Edwin Booth

Edwin Booth is Seeley and Jared Booth's father, husband of Marianne Booth, and son of Hank Booth.
== History ==
Edwin was an unhappy and abusive alcoholic who was married to Marianne Booth. They had two sons, Seeley and Jared. Seeley mentioned that Edwin was a member of the U.S. Military who flew fighter planes during the Vietnam War. Booth mentioned that the fighter jets Edwin drove were Thuds and Phantoms in The Woman in Limbo. It is possible that, like Seeley Booth's gambling addiction, Edwin drank to deal with the trauma he suffered in Vietnam. His excessive drinking eventually led him to abuse his family. 
He was abusive to his wife and his sons. He once threw her down a flight of stairs. When Edwin's father, Hank, found out that was happening he prevented Edwin from seeing his sons ever again, and raised the children as his own. 
In The Male in the Mail, Hank revealed that Edwin passed away from liver failure because of his addiction to alcoholic beverages. Before he died, he left a letter to Hank and a box filled with his good memories with Seeley to Seeley. He seems to have left nothing for Jared or Marianne Booth. After being reminded of his good memories with his dad by Temperance Brennan, Seeley opened the box and tearfully reminisced about the few really great times they had had together.
== From Edwin's Letter to Hank ==
".... I didn't write a letter to Seeley because I knew he'd rip up anything I'd send him. And he should. If you can find a way, let him know I loved him. He and Jared deserved a better father than me. A father as good as I had. Thank you for raising him to be the man I could never be...." 
== Trivia ==
*The character is named after Edwin Thomas Booth; the real-life brother of John Wilkes Booth.
== Gallery ==
Worldseries.png|Seeley Booth and Edwin Booth attending the 1984 World Series at the Veteran Stadium.
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