Getty Images 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 ...

The bones, revisited in the study ‘‘Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones’’ by University of Tennessee professor Richard Jantz, were discarded. For decades they have remained an enigma ...

Jantz says the bones found on the island “are more consistent with Amelia Earhart” than all the other bones in the database. This was the piece of evidence Gillespie had been waiting for—a ...