“It is the belief of this court,” Werkmeister says, “that Mayer’s knowledge of these details can only have come from things he witnessed firsthand. We do not believe they were gleaned from other writings, stories, or rumors circulating at the time of these events. It is the belief of this court that his account is true, that the entire Romanov family was murdered in 1918, and therefore we deny the petitioner’s suit to be legally recognized as Anastasia Romanov.”
