The discovery of a sailor’s body outside the wreck offered a haunting new clue to the mystery—and complicated it even more.

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What caused the SS Edmund Fitzgerald freighter to sink amid a violent storm on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, killing its 29 crew members, remains a point of debate and mystery a half-century later.

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