Experts identify Ned Kelly remains

The headless remains of Australia’s most infamous criminal Ned Kelly have been identified, ending a decades-long mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the folk hero’s body, it was announced today.

Experts identify Ned Kelly remains

The headless remains of Australia’s most infamous criminal Ned Kelly have been identified, ending a decades-long mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the folk hero’s body, it was announced today.

Kelly, who led a gang of bank robbers in Australia’s southern Victoria state in the 19th century, was hanged in 1880. His final resting place was unknown, though it was long suspected his body lay alongside 33 other executed inmates in a mass grave at a prison.

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