The coroner’s jury determined Queho had died from “sickness and starvation,” according to the Los Angeles Times. Before the authorities removed Queho’s desiccated remains, several people took photographs holding up the body at the cave entrance for the newspapers. This was just the first instance of a garish display of insensitivity marked by a bigoted perspective of the time. They deposited Queho’s body at a Las Vegas funeral home while they fought over who would get to display it. The Las Vegas Elks Club, backed by the police chief, wanted to feature Queho’s body at their Helldorado Museum and had lined up the support of an alleged nephew of the outlaw. The Boulder City Elks also wanted the body. But the county sheriff, who held on to Queho’s possessions, found another supposed heir in an attempt to block the Elks from getting the body. Meanwhile, Kenyon, one of the prospectors who found Queho, was hoping to collect the old reward or go to court over the corpse to make money exhibiting it.
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In the end, the Las Vegas Elks got Queho’s remains and put them on display. A few years later, someone stole the body and related artifacts and scattered the bones in the desert. Roland Wiley, who had been the district attorney of Clark County, Nevada, acquired Queho’s body and buried him in Cathedral Canyon near Pahrump, Nevada.
