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2020 Amelia Earhart
Vision
This website was
launched in 2007, amid an in-progress 'forensic research study' being conducted by an investigative journalist. It profiles
the first-ever objective analysis of Amelia Earhart's
1937 'disappearance' and 'missing person case' to compare two women pilots from the 1930s; Amelia Earhart and Irene O'Crowley
Craigmile. During the past two decades
the now completed study became recognized as the most comprehensive evaluation of Amelia Earhart's failed world-flight attempt
to date. It is also the first to offer a bona fide forensic answer to what became of Amelia.
Note: Irene-Amelia.com, Protecting Earhart, and the
forensic research conclusion they present are the copyrighted intellectual properties of investigative journalist, Tod Swindell.
[U.S. Copyright registration #'s: TXu 1-915-926; 2014, TXu 2-061-539;
2017] ~~~
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Dr. Alex Mandel, a self-described "Amelia Earhart
fanatic" intentionally misleads the public about Irene Craigmile Bolam using Wikipedia as a platform to do so.
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Important: The Wikipedia
'Irene Craigmile Bolam' page created and solely moderated by Dr. Alex Mandel of the Ukraine is purposefully misleading.
Juxtaposed to what it states, NO forensic expert was EVER hired by the National Geographic Society who conclusively nullified
the 'Amelia became Irene' postulation. In fact, NO forensic expert EVER conclusively nullified the public assertion originally
made by retired USAF Major Joseph A. Gervais in 1970, that stated Amelia Earhart managed to live on after she went missing
in 1937 and later surfaced in the United States known as 'Irene O'Crowley Craigmile.'
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Wikipedia's Folly folly: lack of good sense; foolishness
Note:
Wikipedia is a 'public information supplied' forum. It is not a recognized source for 'official world history' record keeping. WARNING: Wikipedia's 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' page combined information about the original Irene O'Crowley
Craigmile with the former Amelia Earhart, who, after World War Two used the original Irene's same identity in the United
States. Wikipedia's page also incorrectly leads one to believe the
National Geographic Society hired a forensic detective who 'disproved' the 'Amelia became Irene'
equation by "concluding the two were not the same." This never happened. Dr. Alex Mandel twisted information around
that was shown in a National Geographic Channel special that aired in 2006 to make it sound like it did. Below, Wikipedia
featured this photograph of the former Amelia Earhart on its 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' page, and omitted how the same Irene
identity was attributed to two other Twentieth Century women. Below: This is
the woman Joseph A. Gervais met-and-photographed in 1965. She is shown here in Detroit, Michigan in 1976. Wikipedia identifies
her as the one and only, "Mrs. Irene Craigmile Bolam." [Wikipedia's supplied 1980 date of the photo is incorrect.]
Tod Swindell's new millennium forensic comparison study proved this Mrs. Irene Craigmile Bolam, who was identified nowhere
as "Irene" prior to the mid-1940s, was formerly known as Amelia Earhart.
Below: Wikipedia's 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' page
supplements the consistent measures of obfuscation the Amelia-became-Irene reality has long been subjected to. 'Conspiracy' and 'cover-up'
were negative descriptions that inappropriately characterized certain aspects of Amelia Earhart's disappearance circumstances
and eventual return to the United States with the different identity of Irene Craigmile applied to her person. Anymore it
is clear false descriptions were applied to the 'Amelia became known as Irene' reality over the years to steer news
media sources away from the 'recognizable truth' of Amelia Earhart's name-changed survival. Dissenters equally embraced a
quiet motto projected by official history's long held viewpoint: 'The mystery of Amelia Earhart exists because it's supposed
to exist.'
Below are portions of the Irene
Craigmile Bolam page solely built by Dr. Alex Mandel of the Ukraine, who also moderates it.
built by the public encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Tod Swindell's corrections to Dr. Mandel's misleading information are
inserted in red. Note: Dr. Mandel has always maintained a condescening stance toward the Amelia-became-Irene reality.
[The
photo below, reprinted from Wikipedia, features the former Amelia Earhart taken in Detroit, Michigan in 1976.] FROM WIKIPEDIA:
| "Irene Craigmile Bolam" | 
"Irene Craigmile Bolam c.1980"
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Dr.
Alex Mandel's Wikipedia supplied comments on Irene Craigmile Bolam are in black. Tod Swindell's editorial
responses are in red.
"Born October 1, 1904 Newark,
NJ" (No birth certificate found. 1920 census listed her
age as "14")
"Died July 7, 1982, Bedford, New
Jersey" (The record states she died at Roosevelt Hospital in Edison, New Jersey on that date.)
"Occupation Banker, Homemaker"
(There was more than one Twentieth Century woman attributed to the same Irene Craigmile Bolam identity.
The one pictured above was the famous pilot known as Amelia Earhart in the United States prior to 1938. Recall folk-lore
has it that Amelia Earhart "disappeared without a trace in 1937 and was never seen again." In 1946, Amelia Earhart
reemerged in the U.S. newly identified as Irene Craigmile. Amelia had been an excellent charge with her former husband, George
Putnam when it came to her personal, flying career, and brand business finances. Thus, after some orientation she was ensconced
with a new career in the banking industry in Long Island, New York until she married Englishman, Guy Bolam in 1958, a successful
executive with Radio Luxembourg. She married Guy Bolam the day after her true 61st birthday, July 25, 1958, and she retired
from banking soon after that. Her last official title was Senior Loan Officer and Assistant Vice President of the National
Bank of Great Neck, Long Island. As Amelia she had lived in Great Neck for awhile when she was in her mid-twenties. Overall
Amelia was very familiar with the geography of Long Island having spent so much time there during her flying career, so naturally
her segue to living there as 'Irene' after the war included that pre-advantage.)
"Spouse(s) Guy Bolam, Charles Craigmile, Alvin Heller"
(The original Irene Craigmile was married to Charles Craigmile from 1928 until he died in 1931. In 1933
the original Irene Craigmile became pregnant out of wedlock from her flight instructor, Al Heller, and eloped to marry him.
Their marriage quickly disintegrated and was soon after annulled. By the early 1940s the original Irene Craigmile was no longer
evident and clear photos of her person were expunged. Her son, Larry Heller, was raised by a surrogate mother figure. The
former Amelia Earhart shared the same name and identity of Irene Craigmile with his surrogate mother figure after World War
Two, and later became known as 'Irene Bolam' by virtue of her 1958 marriage to Guy Bolam of England.)
"Parents Richard J. O'Crowley and Bridget Doyle O'Crowley"
(From the home page, the display below spells it our in no uncertain terms. Amelia Earhart knew the
original Irene Craigmile in the 1930s and was afforded her left over identity to use after World War Two.)
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Above & combined with Amelia Earhart below:
The post-World War Two only,
Irene O'Crowley Craigmile.
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Above & enhanced below: The original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile. This once aspiring pilot was acquainted with Amelia Earhart. Here she is shown with her first husband in 1930, a civil engineer named, 'Charles James Craigmile.'
Below: The
original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile is
shown in 1934 with her son. History has it that after Charles Craigmile died, she married Guy Bolam of England in 1958. History is inaccurate here. This Irene O'Crowley Craigmile was never married to Guy Bolam, although she once knew the person who was, shown on the left, who used her same identity after World War Two.
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| From Charles J. Craigmile's obituary |
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To understand
the significance of the new millennium forensic study--and the images above--it is essential to revisit a controversial story that made national news some fifty-years ago:
Most people who heard about this story thought it was a hoax.
It wasn't a hoax. Before the surname of
'Bolam' was added to it in 1958, the name of 'Irene O'Crowley Craigmile' had been attributed to a 1930s' pilot who had flown
with Amelia Earhart. Except by the time World War Two began, the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile no longer appeared
in plain view. The study displays this reality in no uncertain terms. It was through her aunt,
a prominent attorney by the name of Irene Rutherford O'Crowley,
that the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile and Amelia became acquainted with each other. (Amelia had earlier befriended the
original Irene's attorney-aunt through the Zonta organization.)
The story about the original Irene O'Crowley Craigmile's
identity being reapplied to the former Amelia Earhart, began to take form in the mid-1960s. It
was based on a well researched study when it surfaced in 1970--before
it swiftly went away from the public
mindset--something
initially propelled by the instant denial from the woman
in question, the post-World War Two only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile-Bolam, shown in the above-right news photo. Presently, if anyone has a hard time believing, accepting, or
recognizing that the person shown refuting the claim in the above news photo was the former
Amelia Earhart--keep going. You soon will recognize it. The analysis results left it obvious.
To account for why she refused to admit her past identity, after avoiding direct interaction with the investigator who first realized--and then became intent on outing her for who she used to be--the former Amelia Earhart chose to lay-low and prepare a press conference to be held after the book inspired by
the investigator's research, Amelia Earhart Lives, by Joe Klaas, was published. True to her objective, as soon as it
was released into the marketplace, during the short but forceful press conference she held at the famous Time-Life Building in New York
City, the post-World War Two only Irene O'Crowley Craigmile-Bolam sternly denounced the book's contents, most specifically where
it included the implication that she was the survived Amelia Earhart living under an assumed identity. Then after
fielding no questions, she marched out of the room. She was angry, and upset for a long time afterward. Who could
blame her? No one knew what she went through before she became known as Irene and she was not about to start explaining it
to anybody. Conversely, had she admitted her true past then, such an explanation and more would have been demanded of her.
By virtue
of the Twenty-First Century forensic analysis results, the
first Irene-Amelia comparison study on record, any further it is undeniable that the person refuting her past in the above photo
used to be known as, Amelia Earhart
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Above left, Amelia; above right, she is combined with her later life self as, 'Irene'.
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Amelia as Irene at her 1970 press conference. She had no other choice but to deny her famous past.
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Senator Hiram Bingham & Amelia Earhart
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Above: Distinguished and proud with her trademark wings and pearls is the post-World
War Two only, 'Irene O'Crowley
Craigmile'. (Surname 'Bolam'
added in 1958.) She was identified
nowhere as 'Irene' prior to the end of
World War Two. During the post-war era she emerged from out of the blue working at
a bank in Mineola, New York, close to the Long Island airfield where she chartered the 99's women's flying organization seventeen years earlier. Anymore it is obvious, she was not the original, Irene O'Crowley Craigmile. Rather, she was the former Amelia Earhart.
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Shirley Dobson Gilroy's classic 1985, "artistic
tribute to Amelia Earhart"
book, Amelia / Pilot In Pearls
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| The original Irene Craigmile (Bolam) 1930. |
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| Amelia's friend with her husband and father, seen no more after the 1930s, ignored by Wikipedia. |
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