Identification of Booth's body

[mikegriffith1]

Here is a partial list of medical websites that document the fact that a living body is not going to become unrecognizable and grow freckles after no more than 10 days under circumstances even close to those of Booth’s flight, and that a corpse will not undergo such radical changes in less than 24 hours either.

Many of the links—by no means all, but many—deal with the effects of livor mortis, since that seems to be the most common explanation that traditionalists float to explain the fact that the face of the body on the Montauk was heavily freckled. You will see that not a single one of these sources mentions such a phenomenon. You will also see that the discoloration follows the laws of gravity, so that if the body is lying on its back, the discoloration that will occur will show up on the parts of the body closest to the ground, which means that this discoloration will not show up on the face unless the body was lying on its front for at least several hours after death. Furthermore, even laymen can tell the difference between blotches of discoloration and freckles. These links include many pictures of livor mortis, and you will see that not one of them shows what any rational person would describe as “freckles.”

Also, note that “tardieu spots” only occur in cases where the person suffered death by hanging, strangulation, or suffocation.

http://www.iupui.edu/~pathol/autopsy/main/11/11.htm

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/med...vor-mortis

https://www.amboss.com/us/knowledge/Post...in_changes

https://www.chem.fsu.edu/chemlab/chm1020...208/02.php

https://www.aftermath.com/content/worker...omposition

http://www.exploreforensics.co.uk/the-ra...orpse.html

https://aboutforensics.co.uk/decomposition/

http://www.exploreforensics.co.uk/rigor-...idity.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15749353

http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/f...ortem.html

https://www.everplans.com/articles/how-i...-or-movies

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21254701

http://www.exploreforensics.co.uk/identi...ictim.html

You will see that there is simply no scientific basis for the theory that "Booth's" body could have undergone such a radical change in appearance that it not only grew freckles on its face but (1) that when L. Gardner and those around him first saw the body "we were all struck by the lack of any resemblance to Booth" and (2) that when Dr. May first saw it "to my great astonishment" he saw "a body in whose lineaments [distinctive features, especially of the face] there was to me no resemblance of the man I had known in life! My surprise was so great that I at once said to General Barnes, 'There is no resemblance in that corpse to Booth, nor can I believe it to be that of him.'"

Not on this planet.