Post by toddsmitts on Nov 3, 2008 18:00:01 GMT -5
Fodder for an episode, maybe? 
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081103/people_nm/us_fossett_1
DNA tests confirm bones those of Steve Fossett
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Genetic tests on two bones found near the wreckage of Steve Fossett's airplane in the mountains of California near Nevada confirm the missing millionaire adventurer is dead, local authorities said in a statement on Monday.
"A California Department of Justice Forensics lab has determined that items containing DNA -- discovered last week -- match James Stephen Fossett's DNA," the statement by the Madera County, California's sheriff-coroner's office said.
A sheriff's spokeswoman said the bones were discovered last Thursday.
Fossett, 63, vanished after taking off in a single-engine Bellanca Citabria Super Decathlon on September 3, 2007, from the airstrip of hotel magnate Barron Hilton's ranch in Nevada, sparking a long and massive, but fruitless, search.
Early last month local authorities discovered the wreckage of the aircraft after a hiker not far from Yosemite National Park found identification cards belonging to Fossett, prompting a search that uncovered the crash site.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081103/people_nm/us_fossett_1
DNA tests confirm bones those of Steve Fossett
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Genetic tests on two bones found near the wreckage of Steve Fossett's airplane in the mountains of California near Nevada confirm the missing millionaire adventurer is dead, local authorities said in a statement on Monday.
"A California Department of Justice Forensics lab has determined that items containing DNA -- discovered last week -- match James Stephen Fossett's DNA," the statement by the Madera County, California's sheriff-coroner's office said.
A sheriff's spokeswoman said the bones were discovered last Thursday.
Fossett, 63, vanished after taking off in a single-engine Bellanca Citabria Super Decathlon on September 3, 2007, from the airstrip of hotel magnate Barron Hilton's ranch in Nevada, sparking a long and massive, but fruitless, search.
Early last month local authorities discovered the wreckage of the aircraft after a hiker not far from Yosemite National Park found identification cards belonging to Fossett, prompting a search that uncovered the crash site.
