Andrea Niapas
 

Is an author and documentarian filmmaker based in Ligonier, Pennsylvania.  Since 2012 she has been a consultant for Discovery Channel's Investigative series based on her first book, Death Needs Answers: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Dr. John Yelenic.  Primetime 'Dateline' NBC also presented her book in a show titled, The Premonition. 

As a documentary filmmaker, Niapas has researched and produced several films based on women aviatrix's during the 'Golden Age of Aviation' and 'World War II'.  

Close to Closure is about Amelia Earhart's final flight in 1937 and The Helen Richey Story is about the first (1935) female commercial pilot of the United States.