Sean Flynn (L) and Dana StoneThe Heral Sun (Australia)
April 13, 2010
April 13, 2010
Phnom Penh (AFP) - A US military team says it may have found more human remains at the suspected grave of the war photographer son of Hollywood film legend Errol Flynn, who disappeared 40 years ago.
The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) said its team made the find at a site in Cambodia where two men last month claimed they may have unearthed Sean Flynn's remains.
"What has been found are 'possible' remains that appear to be small pieces of a skull and other bone-like fragments," Lt. Colonel Wayne Perry, public affairs director for JPAC, told AFP.
Lt. Col. Perry said the excavation of the site in Cambodia's eastern Kampong Cham province began on Friday and it was expected to be completed tomorrow.
The remains from the site, which some researchers believe is a mass grave for up to a dozen foreign journalists killed by Khmer Rouge fighters during Cambodia's war in the early 1970s, were sent for forensic analysis in Hawaii.
Last month Australian Dave MacMillan and Briton Keith Rotheram presented JPAC in Phnom Penh with a jaw and femur bone dug up from the same site, saying they believed the remains were Flynn's.
The 28-year-old's fate has been a mystery since 1970 when he and fellow journalist Dana Stone were captured by communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas while on assignment in the area, and never heard from again.
Mr Rotheram, a guesthouse owner in coastal Sihanoukville, said he and his partner based their search on claims by a local villager, who said in 1971 he saw Khmer Rouge soldiers kill a prisoner there matching Flynn's description.
Flynn, who worked as actor before covering the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia as a photographer, had a striking resemblance to his father, who starred in swashbuckling roles in The Adventures of Robin Hood and Captain Blood.
At least 37 journalists were killed or disappeared covering the brutal 1970-75 conflict between the US-backed Lon Nol government and Khmer Rouge guerrillas supported by North Vietnamese fighters.
The 28-year-old's fate has been a mystery since 1970 when he and fellow journalist Dana Stone were captured by communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas while on assignment in the area, and never heard from again.
Mr Rotheram, a guesthouse owner in coastal Sihanoukville, said he and his partner based their search on claims by a local villager, who said in 1971 he saw Khmer Rouge soldiers kill a prisoner there matching Flynn's description.
Flynn, who worked as actor before covering the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia as a photographer, had a striking resemblance to his father, who starred in swashbuckling roles in The Adventures of Robin Hood and Captain Blood.
At least 37 journalists were killed or disappeared covering the brutal 1970-75 conflict between the US-backed Lon Nol government and Khmer Rouge guerrillas supported by North Vietnamese fighters.
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