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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.26,0:00:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.87,0:00:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: An international\Nteam of forensic experts
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.92,0:00:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is flying in to the scene\Nof a 90 year old crime
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.20,0:00:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a far-flung Siberian forest,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.28,0:00:20.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including a leading\Nforensic anthropologist
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.62,0:00:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and veteran of the 9/11 investigation,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.10,0:00:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anthony Falsetti.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.40,0:00:27.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anthony Falsetti: \NIt's really vast out here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.89,0:00:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So desolate and so \Nfar away from civilization,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.16,0:00:34.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's where two \Nbodies are supposed to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.04,0:00:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: It's another case \Nof huge significance,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.30,0:00:39.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially for Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.16,0:00:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The remains of long lost\Nmembers of its royal family
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.48,0:00:45.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may have been found at last,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.59,0:00:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but nobody knows for sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.06,0:00:51.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth of what happened to the Romanovs
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.61,0:00:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has long been blurred by myth and legend.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.37,0:00:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did the royal line of Russia\Nend in a violent murder
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.99,0:01:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or did an heir to the\Nthrone escape and survive?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.49,0:01:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The investigation team \Nalso includes Dr. Michael Coble,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.57,0:01:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a leading forensic DNA expert
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.32,0:01:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who works for the Pentagon,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.92,0:01:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identifying the remains\Nof American soldiers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.62,0:01:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the American military's\Nlaboratories at his full disposal,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.64,0:01:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he'll attempt to put names\Nto these mystery bones.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.50,0:01:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The team is headed into a remote forest,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.64,0:01:33.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,20 kilometers outside the \NSiberian city of Yekaterinburg.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.62,0:01:40.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.25,0:01:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This far-flung industiral outpost
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.16,0:01:45.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is where the fate of \NRussia's royal family was written.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.44,0:01:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five children,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.84,0:01:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,born into royalty.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.12,0:01:59.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The grand duchesses Olga and Tatiana,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.17,0:02:01.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the flower of young womanhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.54,0:02:05.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maria and Anastasia are\Nbeguiling teenagers.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.73,0:02:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,13 year old Crown Prince Alexei
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.57,0:02:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the boy born to be king.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.94,0:02:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Millions of loyal Russians revere them,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.07,0:02:17.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even worship them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.35,0:02:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A divine family set on\NEarth to rule the nation.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.94,0:02:26.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the Romanov line would end with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.90,0:02:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1917, the Russian Revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.60,0:02:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In its wake, a civil war raged,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.82,0:02:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Bolsheviks against\Nthe Czarist loyalists.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.66,0:02:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[explosions/gunshots]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.43,0:02:45.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The royal family was imprisoned,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.15,0:02:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exiled to Siberia,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.66,0:02:49.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under house arrest in Yekaterinburg.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.15,0:02:52.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But their popularity among the masses
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.70,0:02:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,presented a problem for\Nthe fledgling Soviet administration.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.69,0:03:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Bolshevik leadership \Nplanned a show trial
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.76,0:03:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and execution for the Czar.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.42,0:03:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps wary of a Populist backlash,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.42,0:03:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some accounts say Lenin\Nwanted the rest of the family kept alive
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.90,0:03:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as political pawns.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.62,0:03:16.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From here, forensic \Nanthropologist Dr. Anthony Falsetti
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.22,0:03:17.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the investigative team
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.82,0:03:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to complete their journey on foot,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.86,0:03:25.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to meet the man who may \Nhave made a stunning historical find.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.23,0:03:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[indistinct greetings]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.12,0:03:30.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: So, what did you find?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.69,0:03:32.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where did you find it?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.21,0:03:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[speaking Russian]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.36,0:03:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How deep was the burial?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.04,0:03:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: The remains have been \Nmoved to a morgue for safekeeping.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.44,0:03:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: What else did\Nyou find with it, any artifcats?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.04,0:03:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[translating into Russian]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.21,0:03:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[speaking Russian]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.76,0:03:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: What I'm hearing\Nfrom these archeologists
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.84,0:03:50.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is they have bones,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.82,0:03:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe some projectiles.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.27,0:03:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we don't have is any evidence
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.02,0:03:58.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a really controlled excavation,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.79,0:04:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's quite frankly making me nervous.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.63,0:04:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: So far, \Nthere's not much to go on.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.76,0:04:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no evidence of the crime scene
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.76,0:04:09.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and scant documentation\Nto support the find.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.17,0:04:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Romanov case has \Nbeen plagued by hoaxes
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.34,0:04:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and coverups over the years
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.42,0:04:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this latest find may be no different.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.80,0:04:22.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the days after the murders,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.27,0:04:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,newspapers reported only\Nthat the Czar had been killed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.99,0:04:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For eight years, the \NSoviet state maintained
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.01,0:04:31.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the rest of the royal\Nfamily was alive and well,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.91,0:04:34.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the coverup failed,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.13,0:04:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forcing the Russian\Ngovernment to change its story
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.82,0:04:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make a shocking admission.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.47,0:04:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All 11 members of the royal \Nhousehold had been executed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.99,0:04:48.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then came reported \Nsightings of Prince Alexei
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.89,0:04:51.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Princess Anastasia.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.66,0:04:54.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Were the children dead or alive?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.97,0:04:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sensational rumors kept emerging.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.72,0:05:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Mosow, there was unease
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.78,0:05:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the exact fate of the Romanovs.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.58,0:05:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An imposter claiming to be Alexei
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.92,0:05:09.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was officially investigated.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.78,0:05:11.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Years pass.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.85,0:05:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under Stalin's iron rule,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.62,0:05:17.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was forbidden to\Neven mention the royal family.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.61,0:05:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 1950s, a member \Nof the original firing squad
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.04,0:05:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surfaced in the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.30,0:05:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Austrian Rudolf Lacher
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.84,0:05:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,claimed he had been left to guard a truck
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.57,0:05:29.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrying the royal bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.73,0:05:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it got stuck in the \Nmud in the middle of a forest,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.04,0:05:35.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said he helped a\Nwounded Anastasia escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.04,0:05:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[pained breathing]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.04,0:05:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Romanov legend and \Nrumors of a surviving heir
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.92,0:05:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were revived.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.29,0:05:54.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.32,0:05:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,local academics armed with \Nshovels and vital information
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.22,0:06:00.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ventured into the \NKoptyaki Forest to dig.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.52,0:06:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although the Romanovs \Nexecutioners were long dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.10,0:06:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,papers handed down by\Nthe commander, Yakov Yurovsky,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.00,0:06:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,held clues as to where the bodies\Nof the royal household might lie.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.61,0:06:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dig revealed a shallow grave,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.84,0:06:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,skulls, bones, full skeletons,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.58,0:06:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but something was missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.68,0:06:33.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peter Sarandinaki: In 1991, \Nnine sets of remains were found.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.68,0:06:36.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were 11 people that were killed
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.67,0:06:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Yekaterinburg that night.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.43,0:06:42.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two sets of remains were still missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.44,0:06:44.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: The Czar and Czarina,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.63,0:06:45.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three of their daughters,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.62,0:06:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and four attendants are identified,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.07,0:06:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but two of the youngest royal children
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.83,0:06:52.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aren't among the dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.58,0:06:59.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, little more than\N60 meters from the first grave,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.59,0:07:01.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a second find is being investigated
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.57,0:07:04.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by leading American forensic experts.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.76,0:07:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Locked away in a \NYekaterinburg city morgue,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.46,0:07:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the newly uncovered bones
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.77,0:07:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be subject to the most intensive
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.85,0:07:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,21st century forensic analysis.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.03,0:07:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.14,0:07:29.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did all of the Russian\Nroyals come to a violent end
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.99,0:07:32.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the hands of Bolshevik executioners?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.99,0:07:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or could the legends be true?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.50,0:07:41.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did two of Czar \NNicholas's children survive?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.57,0:07:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forensic anthropologist Anthony Falsetti
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.54,0:07:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and DNA expert Michael Coble
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.62,0:07:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are about to get their \Nfirst look at the bones
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.50,0:07:50.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that may answer these intriuging questions
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.51,0:07:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once and for all.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.71,0:07:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under lock and key\Nin the Yekaterinburg morgue,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.08,0:07:58.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,access to these potentially royal remains
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.33,0:08:00.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is tightly controlled.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.29,0:08:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the year 2000, the Romanovs \Nwere canonized as martyrs
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.38,0:08:07.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.53,0:08:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If authenticated, these \Nbones could become holy relics.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.51,0:08:20.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anthony Falsetti is on\Nstranger to these halls.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.65,0:08:21.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was part of the original team
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.100,0:08:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assembled in the 1990s
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.50,0:08:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to investigate the first \Nset of Romanov bones.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.95,0:08:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The investigation and its findings \Nproved highly controversial,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.53,0:08:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sparking a very public row.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.89,0:08:42.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[indistinct speech]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.51,0:08:45.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Russian scientists used\Nfacial reconstruction techniques
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.61,0:08:48.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to claim that one of the \Nbodes was that of Anastasia,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.91,0:08:51.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but others were unconvinced.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.41,0:08:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still more troubling was\Nthe body count discrepancy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.20,0:08:55.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man: Two bodies are still missing
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.89,0:08:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is a mystery.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.40,0:08:58.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: If two bodies were missing,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.75,0:09:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the entire grave\Nunrelated to the Romanovs?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.07,0:09:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were accusations\Nof political interference
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.78,0:09:07.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rushed, rash conclusions.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.68,0:09:10.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the end, the Russian Orthodox Church
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.23,0:09:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rejected the DNA evidence as tainted
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.98,0:09:14.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and refused to \Nacknowledge that the remains
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.79,0:09:17.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were in fact the Romanovs.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.30,0:09:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now this new find\Ncould change all that,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.49,0:09:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this time the team wants \Nto avoid the storm of publicity
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.64,0:09:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that engulfed investigations in 1991.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.07,0:09:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the Romanov mystery\Nis an enduring fascination.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.30,0:09:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.55,0:09:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man: We arrive into the lab\Nand there's a massive number of cameras
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.79,0:09:45.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people doing interviews
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.29,0:09:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while we're trying to look at the remains.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.71,0:09:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: The start of the latest \Ninvestigation makes the evening news.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.79,0:09:55.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[speaking Russian]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.61,0:09:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But once the cameras have gone,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.31,0:09:59.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a critical story emerges.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.66,0:10:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: Once the cameras were gone,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.03,0:10:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we get down to work
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.96,0:10:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what I discover is that
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.08,0:10:09.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these 44 fragments,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.13,0:10:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many we're not going to\Nbe able to identify as being human.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.29,0:10:15.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps they're not.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.39,0:10:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's just not enough material here.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.02,0:10:19.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: These shattered remains
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.93,0:10:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look nothing like \Nthe nearly complete skeletons
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.02,0:10:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,found in 1991.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.07,0:10:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Broken, almost unrecognizable.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.70,0:10:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But careful inspection by expert eyes
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.58,0:10:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reveals the fragmentary remains are human.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.44,0:10:41.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man: Two people.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.55,0:10:44.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: But exactly who\Nare they the remains of?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.19,0:10:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could these be the bones\Nof Alexei, Maria, or Anastasia,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.64,0:10:51.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or do they belong\Nto someone else entirely?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.82,0:10:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: The mystery within the mystery
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.88,0:10:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is what happened to Anastasia?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.28,0:10:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did she escape?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.28,0:11:01.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, is she here?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.32,0:11:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now, I can't tell\Nwhether I've two females
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.93,0:11:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a male and a female,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.88,0:11:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether these fragments
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.80,0:11:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are part of the other bones\Nthat were already recovered.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.63,0:11:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Handling and photographing\Nwhat may be the bones of saints
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.48,0:11:24.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a delicate matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.26,0:11:25.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each fragment must be handled
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.69,0:11:28.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the greatest respect and sensitivity.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.74,0:11:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.07,0:11:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, after intricate examination,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.07,0:11:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a breakthrough.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.35,0:11:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: It doesn't look like much.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.05,0:11:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a portion of the pelvis.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.41,0:11:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is our os-cox.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.70,0:11:49.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, as it turns out,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.31,0:11:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is from a female.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.20,0:11:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can deduce that by the sciatic notch.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.16,0:11:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In males, it would be more narrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.65,0:11:59.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In females,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.73,0:12:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is quite wide.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.50,0:12:02.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is critical.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.63,0:12:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know we have two people.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.77,0:12:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we know that one of them is female.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.35,0:12:11.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: A male and a female.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.35,0:12:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Body parts from two individuals.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.61,0:12:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But are they the missing Romanov children?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.30,0:12:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anthony Falsetti and \Nthe forensic anthropologists
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.54,0:12:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will have to dig deeper.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.49,0:12:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Mike Coble and the DNA team,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.28,0:12:27.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's another problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.93,0:12:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These bones show evidence of burning.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.70,0:12:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michael Coble: Looking at the remains,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.73,0:12:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm beginning to think
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.93,0:12:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is going to be a very difficult case.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.33,0:12:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When, when the bone is burned,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.93,0:12:41.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a lot of heat generated
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.61,0:12:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is not very good for DNA.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.62,0:12:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Take our sample from down here.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.47,0:12:48.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2.5, 3 centimeter cut.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.67,0:12:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Michael Coble selects fragments
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.17,0:12:53.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most likely to yield readable DNA.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.27,0:12:57.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Minute pieces will be cut off\Nand sent to his lab in America
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.89,0:13:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to other researchers around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.03,0:13:01.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for independent analysis.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.61,0:13:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coble: These are the \Nfragments that we think...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.12,0:13:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: But teasing \Nout the 90 year old genes
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.87,0:13:06.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that may lie dormant in the fragments
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.58,0:13:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will take weeks
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.17,0:13:10.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the chances that \Nthe DNA has survived intact
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.78,0:13:12.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are slim.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.62,0:13:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.65,0:13:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the forensic team,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.66,0:13:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a few pieces of badly damaged bone
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.58,0:13:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't much to go on.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.42,0:13:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, in the town where the\NRomanov family met their end,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.00,0:13:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are more leads to pursue.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.55,0:13:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.40,0:13:40.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Local archeologist Sergei Prokofiev
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.55,0:13:41.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was one of the excavators
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.64,0:13:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who found the second lot of bones in 2007.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.38,0:13:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has kept and carefully stored evidence
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.26,0:13:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taken from the grave in the forest.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.05,0:13:52.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Among the artifacts he's preserved
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.63,0:13:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are fragments of a wooden crate,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.33,0:13:56.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quantities of ash,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.78,0:13:58.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some pieces of pottery.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.58,0:14:01.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each is a clue to what might have happened
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.33,0:14:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the remains were buried.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.14,0:14:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.62,0:14:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ash corroborates with burn marks
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.50,0:14:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,found on the bones.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.76,0:14:17.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A grim picture is \Nbeginning to materialize.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.59,0:14:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: What kind of container...
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.35,0:14:23.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Grunt]
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.01,0:14:26.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: The pottery shards are\Nperhaps the most compelling evidence.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.59,0:14:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They match similar fragments \Nfound in the nearby grave
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.12,0:14:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uncovered in 1991.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.72,0:14:32.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: These are the ones from 1991?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.100,0:14:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sergei Prokofiev:\N{\i1}Da{\i0} [continues in Russian]
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.04,0:14:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Other pieces of the puzzle
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.36,0:14:39.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will have to be found \Nand put together correctly
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.96,0:14:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before a true picture can emerge
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.38,0:14:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of exactly what happened in the forest
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.28,0:14:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside Yekaterinburg\Nmore than 90 years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.06,0:14:52.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[indistinct speech]
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.10,0:14:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most important pieces to that puzzle:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.92,0:14:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three bullets.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.79,0:15:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exhumed from the grave,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.04,0:15:02.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these projectiles may be the very bullets
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.84,0:15:06.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that killed the heir\Nto the Romanov throne.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.19,0:15:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[gunshot]
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.31,0:15:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they match the bullets \Nfound in the nearby grave in 1991,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.96,0:15:14.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a conclusive forensic \Nconnection could be made
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.48,0:15:17.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between the two graves.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.28,0:15:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.71,0:15:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bullets are taken for expert analysis.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.63,0:15:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When fired from a gun,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.08,0:15:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bullet is scored \Nwith distinctive scratches
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.98,0:15:36.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it travels through the barrel.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.58,0:15:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These so-called ball \Nmarkings are like fingerprints.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.92,0:15:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first of the three bullets found \Nin the 2007 grave excavation
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.50,0:15:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is too damaged for analysis,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.79,0:15:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the other two have survived intact.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.18,0:16:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Initial tests show the other two bullets\Nhave nearly identical ball marks,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.79,0:16:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,implying that the same \Nkind of gun was used.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.02,0:16:09.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tech [interpreted from Russian]: \NWe can determine that the bullets
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.45,0:16:13.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were shot from the same weapon, \Na browning pistol.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.15,0:16:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: The type of weapon may \Nhave been identified,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.84,0:16:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the results have exposed \Nyet another twist in the tale.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.80,0:16:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tech [interpreted from Russian]: \NThese bullets are different in caliber
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.53,0:16:25.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the ones found in 1991.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.29,0:16:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: The bullets don't match those \Nfound in the earlier grave,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.94,0:16:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meaning a different gun\Nhad to have been used
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.28,0:16:35.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to kill those buried in\Nthe other grave nearby.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.49,0:16:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: We know that this gun\Nis from the same time period,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.43,0:16:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we don't have\Na direct tie to the '91 finds.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.94,0:16:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: No link.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.40,0:16:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A new and previously unknown weapon.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.81,0:16:57.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there's no hard evidence linking\Nthe graves to the same crime,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.43,0:17:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then perhaps the remains in the\Nlatest grave belong to nameless victims
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.73,0:17:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have nothing to do with the\Nslaughter of the Romanov family.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.09,0:17:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.62,0:17:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So far, forensic investigations\Nhaven't been able to link the graves
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.52,0:17:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the remains found inside them.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.92,0:17:24.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Russia, the forensic investigator\NAnthony Falsetti's trail is running cold.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.92,0:17:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the answer to \Nthe lost bones' identity
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.02,0:17:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to what really\Nhappened to Anastasia
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.95,0:17:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the rest of the Romanov children
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.98,0:17:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may be inside this box.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.53,0:17:43.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the samples\NDNA expert Michael Coble
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.95,0:17:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,selected back at the Yekaterinburg Morgue.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.13,0:17:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've made the journey halfway\Naround the world to the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.03,0:17:53.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sealed in contamination-proof containers.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.28,0:17:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other samples are on their way to \NAustria and other labs around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.98,0:18:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.78,0:18:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The package is brought\Ninto a sterile room.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.16,0:18:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At each stage, proper \Nprocedures are followed
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.11,0:18:12.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make sure that the samples\Naren't damaged or contaminated.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.91,0:18:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tiny samples inside \Nweigh just a few grams each.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.86,0:18:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are these the remains of Alexei,\NMaria, or Anastasia Romanov?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.56,0:18:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To find out, viable DNA\Nwill have to be extracted,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.04,0:18:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then traced back through the generations
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.90,0:18:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to genetic markers shared \Nby a select group of people:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.48,0:18:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the intermarried households \Nof European royalty.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.08,0:18:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.36,0:18:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Romanov children, \Nlike the British royal family,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.84,0:18:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were descended from Queen Victoria.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.52,0:18:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The DNA in this royal bloodline
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.42,0:19:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bears unique identifying\Ngenetic characteristics.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.26,0:19:07.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.33,0:19:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michael Coble and his team are more\Nused to dealing with modern remains.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.16,0:19:14.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These bone fragments \Nare nearly a century old,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.67,0:19:18.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and teasing viable DNA\Nout of them won't be easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.14,0:19:25.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DNA is fragile and easily \Ndamaged by the ravages of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.00,0:19:29.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've endured almost\Na century below ground
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.19,0:19:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a climate of extremes,\Nwell below freezing in winter
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.72,0:19:35.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and swelteringly hot in summer.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.65,0:19:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.44,0:19:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To extract and test the DNA,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.38,0:19:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of the powdered\Nsample will be used up.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:48.85,0:19:51.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If this first attempt fails,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.19,0:19:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there might not be \Nenough material left over
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.08,0:19:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a second definitive DNA analysis,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.37,0:20:03.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the mystery of Russia's \Nroyal grave may never be solved.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.81,0:20:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An international effort is underway
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.36,0:20:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to solve the 90 year old murder \Nmystery of the Russian royal family.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.80,0:20:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American forensic anthropologist, \NAnthony Falsetti, has a lead
Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.20,0:20:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that may help him piece together\Nseparate shreds of evidence
Dialogue: 0,0:20:27.81,0:20:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recovered from the crime scene.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:30.71,0:20:34.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a testimony from a long dead witness.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.50,0:20:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Years ago, it would \Nhave been unthinkable,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.86,0:20:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but now an American investigator
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.78,0:20:45.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has high level access\Nto Moscow's state archive.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.58,0:20:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: Here I am, an American \Nscientist, two floors below ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.18,0:20:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a hundred years worth\Nof communist secrets.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:53.22,0:20:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: The keeper of those \Nsecrets is Dr. Ludmila Levkova.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.73,0:21:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Giant blast doors designed to protect \Nthe Kremlin's most precious records
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.76,0:21:06.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from nuclear attacks swing open.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.59,0:21:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: We're down here.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.30,0:21:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's 30 feet, walls are two feet\Nthick, and this is Lenin's archive.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:13.87,0:21:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: If Soviet archives hold \Nthe missing pieces to the Romanov puzzle,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:17.60,0:21:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is where they'll be.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:19.59,0:21:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: So, these are Lenin's \Ndocuments? These originals?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.72,0:21:26.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ludmila Levkova: {\i1}Telegrama{\i0}. \N[speaking indistinctly]
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.11,0:21:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: This one's\Nfrom Copenhagen, correct?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.78,0:21:28.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ludmila Levkova: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.31,0:21:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.06,0:21:31.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rumor here going that the Czar\Nhas been murdered.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.41,0:21:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kindly wire facts.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.82,0:21:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: This inquiry was \None of many sent to Lenin
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.00,0:21:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the weeks and days before the killing.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.60,0:21:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was his reply.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:39.92,0:21:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: "Rumor not true. Czar safe.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.05,0:21:45.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All rumors are\Nonly lie of capitalist press."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.25,0:21:47.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's signed Lenin.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:51.05,0:21:52.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: When Lenin wrote this reply,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.38,0:21:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the royal family was alive, asleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.26,0:21:58.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they had only hours left to live.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.02,0:22:01.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By daybreak on the 17th of July,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.55,0:22:04.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the deed had been done.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.27,0:22:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But exactly what happened in the\Ncellar is still open to question.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.63,0:22:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only the executioners knew,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.90,0:22:14.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their statements are \Non file in another basement.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:15.49,0:22:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The report filed by the head\Nexecutioner, Commander Yakov Yurovsky,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.20,0:22:21.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is regarded as the most accurate account,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.98,0:22:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and makes chilling reading.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.00,0:22:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likova [interpreted from Russian]: \NYurovsky said this about
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.29,0:22:28.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the execution \Nof the emperor's family.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:29.78,0:22:31.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They stood along the wall,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.73,0:22:34.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and here he said the\Nfollowing words to them:
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.91,0:22:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Reign of the Romanovs\Nhas reached its end.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:38.14,0:22:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite the fact that relatives both outside
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.41,0:22:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and inside the country\Nare trying to liberate them,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.53,0:22:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Euro-Soviet of the workers' \Ndeputies has decreed they must be shot."
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.36,0:22:51.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:22:51.91,0:22:54.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gregg King: When the executioners\Nopened fire,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:54.47,0:22:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were a number of problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.34,0:23:00.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amongst them, they were in a\Nbasement room with stone walls,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.10,0:23:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which sent the bullets sort \Nof ricocheting around the room.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:05.38,0:23:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likova [interpreted from Russian]: \NThe firing, Yurovsky says,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.64,0:23:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,becomes ever so confused,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:10.14,0:23:12.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when this confused fire ended,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.17,0:23:15.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the shooters saw the\Ndaughters were still alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:16.07,0:23:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They shot the girls, but nothing happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:18.47,0:23:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They weren't able to kill them.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.90,0:23:23.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Incredibly, \Neyewitness accounts agree
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.22,0:23:25.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the duchesses seemed to be protected
Dialogue: 0,0:23:25.11,0:23:29.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by jewel-filled corsets that\Nacted like bulletproof vests.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.52,0:23:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Statements by surviving \Nfiring squad members
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.80,0:23:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recorded in the 1960s confirmed this.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.58,0:23:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Recording] {\i1}It appeared they'd \Nsewn diamonds into their bras,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.74,0:23:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}a variety of necklaces, pearls, etc. etc.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.48,0:23:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Bullets were bouncing off.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.71,0:23:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}There was somebody, well, so to say,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:23:50.96,0:23:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}as if they are not finally killed.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.20,0:23:56.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}This woman, Anastasia.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.98,0:23:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: A botched execution.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.88,0:24:01.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anastasia may have \Nsurvived the initial gunfire.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.87,0:24:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could she really have cheated death
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.42,0:24:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a gem-laden corset?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:08.22,0:24:09.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if that was true,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.73,0:24:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then what else might be possible?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:11.93,0:24:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: All the accounts \Ngo on to say that
Dialogue: 0,0:24:14.03,0:24:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everyone was finally killed with \Na gunshot wound to the head.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.60,0:24:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what if that's a lie?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:20.33,0:24:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if there were co-conspirators?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.20,0:24:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Co-conspirators\Nthat could've helped her escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.21,0:24:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's another unsubstantiated story.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:30.06,0:24:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[girl crying]
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.70,0:24:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The forensic investigator decides\Nto stage an experiment,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.40,0:24:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put the first part \Nof the story to the test.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.70,0:24:43.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: Could jewels stop a bullet?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.31,0:24:46.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Diamonds are the hardest
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.46,0:24:49.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,naturally occurring\Nsubstance known to man,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.19,0:24:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but aren't practical
Dialogue: 0,0:24:50.44,0:24:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or within the budget of this experiment.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.52,0:24:55.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scoring a respectable 8 out of 10
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.35,0:24:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the gem hardness scale,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:57.22,0:25:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,zirconias are \Na more realistic alternative.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:01.55,0:25:02.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The replica corset is finished
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.69,0:25:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with rose quartz and carnelian.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.37,0:25:10.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bullets will smash into it \Nat 1,000 feet per second.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.05,0:25:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will they be deflected?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.95,0:25:20.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Interior Ministry \NColonel Vladimir Solovyov,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:20.22,0:25:23.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the leader of\Nthe Romanov investigation.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.01,0:25:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's got special permission
Dialogue: 0,0:25:24.34,0:25:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to handle the actual guns fired \Nby Yurovsky and his execution squad.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.39,0:25:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Col Solovyov [interpreted from Russian]: \NCzar Nicholas II was killed with this pistol.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.27,0:25:38.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This second pistol was also \Nin the basement of the Ipatiev House
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.75,0:25:43.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it may have been used to kill \Nother members of the Czar's family.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.09,0:25:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This pistol was also used in\Nall the events in the Ipatiev House.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.38,0:25:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: It's a grotesque feeling,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:51.83,0:25:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be in the presence, \Nto hold the weapons,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:54.84,0:25:56.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that killed this family.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.15,0:26:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: The original guns \Ncan't be used in the experiment,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:01.96,0:26:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the investigation \Nhas provided duplicates,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:04.16,0:26:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,guns from the same era
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.76,0:26:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but with less iconic value.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:09.43,0:26:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reconstructed jewel corsets
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.05,0:26:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are placed on a mannequin.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.39,0:26:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For safety, only the shooter\Nis allowed in the room.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:23.19,0:26:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[gunshot]
Dialogue: 0,0:26:28.76,0:26:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[gunshot]
Dialogue: 0,0:26:29.63,0:26:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could a diamond corset\Nhave shielded Anastasia
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.02,0:26:34.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a hail of bullets?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:39.60,0:26:42.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: We had different \Npowered weapons.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:42.11,0:26:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were fired sequentially,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:44.18,0:26:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what we have on the first two
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.03,0:26:48.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is clearly some fragmentation.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.47,0:26:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was, these projectiles
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.62,0:26:52.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did not pass through on these first two.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.90,0:26:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's an impact site \Nhere from the second.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:56.42,0:26:58.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But none of these were \Nwhat we would consider
Dialogue: 0,0:26:58.63,0:27:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,penetrating gunshot wounds.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.60,0:27:04.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This acts like a bulletproof vest.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.73,0:27:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe the legend is true.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.87,0:27:13.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Perhaps the bones \Nfound in the forest
Dialogue: 0,0:27:13.69,0:27:17.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aren't from people killed\Nin the basement that night after all.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.45,0:27:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A gunshot aimed at the heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:19.59,0:27:23.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deflected by jewels sewn \Nbeneath the clothes.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.05,0:27:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The accounts that bullets ricocheted,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.20,0:27:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Maria or Anastasia and Alexei
Dialogue: 0,0:27:29.12,0:27:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps survived the initial gunfire
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.55,0:27:33.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are becoming plausible.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:34.43,0:27:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For almost a century, \Nthese accounts have been
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.86,0:27:40.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the basis for many spurious claims \Nto the Russian throne.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.66,0:27:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna Anderson's claim was the most famous.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:50.86,0:27:54.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She went to her grave claiming \Nto be the last Grand Duchess Anastasia.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:55.70,0:27:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She convinced many people,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:57.53,0:28:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including the family of Peter Sarandinaki
Dialogue: 0,0:28:00.23,0:28:03.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose ancestors were part \Nof the Czar's inner circle.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.38,0:28:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.38,0:28:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peter Sarandinaki: \NMy mother-in-law, to her dying day,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.46,0:28:17.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to her last day believed\Nthat Anna Anderson was Anastasia.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:18.27,0:28:22.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance, she had \Na triangular injury on her foot
Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.27,0:28:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was probably a bayonet stab.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.50,0:28:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She also had the same
Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.78,0:28:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stubbed toe problem as Anastasia.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.10,0:28:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had the same ear as Anastasia.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.18,0:28:40.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were a lot of \Nsimilarities between the two.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.53,0:28:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Despite her persuasive story,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.86,0:28:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DNA testing after her death
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.57,0:28:48.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,revealed her true identity.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.68,0:28:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was not a royal,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.26,0:28:54.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a former factory worker from Poland.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:58.63,0:29:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But determining whether the latest remains
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.46,0:29:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are those of the Romanov family
Dialogue: 0,0:29:02.26,0:29:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or simply another case \Nof mistaken identity
Dialogue: 0,0:29:04.94,0:29:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will take time.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.14,0:29:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The DNA is so degraded
Dialogue: 0,0:29:08.64,0:29:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it must be copied or amplified
Dialogue: 0,0:29:10.96,0:29:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to recover and identify\Nany surviving fragments
Dialogue: 0,0:29:13.30,0:29:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of genetic information that remain.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:19.46,0:29:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At his lab outside Washington D.C.,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:21.80,0:29:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DNA expert Michael Coble and his team
Dialogue: 0,0:29:23.90,0:29:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are using a process called PCR,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:26.56,0:29:29.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Polymerase Chain Reaction.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:30.06,0:29:32.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By exposing the faint traces \Nof DNA that remain
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.66,0:29:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a bacterial enzyme,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:34.53,0:29:36.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a single piece of DNA can be multiplied,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.89,0:29:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,generating millions of copies.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.34,0:29:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even after amplification,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:45.12,0:29:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are no guarantees\Nthat any readable DNA
Dialogue: 0,0:29:47.44,0:29:50.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will emerge to\Nmake identification possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:50.82,0:29:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For now, the identity of \Nthe two individuals in the grave
Dialogue: 0,0:29:53.94,0:29:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,remains a mystery.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.25,0:30:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.40,0:30:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the search for viable \NDNA continues in America,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.07,0:30:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Russia the search for clues\Nhas come to an end.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:16.82,0:30:18.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forensic expert Anthony Falsetti
Dialogue: 0,0:30:18.69,0:30:20.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going back with \Nmore questions than answers
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.69,0:30:22.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the most recent grave.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:23.13,0:30:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 1991 excavation,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:25.38,0:30:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nearly intact, full skeletons were found.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:29.06,0:30:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the grave uncovered in 2007,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:30.66,0:30:32.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only fragments were unearthed.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:33.51,0:30:35.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why were there so few bones?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:35.18,0:30:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Less than 10% of \Na full skeleton was found.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:41.49,0:30:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even these scant remains
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.80,0:30:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can reveal more than DNA.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:53.38,0:30:56.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The degraded condition \Nof the most recently discovered bones
Dialogue: 0,0:30:56.67,0:30:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might actually be a clue in itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:00.88,0:31:02.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anthony Falsetti is about\Nto take another look
Dialogue: 0,0:31:02.94,0:31:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the information he's collected
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.26,0:31:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at his laboratory at \Nthe University of Florida.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:06.96,0:31:11.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]
Dialogue: 0,0:31:11.51,0:31:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Drawing on his long experience
Dialogue: 0,0:31:12.58,0:31:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of bringing stories of \Nthe dead back to life,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:14.46,0:31:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's looking for any patterns
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.61,0:31:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or links with other evidence.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.86,0:31:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll come through\Nthe accounts of the executioners
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.44,0:31:31.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see if the history \Nand bones tell a common story.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:35.87,0:31:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He already knows that \Nthis will be a harrowing tale.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.85,0:31:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The savagery did not end
Dialogue: 0,0:31:40.83,0:31:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the shooting stopped.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:49.68,0:31:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Firing squad leader Yakov Yurovsky wrote
Dialogue: 0,0:31:51.94,0:31:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that after the killing was done,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.38,0:31:56.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he feared that Loyalist troops \Nmight catch them red-handed.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:56.81,0:32:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The plan was for a quick\Nand clean disposal.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.52,0:32:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as the bodies were \Nbeing loaded into a truck,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:04.36,0:32:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the plan unraveled.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:06.24,0:32:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,King: As they were lifting up \None of the bodies,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:10.26,0:32:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she sat up and screamed.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.30,0:32:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was either Maria or Anastasia.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:14.20,0:32:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that two of the grand duchesses
Dialogue: 0,0:32:16.75,0:32:18.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,left that room alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.26,0:32:22.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ermakov grabbed a nearby rifle
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.92,0:32:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ended up smashing them \Nrepeatedly in the face
Dialogue: 0,0:32:26.02,0:32:27.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until they stopped screaming.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:36.50,0:32:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: The bodies were then transported
Dialogue: 0,0:32:37.98,0:32:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a dozen miles outside Yekaterinburg,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:40.12,0:32:41.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Koptyaki Forest,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:41.89,0:32:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to an area of abandoned mineworks.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.17,0:32:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: So here's what we know.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.45,0:32:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bodies were taken into the forest.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:50.90,0:32:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were thrown down a mineshaft.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:55.28,0:32:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grenades were thrown after them
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.40,0:33:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an attempt to collapse the walls.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:02.80,0:33:05.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[explosion]
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.13,0:33:10.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: The bodies were \Nonly partially hidden.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:10.07,0:33:14.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As dawn approached, \NYurovsky returned to Yekaterinburg
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.59,0:33:16.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to report to his superiors.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:19.20,0:33:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Misfortune struck again.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:21.10,0:33:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yurovsky's men got drunk \Nand bragged to locals,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:24.34,0:33:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,telling them how they killed the royals
Dialogue: 0,0:33:26.62,0:33:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the location of the bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:29.87,0:33:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their commander insisted \Non keeping the burial secret.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:32.08,0:33:34.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The corpses had to be moved.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:38.70,0:33:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: The next day, \Nthe bodies were retrieved
Dialogue: 0,0:33:40.50,0:33:42.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Yurovsky has his men
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.35,0:33:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for a new location.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:46.75,0:33:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: But after the bodies\Nwere exhumed,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:48.14,0:33:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,summer rain turned \Nthe ground to a gluey mud.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.39,0:33:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truck got stuck.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:53.92,0:33:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The corpses had to be offloaded.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.24,0:34:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Commander Yurovsky was exhausted
Dialogue: 0,0:34:01.82,0:34:03.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his men became mutinous.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:04.58,0:34:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He decided to try burning\Ntwo of the bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:07.41,0:34:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To make the process easier,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.28,0:34:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his men were ordered \Nto dismember the corpses.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:16.81,0:34:19.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Physical damage to fragment #147
Dialogue: 0,0:34:19.29,0:34:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supports the dismemberment story.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:22.31,0:34:23.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The royal remains were allegedly subject
Dialogue: 0,0:34:23.100,0:34:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to another indignity,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:25.30,0:34:27.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the evidence wouldn't be visible.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.40,0:34:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yurovsky claimed that his men \Npoured acid over the corpses,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:39.34,0:34:41.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to disfigure them beyond recognition.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:47.100,0:34:50.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chemical composition tests \Non the bones conducted in Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:34:50.75,0:34:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,revealed faint traces of sulfuric acid.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:55.16,0:34:58.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to Yurovsky, \Nit was then that his men
Dialogue: 0,0:34:58.44,0:35:00.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,burned what was left of the two bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:22.52,0:35:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's another element of the story
Dialogue: 0,0:35:24.07,0:35:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can be put to a forensic test.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:27.30,0:35:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As an alternative to human flesh,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:29.38,0:35:31.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pork is a good substitute.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:33.16,0:35:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The composition and structure of the meat
Dialogue: 0,0:35:34.58,0:35:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is similar to its human equivalent
Dialogue: 0,0:35:36.11,0:35:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pigs are often used\Nin forensic comparisons.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:45.38,0:35:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: We know that they had
Dialogue: 0,0:35:46.72,0:35:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between and hour \Nand a half and three hours
Dialogue: 0,0:35:48.40,0:35:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to completely consume two human bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:51.06,0:35:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Three hours later,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:54.34,0:35:57.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the pig carcass is charred \Nbut still intact.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:57.28,0:35:59.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: What we've demonstrated here
Dialogue: 0,0:35:59.19,0:36:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is it's not possible to consume\Na body in a fire,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:01.51,0:36:03.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certainly not one for three hours,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:03.33,0:36:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relatively low temperatures.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:08.84,0:36:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Yurovsky's plan\Nto incinerate the corpses
Dialogue: 0,0:36:10.98,0:36:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was more than a failure.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:12.24,0:36:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a fiasco.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:15.33,0:36:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dawn was breaking and there\Nwere still nine bodies in the truck.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:18.79,0:36:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A drastic change in tactics was in order.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:22.12,0:36:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He claimed his men dug a second pit,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:25.02,0:36:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,further to the west.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.34,0:36:29.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That they threw the remaining\Nnine bodies into the pit,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:29.74,0:36:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poured acid on them,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:31.27,0:36:34.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then covered them \Nwith planks and soil.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:38.88,0:36:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: What we know about history
Dialogue: 0,0:36:40.14,0:36:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is being reflected by the evidence.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:45.64,0:36:48.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: But circumstantial \Nevidence will not be enough
Dialogue: 0,0:36:48.17,0:36:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put the legend of\NAnastasia's escape to rest.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:52.24,0:36:57.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To prove that the remains\Nare not part of some elaborate hoax,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:57.69,0:37:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,historical accounts must be \Ncorroborated by the irrefutable:
Dialogue: 0,0:37:01.72,0:37:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DNA.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:06.24,0:37:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do these new bodies belong\Nto Russia's royal bloodline?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:13.61,0:37:16.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By most accounts, Czar Nicholas II \Nand his royal family
Dialogue: 0,0:37:16.89,0:37:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were a close, tight-knit group,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:18.79,0:37:20.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,frequently seen together,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:20.35,0:37:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,filmed here on a cruise when \Nthe children were still very young.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.10,0:37:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, playing tennis while \Non holiday a few years later.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:39.77,0:37:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, parading together \Nin this 1913 celebration
Dialogue: 0,0:37:43.30,0:37:45.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of 300 years of Romanov rule,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:45.45,0:37:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starring the nine year old \NCrown Prince Alexei
Dialogue: 0,0:37:49.05,0:37:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the four daughters about \Nto bloom into womanhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:58.33,0:38:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But were the Romanovs\Nas inseparable in death
Dialogue: 0,0:38:00.56,0:38:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as they were in life?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:03.03,0:38:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DNA evidence gathered from the second
Dialogue: 0,0:38:04.80,0:38:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and most recent grave attributed to them
Dialogue: 0,0:38:06.53,0:38:07.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will tell the story.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:12.41,0:38:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five months after first selecting\Nthe bone samples for analysis,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:15.11,0:38:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DNA expert Mike Coble is now \Nready to share his findings.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:19.52,0:38:20.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: Let's see what you've got.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:20.97,0:38:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coble: The first thing that \Nwe should look at is here.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:23.33,0:38:25.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the marker that determines sex.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:26.29,0:38:27.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, sample 146,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:27.47,0:38:29.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's an XY,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:29.39,0:38:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means this is a male sample.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:32.00,0:38:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: Right.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:32.75,0:38:35.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coble: And then 147 has one X peak
Dialogue: 0,0:38:35.65,0:38:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is what we see with females.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:40.53,0:38:42.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: So far, the DNA\Nonly demonstrates
Dialogue: 0,0:38:42.49,0:38:44.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there were two bodies in the grave,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:44.52,0:38:46.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one male, one female.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:52.06,0:38:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mike Coble's next step
Dialogue: 0,0:38:53.69,0:38:55.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to compare the male sample
Dialogue: 0,0:38:55.17,0:38:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with DNA from Czar Nicholas \Nand his wife, Alexandra.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:59.27,0:39:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coble: So, what we have here on top,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:01.52,0:39:03.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is a profile from the Czar.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:03.69,0:39:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this on the bottom\Nis a profile from the Czarina.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:07.80,0:39:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here is the male sample \Nfrom the second grave.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:12.73,0:39:16.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We expect that this particular profile
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.25,0:39:20.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to be a combination \Nof the Czar and the Czarina
Dialogue: 0,0:39:20.95,0:39:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if this is truly Alexei.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:24.01,0:39:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This male, got this 25 \Nrepeat peak from the Czar
Dialogue: 0,0:39:29.87,0:39:33.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this 23 peak was passed to him
Dialogue: 0,0:39:33.85,0:39:35.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the Czarina.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:36.60,0:39:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here is the male sample...
Dialogue: 0,0:39:39.17,0:39:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: That makes 17 \Nout of 17 possible matches.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:42.40,0:39:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coble: The evidence is overwhelming.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:43.79,0:39:45.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: Yeah, absolutely.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:45.17,0:39:46.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's their son.\NCoble: Exactly.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:46.70,0:39:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: And they had one son,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.04,0:39:49.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's Alexei.\NCoble: Exactly.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:49.73,0:39:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: Right.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:50.67,0:39:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Finally there's compelling \Nforensic evidence
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.25,0:39:55.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that 13 year old Crown Prince Alexei
Dialogue: 0,0:39:55.49,0:39:56.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was executed,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:56.63,0:39:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with the rest of his family,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:58.13,0:40:00.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though not buried with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:05.10,0:40:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what about the female \Nfound in the second grave?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.46,0:40:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mike Coble compared Alexei's\NDNA with hers.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.05,0:40:12.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coble: What's interesting though
Dialogue: 0,0:40:12.84,0:40:16.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that notice, they both share 23.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:16.98,0:40:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They both share this marker,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:19.01,0:40:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a 33.2 repeat.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:21.93,0:40:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Once again, one genetic marker \Nafter another is shared.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:25.71,0:40:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coble: ...147 has 17 repeats,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:28.43,0:40:30.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,23 repeats...
Dialogue: 0,0:40:30.61,0:40:35.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Leading to another \Noverwhelming statistical probability.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:35.11,0:40:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coble: It's over a million times \Nmore likely
Dialogue: 0,0:40:37.20,0:40:39.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that these remains are siblings
Dialogue: 0,0:40:39.89,0:40:43.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than if they were completely unrelated.\NFalsetti: Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:43.19,0:40:44.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coble: Very strong evidence here
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.59,0:40:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have a brother and a sister.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:47.65,0:40:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:53.08,0:40:55.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: That sister was either Maria
Dialogue: 0,0:40:55.19,0:40:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Anastasia.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:57.59,0:41:00.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But beyond that, the DNA evidence \Nhas nothing else to suggest.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:02.06,0:41:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coble: Of course, \Nthere is a limitation here.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.77,0:41:04.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The DNA can't tell us
Dialogue: 0,0:41:04.100,0:41:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exactly which child is Anastasia
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.12,0:41:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and which child is Maria.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:09.82,0:41:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Falsetti: The bottom line is really \Nit doesn't matter anymore
Dialogue: 0,0:41:12.08,0:41:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they're all \Npresent and accounted for.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:15.11,0:41:15.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coble: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:20.58,0:41:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: After almost an entire century,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:22.86,0:41:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the final chapter of the Romanov dynasty
Dialogue: 0,0:41:25.50,0:41:26.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be written at last.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:28.38,0:41:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anastasia, the youngest Romanov daughter,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:31.28,0:41:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did not escape the firing squad.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.04,0:41:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like her mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:38.90,0:41:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her father,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:42.34,0:41:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her baby brother,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:46.86,0:41:48.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her three older sisters,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:49.36,0:41:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anastasia was shot to death in July 1918,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:52.46,0:41:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one month after her 17th birthday.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:57.97,0:42:00.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was buried along with the others
Dialogue: 0,0:42:00.41,0:42:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among the towering birch trees.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:07.100,0:42:10.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was surely not the end \Nany of them expected
Dialogue: 0,0:42:11.98,0:42:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or des--
Dialogue: 0,0:42:16.24,0:42:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the DNA evidence makes it clear,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:17.89,0:42:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what really happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:19.59,0:42:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the night when Russia's\Nlongest lived dynasty
Dialogue: 0,0:42:22.74,0:42:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came to its abrupt
Dialogue: 0,0:42:24.02,0:42:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bloody end.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.76,0:42:47.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[♫]