I Just Can't Help Believin'... Quotes

“But for me, the most compelling evidence that Elvis did indeed fake his own death was a tissue sample taken from a biopsy Elvis had in 1975 to check for Hepatitis. This shows the DNA is different to DNA obtained from Elvis's 1977 autopsy. A major news agency conducted an independent back up test, and the results were the same. The autopsy tissue purportedly Elvis's did not match the known tissue from the 1975 sample. This summarily proves that the person autopsied was not Elvis Presley. I’ll let you ingest that bit of information for a second… Yes, that’s correct. The DNA from Elvis’s liver biopsy taken in 1975 didn’t match the DNA taken from his autopsy. Mind blowing, huh? Fox news contacted Lisa Marie’s representatives and asked for a DNA sample so they could obtain the truth once and for all, but, surprise, surprise, she declined.”
― Lee Beckett, I Just Can't Help Believin'...: Conspiracy Theory Book One - Elvis Presley

“Elvis weighed approximately 250 pounds at the time of his death yet the autopsy report gave Elvis’ weight as 170 pounds… Immediately after the autopsy, the results were sealed for fifty years and are not due to be released until 2027. Why would the authorities have felt the need to keep these details secret?”
― Lee Beckett, I Just Can't Help Believin'...: Conspiracy Theory Book One - Elvis Presley

“Gene wasn’t the only person to come to this conclusion, and for the same reasons. According to Phil Aitcheson (Director of The Presley Commission) in his interview with Gary James… “We got a phone call from a deputy sheriff whose name escapes me at this point in time, but we've got tape on it somewhere here, where he was on location at the Underground Wax Museum in Atlanta, Georgia on the week they were closing. Vernon Presley and a couple other fellas from the Presley clan came in and bought the wax figure of Elvis, because it was all being auctioned off. They made the purchase and on the way out the door, after they loaded the truck and took the figurine, Vernon Presley turned to the guy at the museum and said ‘Wait 'til you guys see what we're going to do with this’. And I have that on tape. This correlated right in to what we were able to determine about a wax dummy being used. Tanya Tucker, a very well-known Country star in her own right, was at the viewing and knew and even stated on national TV in an interview later on that, that was not Elvis in the coffin. And there have been a number of others that have made mention of it.”
― Lee Beckett, I Just Can't Help Believin'...: Conspiracy Theory Book One - Elvis Presley

“Elvis’s cousin, Gene Smith, viewed the body. This is what he said… “…I stood there quite a while looking at him… looking at his hands. And, um, of course he was always breaking bricks with his hands, (Elvis had been a Karate master) he had callouses on the bottom of his hands and big ol’ rough looking knuckles. His nose looked kind of puggy looking, and his right side-burn was sticking out—straight out about an inch. And his hair-line looked as if it had been, uh, a hair-piece or something glued on. It just didn’t look right. And, um, his hands were smooth as a newborn baby’s behind, you know? And it seemed like he was sweating on his… around his hairline. It could’ve been sweat, it could’ve been glue—I don’t know. But, um, I just didn’t believe it was him…”
― Lee Beckett, I Just Can't Help Believin'...: Conspiracy Theory Book One - Elvis Presley

“The documents released spanned from 1956 to 1980, although, apparently, half of the FBI files are still classified. When I heard this, the hair shot up on the back of my neck. What could be so top secret that the powers that be don’t want us to know all these years later? We will look at these files in more detail further into the book.”
― Lee Beckett, I Just Can't Help Believin'...: Conspiracy Theory Book One - Elvis Presley

“In fact, by the time the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s files had been released a short time later, there had already been over three thousand sightings. But hold on… back the bus up… why did the FBI have a file on Elvis Presley in the first place? He was just an entertainer as he stated on more than one occasion to fans and journalists alike.”
― Lee Beckett, I Just Can't Help Believin'...: Conspiracy Theory Book One - Elvis Presley

“According to Phil Aitcheson (Director of The Presley Commission) in his interview with Gary James, it is believed that Charlie Crosby was later killed for ‘running his mouth’. Apparently he met with an ‘unfortunate accident’. He was pushed out of an airplane—reportedly murdered. This was the beginning of the conspiracy theories that have spanned decades.”
― Lee Beckett, I Just Can't Help Believin'...: Conspiracy Theory Book One - Elvis Presley

“It is widely believed the deceased man lying on Elvis’ bathroom floor was a donor who had passed away almost three weeks earlier. Afterwards, both paramedics would tell their captain they didn’t recognize the man as Elvis. In actual fact, they went as far as to say the dead man definitely wasn’t Elvis. They were warned to keep that information to themselves.”
― Lee Beckett, I Just Can't Help Believin'...: Conspiracy Theory Book One - Elvis Presley