Dead Famous DNA

Name: Dead Famous DNA
Released: 2014-03-26T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Mark Evans

TV Show · Documentary · History

Veterinary scientist and presenter Mark Evans sets out on a ground-breaking quest to track down the last remains of some of history's most important and infamous figures, to find out what their biology can add to their biographies.

2014 · 48m

Starring Mark Evans

EPISODE 1

The Mad King

Mark Evans learns that Elvis Presley could have suffered from a genetic heart muscle disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which may have led to his tragically early death.
EPISODE 2

Darwin & Napoleon

Experts analyse two of Charles Darwin's beard hairs to identify a debilitating mystery illness, Evans comes face-to-face with Napoleon's penis in New Jersey, and he tries to learn more about John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe from their hair.
EPISODE 3

Who Wants the Fuhrer?

Evans follows the extraordinary trail of relics claimed to come from Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, bones sold by a KGB defector and hair apparently found on a hairbrush at Hitler's mountain retreat by a US Army intelligence officer.