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Real 'Dead Outlaw' Elmer McCurdy Finds Fame As Broadway Musical Fans Leave Tributes At Gravesite by Greg Evans

A cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma, is seeing an unusual increase in foot traffic lately, ever since real-life dead outlaw Elmer McCurdy has become Broadway's most famous corpse. McCurdy's bizarre tale is the subject of the Tony-nominated musical Dead Outlaw. The newly minted celebrity died in a shoot-out with an Oklahoma sheriff's posse after robbing a […]

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:37PM on May 19, 2025

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