Assassination-Related Suicide?

[Jill Mitchell]

OK...after pondering this, the only somewhat rationale explanation I can come up with for digging up and embalming the body is to establish that the corpse in question is or is not that of John Wilkes Booth. From the newspaper report, the suicide occurred on Monday, April 24, when Booth was still being hunted. The burial of the suicide would have taken place while Booth's body was on its way to DC to await identification by Dr. May. Until the body of Booth can be positively identified, some question may have existed as to whether the individual who committed the suicide was Booth himself. Many thought that he would be headed toward Baltimore after the assassination. Still leaves a lot of interesting questions...but does this sound plausible?