Gravestone solves 1948 air crash mystery

Jennifer Hough unravels a mystery that connects a mummified hand, gold bullion and a retired Limerick man.

HEADSTONES from a graveyard in rural Co Limerick; church records; a census from the 1900s; and DNA samples deciphered by FBI forensic experts.

Fusing evidence old and new, a 60-year-old mystery involving a puzzling plane crash, a frozen hand and rumours of a gold bullion was finally laid to rest with the help of retired Limerickman Maurice Conway.