His remains were exhumed
After James's death, rumors persisted that he had staged his demise and that someone else had been interred in his grave. Many other men have made Jesse James claims over the years. In particular, the claim that Robert Ford had killed another man to let Jesse James elude capture became a renowned one. This story became one of the most interesting facts about Jesse James.
Scientists excavated James's presumed remains from Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Kearney, Missouri, where they had been moved in 1902 from the original burial location on the James family property, to determine who was interred in his grave. Following DNA testing, the experts concluded that the infamous 19th-century outlaw's resurrected remains were almost probably his.
In 2009, the History Channel aired the documentary Jesse James' Hidden Treasure, which focused on the subject of survival. In a review for The James-Younger Gang Journal's Winter 2009–2010 issue, historian Nancy Samuelson criticized the documentary as pseudoscience and pseudohistory.
According to J. Frank Dalton and Jesse James existed. When Dalton made his debut in front of the public in May 1948, he was reportedly 101 years old. In Granbury, Texas, on August 15, 1951, Dalton passed away. He had 32 bullet wounds and a rope burn on his neck, according to a visual postmortem examination by Hood County Sheriff Oran Baker. His grave is marked with the name "Jesse Woodson James" in Granbury Cemetery. When pressed by James's remaining family, his story fell apart.
