From: 3XL@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article <4009C145.4030806@texas.net>, firstinitiallastname@texas.net says...   
      
      
   >A definite negative result would mean nothing to the fantasists, but any   
   >useful result is unlikely. DNA is simply not the magical thing it's   
   >imagined to be.   
      
   Let's assume that Mrs. Bonney's bones can be   
   positively located and her DNA correctly gathered.   
   That's a HUGE assumption of course.   
      
   Now we move to Ft. Sumner and the problem of   
   positively locating The Kid's bones. Even Pat   
   Garrett is said to have lost track of the   
   un-marked grave site when he later visited the   
   cemetery in the company of witnesses. Then there   
   is the problem of that part of the cemetery   
   having been washed away a time or two in flash   
   floods, with bones re-interred without any way   
   of knowing who they belonged to. We're looking   
   at a VERY SLIM likelihood that DNA will actually   
   come from a bone belonging to The Kid.   
      
   So now we have a negative match, and people are   
   saying, "See! We told you The Kid isn't really   
   buried at Ft Sumner!"   
      
   Of course there is still the less-than-slim chance   
   that Brushy Bill's DNA will match Mrs. Bonney's.   
   Assuming, again, that his grave can be positively   
   identified.   
      
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