Did Wyatt Earp Kill Johnny Ringo?

Did Wyatt Earp Kill Johnny Ringo?. . , Johnny Ringo was a proud member of the Cowboy gang and a business partner of their outlaw leader, Ike Clanton. In March 1882, five months after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp's younger brother Morgan was murdered in Tombstone , and Wyatt determined that Ringo was one of the assassins., Four months later, on July 14, 1882, Ringo was found propped in the crotch of a tree with a bullet hole in his right temple. Unable to examine the body in person, the coroner ruled Ringo's death a suicide., Speculation raged that Ringo was actually murdered by Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday, or someone else. As The Tombstone Epitaph newspaper observed, “Many people who were intimately acquainted with him in life have serious doubts that he took his own life.”, For years, Wyatt Earp denied killing Ringo. But late in life Wyatt confided to both his wife Josephine and his biographer John Flood that he had tracked Ringo into the mountains and shot him., To support his claim of Ringo's killing, Wyatt drew this crude map of the incident for Flood on September 15, 1926. Note Ringo's location at the very top center of the map, as well as other local landmarks such as the town of Tombstone, the Hooker Ranch where Wyatt and Doc Holliday took refuge while eluding Sheriff Johnny Behan, and the McLaury Brothers' Ranch near Soldier's Hole., By 1926 it was too late to verify Wyatt's claim, and Johnny Ringo's death remains shrouded in mystery. Today you can visit Ringo's grave in Turkey Creek Canyon, located about 50 miles east of Tombstone.