Historian wants DNA test for John Paul Jones From: Capital (Annapolis) | Date: April 16, 2006| Author: EARL KELLY Staff Writer | Copyright 2006 Capital (Annapolis). Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Who's buried in John Paul Jones' crypt at the Naval Academy?

This isn't a trick question.

Some say the grand state funeral at the Naval Academy on April 24, 1906, for the father of the United States Navy may have been held over the wrong body.

According to Washington College history professor Adam Goodheart, who wrote about Jones in the April issue of Smithsonian magazine, Jones' body may have been dumped in a landfill, used to fertilize vegetables or simply lost forever.<...