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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] ~~~
Stateside: The People vs. The Executive Office
First column excerpts from Rosalea
Barker's Stateside with
Rosalea "Such
is the seductive power of the intrigue surrounding Amelia Earhart's disappearance. For two days many knowledgeable
people had been explaining their theories and supporting them with the fruits of their research to the point where I felt
like I was trying to separate black sheep from white in a computer game that kept randomly changing the colour of the
sheep. Just when I thought all the facts had been marshalled in support of one theory, those same facts would be marshalled
in support of another, completely opposite one." By lunchtime on Saturday, though, I was as hooked
as investigative journalist Joe Klaas was in 1965 in Las Vegas, when he met with retired US Air Force Major Joe Gervais,
and then ended up writing a book called `Amelia Earhart Lives!' about Gervais' insistence that a woman in New York
- Irene Bolam - was the re-identified Amelia Earhart. And after watching some video
and looking at the manuscript of another researcher, Tod Swindell, who employed the methods of forensic experts to
compare IB and AE physically, I think Joe Gervais was right. Swindell's manuscript is titled The People vs. The Executive
Branch, and it is his use of that title that really got my interest.
The Arizona Republic by John Faherty (2007)
"Tod Swindell is a filmmaker,
among other things, who for more than ten years has been actively pursuing the notion that
Amelia Earhart went on to live a long, full life before dying in New Jersey."
"He is not the first person to have this theory, but he may be the person most
actively trying to pursue it." John Faherty, The Arizona Republic 1/21/07 The Associated Press (Featured on CNN) "We were inclined to think Irene probably
was not Amelia. However the Forensic studies are very convincing. She was not an ordinary
housewife as she claimed. She was influential, knew many well placed people and was well traveled."
The now late John Bolam, referring to Tod Swindell's then in progress Forensic
Analysis in a 2002 Associated Press
article by Ron Staton. John Bolam was the survived Brother of Irene's British husband, Guy who she wed
in 1958. He believed Guy (who died in 1970) was British MI6.
The Contra Costa Times
"Tod Swindell, an Earhart researcher told the audience on Saturday, ""The executive branch of the
government was aware of Earhart on a level the rest of the public wasn't.""
"Swindell discussed letters, tapes and presidential communications that surfaced many
years after Earhart's disappearance that provided tenuous clues." Linda Davis, The Contra
Costa Times, 2002. Forensic Study Reaction Statements: "Tod, I have carefully studied the overlays and your presentation. Your conclusion that there were two
Irene Bolams has completely convinced me that this is indeed the case. You have also
convinced me that the Gervais-Bolam was AE. Incredible. You have quite an impressive
package there. Keep charging - Gene." Reprinted from a note to Tod Swindell from Retired Navy Rear Admiral, Eugene
Tissot. Tissot's Father, Ernie was a friend of Amelia's who had served as her
head plane mechanic during her 1935 Hawaii to Oakland flight. This was Gene Tissot's response to his examination
of the first distributed forensic analysis results packet he was one of four original
recipients of.
"Your work relating to AE and
IB is absolutely outstanding. There is no other way to describe it. I just wanted you to know that I have nothing
but admiration for you and I am honored and proud to be on the winning team. I'm convinced
you have solved the mystery." Note from USAF Colonel Rollin C. Reineck (Ret.) to Tod
Swindell. Colonel Reineck was also one of the four original recipients of the
first distributed forensic analysis results. In 11/04 Reineck's book Amelia
Earhart Survived was published through the Paragon Agency, duly crediting Swindell's
forensic argument achievements. Featured in the book from pages 156 to 165 are several
samples and photos separating the different identified 'Irene's' reproduced directly
from Mr. Swindell's then still-in-progress analysis.
Next: A Re-cap of an Amelia Earhart Related Press
Releases from 2017. We should have questioned it more, because it was more than likely true after all. Debunking
the Debunker
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Above:
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of Amelia's disappearance, in 2017 NBC news and other national media outlets featured a
story about a controversial photo located in the U.S. National Archives by investigator, Lester Kinney, who believed it depicted
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan on a Jaluit dock in the Marshall Islands, with the Japanese sea tender, the 'Koshu' in the
background. Kinney, a former U.S. government investigator who spent over a decade examining Amelia Earhart's disappearance,
remarked how the photo added to the multitude of pre-existing evidence that "clearly indicated" Amelia ended up
in Japan's custody, further citing how it was labeled, "ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) Jaluit Marshall Islands, 1937."
Shawn Henry, a former FBI Assistant Director was also confident that Earhart and Noonan could seen in the photo, as highlighted
in the enlargement below it. The History Channel featured this in a documentary
that supported the decades of in-depth investigative research detailing Amelia's Marshall Islands ditching.
No surprise, the authenticity of the photo was quickly challenged after the History Channel's show aired. A person quickly
claimed the photo had been taken in 1935 instead of 1937, for a Japanese travelogue book. Yet, this challenge was soon after debunked after it was learned the Jaluit dock featured
in the photo was not built until 1936, making it impossible for the photo to have been taken in 1935. The so called "travelogue book" was a
digitized sham whose chief proponent declined to come forward after his initial rebuttal. This shows how deeply the Earhart
truth is still being controlled through news media outlets. The elements the photo displayed matched the way
the scenario was consistently described in the past by local eyewitnesses, with Earhart and Noonan having been "dropped
off on a Jaluit dock" by the "Koshu," the Imperial Nipponese Navy vessel that was part of the transport team
used after the duo was rescued. The ship in the background matched the Koshu, and the male and female Caucasians do closely
compare to Earhart and Noonan. (See below display.) The Marshalls
were considered a restricted area for outsiders at the time. Caucasians did not visit there without some kind of high-level clearance from Japan.
The forensic superimposed photos below display the
congruence of Fred Noonan's hairline and facial features (note hair coif shadow in the above high-noon photo) and the congruence
of Amelia's back from the above '1937' dated ONI photograph.
Above left to right: 1937 ONI photo transitions into Fred
Noonan photo. Below left
to right: 1937 ONI photo transitions into Amelia Earhart photo.
Preface about the stamp
shown below: This 1987 Republic of the Marshall Islands '50th Anniversary of Amelia Earhart's World Flight' commemorative
stamp (one from a series of six) depicts Earhart and Noonan's rescue and the recovery of Earhart's Electra off a shoal adjacent
to Mili Atoll. The Sino-Japanese War began just five days after Earhart was reported missing. It was a war the U. S. was strongly
opposed to. In 2002 the United Nations Ambassador to the Marshall Islands, Alfred Cappelle described to Ron Staton of the
Associated Press how it remained "common knowledge" in his country, "Amelia Earhart definitely ended up in
the Marshall Islands."
| On what became of Amelia's plane? |
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| It was hoisted onto a Japanese vessel as the rescued Earhart & Noonan observed. |
~~~ Why
The New Millennium 'Irene-Amelia Forensic Comparison Analysis' Was Deemed 'Essential' The new millennium Irene-Amelia forensic analysis was deemed
essential because the decades old controversy over Mrs. Irene Bolam's full life story was never resolved. As well, since the 1980s
Amelia Earhart mystery solving clubs have peddled some misguided 'solutions' to the public while seeking donations
to aid their seemingly plausible, all be them, incorrectly based calculations. Add to this how for years now people
have promulgated fake news information to the public about the Irene controversy by suggesting a forensic detective
named Kevin Richlin, who briefly appeared in a 2006 National Geographic special, had at long last 'proved' that the Mrs. Irene
Bolam in question since the 1970s was never known as Amelia Earhart. In response to this, Detective Richlin has and will continue
to tell anyone he did no such thing. For these reasons and more, the new millennium Irene-Amelia forensic analysis
definitely was needed. The study marked the first ever to comprehensively compare the historically enigmatic, Mrs.
Irene Bolam to Amelia Earhart. The analysis was long overdue as a variety of reputable 'Earhart educated' individuals who
looked into Mrs. Bolam's background in the latter part of the Twentieth Century, ended up voicing a common opinion stating
Mrs. Bolam most definitely had been previously known as 'Amelia Earhart.' Over the years four authors of nationally
published, non-fiction Amelia Earhart books declared the same thing, and they could not be over-challenged either.
The
study's results showed how all of the people over the years who professed that Amelia Earhart chose to privately live the
latter part of her life in the U.S. known as 'Irene' were not only justified to feel the way they did, but they were undeniably
correct as well. Below are some of the early superimposed facial-comparison results:
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| 1923, 1978 |
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| 1933, 1965 |
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| 1928, 1963 |
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| 1932, 1976 |
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| 1928, 1977 |
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The same human being, different names, different eras. As hard as it is
to believe, it's that simple to explain.
Note: Click on the photo
below to go to the Forensic Analysis page. The Amelia Earhart press releases and stories that appear further
down display the atypical viewpoint the national press circuit has always displayed toward
Earhart's person and her 1937 disappearance, and the general media
fodder that has kept the 'mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance' going over
the years. Although there has never been an official investigation into Amelia's disappearance, on average there are about
one to three Earhart press notices of some kind every week throughout the year
that contain some new tidbit of information about Amelia, or a new mystery solving attempt concerning
her long-ago disappearance.
| Amelia Earhart, age 26, before she became famous. |
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| "Beyond 37' has lifted the veil off the real historical record of Amelia Earhart." |
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