According to British media reports, on April 15, 1912, the Titanic sank when it crashed in the North Atlantic. Among the victims, the identity of a boy under the age of 2 remains uncertain. After 95 years of testing, American scientists recently concluded based on the results of DNA tests that the deceased's name was Sidney Leslie Goodwin, an Englishman.
A family of eight died in the Atlantic
On April 10, 1912, Sidney, who was only 19 months old, followed his 42-year-old father, his 43-year-old mother and his five older siblings. Lillian, 16, Charles, 14, William, 11, Jay, 10, and Harold, 9, aboard the world's largest cruise ship, the Titanic, prepared to sail from England to New York to start a new life. Unfortunately, the giant ship, which is said to be unsinkable, accidentally sank. Sidney's family of eight survived.
The mysteries of this century
A few days after the Titanic sank, rescuers found the body of a boy in the North Atlantic, but when he was buried in Nova Scotia, Canada, he was not identified and was simply marked on a tombstone. "Unknown boy." In 2001, researchers at and after university in Canada approved a dig-up analysis of the boy's body through a titanic passenger list, the unknown boy's identity was narrowed down to one of four children. Gosta-Paulson, Aino-Panura, Eugene Rice, and Sidney Goodwin initially deduced that the boy's body was Aino-Panura, but new tests in 2007 showed that this was incorrect
Their identities were confirmed after the bodies of titanic victims were salvaged in the icy North Atlantic. Of the 153 dead, however, the identity of a boy under the age of 2 has been haunting experts. He was called an unnamed child. In 2002, researchers concluded that the deceased was a Finnish boy, only 13 months old, named Eno Villiam Panula. However, as more DNA results emerge, this conclusion is again challenged.
Not long ago, DNA samples from members of the Sidney Leslie Goodwin family were consistent with dental samples from unnamed children currently living in the United States. In addition, the researchers also found clues to the shoe on the deceased's foot that the shoe was actually produced in the UK. The Titanic's unknown baby boy has finally unveiled the mystery!