The two came up with an amazing idea of documenting their mission stretching up to five years to prove their point. Would you want to know who narrated that amazing historical and forensic documentary? Well, it was acting superstar, Kevin Costner.