Wild Bill Longley NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on the Smithsonian Institution's efforts to debunk the myths surrounding the death of the infamous Wild Bill Longley. He was rumored to have survived ...

Michael Reese would love to have Wild Bill Longley spend the night with his family. The remains of William Preston Longley are at the Smithsonian Institution for now, but they are likely to make a ...

WASHINGTON — Outlaw “Wild Bill” Longley twice cheated the noose, but popular Texas folklore that he got away a third time is wrong. Scientists say tests of the body in his grave show that it ...

WASHINGTON -- On the day they were going to kill him, Texas outlaw Wild Bill Longley, said to have murdered 32 people in his 27 years, dressed in his best black suit, pulled on his cowboy boots ...

Outlaw Wild Bill Longley twice cheated the noose, but popular Texas folklore that he got away a third time is wrong. Scientists say tests of the body in his grave show that it is, indeed, Longley.

Wild Bill Longley either was hanged in 1878 or escaped to live a long life. A Smithsonian anthropologist used DNA from a tooth to solve the case.Art Chapman snaps a picture of his wife, ...

would love to have Wild Bill Longley spend the night with his family. The remains of William Preston Longley are at the Smithsonian Institution for now, but they are likely to make a quick stop in ...