New Development in Booth Case Coming Soon

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(04-12-2019 06:00 PM)Steve Wrote:  A show entitled Mummies Unwrapped will air an hour-long episode entitled Hunting the Mummy of Lincoln's Assassin next Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at 10 PM on the Discovery Channel. With Discovery Channel rerunning the program several times (mostly during the weekend) during the next week (check you local listings for your area's times).

Mike, is this the program you're referring too? It's the only new program airing this month that I could find which matches what you describe. I personally don't have cable and won't be able to watch it, but I'm putting the info out there for those readers of the forum that do and want to check it out for themselves.

Thank you for the info, Steve. As soon as I saw the word "mummy," it reminded me that Surratt House was contacted about a year ago about participating and we bowed out. I believe at the time that I told the man on the phone that a past-president of the Surratt Society had actually been invited to view the so-called Booth mummy several decades ago and took the owner up on the invitation. The owner flat out told her that he knew it wasn't Booth, but he collected mummies, shrunken heads, and other oddities. Our president certainly agreed that it was not Booth.

We learned later that the media found out who the owner was and started pestering him to death - even ringing his doorbell in the middle of the night. He finally said that he was deep-sixing it so well that no one would ever find it.