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Real dead body ended up as fairground attraction and inspired He-Man's Skeletor
crook Elmer McCurdy was shot dead by police on an Oklahoma farm, and his showbusiness career began.McCurdy had been tracked down by a posse after pulling off a hold-up that one newspaper mockingly called “one of the smallest in the history of train robbery”.McCurdy and two accomplices had heard that a $400,000 cash payment from the US Government was being sent to the Osage tribe by rail.