 Popular candidates for the Lost Dauphin included John James Audubon, the naturalist; Eleazer Williams, a missionary from Wisconsin of Mohawk Native American descent; and Karl Wilhelm Naundorff, a German clockmaker.However, DNA testing conducted in 1993 proved that Naundorff was not the Dauphin.Karl Wilhelm Naundorff's story rested on a series of complicated intrigues.