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Will the dog tags found of this war time mystery lead to a conclusion?
Background: international hunt is under way to trace a US marine whose dog tags have been dug up with bones in a Nelson Bay backyard.
A Kerrigan Street resident replacing his vegetable patch this week found two pieces of vertebrae as well as the tags with the name Leroy Happel of Waterloo, Indiana, stamped on them.
Forensic anthropologists and Port Stephens police returned to the backyard yesterday and began sifting earth in an unsuccessful attempt to find more bones.
They had only sifted through top soil before a storm struck yesterday afternoon and will return this morning to continue the painstaking search using a mechanical sieve.
It is still unknown whether the vertebrae are human or animal, but the discovery has prompted several theories about how they came to be with the dog tags and nearly a metre underground in a residential area of Nelson Bay
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A Kerrigan Street resident replacing his vegetable patch this week found two pieces of vertebrae as well as the tags with the name Leroy Happel of Waterloo, Indiana, stamped on them.
Forensic anthropologists and Port Stephens police returned to the backyard yesterday and began sifting earth in an unsuccessful attempt to find more bones.
They had only sifted through top soil before a storm struck yesterday afternoon and will return this morning to continue the painstaking search using a mechanical sieve.
It is still unknown whether the vertebrae are human or animal, but the discovery has prompted several theories about how they came to be with the dog tags and nearly a metre underground in a residential area of Nelson Bay
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Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source
to settle if the marine is found or no if no report
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tracked them to the Caribbean, indicating that they may be making global migrations. Last year Mauvis Gore, of Marine Conservation International, placed a tracking device on a large female basking shark ? Cetorhinus maximus ? off the Isle of Man. To
score: 10
The Times 28 weeks ago
tracked them to the Caribbean, indicating that they may be making global migrations. Last year Mauvis Gore, of Marine Conservation International, placed a tracking device on a large female basking shark ? Cetorhinus maximus ? off the Isle of Man. To
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but if seph is right, why would a major news source bother to report it?
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