DNA tests have revealed that human remains found at a Cambodian grave are not those of the son of Hollywood film legend Errol Flynn as had been suspected, a United States military official said on Wednesday.
In March, two amateur Western diggers presented a jaw and a femur bone to US officials, unearthed at a site in eastern Kampong Cham province, saying they believed the parts belonged to war photographer Sean Flynn.
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.
Officials from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) excavated the site in April and found more human remains.