Just got this out of tonight's NY Times here. This has been going on awhile with some wanting to exhume the remains of Billy and his mom to check DNA. There is a school of thought that Pat Garret let the kid get away and someone else is in the grave. Then there is the quest to fulfill the then Governor Lew Wallace's promise to give Billy a pardon. Wallace was famed for being the author of the novel Ben Hur.

The current governor of NM is Bill Richardson, the unsuccessful presidential candidate who still has ambitions to sit in the white house. Why he would want to give a pardon to a guy who escaped from jail by killing a couple of lawmen is beyond me but the world is more like the Twilight Zone the longer I live.