The Obsessed, Feuding Searchers Still Looking for Amelia Earhart

(via Atlas Obscura)  It was November 8, 2012, and Timothy Mellon, the son of the late Paul Mellon —was ecstatic. The younger Mellon had just returned from an expedition to the deserted Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro, where some think Amelia Earhart ended up after vanishing in 1937, and his instincts for sleuthing for the truth of the aviator’s disappearance were in overdrive.