It was only by chance that Tom Ronketty said he discovered that his wife’s family members have claimed for generations that they are connected to the infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid. They even have family album that contains a couple of photos of a young man not yet known as Billy the Kid, the family told him. That would be a truly historic discovery, as to date there has only been one verified image of Billy the Kid, a damaged tintype that sold at auction for $2.3 million. The emergence of genuine photo — let alone two — would be huge. If either or both of the photos could be verified. So far, despite a decade of having the images studied and scientifically examined, experts haven’t been able to do that. They also haven’t debunked them, either, the Ronkettys say. ‘Jeopardy!’ Moment Tom Ronketty told Cowboy State Daily that he and his wife, Beth, were watching an episode of “Jeopardy!" when Beth shouted out the answer to an obscure question about the infamous outlaw. “I asked her why in the world would you know about Billy the Kid?” Ronketty said. “Beth told me that when she was a kid, her dad always said that they were related to him, but his family wasn’t proud of the relationship.” Ronketty thought she was pranking him, but Beth persisted and even claimed that they had an old photo album with two pictures of Billy that would prove what she was saying. It took a couple of hours of searching through her father’s things to find the old, red-leather album Beth presented to her doubting husband. “I'm like, ‘Get out of here,'” Ronketty said. “This is bizarre.” Ronketty was expecting to see guns, horses and cowboy hats. Instead, Beth picked out two photos from