I find it odd that they write a book and fail to show any physical evidence they claim to have. that should of been priority in the book?
It's possible McCoy said he lost the money, but so does a lot of skydivers. then they claim the money found could be the money he offered the crew, but tell stories of McCoy being in Vegas to launder the money?
none of them had access to Portland, or Seattle to look at any of the evidence. both Portland & Seattle have never bought into this story...
Yeah, I don't really see how McCoy could have laundered the money in Vegas or anywhere in the US, let alone the western US, at that time. He could have lost the money, of course. I do try to follow the McCoy theory but have never really thought of him as more than a really talented copycat.
But the irony is, McCoy WAS a criminal. I think it was DB/Dan Cooper who was "copycatting" being a criminal in persona. Two things we know for sure about him: he blended, and he he came off in tone and mannerisms as somewhat genteel. The terms, "No funny stuff" and " I'll do the job" sound like someone who got their criminal talk from crime dramas. ("No funny business or I'll ice the dame, see?") I'd bet this skyjacking was his first and last felony.
Now I don't know how McCoy comes off to you lads, but in EVERY photo of him I've seen - this is a guy I'd have noticed, and I'm a lazy noticer. He looks like someone you wouldn't want to meet in an alley. Even a bowling alley. (Gossett, oddly, does not, although his c.v. sounds like something from Catch Me If You Can in places. He had a psychic show, really? Ditto Peterson, his old photos kinda look like someone's dependable uncle. McCoy looks like the uncle who comes by to raid your dad's liquor when he's not home.)
Back to the airline ticket counter thing, I haven't found an NWA one yet, but all the late 60's-early 70s photos I'm finding are showing high counters - some with barely enough space at the passenger level to write anything at all but with a desk-like space for the agent. Unless someone can show some proof or can get a ticket agent at the time to testify that was a lax practice, I'm not buying that Cooper filled in his own ticket.
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