From: clipclop@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article <20031125183235.12213.00000712@mb-m26.aol.com>, ooreroom@aol.com   
   says...   
      
   >But first, Robins will have to intervene in a Silver City case to exhume the   
   >body of Billy the Kid's mother, Catherine Antrim.   
      
   The preposterous notion that the grave of   
   Billy the Kid can be accurately identified   
   is the major flaw in the argument for DNA   
   evidence. Chances of making a DNA match   
   between "anonymous" bones and "known" bones   
   is so miniscule as to be virtually impossible.   
   And it would be a serious travesty to dig up   
   the grave(s) of the wrong persons - persons   
   who had no connection to the case.   
      
   Even Pat Garrett, in later years,   
   failed to recognize the actual grave of the   
   Kid, even though he knew where in the cemetery   
   the grave originally was. The graves of the Kid and his   
   Lincoln County cohorts were unmarked at the time.   
   In subsequent years that area   
   of the cemetery flooded, graves were washed   
   out, and the bones re-collected were re-buried   
   elsewhere with no thought of identifying whose   
   bones were whose.   
      
   I question if anyone can accurately determine   
   the grave of Billie's mother, for that matter.   
      
   In any event, Gov. Richardson somehow believes   
   this farce is good publicity for NM. I personally   
   think it only makes a laughing stock of all   
   involved. In the end, nothing will be proved because   
   there will have been no DNA match, and the legend   
   will live on - and on...   
      
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