His post-mortem career in show business lasted until 1976, when he was discovered painted orange and hanging by the neck in a California amusement ride. From the Oklahoma funeral home that propped up his preserved corpse and charged a nickel-a-look, to the sideshows of the Great Patterson Carnival, where he was exhibited as a felled outlaw, McCurdy became big business. In 1911, after a short spree of comically bungled robberies, a sheriff's posse caught up with him and shot him dead.In death, Elmer McCurdy accidentally found fame. Elmer McCurdy was shot dead by a sheriff’s posse on the Oklahoma-Kansas border in 1911 for his involvement in a train robbery in which the total take was 46 and two jugs of whiskey. Elmer McCurdy was born on 1st January 1880 in Washington, Maine, to his 17-year-old mother Sadie.
He arrived in Oklahoma a few decades after the golden age of outlaws and attempted to resurrect the lost art of train robbing. But decades later in Los Angeles in 1976. His mummified body became an attraction at carnivals and funhouses for years. The story of how Elmer McCurdy, born in 1880 in the Knox County town of Washington and raised in Bangor, went from everyday Mainer to notorious train robber to, eventually, one of the most. He became particular familiar with nitroglycerin. This is the story of Elmer McCurdy, a failed plumber from Bangor, Maine, who drifted west to become a failed outlaw. A bank and train robber, Elmer McCurdy was killed in a shootout in 1911. As an army man at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, Elmer McCurdy was trained in using explosives.
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