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Tom

Mike

Your comments on grave-robbers are of course right on the money. I wonder if the Don Alberts mentioned is the author of the Wesley Merritt biography.

Don

Eric,

The question I have is why didn’t Alberts notify the authorities in 1974? Don’t buy his “I didn’t want to get a friend in trouble” answer.

Mike

Vile, despicable, disgusting. I could go on, of course. There is nothing the “historian” about that individual. Grave robbing and displaying of the dead is something of an illness, a mania. It’s utterly revolting. Use of the term “amateur historian” in this context is a disservice to everyone interested in history. Yech.