Identification of Booth's body

[Gene C]

(12-13-2018 03:52 PM)mikegriffith1 Wrote:  No, you need to provide a scrap of scientific evidence that freckles can magically sprout on the corpse of a person who was not freckled in life. You need to explain how "Booth's" body could have aged so markedly, not to mention when it did this magic act, since no one who saw him through April 25 noticed that he looked markedly older than 26 or that he had freckles.

While you're at it, you also need to explain how the body that was viewed in 1869 had hair that was 10-12 inches longer than Booth's, had the wrong number of fillings, and had damage on/just below the knee, which no one at the autopsy mentioned. I've already documented that hair never grows more than a fraction of an inch after death, and that it is rare for teeth to fall out of a corpse, not to mention that a missing tooth would have contradicted the dental chart.

(12-12-2018 05:48 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  I'll put my research and that of Steve Miller and Dave Taylor above anything you've provided.

Then you should have no problem explaining the freckles, the too-long hair, the wrong number of fillings, and the inexplicable damage to the knee. I've provided plenty of sources to document that these are serious issues that cannot be dismissed with your echo-chamber appeals to authority and casual dismissals. Just fine one single case in the history of forensic science where a body underwent the kinds of changes that Booth's supposedly underwent.

We can go back and forth all day about the accounts of Booth's appearance and clothing, and you can accept the accounts you like and reject the ones you don't like, but you can't fiddle so easily with science.

We know from medical science what does and does not happen to bodies when they are dead. And you and your band of fellow I See the Emperor's New Clothes believers can posture and dismiss all day, but you can't play your games with medical science. If you can find me just one, just one single case in the history of forensic science that provides a precedent for what the fairy tale you're defending about the body on the Montauk and at the 1869 viewing, then let's see it.

You can talk all you want about freckles, long hair, tooth fillings and gray clothes, but everyone who viewed Booth's remains identified them as Booth's, and none of them in later years recanted their testimony.
As I recall, only one witness said the body had freckles, and he still identified it as Booth and never changed his testimony.