John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, was killed in a Virginia barn on April 26, 1865, and buried in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore. But conspiracy theorists claim Booth escaped and lived in Oklahoma as David E. George, who became more famous in death than life. George swallowed some arsenic 106 years ago this past week on Jan. 13, 1903. On his deathbed, he claimed to be Booth and died shortly after reportedly saying, “I killed the best man that ever lived.”

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