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Below: Excerpts From The Comprehesive Beyond 37' Forensic Analysis Arranged By Investigative Researcher/Filmmaker Tod Swindell. The Samples Shown
Here Represent A Mere Portion Of The Overall Study; One That Includes Head To Toe Body Comparisons, Published Photos Of The
Different Individuals The Study Discovered To Have Employed The Same Irene Craigmile Bolam Identity, And Handwriting And Voice
Comparisons Further Aligning The Gervais-Irene With Amelia. A decade ago Swindell Embarked On A Long Trail Of Consulting With
Human Identity Experts, Medical Professionals, And Document Examiners To Begin The Study Process. Also Referred To Were Several
Academic Textbooks On The Subjects Of Human Body And Character Trait Comparison Techniques. Preliminary Study Samples Were
First Seen In Colonel Rollin C. Reineck's Book, Amelia Earhart Survived. After
Reading And/Or Hearing About It, Others Curious About The Study (Such As Artist Dave Deal) Duplicated The 'Overlay Method'
With Amelia And Irene Photos, Yielding The Same Positive Results.
| Gervais-Irene, Yugoslavia-1976... |
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| photo taken while traveling with Msgr. Kelley's sister, Gertrude. |
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| ...blended into Irene-Amelia photo. |
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| Another Gervais-Irene photo... |
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| ...blended into Irene-Amelia. |
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See more Amelia & Irene photo transitions further down....
| From Beyond 37's handwriting study... |
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| Excerpt from a 1967 Irene letter, & Amelia's own high school senior "Amelia M Earhart" signature. |
Above: Isn't it amazing how four decades ago in 1970, famous 1930s pilot Viola Gentry
became known for having two particular friends; one from the past in Amelia Earhart and another one in 1970 by the name of
Irene Craigmile Bolam (the Gervais-Irene) who although from completely different eras, Viola's two friends looked and even
wrote so much alike? It's not so amazing really. Because four decades ago no one knew more than one person had been identified
as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam,' and how the one Viola knew in later life had only been identified as 'Irene' from the 1940s until
her death in 1982. It was well recalled how Viola's friend Amelia had turned up missing in 1937. Years
later it was also learned how Viola's post World War Two friend named 'Irene' had been known by a
different name prior to the 1940s.
Viola Gentry helped
start the Ninety-Nines woman's flying organization with Amelia back in 1929. The two were fellow New York flying friends.
Viola was even among those photographed by the newspapers while welcoming Amelia home to New York after her famous 1932 Atlantic
solo flight. Years later in 1965, while still living on Long Island Viola Gentry wrote and invited Joe Gervais to come speak
to her retired pilots club called 'The Early Birds of Aviation' about his long term Amelia Earhart investigative research.
She described how the event was to take place at a seaside hotel in the Long Island Hamptons, and the group would cover all
expenses for Gervais and his family to fly across the country and attend the event. Gervais agreed, and that is where in August
of 1965 he was introduced to Mrs. Irene Craigmile Bolam by Viola Gentry. Mr. Gervais spoke with and came to know (a little)
the Irene he met that day, who was accompanied by her British husband, Guy Bolam. He noticed how the two stood out as a distingushed
and importantly regarded couple. He exchanged some pleasant conversation with them, during which time Mrs. Bolam affirmed
to Joe Gervais how herself, Viola, and Amelia had all been 'Long Island flying friends' in the 1930s. While with her
Mr. Gervais even managed to candidly snap a picture of Irene and Guy with his
35MM camera. (See below.) When it was eventually realized how more than one woman had used the same Irene Craigmile Bolam
identity, the woman who Joe Gervais photographed that day would further be referred to as 'the Gervais-Irene.''
| Guy and Irene Craigmile Bolam, 1965. |
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| Photo taken by Joe Gervais who found them to be 'a curiously important couple.' |
Three Different Irenes: (What people never knew before....)
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1. 1930 [Note: The National
Geographic Channel omitted the new gained reality of 'three different
women' having used the same 'Irene' identity. It also did not mention how the Gervais-Irene who matched Amelia from head to
toe, only appeared identified as 'Irene' from 1945 to 1982. The one seen here below was the original Irene, a past friend
of Amelia's who was the actual person to have turned up missing all those years ago. The former Amelia re-applied her gone
friend's identity to herself during the WWII era for the sake of her future anonymity in the United States. As her long time
friend Monsignor James Francis Kelley described after she died in 1982, after her 1937 around the world flight she "didn't
want to be Amelia Earhart anymore." What became of the original Irene is a mystery unto itself.]
| The original Irene Craigmile Bolam, 1930. |
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| Amelia's friend, with her husband Charles and her father, Joe. She was seen no more after the 1930s. |
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2. 1945
| The 1945-1982 ID'd Gervais-Irene. |
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| AKA 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' after her 1958 marriage to Guy Bolam of England.) |
| Notice the new 'noble nose' above. |
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| Less post-disappearance augmentations & nose alteration, the former AE. |
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3. 1947
| The 'third' Irene Craigmile Bolam in the 1940s. |
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| AKA the 'Non Gervais-Irene.' By 1945 she'd left, leaving only the Gervais-Irene as Irene Craigmile. |
Below: 1982
| National Geographic refused to show her on TV... |
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| ...here's an older version of the Non Gervais-Irene, age 58, 1982. |
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Below: The Gervais-Irene, identified as 'Irene
Craigmile (& later Bolam)' from 1945-1982.
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| The Gervais-Irene, 1945 |
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| AKA 1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam |
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| Match; younger to older Gervais-Irene |
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| Combination of the two photos shows same person in younger and older versions. |
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| Gervais-Irene / Gervais photo, 1965 |
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| She was one of three women who used the same 'Irene' identity. |
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Below: Non Gervais-Irene. Grew up with the O'Crowleys, no one is 'forensically'
sure who she really was.
| The Non Gervais-Irene.... |
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| An O'Crowley family secret? |
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| Left and right photos... |
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| ...displays same person in younger-older versions. |
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| Non Gervais-Irene's true identity remains unknown, |
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| Her real estimated age was 'fifity-eight years' in 1982... |
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Below: The Original Irene. No one knows what became
of her.
| The original Irene Craigmile Bolam. |
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| To this day no one is certain what became of her. After the 1930s she was seen no more. |
[Note: See the Joe Gervais
comment on the 'Amelia versus Irene reality' at the bottom of the page.]
| Below: 1928 Amelia photo starts blending... |
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| ...with 1978 Gervais-Irene photo. |
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| Below: 1976, Gervais-Irene in Detroit... |
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| With her 'changed to a more noble looking' nose... |
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| Gervais-Irene & Amelia Earhart... |
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| profile overlay... |
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| Their profiles match... |
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| ...notice the Gervais-Irene's deviated septum rhinoplsty 'pushed down to new noble nose' change. |
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| Gervais-Irene, 1978 |
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| Gervais-Irene & Amelia |
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| Two photos in and equal blend. |
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| Amelia, from a 1923 'into the mirror' taken self photo-portrait. |
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| ...1945 Gervais-Irene sans post-1937 augmentations. |
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| Eyes from 1945 Gervais-Irene... |
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| ...do match Amelia's perfectly. |
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| 1965 Joe Gervais photo... |
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| ...blended with the 1933 above middle Amelia photo, looks like this. |
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| Gervais-Irene, Yugoslavia-1976... |
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| ...blended into classic Amelia photo. |
| Below: 1945 ZONTA, earliest Gervais-Irene photo... |
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| ...sans post-disappearance augmentations, see the former AE. |
| Below: Eyes from 1945 Gervais-Irene... |
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| ...match Amelia's below. |
| Below: 1978 Gervais-Irene... |
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| ...blended with classic Amelia photo. |
The
nose difference evidenced itself as a common 'deviated septum rhinoplasty' procedure. So much slightly flattened it to widen
the passages. The upper nose bridge appeared thinned by skin tucking, so from straight on her
brow ridge looked a bit more furrowed. Human I.D. forensic qualifiers such as DNA, dental records, and fingerprints solve
cases where 'missing-person' body evidence is deemed plausible. But the Irene-Amelia case was very
unusual. The enormous amount of forensic research data supporting the Gervais claim, (to later include the Irene 'shared identity'
discovery) made it all but impossible, or irresponsible to simply ignore the controversy. Many self-proclaimed 'Amelia Earhart research authorities' tried their best to deride the Gervais equation, (and still
do) mostly because they found it hard to believe Amelia would opt out of her public life.
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| News photo, Gervais-Irene in Japan-1963... |
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| ...blended into 1928 Amelia photo. |
| Below: 1965 Gervais-Irene in Florida... |
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| ...blended back into Amelia. |
| BELOW: Non Gervais-Irene.... |
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| Was she Amelia's long rumored '1924 born-out-of-wedlock' family-secret daughter? |
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| ...above, the "different" yonger-older Non Gervais-Irene photos blended in between. |
By now it is fair
to calculate how the former Amelia Earhart had been working with the family of the original Irene
Craigmile, and how she had confided in, and worked with some of her past friends to include her own Sister Muriel in an effort
to successfully change her identity. She did it to any more avoid the attention her world fame always attracted. She also,
evidently, worked with the Catholic Church and the ZONTA organization in order to get it done right. Meanwhile post-WWII United
States, Japan, and England official history divisions took a "let's close a blind eye to it" approach, in order
for the former Amelia Earhart to achieve the future non-famous person status she
desired.
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| 1965 Joe Gervais photo... |
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| ...blended with the 1933 above middle Amelia photo, looks like this. |
| Below: 1928 Amelia photo starts blending... |
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| ...with 1978 Gervais-Irene photo. |
| Below: 1976, Gervais-Irene in Detroit... |
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| Their profiles match, yet notice post-disappearance nose alteration. |
| Below: Gervais-Irene in 1978... |
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| ..shown blended above with this 1923 'into the mirror' taken Amelia self-portrait. |
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Again,
this was all done to secure the former Amelia Earhart's further desired non-public
person status. The final equation revealed Amelia Earhart to have been a good friend and ZONTA sister of the original Irene
Craigmile's Aunt, a well known lawyer by the name of Irene Rutherford O'Crowley. The O'Crowley's were a prominent Irish Catholic
family. Yet the original Irene Craigmile, although close to Amelia in age was never well known, and she had endured a troubled
life as an only child after losing her Mother at young age. Her Father, Joe O'Crowley allegedly became an alcoholic after
the original Irene's Mother died, leaving the original Irene to be taken in and further raised by her Aunt (Amelia's future
attorney friend) and her paternal Grandmother Sarah O'Crowley, all of the Newark, New Jersey area. (continued below)
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After
she gave birth to her Son in 1934 the original Irene no longer appeared. Records of her past existence were obfuscated for
any future public referencing, and the short marriage she endured with her Son's Father, Al Heller was legally annulled by
1940. Meanwhile Amelia Earhart had turned up 'missing' in 1937. Notably, if the original Irene Craigmile Heller died at some
point (for instance as a result of post-childbirth complications) there appeared to be no record of such a thing having happened.
However, apparently it was the case that the original person known as Irene Craigmile in the 1930s who Amelia had known, was
a person who actually did disappear at some point after she gave birth to her son in 1934, and she was never seen again. It
is certain the former Amelia Earhart, during the time adjacent to the World War Two era, assumed the original Irene Craigmile's
still extant ID value for her own future use in order to live further in anonymity. This, while she also continued with helping
to raise of the original Irene Craigmile's Son, and her own Canadian born daughter from 1924 no one knew of who had also been
taken in by the O'Crowley family after Amelia suddenly became famous in 1928. Mr. Swindell's research states it is the younger
(mid-twenties) and then older version (age fifty-eight in 1982) of Amelia's non-recognized birth daughter featured in the
bottom middle in the photo section on this page. He points to Lloyd Royer, one of two men besides George Putnam to have proposed
to Amelia, as the likely Father. A highly controversial assessment to be sure, this too remains to be disproved. The bottom
line is, the true identity of the woman featured on the cover of Irene Bolam's 1982 Memorial Dinner program... has never been
authoritatively revealed... either by still living O'Crowley or Earhart family relatives, or by some other entity whom does
know who she really was, or still is. * * *
About the
reality of the Irene-Amelia equation....?
"Of course it's reality. But the whole idea was to sidestep reality, or to help
'invent' a solid mystery following the lead of official silence. And they
succeded in doing it. The Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society dismiss the Irene-Amelia truth. They've even campaigned
against it. All official institutions dismiss all Earhart mystery solving claims,
not just the 'she survived and changed her name' final verdict. Notice how anything seen on television about Earhart always
ends with, 'but it's most likely Earhart and Noonan crashed and sank.' The simple reason, the Smithsonian realized no choice
but to support the mystery always, as opposed to supporting a conclusion. Even though
all of the data shows it to be obvious Amelia lived on to use the name of a past friend ...who was the real person
to have disappeared long ago, the Smithsonian especially, paid for and run by Uncle Sam, knows everyone from the news media
to college professors will always follow its 'official word' lead. About the
Irene connection, it has swayed the public into believing 'maybe it's not so obvious,
maybe it's all a big coincidence.' It's really about gullibility too. No one wants to doubt that kind of authority.
You risk sticking yourself out like a sore thumb, or you know, embarrassment. At the same time those sporting real courage
always stand by the truth." Joe Gervais, 2001
Click here to e-mail Irene-Amelia.com and/or Beyond 37's Tod Swindell with with questions or comments, and for Executive Producer
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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