Story here.
“Two Queensland adventurers think they have found the remains of Sean Flynn, the dashing son of screen legend Errol Flynn.”
Sean was a Time-magazine photojournalist when he went missing in Cambodia in 1970, presumed kidnapped and killed by the Khmer Rouge.
There’s a follow-up here: How Errol Flynn’s Son Was Lost in Cambodia – All but a Pile of Bones.
I have always found this case fascinating. Next Tuesday will be the 40th anniversary of his disappearance.
I almost forgot: Tim Page, mentioned in the linked story above, is a legendary war photographer. His Requiem Exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City’s War Remnants Museum – previously known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes – chronicles the work of photojournalists on both sides of the Vietnam War and reportedly receives more visitors than Reunification Palace, once the seat of the South Vietnmese government when it was known as Independent Palace or the Presidential Palace. We’ll be checking the exhibit out ourselves in just a few weeks.
So, what did he look like?
Oh, wait, I’m thinking of Fatty Arbuckle and that poor young actress. Never mind.
Did anybody ever find anything of Michael Rockefeller?
I herad he wound up in some cannibal’s stewpot.
Or Jim Thompson?
They think they may have learned what happened to Jim Thompson. For those of you who have never heard of him, he single-handedly built up the Thai silk industry. Called the “Legendary American,” he first parachuted into Thailand during WWII as an OSS officer. He was supposed to provide support for the local anti-Japanese underground, but I don’t think much took off with that. But he returned to Bangkok after the war and became involved in silk.
He disappeared mysteriously in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia while out for a walk on Easter Sunday of 1967. Later that same year, his sister was murdered in New York City in an apparent botched burglary (she was the burgled, not the burglar), which fueled all sorts of conspiracy theories tied to his OSS and possible CIA work.
However, a few years ago a Malaysian truck driver came forward and claimed to have accidentally run Thompson over, panicked and hid the body in the jungle. Remains have yet to be found. His house in Bangkok remains a tourist attraction, and it is a neat place.
As for Tim Page mentioned earlier, I should add that he was the inspiration for Dennis Hopper’s character in Apocalypse Now.