THE WILD BUNCH (PT 1) IN SEARCH OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BUTCH, SUNDANCE & ETTA
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In part one we cover the story of Robert LeRoy Parker (Butch Cassidy), Henry Alonzo Longabaugh (The Sundance Kid), and Ethel/Etta Place, the wife (we think) of Longabaugh who participated in a train robbery with them and accompanied them to Chile, where she lived with them for three years. It has been said that Butch and Sundance were killed in a shootout with soldiers in South America- but there are many conflicting reports, and DNA has not been found to prove that out. Etta, whose real identity has never been proved, returned to San Francisco before their shootout and her whereabouts have never been ascertained, although there are a number of possible leads. The mystery of all three is the biggest unsolved mystery of the Old West. In Part Two we interview Bill Betenson, the grandson of Butch Cassidy's youngest sister, where he shares his twenty years of research into his great Uncle's life
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, High up in the Andes Mountains at 15,000 feet above sea level in a tiny run-down but still active mining town called San Vicente. |
| 0:50.0 | The lonely mountain winds whistle past the sagging Adobe wall and low archway of an old cemetery that for years has been abandoned. |
| 0:59.0 | The entrance chained to prevent curiosity seekers from entering. |
| 1:03.0 | From the Bolivian capital of La Paz, the town is reachable only by a 14 hour train ride |
| 1:10.0 | and three more hours by Jeep over treacherous terrain. |
| 1:15.0 | The town today is only really known for two things. |
| 1:19.0 | One, as being a remote but very productive silver mine, and for a shootout that occurred in early November of |
| 1:26.4 | 1908 an epic gun battle between two men both of them gring, who were suspected of robbing a mine payroll, and the detachment |
| 1:36.0 | from a small army unit that had finally caught up with them at a small boarding house in the town. The Regiment of Armed Policea were there to recover a |
| 1:45.7 | payroll worth about $90,000 in today's money on behalf of the Aramio Mining |
| 1:51.3 | Company. |
| 1:53.1 | The miner's payroll, having been stolen at gunpoint, |
| 1:55.8 | November 4th, 1908, by two tall English-speaking men. |
| 2:01.3 | The payroll had been packed into saddlebags and was being carried by Burrows in the custody of a man named Carlos Perros. |
| 2:07.0 | After the robbery, Perros returned to the nearest mining camp and sent a telegram to alert the mining |
| 2:13.6 | company of the robbery and a unit of armed soldiers began to chase. The bandits were |
| 2:19.9 | at first headed for the Argentine border, but for unknown reasons turned and headed back |
| 2:26.2 | towards San Vicente. |
| 2:28.8 | Three days later, a pair of Americans suspected of being the bandits were reported to be staying in a small |
| 2:34.0 | boarding house. The owner whose name was Casasola became suspicious of his two foreign |
| 2:39.6 | lodgers. A mule they had in their possession was from the RMIO mine, identifiable from the |
| 2:45.9 | mine company's brand on the mule's left flank. |
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