{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Dark Dialogue: Gallows and Gunfights","title":"Billy the Kid — Part 9: The Last Day Without a Verdict","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2622,"description":"By Day Four of the Five-Day Battle of Lincoln, the siege has settled into discipline and illusion.\n\nThe McSween house still stands. The Regulators still hold their positions. Billy the Kid remains inside — not as legend, not as leader, but as one rifle among many. When Tom Cullins becomes the first Regulator killed inside the house, the men do not collapse. They compartmentalize. They continue.\n\nFrom within Lincoln, endurance feels like victory.\n\nBut outside the walls, patience is ending.\n\nRumors of reinforcements and artillery begin to circulate. Jimmy Dolan rides to Fort Stanton. Colonel Nathan Dudley calls his officers together. By nightfall, the Army has made its decision — and the fort’s howitzer is being repaired under lantern light.\n\nDay Four ends in silence.\n\nBut it is the wrong silence.\n\nThis is the last day Billy the Kid exists as simply another defender in a fortified house. By morning, federal authority will step into the street — and the siege will no longer belong to the men holding rifles.\n\nThe verdict has not yet been delivered.\n\nBut it has already been prepared.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GgotbQOGeXnqzCkJqkdC-3cGuOt0HTu3wl_zs5iibdM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iZDNk/Y2FmZTgxZjQyNzBj/YWRkY2IzZDM4N2Vm/NzcxYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}