Article Alert: I Have Ned Kelly's Head

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The NZ Herald has an article from August 26, 2012 entitled "I Have Ned Kelly's Head."

It begins with:

"A New Zealand great-granny says she is in possession of one of Australia's most sought after relics: Ned Kelly's skull.

Anna Hoffman, 74, was given the skull 30 years ago while on holiday in Melbourne by a security guard who told her it was "Ned's head".

When she read recently that the famous outlaw's skull was missing, she was determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. "When I heard that my heart skipped a beat," she said. "It made sense because of all of the secretiveness around it."

The discovery has raised the interest of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, which matched Kelly's remains to the DNA of a surviving relative...."

To read more:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10829467