To hear Raymond “Bubba” Green tell it, a mysterious stranger was willing to pay him $2 million to steal the body of Elvis Presley, dead not even two weeks at the end of August 1977.

Green was a heroin addict and a school dropout who had spent more time in jail than out during his first 25 years. In his telling of the tale, a stranger he called “Mr. Cincinnati” took him to a seedy motel room, showed him a suitcase with a million bucks in it, then said Green would get double that if he could pull off the brazen heist.

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“Well, I got expelled or suspended from about every school I went to. I had a mischievous past for sure,” said Green, in what may be the only interview he’s ever given on the attempted bodynapping, for an alleged documentary called “The Man Who Dared to Steal the King.” “I was a heroin addict for 1977. I did it all. I tried it all. Stealing, drinking, drugging, partying.”

But if you ask former Memphis Police Director Winslow “Buddy” Chapman, that may be the only true thing Bubba ever said about this bizarre chapter in Memphis crime history.

“(His story) is bulls--- embellished with bulls---,” said Chapman, who led MPD from 1976 to 1983. “It was just really a goat rodeo from the word go.”

This game follows some of the conventions of Wordle. You get six tries to guess each individual word. If a letter on the keypad turns yellow, the letter is in that specific word, but it’s in the wrong spot. If it turns green, the letter is in the right spot. If it turns gray, it’s not part of the word.

But unlike Wordle there can be any number of words or letters. 

Good luck!

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