EU/Lynn are with Sailshaw in choosing Peterson. Here is a quote from back in 2014 from Sailshaw. The piercing brown eyes made it to Wiki somehow too. How hard was it to get brown contacts in 1971? At some point Sailshaw thought Peterson was wearing contacts. Below is his quote from Re: The DNA/The FBI/DB Cooper…Whats The deal? on October 11, 2014 at 11:54:06 AM.
Another aspect of DB is the disguise he use was so simple. He wore sunglasses to cover his eye color (what the FBI looks at to identify the suspect). The only time he took off the sunglasses was to show the Flight Attendants his eye color. They said he had "piercing brown eyes" which covered up hi actual blue eyes. No other disguise was necessary and it did the trick with the investigators.
Bob Sailshaw
Sailshaw had the right guy, Sheridan, but he tried too hard to prove it and took a few wrong turns.
U
Remember, Sailshaw insisted that Sheridan had quizzed him about the 727 aft stairs, but upon learning that he (Sailshaw) was only working on 737 air stairs quickly lost interest in Sailshaw. As noted in an earlier post I proved this was incorrect because neither the 727 nor 737 had flown yet.
Sailshaw also believed that Sheridan sent some of the news media letters claiming responsibility and taunting authorities. I do not believe this to be true. It doesn’t sound like the Sheridan I know. It doesn’t sound like the DB Cooper I know. There was nothing to gain and everything to lose if the real Cooper sent them.
Finally, the story about revealing his eyes to mislead witnesses because he was wearing brown contacts also doesn’t add up given the FBI files that pertain to the brief period of time when he wasn’t wearing sunglasses.
There is plenty of factual evidence pointing to Sheridan. Fantastic stories and explanations aren’t necessary.
I was just reviewing some of the thoughts that Sailshaw believed and I find some of his thoughts very doubtful! He actually said that he thought Cossey could have been involved in heist and that He might have been Cooper’s ground connection ! Really ? I find that to be quite far out there ! To each his own !
While I don't think any such link had been established at the time of Sail's passing, I think I know where Sail got the impression. Both Sheridan and Cossey were at Issaquah, and in later years, Cossey changed his tune on whether or not Cooper could have survived. When you look at interviews with Coss and the History interview/Skyjumper article with Pete, both give almost exactly the same reasoning as to why Cooper couldn't have survived, and both state things that other expert skydivers would question and have. This, however, only proves they shared an opinion, not that they were personally connected. Not impossible, but would need to be proven. My feeling has always been that Cooper acted alone, but that's my own confirmation bias. He doesn't "feel" like a team to me, and honestly I think a team would have asked for more money.
Having spoken with EU at length, this latest investigation is not a Sail vs Pete-type situation, all due respect to Mr. Sailshaw, who of course went into Cooperland with a pre-formed theory. EU has taken Sail's more questionable theoretical tangents with a grain of salt, I believe without throwing out the baby with the bathwater. He began with the profile of Cooper and narrowed to SP, not the other way around, and has been very careful of his confirmation biases since doing so. He has thrown out illogical speculation even where it supports his thesis and has been rigorous in his investigation. He has avoided conspiracy speculation. At the very least, I expect that when this carefully prepared report on a realistically viable suspect comes out (one of only 2 or 3, IMO), it will blow nonsense like the Rackstraw and the utterly insupportable KC theory right off the Google search engines. For that reason alone, I am SO looking forward to it. And if Pete is innocent, he has nothing to fear - honestly, even if he's guilty, he probably has nothing to fear unless he still has a Cooper twenty somewhere and accidentally spends it at the Piggly Wiggly.