[OKSooner]

I thought it had been pretty much determined that she and Fred found themselves marooned on a particular small island and met an unfortunate fate in the sand crabs indigenous to the island.

They found Fred’s pocket knife, didn’t they?

[ducttape45]

Most likely, yes, but folks are still trying to find definitely proof.

[SunkenCiv]

Literally no evidence at all has been found, but there’s been a group that is so sure they’ve got the right island that they’ve saddled on every piece of debris they’ve managed to find. And every piece of debris has proved to be unrelated.

[verum ago]

They found Fred’s pocket knife, didn’t they?

They found fragments of one on Gardner Island, but as with every other supposed artifact from Earhart and Noonan there’s no proof as to whether it was one of theirs’. The bits and pieces of stuff found on Gardner are particularly difficult, because only a year after they disappeared the British established a colony on the island that lasted into the 60s, so there’s plenty of Western-made ‘stuff’ from the right era lying around with no inherent connection to Earhart/Noonan.