It's unfortunate that the other articles written in the same issue of the Albuquerque Journal have not been posted here.  Perhaps the webmaster can access them and post them for additional update information.  Also of interest is the front page of the same Journal today, Monday the 26th of what sheriff Gary Wayne Graves is going through with the people that elected him.  This is looking better then the happenings before and after the Lincoln County War.

In Saturdays Journal there is an insert named the Entertainer"..it has some good information too.  "AFTER BILLY" is of course mentioned for viewing tonight on the History Channel,   I saw it and it is real good.  Hope everyone got to see it. 

It certainly would!

Due to flooding, vandalism, lack of maintenance and soldiers graves that were relocated, the cemetery was quite disorganized. Who knows where whoever was buried and who may have been accidentally relocated with the soldiers. Also, Billy’s gravesite (as well as others) were left unmarked for several years and it wasn’t until 1932 that a monument was finally put up in his memory. It’s doubtful that the monument is even in the right spot. So the idea of exhuming a questionable grave for DNA testing is ludicrous; even the state Office Medical Investigator came to that conclusion and turned the DNA job down.  It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the results will be inconclusive and only cause more debate. DNA didn’t resolve the Jesse James/Frank J. Dalton debate but only made it worse.

 
As for Billy’s buddies Tom and Charlie, supposedly they were buried side by side, but 25 ft away from Billy’s grave.

As I understand it, the DNA tests done by James Starrs did not prove 100% that it was Jesse James in J. James grave.

 The remains they tried excavating were too far deterriorated to be able to extract DNA from them, so they resorted to digging at the location of his former grave at the family farm. What they found were strands of hair, POSSIBLY belonging to Jesse, and DNA was extracted from that. Problem with that is, it was a family farm, and the hairs found could have belonged to anyone in the family, and it was only assumed to be that of Jesse's hair. There is no undeniable proof that it was Jesse's hair.

DNA testing did not prove 100% that Jesse James is buried where he is supposed to be. Don't get me wrong, I do believe Jesse was killed by Ford, and Dalton was indeed an imposter. However, James Starrs' (who's work is controversial at best) DNA testing did not provide the acceptable proof, what was acceptable was the examination of the skull and body where he found a bullet fragment and damage in Jesse's torso, damage he received I believe during the civil war, and the bullet hole in the skull, the bullet hole that Ford put in his head.

Another problem was that when the first attempt was made to exhume F. Dalton, they dug up the wrong grave, and they still had to pay for it...which left no money to exhume the correct grave. I think it was just recently (as recent as in that last couple of months)  that Dalton was finally exhumed.

What's gruesome about the Jesse James exhumation is that fragments of his remains were kept as souveneirs...absolutely unexceptable and unprofessional. I know if I were a part of Jesse James family, that would absolutely infurriate me.