| LC control no. | n 91067520 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | McCurdy, Elmer, 1880-1911 |
| Variant(s) | McCurdy, Missouri, 1880-1911 Missouri McCurdy, 1880-1911 |
| Birth date | 1880 |
| Death date | 19111008 |
| Found in | Basgall, R.J. The career of Elmer McCurdy ... c1989: p. 245 (killed by an Oklahoma sheriff's posse in 1911 at the age of 32) Find a grave Logan County, OK (McCurdy, Elmer; b. 1880; d. Oct. 8, 1911. Sideshow outlaw. A notorious outlaw in the early 20th century, who's events in death have become more famous then anything he did in life. Nicknamed "Missouri McCurdy". Shot dead at the age of 31 no family or friends came to claim the body. Sometime later two con men (one claiming to be his brother) showed up and claimed it and took it back to California where they encased it in painted wax. In 1976, a film crew went to Nu Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California to film an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man. One of the technicians came across a wax dummy hanging from a rope. Trying to move it, the arm came off and sticking out of the wax was a bone. The dummy was taken to a forensics laboratory for an autopsy but it was so petrified that the doctors had to use a hacksaw to get through it. They learned that this was in fact the body of Elmer McCurdy and that he had died of a .32 caliber gunshot wound. He was soon after buried in a formal ceremony and cement covered the coffin of a man who's body had made a 65 year journey to the grave) |
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