HALIFAX - A Canadian researcher says he has properly identified one the Titanic's most famous passengers, years after the little boy known only as the "unknown child" was incorrectly named.
Ryan Parr says he and his colleagues have conducted more testing on the remains of the boy and discovered their initial finding was wrong.
They had announced in 2002 that the unidentified child was 13-month-old Eino Panula from Finland.
Parr, of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., says preliminary DNA tests showed a match with Panula's surviving female relatives.
But the researchers say they later found the DNA matched another boy, 19-month-old Sidney Leslie Goodwin.
They also discovered a pair of shoes belonging to the body, which would have been too big for the younger child.
They did more exhaustive DNA tests and found the unknown child is in fact Goodwin.
Parr says he's working on having his research examined in a peer-reviewed study.
