measurements werer compared with the bones recover from the island. >> if these bone were not amelia erhardy do belong just happened to be very similar to her and that's unlikely. >> in fact, jan says it's 99% likely the bones belong to erhard. >> 99%. i wasn't expecting 99%. >> rick gillespie with the international intrup fgroup for recovery has long believed erhard was stranded on nikumororo. this appeared to show someone who looked like erhard and her na navigator ch. >> i have a photograph which i believe clearly shows she was captured by the japanese. >> but later, that was in a photo book originally published in 1935, two years before erhard and noonan disappeared, casting down on whether that's them in the photo. >> we're going to continue to investigate this. the accuracy is obviously important. we want to follow the facts where she lead and we're certainly going to do that. >> still, gillespie believes this new bone analysis could be the final piece of a puzzle that has per lexed history buffs for ages. >> for people who believe in science and pay attention to the evidence, i am co