History Mystery: Did Booth Get Away With Murder?

"Believing he was on his deathbed in a little town called Granbury, TX., John St. Helen confessed to being Lincoln's lone assassin."

Contrary to the history books is a story about a man who may have gotten away with murdering the 16th President of the United States. His name? Johns St. Helen? David George? Or were these names really aliases used by a John Wilkes Booth still on the run?

Traditional history would have us believe that Booth was hunted down and fatally wounded at a farm in northern Virginia 12 days after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater. White House officials initially confirmed that Booth's body was thrown into the Potomac River.

What fuels the conspiracy theorists fire is the fact that in reality the body of the man apprehended that day was actually allowed burial in a Washington D.C. cemetery and later conveyed to Greenmont Cemetery in Baltimore under supervision of the Booth family.

Not only was that a curious mistake, but how did Booth, with an obvious injury sustained while jumping from the Presidents' private box to the stage below, elude his hunters without some kind of outside help? And why would Booth's body be thrown into the Potomic in the first place instead of having a routine burial? So no one could say it wasn't him? Something seems fishy.

Anyway...the story pick's up with a man living in Glen Rose, TX. named John St. Helen. It is said that St. Helen had many similarities to the notorious Booth including a taste for liquor,  an obvious limp, and a student-like passion for quoting Shakespeare. He feared the law, and immediately left town after being confronted by a U.S. Marshal; he took only what he could carry with him.

In the 1870's St. Helen showed up in Granbury, TX. where he was the proprieter of a saloon. Every April 14th, the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, he "abused the bottle" profusely.

After he become seriously ill and beleiving he was on his death bed, St. Helen supposedly confessed to several people that he was infact John Wilkes Booth. He even told them where to find the gun, which was eventually located and wrapped in a newspaper clipping about the assassination. St. Helen fully recovered, however, and once again made tracks.

The picture get's blurry from here on out, but it is relatively beleived that St. Helen taught at two different school's for a few years after leaving Granbury.

In 1903, another figure comes forward by the name of David George. He lived in a room at a hotel in Enid, Oklahoma...which is a present day furniture store. Mr. George is documented to have admitted his previous use of the name John St. Helen and that his true identity was John Wilkes Booth. Mr. George soon after committed suicide and that room above the furniture store remains relatively untouched to this day.

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Interesting side note: A group of paranormal investigators calling themselves "Ghost Lab" insist that they caught an EVP (electromagnic voice phenominon) in Mr. George's room stating "I am John Wilkes Booth."

I'm not saying I beleive any of this, but it is certainly intriguing.