When Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid fled the United States, in which country were they supposedly caught and shot?

After a string of daring train and bank robberies, the pressure from American law enforcement, particularly the Pinkerton Detective Agency, became too intense for the infamous outlaws. In 1901, Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker) and the Sundance Kid (Harry Longabaugh), along with their companion Etta Place, fled the United States for South America. They first settled in Argentina, attempting to live a straight life as ranchers, but soon returned to their old ways. A fresh crime spree sent them on the run once again, this time over the Andes.

Their flight from justice came to a dramatic and violent end in the small mining town of San Vicente, Bolivia. In November 1908, two American bandits, widely believed to be the famous duo, were tracked down by soldiers after a payroll robbery. They were cornered in a boarding house, leading to an intense shootout. The official account states that the outlaws, realizing they were trapped and likely wounded, took their own lives rather than be captured.

While this event is the most accepted conclusion to their story, the outlaws' final moments remain shrouded in mystery. The bodies were buried in an unmarked grave and never definitively identified, fueling decades of speculation and alternative theories. Some stories claim one or both men survived the shootout and eventually returned to the United States under assumed names, cementing their status as enduring legends of the American West.