Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937 while attempting to
circumnavigate the globe. Three years later human bones were found on a desert
island not far from her destination. The bones were analyzed at the time in
Fiji, and it was concluded that they were the remains of a male. Last week a
forensic anthropologist in Tennessee announced that the bones were almost
certainly Earhart’s. He’d studied the measurements of the bones and compared
them with photos of the famous aviatrix. He even consulted a seamstress on the
relationship between inseams and the lengths of tibias and fibias. If the bones
in question hadn’t been misplaced, a DNA test might have put this 80-year-old
mystery to rest. When asked for her opinion, Earhart’s neice said, “I'm
convinced she simply ran out of gas. No one has produced credible evidence of
any of the other theories. The simplest explanation is the most likely.”
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