DNA and the Earhart mystery

The World

There’s a new effort to figure out what happened to Amelia Earhart. The aviation pioneer and her navigator disappeared over the Pacific in 1937. Now a group in Delaware hopes to use DNA testing to determine whether some items found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific belonged to Earhart. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Richard Gillespie of Tighar. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery.

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