Did Pat Garrett kill Billy the Kid?
It was a moonlit night in Ft. Sumner, NM when history tells us that Sheriff Pat Garrett shot down the notorious outlaw Billy “the Kid”. Newspapers across the country quickly reported that the Kid was dead and Garrett quickly put the body in the ground. But rumors spread that the Kid had survived and the testimony of Garrett’s posse was contradictory about how, exactly, the shooting had gone down. Nevertheless, without evidence, the story of the heroic Sheriff stood for almost 70 years. Then, in 1950, an old man from Hico, TX petitioned the governor of New Mexico for a pardon for crimes he committed as Billy the Kid. No one took him seriously, and yet the old man was an exact match in physical characteristics and knew intimate details about the Kid’s life. He also knew details about the fateful shooting the night Garrett claimed to have shot him that had been erased by history. Details, for example, that Garrett had killed his very drunk bearded half-Mexican partner, a claim that has only recently been verified by modern research.

Merry Christmas Eve! I was driving around in my truck for work in late November when an idea hit me. As I was thinking about the holiday season and people traveling I thought I would be fun to host a Christmas music special to help people get through their travels for the holidays. And while I was at it, why not have other podcasts co-host with me by reading short scary Christmas stories! Welcome to the first ever Christmas Eve Music Special from The Confessionals!

Tonight on our 1-year anniversary show we bring on Wes Germer from Sasquatch Chronicles to share with The Confessionals audience his dramatic bigfoot encounter! It is only appropriate to have Wes on the show for this very special day because he is the person that encouraged Tony to create The Confessionals podcast!

I had a chance to sit down with Wes and Woody from Sasquatch Chronicles to host a special "After Hours" show with them following the release of episode 31, "I Killed Bigfoot." We discussed their thoughts on the interview with Brian and how they think his storylines up with reality!