Dead or Alive Solution

  1. Each wanted poster contains 3 relevant pieces of data:
    1. A picture of "Morgan the Kid"
    2. A date
    3. A crime.
  2. When the posters are grouped by the "Crime" field, solvers will have 5 groups of 5 posters each.
  3. Within each group, each poster will have 1 of 2 pictures (i.e. A given crime will either have a picture with Morgan wearing a hat or not wearing a hat). These pictures correspond to 5-bit binary.
  4. When the groups are ordered alphabetically (by crime) and the posters within each group are ordered by date, the binary converted to letters (1-26) will yield the answer.

Solution

RANCH

Data

Crime1/0BinaryLetter
AssaultHat/no hat10010R
Disturbing the PeaceStraight mustache/curly mustache00001A
GraverobbingBandana over face/Bandana around neck01110N
Impersonating the SheriffVest/no vest00011C
Unapproved MiningCompletely different person/Morgan01000H