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In the early 1970's, 71 I think, Errol Flynn's son Sean was in Cambodia, again I think, and disappeared and is pressumed dead. Has anyone ever really found out what happened or bothered to look??

2007-05-29 19:21:27 · 3 answers · asked by Tom S 1 in Politics & Government Law & Ethics

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From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Flynn

"Information obtained from indigenous sources indicated that Stone and Flynn were executed in mid-1971 in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia. Various sources, including an intercepted radio message from COSUN, the Viet Cong high command, indicated that Flynn and Stone survived. One source reported that he had seen a group of very long haired, bearded, tall prisoners near Minot, Cambodia who were identified as 'imperialist journalists'.

In the years that followed, occasional reports emerged from isolated Cambodian villages of a "movie star" who was being held prisoner by the Khmer Rouge. Although his mother Lili Damita spent an enormous amount of money searching for him, he was never found. In the 1980's, a vagrant claimed to have been recently in Mexico having been drinking buddies with a man who claimed to be the son of Errol Flynn. This was never verified or substantiated. In 1984 he was declared legally dead, and one of 22 international journalists missing in Southeast Asia, most known to have been captured.

Important evidence concerning Flynn's fate was uncovered in 1991 by his former photojournalist colleague Tim Page. According to a report published in the UK Sunday Times on 24 March 1991, Page returned to Cambodia in November 1990, determined to resolve the mystery. He began his search at Sangke Kaong, the first village where Flynn and Stone were known to have been held captive for several months according to documents released by the CIA. Page tracked down one former villager who identified Flynn from a contemporary photograph, and recalled that the American had told her that both his parents were movie actors.

According to the report, Flynn and Stone were moved north in early 1971 by their captors to Rokar Knor and then Peus, following the advance of US forces into Cambodia. Following a hunger strike, they were moved again, and eventually handed over to the Khmer Rouge. Investigations by Page and a TV documentary maker led them to a village known as Bei Met, and to an empty grave that had allegedly been the final resting place of two foreigners. Forensic examination of the few remains left in the grave suggested they belonged to a tall man and a short man, and that both had met a violent end."

2007-05-29 19:32:36 · answer #1 · answered by bottleblondemama 7 · 1 1

ME Nethier

2015-05-17 17:32:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No.

2007-06-06 17:24:37 · answer #3 · answered by Constitution 4 · 0 1

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