Robert LeRoy Parker: the ‘Wild West’ Butch Cassidy
Born in 1866, Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, was the ‘Wild Bunch’ leader. This was a group of like-minded con-men and outlaws who robbed a train and made banks go bankrupt. As their heat increased in the west, Parker and his close accomplice Harry Alonzo Longabaugh fled to Argentina and Bolivia.
However, he didn’t have a chance to rest because as soon as the cops sniffed him back, they shot Parker and Longabaugh dead in a shoot-off at Bolivia. Since the bodies were unrecognizable, people had doubts about Parker’s death for a long time.