Amelia Earhart Mystery Solved? DNA Evidence on a Remote Island May Reveal the Truth

[The Straight Story]

Amelia Earhart Mystery Solved? 'Investigation Junkies' to Launch New Expedition
DNA Evidence on a Remote Island May Reveal the Truth About Earhart's Disappearance

It has been 72 years since famed aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared while attempting to fly around the world. But the mystery remains unsolved: Nobody knows exactly what happened to Earhart or her plane.

Now researchers at the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, or Tighar, say they are on the verge of recovering DNA evidence that would demonstrate Earhart had been stranded on Nikumaroro Island (formerly known as Gardner Island) before finally perishing there.

During May and June of next year, Tighar will launch a new $500,000 expedition, continuing the archaeological work it has been doing on the island since 2001.

"We think we will be able to come back with DNA," said Tighar's Executive Director Ric Gillespie, who is working with two DNA labs in Ontario, Canada, Genesis Genomics and Molecular World. "We were out there in 2007 under the impression that in order to extract DNA we would need to find a piece of a human, and we didn't find anything like that. But we did find what's best described as personal effects of the castaway that died there."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=8160365&page=1

[RandomThoughts]

1. According to that article.

One year after she disappeared a work crew found a camp site and European female bones, then the bones were lost.

BS

One year after she left, anyone finding such a thing would be saying it was her. This story does not add up. With all the media attention do you really think it would not have made the news back then? Was their a cover up, if so why?

Why would such an article and such a new find just hit the news now?

ahhh

One of the best-known Earhart historians, Long served as a consultant for the upcoming movie "Amelia" starring Hilary Swank, scheduled for release in October.

PR for a movie.

[Morning Dew]

2. I thought she was forced down over Peleliu -

captured and executed by the Japanese.

[RandySF]

3. I thought she was crossing the Atlantic when she disappered

I don't know where I got that idea.

[sam sarrha]

4. she didnt like the long range 'Trailing Antenna', so she didnt deploy it. it would've saved her life

and her friends.

she chose a frequency that was disrupted nt temperature at the time of day she chose to fly. she could have used a frequency thar utilized a 250' wire behind the plane that deployed out of a spool in the plane.. she left it behind