Romanticizing them and not wanting to let them die.
How many sightings of Jesse James,
Elvis?
DB Cooper?
Many prefer the myths that they lived beyond, rather than their demises.
Yeah, there has been a lot of that over the years. Billy the Kid as well. I think the thing that makes this particular story interesting is most of the information comes from people who knew him before he left for Bolivia. Not just family or co-horts, but acquaintances and professional people he’d known.