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A tiny bone found on a tropical island could finally solve the riddle of what happened to Amelia Earhart.

Researchers from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (Tighar) found what appears to be a phalanx from a finger and two other bones, one of them from the neck, alongside a host of other clues after two decades and 10 expeditions attempting to solve the mystery. They include part of a mirror from a woman’s compact, a zip from a Pennsylvania factory and travel-sized bottles made in New Jersey as well as a pocket knife listed on her aircraft’s inventory, all manufactured in the 1930s.

Alongside the goods are the remains of small fires with bird and fish bones, and empty oyster shells laid out in a row as if to collect water.

The discovery suggests that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, endured lingering deaths as castaways on a desert island and were eventually eaten by crabs.

I was fascinated by her as a kid. Wonder how they’re going to revise all those YA autobiographies to tactfully deal with the new details of her death. The mysterious disappearance was fairly kid-friendly; this is just gruesome.

Her story held such a morbid kind of fascination for me when I was younger. I read about her a lot. The thought of the adventure, the intrigue. But, I always imagined what happened to her, and my mind, even as a child, wasn’t a healthy place, and I created these gruesome death scenes in my head, but this isn’t what I imagined. Her death was so unfortunate.