Another glaring omission is you do not tell viewers what the basis for the excavation was or who set that agenda - it was Dorwin of course. Dorwin and a fellow agent's first act was to identify the Igram find location (a stick had been stuck in the sand to mark that position). Dorwin and the fellow agents then did a "canvas" of the site, walking first south, then back to the Ingram find, then north ... to see what they could see/find. (All of this as described to me by Dorwin and the other agent). Going South Dorwin says they followed a debris field of money shards; when the pieces of money on or near the surface ran out they got a stick and marked that location. Dorwin and the other agent went back and using an implement they began marking out 20 yard lines in the sand, visible in the news video. They went north of the Ingram find and cut more 20 yard line segments in the sand, visible on the video. That area of marked lines became the area for the excavation presumably based on fragments of money Dorwin and ________ had found in their original canvas. Up to this point nobody had had time to probe much below the surface.
This basic information is entirely missing from your video.
The above description that you received from Dorwin may be true and accurate, but it is not what Dorwin told me. Further, you have posted that Dorwin told you that this surface-shard trail was something that a "blind man could follow," or words to that effect.
That characterization is in stark contrast to what Dorwin told me, and is not described at all in Himmelsbach's book, which would be a glaring omission in my view.
It also directly contradicts what Brian Ingram told me about looking for more money, and certainly seems counter-intuitive that a destitute family finding 6-grand at the beach would presumably see the shards that a blind man could follow two days later.
Hence, I did not mention this dimension of the money find. In addition, Dorwin has readily acknowledged that his memory may be faulty, and he gave several instances of that occurring in our conversations, i.e.: finding the briefcase, the dredge "Bedell," was still at T-Bar in 1980, etc.. Thus, I did not expand upon the speculative nature of what Dorwin may have told you.
On a side note, didn't Dorwin arrive at T-Bar on Wednesday, the FBI's second day at the beach? Didn't you post here a statement that Dorwin was in court on Tuesday when the feds first showed up? If my memory is correct on what you posted a few years ago, this would seem to dispute the notion that Dorwin staked out the area in the first federal action of exploring T-Bar.
Regardless, the essential story remains: the FBI found money fragments in the sand column at T-Bar down to a depth of 3-4 feet and spread out over a significant area.
Plus, Dorwin Schreuder was a witness who is graciously available to us researchers who call him.
And thank you for watching the video. Did you notice there were no squeaking chairs???
