TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - When a lost "Petit Prince" meets Antoine de Saint Exupéry: an anthropological case report
JO  - Forensic science international
A1  - Costedoat, Caroline
A1  - Adalian, Pascal
A1  - Bouzaid, Eric
A1  - Martinet, Annick
A1  - Vanrell, Luc
A1  - von Gartzen, Lino
A1  - Castellano, Philippe
A1  - Signoli, Michel
A1  - Tzortzis, Stéfan
A1  - Stevanovitch, Alain
SP  - 145
EP  - 152
VL  - 296
IS  - 
N2  - This case study reports the anthropological analysis of bones remains discovered on Riou Island (Marseille, France) and the story of two World War II fighter pilots. The discovery of bones on "The Fountain of the Greeks" square on Riou Island occurred in the 1960's and a first anthropological study described a 35-year-old man, about 1.77 m tall, buried since an estimated period between the 13th and 16th centuries. The case was "closed" and the bones were considered as isolated archaeological remains. Few years later, near the coasts of Riou Island, parts of two planes were discovered. One was from of a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4 of the Luftwaffe piloted by Prince Alexis fürst zu Bentheim und Steinfurt, and the other from a French P-38 Lightning F-5 B piloted by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Therefore, the identification of the skeletal remains mentioned above was then thought to be perhaps one of the two World War II pilots. In this particular context we performed forensic and molecular biology analyses to resolve this identification.<br><br>Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0379-0738
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.01.015
ID  - ref1
ER  -