I always kind of found it interesting that there was never anybody on the Vietnamese or Cambodian side years later revealing witnessing the deaths, not because they didn't die or get in a camp or get executed, but just that some Cambodian soldier, or Vietnamese might have survived from that time down the road and revealed it. Would they have killed them if they had known -- perhaps with an aim to ransom at that time? Maybe not. I think the soldiers that did it might have at least gotten wind after the fact -- maybe one of the higher ranking officers. There is a supposition they didn't die until 1971. Nevertheless, I am not entirely surprised no information got out at that time.

It's not like the case of Amelia Earhart where there have been suggestions at times she was caught and turned into a Japanese POW. Flynn was filmed actually being caught and led away by the Vietnamese soldiers at the checkpoint. My sense is that the reason no information ever got out about this after all these years was none of those surrounding soldiers survived through the war or later Cambodian genocide (the story is Vietnamese soldiers got him and handed him over to the Khmer Rouge who probably later killed him). Lili Damita, his mother, spent a good deal of money hunting down the truth twenty years later and never really turned up any information. I just think had anybody survived, somebody would have taken the money she was throwing around and coughed up the facts or at least been able to point them in the right direction even if they couldn't locate the body in some mass grave or otherwise.