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Long-dead lady baffles French (2-year murder investigation reveals that victim died 500 years ago)
Sunday Times (South Africa) ^ | Wednesday January 25, 2006 08:54 - (SA)

Posted on 01/25/2006 9:04:23 AM PST by dead

BREST - French police who spent two years trying to identify a woman who was murdered by a blow to the head were relieved to discover the reason their efforts were failing: the woman died half a millennium ago.

The skeleton of a woman in her 30s was found during an exceptionally low tide in December 2003 near the seaside Brittany town of Plouezoc'h.

A long gash in the skull convinced investigators she was killed with a hatchet or other sharp implement.

Police ploughed through missing persons' files to no avail.

A theory that the woman was the wife of a Normandy doctor who disappeared with his family in a famous 1999 case was dismissed after DNA tests.

Eventually radiocarbon dating established that the death had occurred between 1401 and 1453.

"We are satisfied because at least we know the date now. We reckon it was pirates," said Francois Gerthosser of the Plourin-les-Morlaix police.

Sapa-AFP


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france
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To: Millee
"I didn't know the frogs ever said "I reckon"."

Just in the south of France...

21 posted on 01/25/2006 9:36:19 AM PST by Redbob
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To: theDentist

22 posted on 01/25/2006 9:38:34 AM PST by FreedomFarmer (Beyond the sidewalks, past the pavement, in the real America.)
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To: dead

She would probably be dead by now, anyway, even if she hadn't been hit in the head.


23 posted on 01/25/2006 9:39:48 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: dead

Where was George Bush between 1401 and 1453?


24 posted on 01/25/2006 9:41:17 AM PST by JIM O
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To: blam; SunkenCiv; aculeus

And where were you guys the night of April 12, 1410???


25 posted on 01/25/2006 9:41:55 AM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: dead

"Eventually radiocarbon dating established that the death had occurred between 1401 and 1453."

Soon to be documented on an episode of 'Cold Case'.


26 posted on 01/25/2006 9:43:37 AM PST by WmCraven_Wk
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To: dead

We prefer the term Buccaneer-Americans...


27 posted on 01/25/2006 9:44:26 AM PST by The Clemson Tiger (Hold that Tiger!)
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To: dead

"Never mind."

28 posted on 01/25/2006 9:48:02 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (What did Rather know and when did he know it?)
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To: Arthur McGowan

And you wonder why the teacher moved your desk to the back of the classroom every year....


29 posted on 01/25/2006 9:50:50 AM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: FreedomFarmer

Dang! Twinkies DO last forever!


30 posted on 01/25/2006 9:54:26 AM PST by noblejones (Ben Stein for President, 2008.)
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To: WmCraven_Wk

>>
Soon to be documented on an episode of 'Cold Case'.
<<

Rich white guy did it.


31 posted on 01/25/2006 9:55:08 AM PST by noblejones (Ben Stein for President, 2008.)
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To: dead
ARRRRGHHH!!!

Twasn't me crew, headin' for Jamaica we were...


32 posted on 01/25/2006 9:58:20 AM PST by Zavien Doombringer (13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
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To: dead

We RECKON it was pirates??? LOL! This does not sound like something a frenchman would say.


33 posted on 01/25/2006 10:01:41 AM PST by lawgirl ("You can try to wipe the memories aside, but it's you that you erase..." Honestly- Billy Corgan)
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To: Moral Hazard

Ninjas >>> Pirates


34 posted on 01/25/2006 10:12:59 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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Thanks Pharmboy. Half-thawed Dead Viking Chick from a Greenland Iceberg ping.

In Horus vol II no 1, a journal published by the late David Griffard, Barry Fell was interviewed. Among other things:
We learned that seals were coming to a bad end and being mummified by nature in Antarctica in 1200 A.D. That was interesting and we wondered what was happening in Antarctica at that time...one of the technicians... noticed that a seal carcass that he himself had shot for dog-meat and that got left out through the winter... [looked] just like the mummified seals that they had been sending in. So without telling too many people what he was doing, he sent this mummified seal to be carbon-dated and do you know it was dated to 1200 A.D., and he had shot it the year before. When that was made public it really caused a storm...
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35 posted on 01/25/2006 10:20:36 AM PST by SunkenCiv (In the long run, there is only the short run.)
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To: dead
Scott Peterson should have tried the "pirates" defense.
36 posted on 01/25/2006 10:39:42 AM PST by Physicist
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To: jwfiv

Bizarre ping.


37 posted on 01/25/2006 10:43:09 AM PST by Serb5150 (Mr. T is allergic to doorknobs. That's why he can only kick through doors.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Agreed.


38 posted on 01/25/2006 10:45:29 AM PST by Blogger
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To: dead

Did he really say "reckon?"


39 posted on 01/25/2006 10:46:58 AM PST by Tribune7
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To: Brett66
Maybe the body just got loose from a peat bog or deep mud where it has been kept preserved. Good grief. At this rate perhaps someday a dino will wash up in South Beach.
40 posted on 01/25/2006 10:48:18 AM PST by A knight without armor
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