What is the latest on the Booth DNA Project?

[L Verge]

In a nutshell, Mr. Lynch was an Americana dealer who claimed to have the 18 missing pages of Booth's diary (there are actually in the neighborhood of 54 pages missing according to the FBI analysis done at the time). He claimed that a Stanton descendant had given them to him to sell. The only Stanton descendant that Mr. Hall found had no idea what Mr. Lynch was talking about.

To top things off, Mr. Lynch would not release the "original pages" to anyone to inspect. He would supply only typed transcripts, which Mr. Hall and several others found fraught with historical errors. This whole escapade led to then-VP Walter Mondale getting in on the game and arranging for the FBI to analyze Booth's diary.

Richard Sloan of this forum can give more of a detailed description of what he calls his "Deep Throat" adventure. Richard lives in New York and I believe Mr. Lynch did too. I'm not sure that Richard ever met the elusive Mr. Lynch, however. He acted as a go-between "in the shadows..."