New Development in Booth Case Coming Soon

[mikegriffith1]

(04-20-2019 02:26 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Quote from Ramy Romany regarding the hunt for JWB: "If John Wilkes Booth got away with the most notorious crime in American history, that is ludicrous."

Back to the photos of the mummy of David E. George: Am I the only one who thinks that the George mummy, fully dressed and sitting upright in a chair at Penniman's mortuary in Enid, Oklahoma, is not the same mummy as the one that is shown naked from the torso up and lying flat? The shape of the head and the facial features just don't seem to match to my untrained eye.

One more comment about the mummy and the carnival circuit: The point was made about the heavy concentration of arsenic that was used by Mr. Penniman in the process of preserving Mr. George. Some experts like Dr. John K. Lattimer often commented on how toxic that body was and that maybe that is one of the reasons it "disappeared" into private hands after WWII when railroads might have refused to ship it as part of the carnival circuit. There is one source that mentions the early carnival days when the owners carried it around in a typical carnival wagon and slept with it between them at night in that same wagon.

P.S. Would have loved to know Nate Orolowek's thoughts once the mummy hunt by Ramy Romany failed. Of course, Nate does not hang his whole theory on the mummy being Booth. Since he was a teenager, he has supposedly tracked a variety of other JWBs around the country. To me, so many stories of a variety of "Booth" escapees only lessens the chances that the assassin escaped.

Are you going to address the fact that the facial recognition analysis found that "George’s photo was nearly a perfect match with Booth’s, within the top 1 percent of those bearing similar facial features" according to researchers who worked with the creator of the New York Police Department’s first dedicated facial-recognition unit? What’s more, "he was within one pixel of having the same eye structure."

Are you ever going to get around to dealing with the specific results of the facial recognition analysis? Just curious.

"Within the top 1 percent" means the match was 99%, give or take a small fraction. The match with George was 99%; the match with St. Helen was 95%. Considering that facial recognition analysis measures features like the spaces between the eyes, jaw lines, and the shapes of the noses and cheek bones, this is an amazing correspondence. In criminal cases, a 95% correspondence is considered a positive match and evidence that can be presented in court.

Could this be why your side fought so hard to keep relatives and skeptical researchers from getting Booth's alleged body exhumed for a facial recognition analysis? Your party-line scholars came out of the woodwork to oppose this effort. Gee, why was that? Perhaps because they, and you, feared the results would destroy your myths about Lincoln's killer?

If the scientific evidence discussed in the Discovery Channel documentary somehow isn't good enough for you, why don't you call for a DNA analysis of the alleged Booth spinal section held by the government with DNA from Edwin Booth? The results would absolutely establish beyond dispute whether the spinal section belonged to JWB. Researchers pushed for this before, but the AFIP came up with the lame excuse that the test would "damage" the spine, even though the sample would have been only 0.4 grams of the spine. 0.4 grams is only 0.014 ounces, or only 1.4% of 1 ounce. By way of comparison, a grain of salt weighs 0.0023 ounces. So we’re talking about a fragment of bone that would have been no more than 7 grains of salt combined.

Who in the devil cares if 0.014 ounces of bone is removed from a spinal section that nobody ever comes to see anyway? What are they "saving" it for? No one would be able to tell if 0.014 ounces of bone had been removed from the spinal section. We all know that you guys don't want that spinal section tested because you're afraid the results will further destroy your myths about the case.