> Rudy Turilli of Stanton, Mo., found a vocation in his belief that Jesse James was not killed in 1882, but lived into the 1950s under the alias of J. Frank Dalton. After meeting Dalton in 1948, Turilli opened the Jesse James Museum in Stanton and published a book arguing his thesis. In 1967 Turilli announced on a television program that he would pay $10,000 to anyone who could prove him wrong. Stella James, daughter-in-law of the outlaw, and her two daughters tried to collect after supplying affidavits from James family members that Jesse...
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