What happened to Pancho Villa’s henchman Rodolfo Fierro?
Chuck Shumway
Dewey, Arizona
Rodolfo Fierro, known as El Carnicero, or the Butcher, was Pancho Villa’s most loyal pistolero.
Anecdotal stories of Fierro’s brutal killings are legend. On one occasion, he got into an argument over whether a man falls forward or backward when shot. The other guy claimed the man would fall backward. “Forward,” said Fierro, pulling his gun and proving the point by shooting the man—who fell
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