Identification of Booth's body

[AussieMick]

Mike , I do think that you need to provide a reason why so many people would have been willing to, and knowingly, take the very risky course of claiming the body as being Booth when it wasnt him. Even if a few were dupes and only following the assertions of others, there must have been some that did it knowingly and criminally. Why would they do that?

The risk of being caught out would have been enormous ... why? and for what? As a reward him for killing Lincoln? To enable Booth to live a life in Canada or overseas or out West? Hoping he'd keep quiet and not be dobbed in (exposed) ? Hope that your co-conspirators could lie convincingly and keep their nerve? Plan to have him killed somewhere quiet? (Again, high risk and high chance of him not going quietly).