The murder of Jesse James caused a national sensation. The press followed every moment of the dramatic coroner's inquest (dominated by Jesse's enraged, grieving mother), the burial, and Frank James's subsequent surrender, trial, and acquittal. Though a number of pretenders later claimed to be the real Jesse James (arguing that the dead man was someone else), there was little doubt about the identity of the corpse. In recent years, DNA tests on the remains established with a fair degree of certainty that the man murdered by Robert Ford was indeed Jesse James. Here Jesse's corpse lies packed in ice, prior to his burial. At the end of his life, he grew his beard and died it black; it proved to be sufficient as a disguise, even though he lived in St. Joseph, a short distance from his childhood home. On the right side of his chest, two deep scars show where he was wounded in the Civil War, first in the summer of 1864, and again (and more seriously) in May 1865 outside the town of Lexington.