Suspect Still at Large
Police were called in when a skeleton was found in the surf in the coastal town of Plouezoc’h, France. A gash in the skull made them declare the woman a murder victim, and detectives worked for two years on the case until someone got an idea: carbon dating. A check of the bones revealed that the woman died in the first half of the 13th century. “We reckon it was pirates,” a police spokesman said. (AFP) ...And the next day, AFP’s new French-to-English translator was fired.
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