Gale Cooper’s, Cracking the Billy the Kid Case Hoax: The Strange Plot to Exhume Billy the Kid, Convict Sheriff Pat Garrett of Murder, and Become President of the United States, in hardcover and paperback, 1056 pages, is a riveting and rollicking saga about her decade spent saving the famous Old West history of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett from an elaborate historic/forensic hoax fabricating that Garrett never killed the Kid. It took the author’s knowledge as an M.D. forensic psychiatrist, expertise in Billy the Kid history, and willingness to risk danger as a whistleblower, to crack that hoax perpetrated by self-serving New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, and colluding lawmen, lawyers, and judges; in uncanny replication of New Mexico’s original Santa Fe Ring, which had also attacked Billy Bonney!