You could hear the two shots all over Lincoln, New Mexico: noon, April 28. The date is historic: on that day in 1881, history tells us Billy the Kid broke out of the Lincoln County Jail, shooting to death Deputies James Bell and Bob Olinger. On that day in 2003, the re-enactment shots launched an investigation that has attracted international attention and promises to be a tourism bonanza for New Mexico: solving the mystery surrounding the life and death of Billy the Kid. So even before the m
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