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A True Story of a Shared Identity
Both the below 'straight on' and 'profile' images were published in the 1982 New Jersey News Tribune, for the misleading purpose of identifying Irene Craigmile Bolam as she supposedly looked in the year of 1923. Beyond 37' discovered they were poorly achieved forgeries displayed within a contrived attempt, to deceive the public into accepting plural individuals as one person. (The 'Eye Comparisons' link
also distinctly separates the Irenes.)
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| ...only aligns with the Non Gervais-Irene. |
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| Profile Gervais-Irene forgery... |
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| ...also see below how Amelia's profile aligns from the neck up. |
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Note: Take your time with this one, for it is important to understand why the mug-shot forgeries were deemed
essential in order for the 1982 New Jersey Tribune 'journalism red-herring'
to work. It was necessary for the so-called 'investigative article' series to be able to refer to both the GERVAIS-IRENE and
the 'NON GERVAIS-IRENE' as one in the same human being, where the new recent real-life-certainty became; they were in fact
two entirely different human beings. Again, because they were both repeatedly
identified as "Irene Craigmile Bolam" in the 1982 series, a straight on image from the distant past needed to match
one, and a profile image from the distant past needed to match the other. Both the above forgeries were dated '1923' in the
series. And one did (the straight on image) match the Non Gervais-Irene, while the other (the profile image) matched the Gervais-Irene
and Amelia Earhart, (who less promoted history anymore deems to have been
one in the same person.) It is also curious to conceptualize, how accordingly the Non Gervais-Irene was not born until 1924.
| Straight on 1982 NewsTribune 'mug-shot' forgery. |
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| Matched the older version (below) identified by the original's son. |
| The Non Gervais-Irene (AKA 'Irene Jr.') |
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| Gervais never met this 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' (Above program cover date 10/29/82) |
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| 1982 New Jersey NewsTribune 'mug-shot' forgery. |
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| The Tribune dated this image '1923.' |
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| Clearly the 1982 Memorial Dinner cover photo... |
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| ... was used to forge the '1923' dated straight onTribune mug-shot. |
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| 1982 ID'd 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' |
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| A different person than the one who Gervais met and photographed in 1965. |
Note: She really does look closer to 58 years old as opposed to 78 years old here.
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| 1982 'profile' mug-shot forgery. |
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| Aligns with the Gervais-Irene and/or Amelia (Note: Convex nose curve.) |
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| 1935 Profile of Amelia. |
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| Combined, Amelia's profile matches the forgery... |
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| ...from the neck up. The forgery torso is way out of proportion. |
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| Gervais-Irene profile, Detroit, 1976... |
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| ...head slightly turned to her right with harsh lighting. |
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| Gervais-Irene combined with Amelia... |
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| ...sans nose change does reveal a remarkable congruence. |
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Forensic Determination Note From
Above: Amelia's personal history included major sinus trouble. Such a truth, including the nasal surgeries she endured
was well documented. Upon examination of the above, the forgery profile displays a slight convex curve in the nose, where
neither Amelia's nor the Gervais-Irene's do at all. However, it does appear the Gervais-Irene underwent a deviated septum
rhinoplasty procedure based on expert observation. So much would have served a dual purpose; to both correct any further sinus
trouble, and to change the original look. (The procedure involves breaking the cartilage below the upper nose bridge and slightly
pressing down, and re-setting. The final results open the nasal passages more while flaring the nostrils a bit, thus slightly
altering the appearance of the original nose look.) No doubt the procedure helped to obscure a once 'recognizable feature'
of Amelia's. Even so however, the nose still does, along with everything else, align quite nicely between Amelia, the
forgery, and the Gervais-Irene profile. (Save the out-of-proportion forgery torso.) Experts also note how 'noses and ears
continue to grow' into old age to varying degrees in different people, with 'sagging and drooping' to occurr. One look at
the nose and ear lobe differences of Amelia's sister Muriel form her young adult days as compared to the way she looked in
the 1980s demonstrates such a reality.
Below: Amelia's profile and straight on images, and the Gervais-Irene's profile and
straight on images:
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| Amelia profile, taken in 1935... |
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| ...from the neck up aligns well with above 1923 profile forgery. |
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| 1933 Amelia Earhart photo. |
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| A little grainy, but okay for blending with the Gervais photo below. |
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| Gervais-Irene profile, Detroit, 1976... |
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| ...head slightly turned to her right with harsh lighting. |
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| 1965 Gervais-Irene (photo by Gervais) |
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| Straight on Gervais-Irene |
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Below: Notice how the above profile and straight
on Amelia images align with the above Gervais-Irene images:
| 1965 Gervais-Irene straight on... |
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| ...blended with Amelia's displays a congruence. |
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| Profile Gervais-Irene combined with Amelia... |
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| ...also reveals a remarkable congruence. |
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Below: The Non Gervais-Irene, AKA the 1924 born 'Irene Jr.' Suggested last as 'still
living' in 2004. The public was left out of the loop... of who she really was... or is. She wasn't the original Irene, nor
was she the Gervais-Irene.
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| 1940s Non Gervais-Irene (AKA 'Irene Jr.') |
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| Positively ID'd by the original Irene's son, Larry Heller. |
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| Older Non Gervais-Irene (Irene Jr.) |
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| Again, Gervais never met this 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' (Above program cover date 10/29/82) |
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Below: The 1945-1982 identified Gervais-Irene; post-altered and pre-altered looks...
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| 1945 Zonta photo, the Gervais-Irene |
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| AE would have been 48. Note: Makeup & jewelry, no tooth gap & nose difference. |
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| Yet by removing her post-loss augmentations... |
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| ...it's not so hard to again recognize the Amelia we all knew. |
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Below: In 1978 the Gervais-Irene ordered a formal portrait photo sitting to be taken
at her home in New Jersey. Considered a celebration of her true eightieth year, she passed away four years later after succumbing
to a bout with cancer on July 7, 1982. Note the wings below her left shoulder.
| Gervais-Irene, 1978 |
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| All of what would have been '80 years' (AE born 1897) detectable. |
Below: The original Irene Craigmile (Bolam) in 1930,
shown standing between her first husband Charles Craigmile (who tragically died of a sudden appendicitis attack a year later
in 1931) and her father, Joe O'Crowley. The original Irene knew Amelia Earhart through her attorney aunt Irene R. O'Crowley,
who was a Zonta sister and good friend of Amelia's. Amelia and her well known flying friend, Viola Gentry helped get the original
Irene into flying in late 1932. But right after she earned her pilot's license in mid-1933, she realized she was pregnant
out of wedlock with her last flight instructor's child, Al Heller. The two eloped to be wed in August of 1933, and on March
5, 1934 their son, Larry Heller was born. However there is no verifiable, or 'legible' photo data depicting the original Irene
Craigmile after her early 1930s flying days, or especially after her childbirth experience. In any case, it remains a true
mystery what became of the original Irene seen here:
Note: It appears as if the profile forgery may have
been geared towards the notion of a hybrid look; one that combined the features in the above photo of the original Irene Craigmile,
and that of Amelia Earhart's facial bone structure shown in profile. In the above photo of the original Irene, notice the
similar hair-look and nose curve feature also observed in the forgery profile.
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Above, notice how the 'straight on' image displayed and dated
'1923' in the New Jersey News Tribune in 1982, perfectly matches the 1982 Memorial Dinner program cover image also displayed
in the series. As well, notice below how the profile image, also dated '1923' in the 82' Tribune matches Amelia's profile
from the neck up, although the torso and arm were poorly placed and appear out of proportion. And where clear images of the
original Irene were not published in the series, by displaying such forged 'mug-shot' images in the 82' Tribune series, those
responsible for doing so duped the public into not realizing how three different women had the same identity attributed to
them. As seen in Beyond 37's Irene-Amelia forensic analysis, of both 'mug-shot forgery photo' displays,
in 2006 Irene's own seventy-two year old son, Larry Heller described how he had "no idea" where either of the images
came from. He also mentioned how before the series was printed he had never seen them before. There exists no doubt anymore,
they specifically appeared in the 1982 New Jersey Tribune series as a contrived attempt to put an end to the long standing
suspicion... of the 'Irene' who Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965 having been the former Amelia Earhart. As
also seen in the New Jersey News Tribune Link, observe how the 1982 series
printed such forged photos (among other falsehoods as well) to make it appear as if three
people were only one person. [Again, only distant non-legible photos of the original Irene Craigmile were published
in the series with neither of the forgeries meant to match her image.] Indeed, while the name "Irene Craigmile Bolam"
was attributed to both of the forged images, again ,the profile photo matched one person, and the straight-on photo matched
the other person, leaving this portion of Beyond 37's analysis to reveal separate individuals falsely promoted as one person.
Not to mention, where the 'Family
Identified' or 'Non Gervais-Irene' does perfectly match the straight-on mug-shot, it's odd how no one seemed to notice how
in almost sixty years, or by the time the 'Non-Gervais' Irene's photo appeared on Irene Bolam's Memorial Dinner Program cover,
if said "1923" photo image was real such a woman would have miraculously appeared to have hardly aged at all...
in six full decades. Not to mention she would have also managed to strike the same exact pose she did in 1923, while displaying
the exact same upper torso, neck, shoulders, face, teeth, nose shape et al. Deemed to have been 'forensically implausible'
for such a perfect alignment to occur again nearly sixty years later with such little aging, it is clear the Memorial Dinner
program cover photo was used to forge the '1923' straight on image, and the age of the woman featured on the Memorial Dinner
program cover, more than likely was, the fifty-eight years described by the original Irene's family friend, Lucy McDannel.
As well, and again to this day, the woman featured on the Memorial Dinner program cover and throughout the 1982 Tribune series
remains forensically unidentified for who she really was. Where she was the described "Irene Jr." born in 1924,
who had helped look after the original Irene's son during her mid to late teen years, she definitely was not the Irene Craigmile
Bolam who Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965 and soon after implicated as 'the former Amelia Earhart.' * * *
"In
the United States, when an issue is 'sealed by an Executive Order' by the Executive Branch of its government it is done so
by a sitting President, and only a sitting President controls the ability to unseal such a thing. There is no doubt FDR's
administration, almost certainly with FDR's complete awareness and endorsement, optioned to withhold and seal the reality
of Amelia Earhart after she was reported 'missing' by the press to the public in 1937. This is surely why 'official silence'
towards the Earhart disappearance matter has always been the stance maintained by the U. S. Government. But it gets more complicated
than that. Even if a sitting President wanted to unseal an old 'sealed by a past President' Executive Order, he would no doubt
require the counsel, support, and endorsements of his top White House and Executive Branch advisors. Such 'advisors' would
in turn seek out the most respected 'historically informed' individuals on the issue before offering counsel, and where post
World War Two international diplomacy (Japan) was also attributed to the Earhart case, one can see why the official silence policy towards Earhart's
post-loss reality came to exist." Joe Gervais, 2001 (paraphrased)
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Photo Comparisons; More On The Slight Nose Difference Explanation: As Amelia, two of the surgeries she was described to have endured included a "Caldwell-Luc"
procedure and an "Antrum" correction, or as her Sister Muriel described "a small bone removal" to help
clear her nasal passage. So if one closely examined and compared Amelia's nose 'look' from when she was in her early twenties
to the way it looked just before she turned up missing in 1937, a difference in appearance was already detectable. Re-Cap Explanation: Recall
how to date (2010) the original Irene's 1934 born son (her only child) Larry Heller claims he holds no photos of his mother
preceding the year of 1947. No legible photos of the original Irene from prior to the 1940s were ever located or presented
by any of her survived family, especially since the controversy about her true past identity arose in 1970. This includes
no school photos, wedding photos, or family portraits... and so much remains the case still today. Normally this would seem
odd for one who hailed from a fairly prominent family background.
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It is likely there was some non (publicly) detected 'understanding' between post-1030s
different Irenes who at times employed the same identity. Therefore, would it not have been equally likely, where at
times three different women had employed the same identity such would have been done with close attention paid to non-detectability?
Of course. One early 1990s tape recorded interview with a 1970s friend of the Gervais-Irene's, Diana Dawes
conveyed how "...someone had died long ago and that's how Amelia was able to have her new name." But there exists
no Irene Craigmile (or Heller) death record from the 1930s era. ('Irene Heller' was her 1933 added surname removed
by a 1940 annulment.) The original Irene did have a prominent physician Uncle, one Dr. Clarence Rutherford O'Crowley
whose Sister was Amelia's Attorney Zonta friend, Irene Mary Rutherford O'Crowley, and the original Irene Craigmile's Aunt.
Was the original Irene's death somehow covered up? Or as one physician suggested, did her 1934 childbirth episode leave
her an invalid where no death was recorded? These ideas are highly precarious notions to consider. Amelia could
have found herself in a situation however, where accepting such a plan-offer to inherit the original Irene Craigmile's identity
for her own later-life use provided a needed resolve. Anyway, the list of possibilities of what might have happened to
the original Irene Craigmile seems endless. Even remotely estimating what happened to her remains hard to do without
truth knowing guidance. So the real answer exists anymore in the form of a closet-skeleton, further complimenting
the reason to never allow the unearthing of the true story.
Not
to mention, and although he was quoted in the 1982 News Tribune series that he preferred not to comment to the press about it,
(see the Miscellaneous page) less than a decade later the elderly Monsignor James Francis Kelley, a former
President of Seton Hall University and close later life friend of the Gervais-Irene's admitted in a taped interview how the post 1930s
Irene Craigmile Bolam who died on July 7, 1982... indeed had been the living, former Amelia Earhart. The Monsignor
was well known in his day, and he had acquainted a lot of famous people to include Charles Lindbergh. No doubt
as well, Kelley had been privy to some issues the general public never was. He also accomplished many important
things and was part of several high profile issues in his day. His 1987 Seton Hall Published autobiography bears
this out in no uncertain terms. In 1991 Monsignor Kelley (who died in 1996) also mentioned how he wrote a chapter
for his book about his long time post-war friendship with 'Amelia.' Evidently though, and no doubt to avoid causing public
consternation, Monsignor Kelley's editors chose to not include his 'Amelia chapter' in his book's final edition.
(One of Kelley's later life friends, Donald Dekoster did mention how the Monsignor continued to refer to the Gervais-Irene
as just 'Amelia.' In 1979 he was also told by Monsignor Kelley that he'd be introduced to 'Amelia' during a pending visit
she was planning to the Virgin Islands. Dekoster went on to say due to her 'illness' her trip was cancelled so such a
meeting never happened. Yet all of this and much more was recorded clearly during his tape recorded interview.
Friends whom had known the Monsignor during his later life
years, the aforementioned Donald DeKoster of Detroit, Michigan one of them, Helen Barber of Wayne, Pennsylvania
another, and even a past news reporter by the name of Dean Magley stood by Kelley's Irene-Amelia offering. A former
auto industry executive, DeKoster who was a Winter Virgin Islands next-door neighbor and "quite close" friend of
Kelley's, especially felt the Monsignor was of sound mind when he first started explaining his Irene-Amelia story to
him on St. Croix, V.I. in 1979. (Kelley would have been seventy-seven at that time.)
Did adversary Amelia Earhart researchers control the right in the 1990s, to suggest Monsignor Kelley fabricated
his Irene-Amelia story? Hardly. Monsignor Kelley had been privately conveying his Irene-Amelia account to select
trusted friends of his for almost two decades by the time he died in 1996. He was great friends with Irene-Amelia, had served
as her confessor and therapist, and his Sister, Gertrude traveled extensively with Irene to included internationally, throughout
the 1970s decade. Monsignor Kelley's friends also described him to have been fully in control of his faculties when he began
revealing his story, and he was still active in church and community affairs at that time. Said time period also marked twenty
years before the Irene-Amelia physical congruence to Amelia Earhart would be solidified by virtue of the 1997-2004
forensic analysis, and even longer before the analysis evidenced the plural-Irenes discovery in 2002. Add to this, far be
it from anyone, to pass such harsh judgment on the famous Monsignor. For note as well, how in Monsignor Kelley's
autobiography he is shown in many photographs standing or sitting next to such famous individuals as former New Jersey
Governor Brendon Byrne, former Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Jackie Gleason who was a
long time dear friend of his, famous LPGA golfers (who Irene-Amelia also at times cavorted with) J. Edgar Hoover, Pat
O'Brien, Chief Justice Vanderbilt, Ed Sullivan, Pope Paul VI, (who stayed overnight at Monsignor Kelley's Rumson, New
Jersey mansion home during his 1960s Papal visit to the United States) Betty Ford, and more. There's even a photograph
of Kelley standing next to his own bust statue commissioned by the Smithsonian Institute dated 'ca. 1946.' He is
also shown standing next to his sibling Sisters, among them Gertrude Kelley Hession, who as mentioned became a main traveling
partner of Irene-Amelia's in the 1970s, after Irene-Amelia's husband, Guy Bolam died.
So yes, in spite of many existing photos that display Monsignor Kelley and the Gervais-Irene together
looking truly endeared to each other, as well as letter exchanges expressing their fond mutual admiration for each other,
and even more photos that feature Gertrude Kelley Hession and Irene-Amelia on various 1970s world sojourns together...
it should strike one as fairly odd how nowhere in Monsignor Kelley's autobiography is his dear friend 'Irene' mentioned
at all, nor is a photograph of her ever displayed in it. And this, after Monsignor Kelley claimed with certainty he included
an entire chapter about her that was meant for his book. Exasperating, isn't it?
So we'll repeat the question: What became of the original Irene Craigmile?
Again the two week October of 1982 Woodbridge New Jersey News Tribune 'investigative series' offered
a mixed batch of different, yet at times altered photos to account for Irene's life story. Again though, one John
Burk was the Trib's publisher then, and he had also been a good friend of the Gervais-Irene's. Mr. Burk
even emceed her 1982 Memorial Dinner that featured the Non Gervais-Irene's image on its program cover. And again
one of the most telling realizations later, was how beyond the Trib's forgery lined display one would not find any family
or school pictures of the original Irene Craigmile from her childhood. No church, Jr. High or High School photo portraits
would be found. No photos of her appeared in her so-called high school graduation yearbook. One would also not find legible
family portraits that featured her. Or one would not find pictures of her with either of her two husbands from the 1920s
and 1930s, those of Charles Craigmile or Alvin Heller.
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To the press in 1970, Irene-Amelia claimed she was "not a mystery woman, and not Amelia
Earhart." While technically correct speaking in the present tense, she was no ordinary housewife as she claimed
either. She was a constant world traveler the last decades of her life, and in the 1970s one would have found her listed as
President of Radio Luxembourg that had been her late British husband, Guy Bolam's endeavor for many years. Guy Bolam who Irene-Amelia
married in 1958, died in 1970. He was later described to have been 'MI6' by his survived family.
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share information on his Book, Documentary, & Feature projects. One can also e-mail EarhartTruth@Irene-Amelia.com
NOTE: To contact Beyond
37' e-mail EarhartTruth@Irene-Amelia.com. The Beyond 37' film, book, and website projects are dedicated to the late USAF Major Joseph A. Gervais (1924-2005)
and the late USAF Col. Rollin C. Reineck (1920-2007). Both were World War Two heroes who learned the basic Irene-Amelia truth
decades ago. Major Gervais, who was considered by many to have been the most devoted Amelia Earhart researcher ever having
pursued the mystery since 1960, discovered the Irene-Amelia reality in 1965. The controversial 1970 McGraw-Hill book
by Joe Klaas, Amelia Earhart Lives expounded on the enormous amount of Joe Gervais' investigative research, and
displayed the first nationally published photo of Irene-Amelia. Fallout the Amelia
Earhart Lives book caused notwithstanding, and still lacking official authoritative guidance, Colonel Reineck spent
the last several years of his life trying to advance the Gervais claim of Earhart's name-changed survival to authenticity.
Colonel Reineck's book Amelia Earhart Survived, published in late 2003, was inspired by the Irene-Amelia forensic
studies of Beyond 37's Tod Swindell. Several portions of the analysis appeared in the Reineck book, although more samples
are better displayed in this website. [Beyond 37' was formed in 2001 by the Tod Evan Company in Los Angeles. It is run
by Investigative Researcher/Filmmaker Tod Swindell, who also serves as Chief Editor of Irene-Amelia.Com]
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