In a message dated 9/8/99 3:12:07 AM !!!First Boot!!!, [email protected] writes: << eye witnesses said the body exhumed in Missouri was lying face down in the coffin and the only DNA missouri evidence came from a tooth of jesse's buried outside his childhood home, not his grave and the corpse was the wrong size for Jesse >> I watched the A & E (I think that was the station) documentary. Was under the impression that the exhumation took much longer because the coffin was wooden instead of metal as they had been told. From what I remember they did find damage to skull that would indicate gun shot. They also measured the skelton and that it was the size of Jesse. I thought the tooth was taken from the skull and they used mitochrondial DNA to prove that skelton was Jesse. How would the researchers know if a tooth found outside the old homeplace would even belong to Jesse or a member of the James family? Guess the next time they show it, I will watch more closely. Betty.