Amelia Earhart, The Real Story, And The True 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' Connection

Will The Real Irene Craigmile (Bolam) Please Stand Up? Hint: She's The One In The Middle...

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Some Common Misperceptions of Amelia Earhart's 1937 Disappearance
Introduction
Important Forensic Comparison Samples: The Amelia To Irene Congruence
Will The Real Irene Craigmile Bolam Please Stand Up?
A Closer Comparison Of Eyes & Faces; Amelia To Irene, Separating The Irenes
Was Amelia Earhart's Disappearance Physically True?
Did You Know?
The Second Front Page
An Amelia Earhart To Irene Craigmile Bolam Forensic Reality: 1982 Published Mug-Shot Forgeries
About Retired USAF Major Joseph A. Gervais
Amelia Earhart's Long Hidden Daughter Made It Three Irene Craigmiles...?
About Beyond 37', Amelia Earhart, & Irene-Amelia.Com
Press Notices & Quotes About Beyond 37's Amelia Earhart Research
Amelia Earhart Miscellaneous: Monsignor Kelley's Words, NASA Astronaut Schirra's Words, Etc.
The History of Amelia Earhart Mystery 'Investigative Research'
Controversial Amelia Earhart Forensic Argument Information
The 1982 New Jersey Tribune's Irene-Amelia Photo Page 10/29/82
Wikipedia: The Irene Craigmile Bolam Manipulated "Public Info Provided" On-Line Encyclopedia
Amelia Earhart Press Notice Samples
A Few Odd Rumors About Amelia Earhart
The National Geographic Channel 'Misfires' While Aiming At 'The Real Amelia Earhart'
The Amelia Earhart Truth Mistake We Make...
What Reality Now Tells Us, And Why People Fight It
Conclusion
The Tillman, Earhart Parallel
About The 2009 Movie 'Amelia' Starring Hilary Swank...
Opposing Views: Alex Mandel, Carol Linn Dow, TIGHAR & The AES Distort The Truth

The Gervais-Irene

1940s-1982 ID'd Irene Craigmile (Gervais-Irene)
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...slight weight gain, nose work, dental, cosmetic changes; "The Gervais-Irene"

News photo, 1940s-1982 ID'd Irene Craigmile Bolam.
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AKA 'The Gervais-Irene' in Japan, 1963, five years after she married Guy Bolam of England.

The Gervais-Irene, whose image appeared nowhere as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s, truly exhibited a haunting physical and character trait congruence to Amelia Earhart. (Less the fixed tooth gap and her deviated septum rhinoplasty; see before-after comparison directly below.) Seemingly appearing from out of the blue in the U. S. in the mid-1940s, from the World War Two era on she was identified as 'Irene Craigmile' until 1958 when she became 'Irene Bolam' after marrying the distinguished Guy Bolam of England (whose main enterprise was overseeing Radio Luxembourg in Europe.) It became a general consensus Guy Bolam had been linked to the Council on Foreign Relations, a derivative of world wide notables dating back to the 1920s and at least, partly, what later became known as England's MI6 program. Even Guy's brother, John Bolam expressed his own certainty of Guy having been an MI-6 operative. When retired Air Force Major Joe Gervais met and photographed Irene and Guy Bolam in 1965, the true depth of what he was getting involved with evaded him.
 
Guy died in 1970, and the Gervais-Irene Craigmile remained known as 'Irene Bolam' until her own passing in 1982.
 

The Original Irene

Irene Craigmile, 1930
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The 'Original' Irene Craigmile, Amelia's friend, seen no more after the 1930s. (Full frame below.)

The Original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile, 1930.
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Shown with her husband & father.

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The original Irene Craigmile in 1932; Amelia and Viola Gentry's friend.

Above: The woman shown directly above was the original Irene (nee O'Crowley) Craigmile, who had married one Charles Craigmile in 1927. (Charles died suddenly of appendicitis in 1931.) The orginal Irene Craigmile remains an enigma to this day. She was a friend of Amelia Earhart and Viola Gentry, who helped her to learn how to fly after Charles Craigmile died. She fell in love with one of her flight instructors, Al Heller, and she became pregnant out of wedlock by him in mid-1933. The two eloped to be married, yet after she gave birth to their son in early 1934 there is no further record of her visual image, and no information pertaining to what became of her. [Her son was mostly raised during his childhood by the Non Gervais-Irene on the right.]  Note: The women shown in these three different columns; the Gervais-Irene, the Original Irene Craigmile, and the Non Gervais-Irene were all different human beings, although at various times they were identified as one in the same 'Irene (nee O'Crowley) Craigmile' (with 'Bolam' added in 1958.) Of course there was only ever one original Irene (nee O'Crowley) Craigmile, leaving the true forensic identities of the other two women unaccounted for to this day. Beyond 37' believes enough circumstantial and forensic evidence exists, that equates the Gervais-Irene as the 'former' Amelia Earhart, and the Non Gervais-Irene as the grown 'family secret' 1924 born-out-of-wedlock daughter of Amelia Earhart and Lloyd Royer.
 
 

The Non Gervais-Irene

Irene Craigmile, circa 1945
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The Non Gervais-Irene, by the mid-1940s she'd left, leaving the Gervais-Irene as 'Irene Craigmile.'
Older version of the 'Non Gervais-Irene'
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Shown in 1982, estimated true age then: Fifty-eight years old.

Above: The Non Gervais-Irene (AKA 'Irene Jr.') was described as 'born in 1924.' In 1984 an elderly Lucy McDannel, who was a past good friend of the original Irene Craigmile's family (the O'Crowleys of Newark, New Jersey) did describe how 'Irene Jr.' had been taken in to be raised by the O'Crowleys in the late 1920s. As a teenager Irene Jr. helped look after the original Irene's 1934 born son, and she evidently was identified as 'Irene Craigmile' from the late 1930s into the 1940s, even though, as Lucy described Irene Jr. was only "16-17 years old in 1940." It appears evident Irene Jr. and the original Irene's son were relocated to Mineola on Long Island New York in 1938, where they lived with their 'Aunt Gert' (AKA Gertrude Ferguson) into the early 1940s. Irene Jr. left the O'Crowley fold when the Gervais-Irene became the 'new' Irene Craigmile, to also be henceforth regarded as the mother of the original Irene's son.
 

Above: Reprinted from the Beyond 37' study, only the Irene Craigmile displayed in the middle was the original 'Irene Craigmile,' although the study also revealed how by the 1940s the other two women had the same 'Irene Craigmile' identity attributed to them as the original Irene no longer appeared. It seemed curious but did make sense in 2006, when the 1934 born son of the original Irene Craigmile, one Larry Heller admitted he grew up believing his mother always existed as one person. (After the final elements of Irene's photo history were obtained, the study's eye comparisons alone forensically eliminated the possibility of only one individual having used the 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' identity.)
 
The study's forensic research also discovered how the three different women shown above all knew each other, although the Non Gervais-Irene was much younger, separated a generation age wise from the other two. In 2006 The original Irene's son offered how he held no photos of his 'mother' pre-dating the year of 1947. He still recognized both the Gervais-Irene and Non Gervais-Irene as his  early childhood mother figures though, while evidently only the Gervais-Irene filled the role from his boarding school days on. It also became clear how the original Irene's son grew up never really knowing his biological mother. Again, no one is certain about what became of the original Irene Craigmile, and so much looms as a skeleton in the closet of the overall 'Earhart mystery.'

It remains uncertain what became of the original Irene Craigmile in the mid-1930s. It is clear, within a year after pilot friends Viola Gentry and Amelia Earhart helped introduce her to the world of flying airplanes on Long Island, the original Irene became pregnant out of wedlock in mid-1933 courtesy of one of her flight instructors. However, after she gave birth to a son in early 1934, a solid trail of the original Irene Craigmile's life appeared almost non-extant any further, in a physical image sense. It appears by the late 1930s to the early 1940s the Non Gervais-Irene, AKA 'Irene Jr.' of the O'Crowley family of Newark, New Jersey was known to help care for the original Irene's toddler and growing child, Clarence 'Larry' Heller. (The original Irene had eloped to marry the father to be, flight instructor Al Heller, however by 1940 their marriage had been legally annulled, reverting the name back to Irene Craigmile. Irene Jr. was serving as Irene Craigmile by that time. Below the following photos & text, read more about the 'original' Irene Craigmile.) It is understood how by the mid-1940s Irene Jr. had left Newark, New Jersey, around the time the Gervais-Irene stepped is as the new, permanent 'Irene Craigmile.' Larry Heller had been placed in a boarding school at a young age. The ealiest photo of his parents he claims to hold is from 1947, when he graduated from his boarding intermediate school at age thirteen. In the photo one sees young Larry standing with cap and gown, and his parents standing behind him, the Gervais-Irene Craigmile and Alvin Heller. In 2006 Larry Heller clearly recognized the younger Non Gervais-Irene image (upper right) as his early childhood mother figure.

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The original Irene Craigmile in 1932; Amelia and Viola's friend.

The original Irene's first husband, Charles Craigmile died suddenly of appendicitis in 1931. By 1932 his widow, Irene Craigmile was taking flying lessons at Roosevelt Field on Long Island. Her goal was to earn her pilot's license. Well known pilots Amelia Earhart and Viola Gentry who both knew Irene helped her early on, and in late May of 1933, after several months of some inconsistent at times training she was awarded her pilot's license. She had soloed the required amount of hours and demonstrated her overall skill as a pilot. Alvin Victor Heller was her last flight instructor, and, not long after being awarded her license, Irene Craigmile realized she was pregnant with Alvin Heller's child. Soon the two eloped to wed, and Irene Craigmile Heller gave birth to a son in early 1934. It does appear to be the case, the original Irene is no longer visible from this point on in the 'physical image' history of her person. Her marriage was soon legally annulled as well, leaving the surname of 'Heller' to be dropped. Meanwhile the original Irene's 1934 born son, Larry Heller spends time today between Long Island and Florida. Of note, the two other women who used the original Irene Craigmile's identity from the late 1930s to 1982 are clearly distinguishable from each other in the study and as shown herein. In 2006 both were recognized by Larry Heller as his 'mother figures' dating back to his early childhood and teen years, when he was being co-raised and educated at a boarding school. Although on record he has never publicly endorsed its reality, it is clear Larry Heller never knew his biological mother. Below: The two other 'non original' Irenes... 
 
 

Below: It's fairly easy to find Amelia again by using the 1945 Zonta photo from almost a decade after she was said to have 'disappeared.' The photo marks the first known to have publicly identified her as (a new) 'Irene Craigmile.' True, the Zonta organization for professional career women has always refused to comment about the 1945-1970s Zonta membership of Irene Craigmile (Bolam.) Recall too, by the 1930s Amelia Earhart had grown to become the most famous Zonta member. Even today the Zontas award its most prestigious annual scholarship in Amelia's name. There is virtually no doubt, high level Zonta officers from the 1940s were in confidence with the non-public reidentification process of changing 'Amelia' to 'Irene.
 
 

The 1945-1982 ID'd Irene Craigmile.
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A look to the right shows how a few 'changes' made her harder to recognize here.
Before deviated septum rhinoplasty...
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...prior to a slight weight gain, dental work, & cosmetic adjustments: The Gervais-Iene.

"After all she'd been through, she did not want to be Amelia Earhart any more." Quote of Monsignor James Francis Kelley, former President of Seton Hall University talking about his late close friend Irene Craigmile Bolam (the Gervais-Irene) in 1991.

The 1945-1982 identified 'Gervais-Irene.' She appeared nowhere in photos identified as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. However two other women; the Original Irene and the Non Gervais-Irene did. In the next panels down following this one, see how closely the Gervais-Irene aligned with Amelia Earhart.

1945-1982 'Gervais-Irene'
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Married to Guy Bolam of England in 1958.
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Left and right images combined display the congruence.
1945-1982 Gervais-Irene in 1965. (Gervais photo.)
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AKA "Irene Craigmile" AKA "Irene Bolam." Same photo appeared in 1970 book "Amelia Earhart Lives."

1933
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Amelia Earhart
Blend: Gervais-Irene & Amelia
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Irene-1965 / Amelia-1933

Gervais-Irene / Gervais photo, 1965
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One of three women attributed to the same 'Irene' identity.

In its forensic analysis Beyond 37' discovered how in 1982 Irene Jr.'s older-version photo image appeared in a newspaper identifying her (for the first time in forty years) as 'the late Irene Craigmile Bolam,' even though it was the Gervais-Irene who had actually passed away that year. To this day some believe Irene Jr. was the concealed, out-of-wedlock birth daughter of Lloyd Royer and Amelia Earhart from four years before Amelia suddenly became famous at age thirty. After the original Irene's son, Larry Heller in 2006 identified both the Gervais-Irene and Non Gervais-Irene as childhood mother figures he had, no other O'Crowley or Earhart family member acknowledged an awareness of there having been more than one person known as Irene Craigmile. The analysis revealed how it is obvious there was more than one identified Irene Craigmile, just as it made it equally obvious to realize, however hard to conventionally accept, the Gervais-Irene was the somehow survived, name changed, and public image altered 'former' Amelia Earhart.

Younger 'Non Gervais-Irene'
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c. 1947, age 23
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Left (younger) and right (older) in an overlay congruence.

Lucy McDannel clearly described the enigmatic girl who had been taken in to be raised by the O'Crowleys, adding how she was referred to as 'Irene Jr.' She also included how by 1945 'Irene Jr.' was no longer intimate with the O'Crowleys. Irene Rutherford O'Crowley, who was a prominent New York attorney, Zonta figurehead, and friend and advisor of Amelia's (and was the original Irene's Aunt) had primarily cared for 'Irene Jr.,' who by the late 1930s was serving as a sitter, then a live-in nanny figure for the original Irene's son, Larry Heller.

Older 'Non Gervais-Irene'
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1982, age 58

Again, who was the Non Gervais-Irene? She wasn't the original Irene, nor was she the Irene who retired Air Force Major Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965 at a gathering of well known retired pilots. Still, the son of the original Irene, Larry Heller did recognized her as his 'early childhood mother figure.' By 1945 Larry Heller was living at a boarding school as the Non Gervais-Irene segued out of his life, and the his birth-mother's identity from then on. Again, after Irene Bolam's death was reported in 1982, a few months later the Memorial Dinner cover photo above on the right, along with the 1982 New Jersey News Tribune series marked the first time the Non Gervais-Irene's image was identified as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' in four decades. By the mid-1940s the Non Gervais-Irene had purportedly relocated to Scotland where as a single mother she had a child of her own who she placed up for adoption, and she later returned to the United States to resume a quiet life in Connecticut. Again, to date the Non Gervais-Irene has yet to be identified for who she truly is, or was.

The original Irene Craigmile (Bolam), circa 1930
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Husband Charles Craigmile (left), and her father Joe O'Crowley (Right).

Below: Older and younger versions of the two 'non-original' Irene Craigmiles:

Irene Craigmile, 1940s
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As identified by the original Irene's Son in 2006
Irene Craigmile, 1982
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Same person as shown to the left, the original Irene's Son supplied this 1982 news series photo.
1945-1982 ID'd Irene [1945 'Zonta' labeled photo]
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Earliest known photo of this particular Irene Craigmile (later "Bolam")
1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam
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Same person as shown to the left, photo taken in 1965 by USAF Major Joe Gervais, (Ret.)

About The Original Irene Craigmile (Bolam)

As revealed by the Beyond 37' Forensic Analysis (Plural Humans/Same Identity; 2002-2007) there were no less than three different women who at times employed the same Irene Craigmile (Bolam) identity. Directly above is the best known example of a legitimate photo of the 'original' Irene Craigmile (Bolam). She was born "Irene Madaline O'Crowley" on 10/1/04 in Newark, New Jersey according to record. [No birth certificate for her person was located by family or researchers.] She was an only child. Her mother, Bridgett Doyle O'Crowley died when the original Irene was twelve, leaving her to be taken in and further raised by her paternal grandmother, Sarah Rutherford O'Crowley and her paternal aunt I. M. O'Crowley in Newark (the original Irene's father's sister.) The original Irene's father, Richard Joseph O'Crowley (Joe) who is seen on the right in the above photo, slipped into alcoholism after losing his wife. (He died in 1943.) (Curiously, the 1920 census listed the original Irene as "fourteen years old" while she lived with her grandmother Sarah and attorney-aunt I. M. O'Crowley, differing from her described 1904 birth year and supporting an actual birth year rumor of 1906.)

The original Irene's first husband, Charles James Craigmile who was fifteen years older than she (featured above left) was a Newark Civil Engineer from a prominent Rantoul, Illinois family. The original Irene and Charles Craigmile were wed in 1927. (Info to later surface from the original Irene's second husband, Al Heller described how he understood the original Irene was 'pregnant with another man's child' when she married Charles Craigmile. It appears the child, a boy was born to the original Irene and reared by her extended O'Crowley family.) The original Irene's first husband, Charles Craigmile was stable and well liked. The 1930 census showed the couple living in Pequannock, New Jersey, yet during a road trip in 1931 Charles took ill of appendicitis and died, leaving the original Irene a widow.

A year later, in late 1932 Viola Gentry and Amelia Earhart arranged for some flying lessons for their bereaved friend, the original Irene. (The two well-known women pilots had met the original Irene in 1928 through her attorney aunt, I.  M. O'Crowley who was also a good friend and Zonta sister of Amelia's.) The original Irene's flying lessons took place in Long Island, New York. In 1933 the original Irene met and dated Alvin Victor Heller, one of her flight instructors. Just after earning her pilot's license in late May of that year, the original Irene realized herself to be pregnant with Al's child. (According to record the original Irene never flew again after logging only a handful of flight hours.) In August of 1933 Al Heller and the original Irene Craigmile eloped to be married, and in early March of 1934 came the birth of their child in Newark, a son they named Clarence Alvin Heller, (later to be informally known as "Larry Heller.") Sometime afterward the original Irene Craigmile Heller disappeared from view. Childbirth complications were eventually bantered on, to have left her physically stricken and mired in postpartum depression. Where so, what ended as her true demise was never publicly conveyed. In 1994 Diana Dawes, a later life good friend of the Gervais-Irene described on tape how she "understood someone had died (the original Irene, to be hushed) and that's how she (the Gervais-Irene) was able to get her new identity." By the late 1930s the paper trail began showing how a legal annulment process had commenced, and by 1940 the marriage of Al and Irene Heller was determined null and void, leaving the name of Irene Heller to revert back to Irene Craigmile. Thus, such a full name historically ended as "Irene Madaline O'Crowley Craigmile Heller Bolam," although "Heller" had been legally removed. And in the 1940s a different Irene Craigmile (the 1945-1982 identified 'Gervais-Irene') was appearing in the original Irene's place. She bore a striking resemblance to Amelia Earhart; the world famous pilot-hero who the original Irene had known.

Hitler's invasion of Poland in late 1939 caused people to less recall how Amelia was said to have 'vanished without a trace' in 1937 while still safely airborne, and was suggested to have ended up 'lost at sea.' Meanwhile the Non Gervias-Irene (Irene Jr.) who helped with the rearing of Larry Heller was later described as "no longer intimate" with the O'Crowleys of Newark, New Jersey by 1945.  Again, some feel Irene Jr., who remains to be forensically identified for who she truly was, evidenced the 1924 born love-child of Amelia Earhart and Lloyd Royer who had been taken in to be co-raised by Amelia's attorney friend in 1928, I. M. O'Crowley, after Amelia suddenly became famous that year at the age of thirty. Whether or not such a postulation is true, there did exist a rumor of a pre-fame child Amelia had and concealed 'around 1924,' a year of great transition in Amelia's life when she and her mother and sister all relocated from Los Angeles, California to Boston, Massachusetts. During that odd year-long period of 1924, Lucy Challis, Amelia's cousin later described how it was "as if the Earhart's had fallen off the edge of the earth" then. Amelia herself was recalled in 1924 to have been dealing with her own medical (sinus) and emotional (depression) issues, but there seems to have existed a non-conveyed undercurrent about why all three ladies so stealthly slipped away from their southern California home, beginning wth Amelia herself in January, with her not resurfacing again in a 'regular' way until the spring of 1925. Again, three years later  in 1928 world-fame suddenly struck Amelia, the year Irene Jr. turned four years old.  

Beyond all of this it is true anymore, how ever since the 1940s two individuals who were not the original Irene; the Gervais-Irene and the Non Gervais-Irene were identified as "Irene Craigmile (Bolam)." Due to recent-years stronger evaluating of the overall Earhart disappearance case, who they really were and where they actually came from at last proved a true mystery to behold, equal to what became of the original Irene Craigmile, whose identity both the Gervais-Irene and the Non Gervais-Irene later used.

Below, a strip of four 'non-original Irene Craigmile' photos:

1.) Irene Craigmile, 1940s
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Long Island 'Zonta' photo, 1945-1982 ID'd 'Gervais-Irene'
2.) Irene Craigmile, 1940s
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'Irene Jr.', AKA the 'Non Gervais-Irene'
3.) Irene Craigmile, 1923
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Forgery
4.) Irene Craigmile, 1976
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The Gervais-Irene at a Detroit Zonta function

Numbered 1, 2, 3, & 4 above, see the following descriptions of each:
 
The #1 'Irene' displayed in the far left photo was met and candidly photographed by Joe Gervais in 1965. Their meeting took place at a gathering of well known retired pilots in the Long Island, New York Hamptons. The photo, dated 1945 is the first time this 'Irene' appears in the photo history of Irene Craigmile.

The #2 photo to the right of her was identified by the original Irene's Son in 2006. In reality she was/is likely the 1924 born "Irene Jr.", who some suspect to have been the illegitimate child of Lloyd Royer and Amelia Earhart, born out of wedlock four years before Amelia became famous at the age of thirty, and kept as a family secret always. The 'familial similarity' appears as real, and it could be her existance marked one of the the non-recognized reasons for the so called 'mystery' of Amelia Earhart people have been stumbling over in wrong directions ever since Amelia Earhart was said to have 'vanished without a trace.' To this day 'Irene Jr.' has never been identified for who she truly was. She was not the original Irene Craigmile, nor was she ever Amelia Earhart. The question therefore became, and still remains; who was she? Although the original Irene's Son avowed he grew up never knowing more than one woman was attributed to his mother's identity, in the "Closer Look at Eyes and Faces" link the separation of individuals is clearly distinguishable.

The next #3 shoddy looking profile photo supposedly identified Irene Craigmile as she looked in 1923 when her surname was still "O'Crowley." It was determined to have been a forgery.

The final #4 photo on the far right shows the 1945-1982 identified Irene as she looked in 1976. Taken at a Detroit Zonta function, her profile matches Amelia's. Notice her nose difference though. No doubt some work was done there; via the described 'deviated septum rhinoplasty' procedure. It hardly matches the nose on the forgery either, one that displays a slight convex curvature. (Such a convex curvature is slightly detectable in the original Irene's photo.)

Below, the different 'post 1930s' identified Irene Craigmile referred to as "Irene Jr."

1940s 'different' Irene Craigmile (Bolam)
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ID'd by the original Irene's Son in 2006, National Geographic refused to display her image on TV.

Is the 'identified by Son' Irene still living as described in recent years? And where so, what was/is her true identity(?) and where is she? According to a family-friend provided account she was actually born in 1924, and by 1945 she was no longer being billeted by the original Irene Craigmile's family in New Jersey. Additional info suggested she may have relocated overseas to Scotland by that time. Was she actually the pre-fame 'hushed' born out of wedlock daughter of Amelia Earhart and Lloyd Royer? Some believe in such a possibility where she still has yet to be truly identified, coupled with the questionable 'year of 1924' personal history of Amelia Earhart. And if so, did she have any children of her own? This also appears to be a possibility anymore, if not a probabiIity. (See the Woodbridge Tribune link.) It also became clear, the original Irene's 1934 born Son grew up void of any awareness of his Mother's life-long plural identity value, and it appears he never knew his true birth mother. When the Gervais-Irene passed away in 1982, according to the Rutgers College of Medicine where she had donated her remains, "she was cremated and buried in a common, unmarked grave." As well, her Son also verified (where the controversy about his 'Mother' had grown even after her death) he had formally requested her fingerprints from Rutgers, but his request was denied. 

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Since 2002 it has become recognized information how from the mid-1940s until her death in 1982, only the 1945-1982 Irene who displayed a haunting congruence to Amelia Earhart appeared in public while identified as "Irene Craigmile (Bolam.)" [Her last name became 'Bolam' in 1958 after her marriage to the British (described MI6 operative) Guy Bolam.] Photo images of the 'identified by her son Irene' appear nowhere in the photo history of Irene Craigmile Bolam's person from the mid-1940s until 1982. Finally in 1982, courtesy of the original Irene's Son, her older image shown top-right in the four square above, re-appeared in an Irene Bolam life-story newspaper series and in an obituary sense.

In the complete forensic analysis, the 1945-1982 identified Irene Craigmile Bolam is shown matching Earhart's height, arm lengths, hands, eyes, neck, shoulders, feet, ankles, cranium, hairline, etc., ...basically everything, including handwriting characteristics and voice trait patterns. Even though 'official history' and the families of both Amelia and Irene have long tried to steer people away from accepting such a realistic equation, there is virtually no doubt anymore..., the woman who Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965, and then spent years investigating the background of, truly was the person formerly known as 'Amelia Earhart.' It seems such a contrived dupe was purposefully accomplished, and then was always protected by both official and family silence, as quietly ordained by post WWII 'official' United States history obfuscation.    

To recap; ultimately, as it is now recognizable how three different human beings were attributed to the same 'Irene' identity, and only one of course, who Amelia had known in the 1930s was the 'original' Irene, and she (the original Irene) appeared nowhere in photographs after the 1930s. Hence, this recent realization also begs the question; what became of the original Irene Craigmile?
 
In recent years due to Beyond 37's 'Irene Craigmile shared identity discovery' and its 'head to toe congruence realization of the 1945-1982 Irene Craigmile compared to Amelia Earhart', it has become easier for the public to recognize the forensic reality of Irene Craigmile Bolam. Simplified, it goes like this:
 
There was more than one person attributed to the Irene Craigmile Bolam identity, and the one who appeared as Irene Craigmile (Bolam) from 1945 to 1982 bore a haunting similarity to Amelia Earhart.
 
Indeed, to many learned individuals it is now certain Amelia Earhart, no doubt for her own good reasons optioned out of continuing her life as a world famous person some time after she was declared 'missing' in 1937. Otherwise since the 1970s, the public was led by media-dominating theorists over the cliff of non-belief about it. The now easy-to-recognize forensic reality can only (justifiably) prevail of course, amid historical dictum hand-washing. Of note as well, in 2006 Beyond 37' obliged considerable financial consideration to the 1934 born Son of the original Irene Craigmile, Mr. Larry Heller of New York, for the right to option Mr. Heller's version of his Mother's life story. Beyond 37's Tod Swindell had been in touch with Mr. Heller during the previous years, and was surprised to learn some of the circumstances of his upbringing, to include Mr. Heller having grown up as a young child not realizing how different women had served as his singular 'Mother' figure. Hde also spent his pre-teen to teen formative years being educated at a boarding school. Equally amazing, although he hailed from a prominent family background, Mr. Larry Heller also acknowledged how he held no photographs of his Mother pre-dating the year of 1947, and how his Mother's Aunt, a well known New York Attorney by the name of Irene Rutherford O'Crowley who was a past Zonta chapter President, had also been a good friend of Amelia's. Such a person as this, no doubt helped with he familial and legal ease arrangements enabling former Amelia to acquiesce her new identity. 
 
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The following concerns the National Geographic Channel's "The Real Amelia Earhart' special in re-runs since late 2006:
 
On the National Geographic Channel, independent producer Noel Dockstader's documentary on the Amelia Earhart mystery implied there was only one Irene Craigmile Bolam, even though Mr. Dockstader was aware of how more than one woman had surreptitiously used the same 'Irene' identity. He also reduced the never disproved claim by eliciting the Irene-Amelia forensic study as a 'slight of hand' endeavor. It wasn't. One of the Irene's did match Amelia Earhart very well. [Note: The show was not internally produced by the National Geographic Society. Noel Dockstader, clearly a novice on the Earhart subject matter hired a forensic specialist named Kevin Richlin who he only surface-informed about the decades old 'Irene-Amelia' controversy, thus leaving his overall effort to express a highly limited opinion on the matter.] Mr. Dockstader appeared to be mostly subjugated by the influential Bill Prymak of the Amelia Earhart Society, who had long been trying to discredit the reality of the Irene-Amelia claim. Both Mr. Prymak and Mr. Dockstader were also aware of how the Son of the orginal Irene Craigmile Bolam, the 1934 born Larry Heller had identified an entirely different person as the Mother he recalled from his childhood, and how (as mentioned) in 2006 Mr. Heller had been paid $10,000 through his Manhattan Attorney's office in exchange for the rights to his version of his Mother's life story by filmmaker and investigative researcher, Tod Swindell. Basically Dockstader and Prymak, in league with TIGHAR's Richard Gillespie about the Irene matter, had combined to suggest to the public the equation was a mere invention in their own somewhat ambiguous protective interests. National Geographic Television is currently being challenged to cease and desist any further airing of Dockstader's effort, as there were various medical explanantions, full head to toe body comparisons, handwriting comparisons, and even some voice comparisons Dockstader's effort ignored, and much personal data Kevin Richlin was left unaware of as well, to include the recent years discovery of how there had been more than one Irene. The Irene Craigmile Bolam who Noel Dockstader's film compared to Amelia Earhart in the program was therefore 'academically biased.' In contrast, as conveyed by a memberof Irene's own survived family: "The forensic studies are very convincing. She [the 1945-1982 identified Irene] was not an ordinary housewife as she claimed. She was influential, knew many well placed people and was well traveled." (Irene's brother-in-law John Bolam refers to the seven year Swindell/Beyond 37' forensic analysis in an article by Ron Staten of the Associated Press, 2002.)
 
[Note: In 2001 at the bequest and recommendation of Col. Rollin Reineck, AES President Bill Prymak himself invested $2,500 in the Beyond 37' Irene-Amelia documentary and forensic analysis endeavors, although ironically, after the study discovered and revealed the past shared-identity issue of Irene Craigmile Bolam Mr. Prymak urged Beyond 37' 'not to go public' with such information. Soon afterward he demanded his investment back and began openly deriding the efforts of Beyond 37' and the main Irene-Amelia constituency of Joe Gervais, Rollin Reineck, and Tod Swindell.] 
 
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"I find it curious how the national media circuit is still encouraged to stay neutral on the Earhart controversy, and how both the Smithsonian Institute and the National Geographic Society admit they have never been permitted to launch their own investigations or support any conclusions. In fact, to this day there has never been an official investigation. Instead, in recent decades all were conditioned to consider innocent castaway stories, obscure jungle ditchings, or the simple crashed and sank version of Earhart's loss. The truth is obviously quite different. People forget, in 1965 Admiral Chester Nimitz admitted Japan's non-publicized rescue of Amelia Earhart in the Marshall Islands was quietly documented in Washington."   Tod Swindell, 2009
 

Below: Elmo Pickerill responded to a query letter from Joe Gervais, reaffirming how he knew Irene Craigmile (Bolam) while also confirming her past friendship with Amelia Earhart and Viola Gentry. Mr. Pickerill expressed his belief Irene was bonafide, and he appeared to know nothing about the shared identity of Irene Craigmile (Bolam), or at least, it seemed that way. He also appeared not to know the original Irene Craigmile hardly ever flew at all. As well, where forensic comparisons were not conducted back then, no one realized how Viola Gentry would have had two friends who looked so hauntingly similar to each other in Amelia Earhart, who disappeared in 1937, and in the Gervais-Irene, who appeared from out of nowhere in the 1940s to become a 'new' Irene Craigmile:

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Once more, from the mid-1940s until her passing in 1982, only the Gervais-Irene appeared as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' In the end, the obfuscation of blending three different human beings into one identity, void of public awareness, appeared to have been done with a purposeful intent. It is also evident how the survived families and close friends of Amelia and the original Irene traditionally dismissed the Irene-Amelia conveyance out of hand while encouraging curious historians to do the same thing. No matter, the controversy was always very real.


The study includes head to toe comparisons, a handwriting comparitive analysis, other character trait comparisons, and past friend and family relationships to complete the overall forensic argument.


Note: While this Home Page is comprehensive, for a Table of Contents click on the 'Introduction' link, top upper left.

Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia 1976
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The Gervais-Irene
The transition back begins...
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...images in alignment...
Gervais-Irene + Amelia
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= Irene-Amelia

Below: Different looks of 'the Gervais-Irene.' She was dubbed the 'Gervais-Irene' to distinguish her as the 'Irene' who retired Air Force Major Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965 at a gathering of well-known retired pilots. After researching her background for years, Gervais found her to be a true enigma who was familiar with the same people and interests Amelia used to be.

1945
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Long Island, New York
1963
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Kobe, Japan
1965, Joe Gervais photo.
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Long Island, New York
1976
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Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
1978
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Jamestown, New Jersey

Beyond 37's Tod Swindell first received attention from the Associated Press in 2002 via a national wire service story by John Staton. Since then the forensic analysis verified how the Gervais-Irene did not appear as 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' in the United States prior to the 1940s, and she did display a significant head to toe congruence to Amelia Earhart. Some researchers now believe the public never understood the Amelia Earhart and privacy became her preference. There also exists a hub of aviation history scholars who have grown to accept the reality of Amelia's name-changed survival as a new 'Irene Craigmile (Bolam),' citing no other explanation for who else she possibly could have been.

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The 'Original' Irene Craigmile.

The new question realized; What became of the original Irene? Evidently by the 1940s she had, unknown to the general public, become the actual 'missing person' (as opposed to her friend Amelia Earhart, who also unknown to the general public had continued to exist after she was said to have 'disappeared.')Realize as well, people remained unaware of this reality until recent years, and many contrarians still campaign over the internet against the new Irene-Amelia truth using false argument foundations while doing so. Those (such as Alex Mandel of the Ukraine) who supplied non-truthful information to Wikipedia about Irene Craigmile Bolam, mark a prime example of such false counterpoint argumentations.

Irene Craigmile (Bolam)
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AKA the 'Non Gervais-Irene,' 1940s, positively ID'd as Irene Craigmile (Bolam.)
In November of 1970 this Irene Craigmile Bolam...
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...held a major press conference in New York to refute the new book 'Amelia Earhart Lives.'

Note: Status-quo Earhart enthusiasts downplay or dismiss the realities shown here. No matter; four decades later the Amelia Earhart vs. Irene Craigmile Bolam controversy still remains, and has yet to be 'officially' addressed by the Smithsonian Institute.
 

Irene-Amelia overlay blend...
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...of Amelia and the 1945-1982 ID'd Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam.
The transition back begins...
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...to the 1945-1982 Irene Craigmile Bolam.
News photo, 1945-1982 ID'd Irene Craigmile Bolam.
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AKA 'The Gervais-Irene' in Japan, 1963.

Is This Real?
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Click on this photo overlay and decide for yourself.

1945-1982 Gervais-Irene Craigmile Bolam
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Shown at Cocoa Beach, Florida in 1965.
The transition begins...
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...see Amelia's image becoming apparent.
Amelia's image starts to take over...
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...notice the congruent alignment; face, chin, neck, shoulders, et al.
Amelia's image dominant.
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From a 1935 photo taken during Amelia's pre Hawaii to Oakland flight sea voyage.

Below: Larger sample of the 1987 '50th Anniversary' Marshall Islands stamp series depicting the 1937 rescue of Earhart and Noonan.  As recently as 2006, even the United Nations Ambassador to the Marshall Islands, Alfred Cappelle described to the National Geographic Society how Amelia Earhart "definitely came to the Marshall Islands in 1937" and so much is viewed as "common knowledge" in his country. No matter, the Smithsonian Institute (a ward of the U. S. Government) has never been permitted to conduct its own investigation into Earhart's disappearance, and due to 'official silence' towards the matter, historically it has dismissed-out-of-hand all accounts about Earhart and Noonan's fate that differ from the simple 'crashed and sank' explanation. See the complete enlarged stamp series further down.

In the 1987 Stamp series a Japan naval officer...
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...stands with Noonan (knee bandaged) and Earhart. "Picked up, not a capture."

U. S. Navy Admiral Chester Arthur Nimitz, Commander of the Pacific Fleet during World War Two willfully cooperated with CBS Radio Journalist Fred Goerner for five years as Goerner investigated Earhart's 1937 disappearance. Nimitz was instrumental in creating avenues for Goerner to pursue by way of declassified military intelligence channels in Washington DC, and certain military individuals Goerner interviewed. There is no doubt anymore something happened, or was happening with Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in 1937 the public was left unaware of. Again, years ago Admiral Nimitz admitted it was quietly "known and documented in Washington" how Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan ended up existing under the auspice of Japan after their purported disappearance, although 'circumstances' left the U. S. Executive Branch unable to publicly explain it. It's amazing how the people of the United States lost sight of this, but it is how The Mystery of Amelia Earhart was born in a more modern sense in the 1960s. Got truth? If you're looking for a quick synopsis click on the upper left 'Conclusion' link.

From a 10/18/82 New Jersey Tribune article:
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A decade later Msgr. Kelley told the truth about his late friend 'Irene' in a taped interview.
Mnsgr. Kelley & the Gervais-Irene, 1980
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The former Seton Hall Univ. President finally told the truth about his friend Irene on tape in 1991.

R. Reineck: "We believe Jackie Cochran was sent to Japan to help bring Amelia home. Are you aware of that?"
 
Monsignor Kelley: "Yes, I was involved with that."
 
The above exchange was excerpted from a 1991 taped conversation between USAF Colonel Rollin C. Reineck (Ret.) and Monsignor James Francis Kelley of Rumson, New Jersey. It was recently verified how the well known Monsignor Kelley knew well and actually helped the Gervais-Irene after World War Two. Msgr. Kelley admitted, in the face of 'official silence' and dismissals emanating from Irene's and Amelia's survived relatives, as well as the Smithsonian Institute and the National Geographic Society, yes all of this notwithstanding, to Monsignor James Francis Kelley the Gervais-Irene formerly was, no doubt... known as 'Amelia Earhart' in the 1930s. (See more photos and comparisons below.)[Click on the Kelley/Bolam photo above to read more about Msgr. Kelley.]

Gertrude Kelley Hession (L) the Gervais-Irene (R)
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Yugoslavia, 1976.

Mnsgr. Kelley & the Gervais-Irene, 1980
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Monsignor James Francis Kelley was President of Seton Hall University from 1939 to 1949
Kelley with his sister, Gertrude Kelley Hession.
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Early 1980s photo.

The Gervais-Irene...
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...photo overlayed with Amelia Earhart. [From the Beyond 37' Study]

From the Beyond 37' study...
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Gervais-Irene's handwriting in 1967, and Amelia's own "Amelia M Earhart" signature at age eighteen.

"IT WASN'T A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY AT ALL. 'CONSPIRACY' IS AN UGLY WORD, A TURN-OFF. IT WAS MORE OF A PRIVATE ARRANGEMENT AMONG SELECT TRUSTED FRIENDS, TO INCLUDE AMELIA'S SISTER MURIEL AND THE ORIGINAL IRENE CRAIGMILE'S AUNT WHO WAS AN ATTORNEY AND FRIEND OF AMELIA'S AND WAS VERY INSTRUMENTAL WITH IT ALL. FEW INDIVIDUALS WERE AWARE IT HAD HAPPENED, YET SINCE 1965, THE YEAR JOE GERVAIS WAS FIRST ALERTED TO IT, PEOPLE SUSPECTED THIS WAS THE TRUE HIDDEN REALITY ABOUT AMELIA EARHART. ONLY DURING THE PAST DECADE DID WE BEGIN TO FIGURE IT ALL OUT. THE SMITHSONIAN AND THE SURVIVED FAMILIES OF AMELIA AND IRENE STILL DISMISS IT AND AVOID COOPERATING. PRESSURE FROM THE NATIONAL MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC WILL MARK THE ONLY WAY TO CONVERT SUCH A NEW REALITY INTO THE REALM OF CONVENTIONAL ACCEPTANCE. UNLESS THIS HAPPENS PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS FIND THIS HISTORICAL TRUTH HARD TO BELIEVE." Beyond 37's Tod Swindell, 2009

Another of the study's Irene-Amelia 'morphs.'
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Click on the photo to see more comparisons.

Eleanor Roosevelt & Amelia Earhart
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Amelia's image + the Gervais-Irene's image...
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...displays a congruence.

Orville Wright & Amelia Earhart
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Amelia's image + the Gervais-Irene's image...
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...displays a congruence.

Believe what you will, and accept how important sounding people will still try to tell you this isn't true. Yet always question their authority as 'official historians' where official silence has forever plagued this story. Hence, no 'Official Historians' have ever expounded on Amelia's 1937 disappearance. True, the national media has only ever reported on theories presented by private citizens, to include Elgen Long's Nauticos theory (Elgen, a private citizen) Richard Gillespie's TIGHAR theory (Richard, a private citizen) and Bill Prymak's Amelia Earhart Society theory (Bill, a private citizen.) Notice how all of these theories are completely different ones, and the various organizations that promote them, or 'cottage industries' are also privately run and have absolutely no connection to those who are endorsed to write the pages of official United States history books. Realize too, the mystery of Amelia Earhart exists because it's supposed to exist, not because it ever really did exist among the people who knew what happened, and who knew what ultimately became of Amelia Earhart. They simply chose silence instead of talking about it, leaving the story of Earhart's disappearance and fate fair game for anyone else's inventive mind to try and explain. Yet to simplify such a quandary try puting it this way: How does one solve a missing person case? Answer: Find the person, or find the body of the person. I believe it's clear anymore, the body evidence of Amelia Earhart blatantly existed in the form of the Gervais-Irene, except for many years, decades even, the American public was persuaded not to believe it, mostly by 'official silence.'" Beyond 37's Tod Swindell, 2009

The Gervais-Irene, 1978.
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A long-hidden-from-the-public official truth now appears to be revealing itself.

1945-1982 Gervais-Irene, harder exposure...
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...different angle too, all of eighty years detectable.

Amelia Earhart, age twenty-six.
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1923 into a mirror self-photo portrait. She would become famous in 1928.

As Anyone Can See...
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...Amelia Was Still In There

It is now clear how when this controversy first broke in 1970 it was deliberately pushed aside by historical dictum. As well, Amelia's 1930s friend and fellow famous flier, Viola Gentry (who was also a later life good friend of the 'Gervais-Irene') had worked with Amelia's Sister, Muriel to cover the story. Also, and most importantly missed since the 1960s, was how no national press circuit reporter since Fred Goerner of CBS has ever been endorsed, let alone 'permitted' to conduct a thorough forensic investigation into Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance, or into the complete life history of Irene Craigmile Bolam for that matter. References about the Irene story occassionally surfaced now and then, to include mentions by the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society, but they have never been of a first person nature, while they always appeared diminished and carefully obfuscated as they were conveyed. In one way, national news circuit wise it's referred to as 'playing ball' in order to keep 're-sweeping' a controversial story under the rug of official history.

It may be hard for people to believe or accept...
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..yet the long-hidden-from-the-public 'official truth' was/is, Amelia survived and changed her name.

 "After watching some [of his] video and looking at the self-published book by researcher, Tod Swindell, who employed the methods and expertise of forensic anthropologists to compare AE and IB physically, I think Joe Gervais was right." International News Journalist, Rosalea Barker of New Zealand from an edition of 'Stateside.' Ms. Barker had just covered an Oakland Western Aerospace Museum symposium about Amelia Earhart attended by three hundred Earhart-curious individuals. 
 
"Foudray also thinks Gervais' and Swindell's research is 'just the tip of the iceberg." "All the evidence all put together, I feel like she (Amelia) did survive." "I think she survived and came back to the United States." Excerpts from two interviews with Lou Foudray of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum on the investigative research of Joe Gervais and Tod Swindell; from a Topeka Capital Journal article by Jan Biles and a 2009 interview conducted by Lara Moritz of KMBC TV Kansas City. [See Press Notices link for more.]

'Look familiar? Amelia always had sinus trouble.
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Info on her post-loss 'deviated septum rhinoplasty' and dental work is included in this website.

A rare philatelic cover left behind by Amelia.
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This one she signed and gave to Margot DeCarie, her personal secretary.

"We don't discuss that around here." President Richard Nixon, 1970, responding to the then national news story about the just released McGraw-Hill book, Amelia Earhart Lives. The book implied Irene to be the 'former' Amelia Earhart. Irene held a press conference at the Time-Life building in New York, (alone) damned the book as "a pack of lies" and "a fantastic story," and strongly stated "I am not a mystery woman and I am not Amelia Earhart." She then stormed out after fielding no questions. Joe Gervais remarked,"She handled the press like a pro." Years later her good friend, Monsignor James Francis Kelley indicated she saw no choice but to react as she did. He also pointed out by 1970 she had 'not been' Amelia Earhart for many years so her denial in the present tense, especially to her, was not necessarily a non-truthful statement. In 1979 Kelley also told his friend, Donald Dekoster how by the 1960s she "barley recognized herself anymore for who she used to be." Irene sued McGraw-Hill but after five years refused to submit her fingerprints as 'proof positive' of her identity, so in early 1976 a ten dollar consideration was paid by her to Gervais and the book's author, Joe Klaas, who in turn paid her the same amount to end a separate suit she levied against them. McGraw-Hill did pay a mid five-figure settlement to her for 'damaging her reputation' by way of a few specified false allegations, to include the suggestion she was never legally married to her British husband, Guy Bolam who she had wed in New York in 1958.     
 
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After initially agreeing to do so, observe here what independent filmmaker Noel Dockstader did not discuss or show in his self-produced film 'Where's Amelia Earhart' occasionally seen on the National Geographic Channel. Mr. Dockstater declined to address the recent discovery of more than one person having used the same Irene Craigmile Bolam identity. According to the history of Irene Craigmile Bolam she was born in 1904 and died in 1982. Yet the Irene Craigmile Bolam who Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965, then spent several years investigating the background of, only appeared in the photograph history of Irene Craigmile Bolam from 1945 to 1982. Again, just recently this became newly recognized forensic reality information.

Shown directly below, the woman featured on the cover of Irene Bolam's 1982 Memorial Dinner program was not the Irene Craigmile Bolam who Joe Gervais met and photographed in 1965 at a Long Island, New York gathering of well know retired pilots.

Eyes and Faces forensically compared...
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...this 1982 'family ID'd' Irene Craigmile Bolam was a different person than the 1945-1982 Irene.

The National News Media 'Big Three' Earhart Investigators
 
It is essential to realize: Although they represent completely different theories, one Elgen Long of the Nauticos Group, one Bill Prymak who heads the Amelia Earhart Society, and Richard Gillespie who maintains the TIGHAR organization, (all fairly wealthy and influential private citizens) have dominated public perception of Amelia Earhart's 'mystery' through the news media for the past three decades. Recently their influence guided the National Geographic Channel's latest profile of Earhart's 1937 'disappearance.' Mr. Long, a past good friend of Amelia's late Sister Muriel has always touted the 'crashed and sank' version of Earhart's fate. (After the 1960s Muriel and United States history quietly seemed to favor this ending as well.) Bill Prymak suggested Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan were possibly spies who ended up in the Japanese mandates and somehow perished there. And Richard Gillespie offered how the duo ended up at Nikumororo of the Phoenix Islands where they radioed for help for three days before the tide pulled their plane out to sea to sink, leaving them to die of hunger and dehydration. Curious, no authenticated evidence ever substantiated any of their claims, and few academic historians have ever taken any Earhart theory seriously. Elgen Long used to lecture to audiences with Muriel sitting beside him, and more recently he was engaged as an advisor for the Hilary Swank/Fox-Searchlight movie, 'Amelia.' Contrary to Elgen Long's opinion, over time Bill Prymak became to main media go-to person regarding the age old 'spy' theory; and since 1990 Richard Gillespie has held many TIGHAR press conferences about his Nikumororo claim. [Recently Mr. Gillespie held one announcing how Earhart's DNA evidence was possibly retrieved from Nikumororo, mentionioning it will take "a year" for a Canadian lab to test some items he found there. Experts regard it as a sensational suggestion lacking true merit and creating false hopes. For one thing, the items he referred to were attributed to previous ships known to have moored there or run aground, and at least one brief attempt made at habitation. For another, the last 'official' radio message from Earhart was received while she was still safely airborne. True, after she stated one final line of position her radio fell silent while her plane was estimated by experts to still have 'four or five hours of fuel left.' No "we're in trouble" nor were any SOS signals ever authentically accounted for, and thus bore the basic mystery of Amelia Earhart.] The 'Earhart spy theory' was introduced in the 1960s although to date it too has never been authenticated or ever accepted. Meanwhile, as if time washed them away, there were many conveyed reports of Amelia Earhart's continued existence under the auspice of Japan among its Imperial Islands after she turned up missing in 1937. As mentioned in the Joe Gervais paragraph shown above, the first collection numbering greater than seventy in individual affidavits,* was confiscated by top U. S. military officials in Japan in 1960 at the Fuchu U. S. Air base. [*From The Search For Amelia Earhart by Fred Goerner, Doubleday, 1966.] Many more surfaced since then as "official silence in Tokyo and Washington" always prevailed.
 
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THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE

TRY NOT TO FEAR THE IRENE-AMELIA TRUTH, OR TO READILY ACCEPT THE FULMINATIONS OF PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS WHO LOUDLY DECRY IT, AS THEY DIVERT PUBLIC OPINION OF AMELIA EARHART IN OTHER DIRECTIONS THROUGH NATIONAL MEDIA OUTLETS. INSTEAD, RECOGNIZE THE SILENT REGARD TOWARDS AMELIA EARHART THAT HAS LONG BEEN EXHIBITED BY THE FAMILIES OF AMELIA AND IRENE, AND OF COURSE BY JAPAN, ENGLAND, AND THE UNITED STATES. FOR SO MUCH IS AKIN TO OFFICIAL SILENCE,' WHERE TRUTH ALONE ALWAYS TRIUMPHS.

Since 1970 the person of Irene Craigmile Bolam has remained a less reported on yet, 'heated' subject of debate among Earhart research scholars. Most ended up trying to dismiss her importance out of hand, but it was as if she refused to go away. See and learn here, how in recent years and regardless of the way official U. S. historical dictum record keepers try to avoid dealing with the topic, it is plain as day anymore how Amelia Earhart, at some point during the World War Two era, surely did become one of three individuals who employed the same identity of 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.'      

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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 Bolam, AKA the Gervais-Irene. 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 partly 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 and Filmmaker, Tod Swindell who also serves as Chief Editor of Irene-Amelia.com. The research opinions and forensic material of Beyond 37' & Irene-Amelia.com have been copyrighted and renewed yearly by Tod Swindell, C. 2001-2011]
 

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