Forensic Analysis May Have Solved Amelia Earhart Mystery

In a photo that is thought to have been taken on June 6, 1937 at Parnamerim airfield, Natal, Brazil, is American aviator Amelia Earhart standing by her Lockheed Electra. Her flight navigator, Fred Noonan, can be seen getting into the plane in the background. (Flickr's the Commons)

Rick Pantaleo

March 9, 2018

The 1937 disappearance of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, as she was attempting a grueling equatorial flight to circumnavigate the world, has been one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time.

Professor emeritus Richard Jantz, of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville conducted a forensic analysis that suggests bones found on the South Pacific Island of Nikumaroro are those of Ms. Earhart.

Jantz said he analyzed the bones by using several modern techniques, including a computer program, called Fordisc which can estimate the sex, ancestry, and stature of a person from skeletal measurements.

The professor found that data from the computer program revealed that the bones found in 1940 are more similar to Earhart than to 99% of people listed in a large reference sample.

Could it be that the mystery has finally been solved?