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Suspects And Confessions
nickyb233:
If Cooper was indeed Canadian or had ties to canada (family, friends, coworkers, ect.) might this grudge go back even farther? The 2707 was cancelled in May 1971, and while that's probably more than enough time to plan a hijacking and extraction from a ground rendezvous point (Cooper appeared to have excellent knowledge of the locale from the air), the Canadian Avro Arrow was killed in part by US government pressure in 1959.
If Cooper was in his mid-40s/mid-50s, then he'd absolutely be old enough to have been a young engineer involved in some field affected by the cancellation of the Arrow, transplanted to the US to find a career in the industries built up around Boeing (where his knowledge of work on supersonic aircraft would have been invaluable), seen another project collapse due to government failure, and decided to have his revenge.
So, an experienced Canadian-American metallurgist with a military background and a grudge against the federal government? Sounds like that's a starting point for a good Dan Cooper candidate for me.
Bruce A. Smith:
When did DB Cooper enter Flight 305?
I don't know. What I do know is that different folks say different stuff. Bill Mitchell told me that he and Cooper boarded the plane early in the process and he saw DBC put on his sunglasses on the tarmac because the sun has just come out.
Others, (GG, I believe) claim that DBC was last. Further, I've heard one report that Cooper was one of the first to board the plane and was turned around by Flo and asked to rejoin the passengers in the terminal.
All of my sources for these tidbits are a bit fuzzy at the moment, but as I re-comb my notes I make an effort to provide more data.
Also, this is the first time I'm hearing about a sketch done immediately at Sea-Tac and using Robert Gregory as the main eye-witness, and that this sketch was later in the possession of the Las Vegas FBI office. Weird.
Along those lines, I have searched hard to ascertain where Robert Gregory was actually sitting. The best that I can come up with is that HE didn't know where he was sitting and told conflicting stories to different agents at different times. I spoke with some of Gregory's descendants at the 2013 Tacoma conference, and they don't know where Uncle Bob was sitting either.
georger:
Anyone going to back this guy ,,, with a flight path through South Afrika? Only $2.99! That's right folks he's on sale as your next best prime DB Cooper suspect. GET HIM WHILE HEZ HOT! He looks just like Cooper!
Bruce A. Smith:
Nope. Ears too big.
Bruce A. Smith:
Richard McCoy revisited
I just saw the DB Cooper episode from the Travel Channel's new Mission Declassified series. They reveal LOTS of new information, and make a strong case for McCoy as Cooper. However, I disagree with their conclusion that McCoy was Cooper.
That said, at the top of the TC's list is that they have finally interviewed Bernie Rhodes, albeit via Skype. No one else has ever interviewed Bernie, and Bernie says definitively that McCoy was Cooper.
Plus, the TC folks have found the 302s that prove the wife's alibi - that McCoy was home for T-Day - was false. The TC people show the 302s on the gas receipt from Las Vegas and the collect call to Provo from Las Vegas on T-Day.
Secondly, the TC has court documents from 1991 that reveal the wife lied to the FBI about McCoy's skyjacking, and that she had prior knowledge. Not clear on what skyjacking, but this was new information to me.
Thirdly, they show a 302 that reveals that a man looking like DB Cooper paid a cabbie to drive him from Reno to Las Vegas on Thanksgiving Day, 1971. Whew. That was new to me, also.
Lastly, they have facial recognition confirmation from some private corporation that claims the sketch "A" of DB Cooper and the primary pix of McCoy have a 96% similarity, while another comparison with the "B" sketch with sunglasses and a secondary pix of McCoy is a 98% match. Impressive, even though Tina Mucklow and Bill Mitchell have said that McCoy is not Cooper.
Sadly, my contributions to this episode have been mostly cut, especially the nitty-gritty on the ground search and a possible Amboy landing, ie: how one gets out of a tree after being snagged with a parachute. But they did use a ton o' stuff from the Mountain News, especially pix of suspects and confessees, for which they paid me $250. Much appreciated.
Doubly sad, the TC just informed me today that I will not be eligible to appear in any new DB Cooper shoots since I've already been in this one. "The Network," whatever that is, apparently wants no repeats.
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