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Why can’t anyone find Amelia Earhart’s bones?
If Ric Gillespie can’t find Amelia Earhart’s bones, it’s likely no one will.
The bones suspected to be Earhart’s — found on the desolate island of Nikumaroro in the Pacific Ocean in 1940 — haven’t been seen for over 70 years. And at this point, Gillespie, the executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, doesn’t hold out much hope for recovery.
After the bones were carefully measured and analyzed by a British doctor in the region, they disappeared.
“The bones probably kicked around for a few years until they got in someone’s way and they probably just pitched them out,” Gillespie, who is also the author of Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance, said in an interview. “They didn’t receive any kind of dignified burial.” Read more…
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Last week, a forensic study revealed that bones found on a tiny Pacific Island are likely those of famed pilot, Amelia Earhart.
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The island in question is …
Bones found on an island in 1940 are ’99 percent’ likely to be Amelia Earhart’s
The mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance may finally have been solved, thanks to a new forensics study that shows a very high likelihood that bones found on an island in the South Pacific are those of the trailblazing pilot.
In a new study publi…