Amelia Earhart

It’s interesting to read another solution to the Amelia Earhart mystery. About a dozen years ago, while we were marooned for a week on the island of Saipan waiting for repairs to be made to our freighter, my wife and I thoroughly explored the island. One day we found the remains of an old prison. There were large trees growing in the roofless cells that had only walls remaining. While we looked here and there, we were joined by an elderly lady who told us she had lived in a nearby house for many years.

She took us to the largest prison cell where she indicated the “lady” had been imprisoned, and pointed to a smaller cell a few doors away where the “man” had spent this time. If I understood correctly, the man died some time before the lady disappeared. There was no doubt in her mind that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were in that prison; she often visited them in their cells. Who knows!

JAMES T. HUMBERD, La Quinta