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KGxvi3/08/2018 4:12:24 pm PST

re: #164 Jay C

Odd: if they (who?) have any “remains”, i.e., bones, (however sturdy or delicate) that they suspect might be Amelia Earhart’s: can’t these be tested using modern DNA analysis against any living relatives? I know Amelia didn’t have any children (and only one sibling, AFAICT) - but there should be enough contemporary Earharts (of some degree of connection) around to do a useful comparison.

After all, if they could identify the remains of King Richard III after 500+ years and 18 (?) generations removed, Amelia Earhart ought to be easy…

They don’t have the bones anymore, per NPR’s story:

He took a closer look at data gathered in 1940 from skeletal remains recovered by a British expedition to Nikumaroro. The British found a human skull, humeri and radii (both arm bones), a tibia and fibula from the lower leg and two femurs (thigh bones). The bones were sent to Fiji, where they were examined and measured by physician D.W. Hoodless.

But the bones themselves are long gone. After Hoodless examined them, and determining them to be from a stocky European male, they disappeared. The assumption is that either he or someone else in Fiji discarded them.

They reached this new conclusion by re-examining the measurements on record.