Raoul Walsh did more than play a young Pancho Villa in the 1914 film "The Life of General Villa" ... To this day, Pancho Villa’s head has never been found. Charles Hillinger.

In the predawn hours of March 9, 1916 Francisco "Pancho" Villa and his band of several hundred villistas descended upon the town of Columbus, N.M., in hopes of obtaining needed military equipment ...

Pancho Villa was the first Mexican legend to disappear — stolen in the dead of night, found by Los Angeles police officers in someone’s backyard, then pilfered once more and never seen again.