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Dick Lepsy (missing person)
MarkBennett:
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Mark, I realize you have a close personal relationship with Vicki Wilson, is that not true? Did you not travel to Washington with her and interview an eyewitness together? I hardly think you can give an unbiased opinion on a suspect who competes with Mel Wilson. I think you are just defending your friend, which is very noble. I am writing this so people who study this case and read this in the future see the whole picture and understand that most people's opinions on this board are highly subjective.
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You can attack the opinion or you can attack the presenter. When you do the second, it's usually because can't do the first.
Regardless of any personal relationships, I think my opinion is well founded.
We have two missing persons we're comparing. One is a career criminal and con man. One is the right age. One disappeared only two months before the hijacking instead of two years. Both are the right height and build.
Other than being missing, there really is nothing else to tie either to crime. So, I'm not saying either Mel or Lepsy is or is not Cooper.
If you're going to look at missing persons, I would definitely look at both. But if you could only look at one, it seems logical to me that Mel Wilson is the one you'd look at first.
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Fair enough. I don't think we are actually too far apart on what we think to bicker about it, and I'm the one doing the bickering anyway. I consider you one of the more level headed people on the board and pay close attention to your opinion. On the positive side, we've been able to keep two missing persons in the public eye, and barring some unforeseen miracle, someone hearing these stories and coming forward with new information is the only way either cases will find resolution.
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I agree as well. I think we do a good job on this board of disagreeing without being disagreeable. That's why I come here.
nmiwrecks:
Here is a brief timeline of recent events concerning Robert Richard Lepsy. In November of 2014, Brent Ashcroft and I started working on a news piece concerning Lepsy’s possible resemblance to the FBI sketch of “D.B. Cooper”. The goals of the news piece were to raise awareness of Lepsy’s obscure disappearance in the hopes of inspiring someone to come forward with new information, and also, to persuade the FBI to take a look at Lepsy’s resemblance to Cooper and get Lepsy into the FBI’s “system”.
In November of 2015, the news piece was release nationally and was one of the biggest stories over Thanksgiving weekend. Link=You are not allowed to view links.
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Though the story was seen by millions and millions of people, no new tips on the disappearance of Robert Richard Lepsy were received.
Two months later, in January of 2016, the FBI received test results from the FBI laboratory concerning materiel from what the FBI described as a “suspect who came to their attention”. They also commented that this suspect was the only one who fit eyewitness descriptions of D.B. Cooper ( 6’, Brown eyes, black hair, etc.) in the last five years (post L.D.?)
Upon receiving the FBI lab test results, the FBI decided to immediately close the Cooper case after 45 years because they thought the case was unprosecutable. The FBI is no longer interested in hearing about any other suspects whatsoever, ever. That’s done. It’s over.
The FBI announced the closing of the Cooper case via press release in July of 2016, in tandem with a History Channel show concerning the Cooper case.
I am not promoting Robert Richard Lepsy as a suspect in the D.B. Cooper case. I merely want to present the facts of what happened for people who may read this in the future, and defend my decision on bringing this information forward.
Parrotheadvol:
Though I never thought Lepsy was a good suspect, you certainly do not have to defend your decision on bringing him forward as a possible suspect. Ultimately your goal was to find answers about Lepsy and give his family some answers. I hope you can eventually do that, regardless of whether or not Lepsy was Cooper.
Lynn:
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Register or LoginToday, October 29th, is the 45th anniversary of the disappearance of Dick Lepsy. His car was found in the Cherry Capitol Airport parking lot in Traverse City, Michigan, unlocked, keys in the ignition and half a pack of cigarettes on the dash. He was never seen or heard from again.
Do you know what brand he smoked? Smokers will smoke anything in a pinch, but most are pretty true to their brand. The last time a store told me they didn't have my brand I stared at the clerk like he'd said it in Klingon.
Where DBC was before Portland airport is a huge question mark. Lepsy physically doesn't sound like Cooper to me, and my gut is that Cooper was in Portland before the 305 flight, mainly because it wouldn't make sense to hit two checkpoints with a "bomb" in a briefcase when you could just hit one - especially as the first checkpoint would be to board a plane without rear stairs. But it made sense to board a west coast 727 rather than an east coast one, as most of Nixon's sky marshal teams were east coast or Florida area. So an east coast Cooper would be smart to go west before pulling "the job". Even if not Lepsy, Cooper could be east coast or out of country, could be a missing person, and was certainly a real smoker. Non smokers rarely go through 8 cigs for show. He'd have coughed his brains out.
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Oh, and back to the smoking - I smoke moderately, but chain-smoked when I lived in Japan and they were $2 a pack and we were partying a lot. But I do remember that when I flew (and you could still smoke on most Asian flights in the 1990s), I smoked far less, because in cabin air the smokes taste and smell stronger and dry out your throat more. Smokers still smoke, but most will not chain smoke during a flight. Eight is a fair number for an elongated but still short flight. I think Cooper was a fairly heavy smoker, but that's just an educated guess.
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