[barb-tex]

As it turned out PG asked BTK if he was really BTK and when he replied “No Habla Engles”, he knew he couldn’t arrest him, so he had to shoot him. Or so say the legends.
barbra ann

[calex59]

Actually records show(from Garrets testimony)that PG was waiting in a darkened room. The kid entered and noticed someone standing there and asked, "Quien es?" and that is when PG shot him. He didn't ask Billy if it was him because he knew Billy quite well from past associations.

There is some doubt as to whether the guy PG shot was actually Billy, some say it was an unidentified Mexican, but we will never know for sure.

In the 1950s an old timer calling himself Brushy Bill Roberts claimed he was the kid and had been hiding out since Garret killed the mexican and tried to get a pardon at that time. Billy had been promised a pardon by the then acting Governor of New Mexico and was betrayed when he turned himself in, Bushy Bill said he wanted that pardon made good.

The people Billy shot were just as bad as Billy and his gang were, so it is a toss up as to whether he should ever have actually received a Pardon, but he was promised one and if it had gone through the killing would have stopped, instead it ran on for while after that.