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Shutter:
Since the forum is on it's way to being found on Google. I thought I would open a topic for Vicki to tell her story, and show some information about her father's disappearance in 1971. all it takes is one person to remember something that could give some sort of lead to what happened to her father. it will be another avenue for Vicki to get this information out to the public.

       

georger:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginSince the forum is on it's way to being found on Google. I thought I would open a topic for Vicki to tell her story, and show some information about her father's disappearance in 1971. all it takes is one person to remember something that could give some sort of lead to what happened to her father. it will be another avenue for Vicki to get this information out to the public.

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I hate to see suspect photos clogging up every discussion group all from the same poster - hopefully a forum devoted to Melvin will stop that?   

EVickiW:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginYou are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginSince the forum is on it's way to being found on Google. I thought I would open a topic for Vicki to tell her story, and show some information about her father's disappearance in 1971. all it takes is one person to remember something that could give some sort of lead to what happened to her father. it will be another avenue for Vicki to get this information out to the public.

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I hate to see suspect photos clogging up every discussion group all from the same poster - hopefully a forum devoted to Melvin will stop that?

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Sorry Georger, however the links for the videos are my tagline. Shutter has formatted the links so they expand. I do not do it intentionally and actually have refrained from posting because of it.

Shutter:
Ok, well since we have a topic for your pops. lets remove the signature video's? we can easily put them here for all to see. I certainly don't want you holding back from posting because of this. I know I dropped the ball several times trying to resolve the issue. I'll just pin the video's to the top of the list.

sound good?

Shutter:
Quote from: shutter on Today at 05:25:37 PM
Was Melvin ever on radar with the FBI and DB Cooper? did they ever look into the possibility, or are they basically going to turn down everyone even if they supply the cost?

Vicki's response

I spoke with Eng on February 11, 2011. He called me at work on the advice of Jerry Thomas. After he introduced himself, he  said, with hesitance... "sooooo......why dooooo you think your dad was Dan Cooper?" After our short conversation he asked me to send him an email detailing some of the things we spoke about on the phone.

Here is the email:

Agent Eng,

So nice to speak with you about my father, Melvin Luther Wilson. I do not know if he IS DB Cooper, but the similarities are alarming and I believe the FBI should consider comparing his fingerprints. 

Since 2008, I have felt my father,Melvin Luther Wilson, could also be a viable D. B. Cooper suspect. I do not have years of background on my father, but feel he is a physical match to the original descriptions of the witnesses on the night of the hi-jacking.

A little background.....My father was born in September 8, 1927 in the San Francisco/Oakland area. He joined the Navy. He spent time in California prisons before and during his first marriage. He entered San Quentin prison in 1954 then left his first family upon the end of his sentence. We have no history of his whereabouts from the time he was released from San Quentin until he met my mother in 1963 in Las Vegas Nevada.

Our family was profiled on an Unsolved Mysteries video that aired on March 27, 1997. It was taped two days prior to Thanksgiving in Hawaii in 1996.

(I supplied Eng the link here, however this link is now dead and I have reloaded the video on Youtube here:  )

Video can be found at the top of this thread.....edited by shutter.....

In 2008, the St. Paul Newspaper, Pioneer Press, ran a story shortly after the parachute was found, the hi-jacking and D. B. Cooper. At that time, my coworker asked if I had seen the paper. It was laying on my desk. I looked at the sketch and simultaneously, she asked me "did you ever think D.B Cooper could be your dad"? as I thought "that sketch looks like my dad". I never really gave it much thought prior to that day. Honestly I never heard of D.B. Cooper before that day.

Our father left our family in 1971, a few months prior to the hi-jacking. He was on bail for counterfeiting charges out of the Western Branch of the Wisconsin U.S. Marshal's office. He has not been heard from since and is currently a wanted fugitive from justice.

A few items from the video:

He matches the physical description
- 6' and 180 lbs
- dark hair parted on the left
- olive complexion
- smoked/drank. ( I cannot tell you what brands/type of alcohol as I was 7 when he left, my Mom saved the stamps from his cigarette packs)
- He wore sunglasses, but never prescription glasses. (My Mom said it was because he was vain)
- He spent 5 years in St Paul, Minnesota before he left us. He did travel frequently.
- He wore suits, ties and loafers.
- He was in the Navy.
- He spent time in San Quentin and Leavenworth. 


Earlier I read statements from the FBI site, that the man known as Dan Cooper was a desperate man, with no family that may have missed him. As of September 1971, my father was already gone and not coming home. We would not have missed him or reported him missing.

He has never been heard from since 1971 (to the best of our knowledge).

After one month and not receiving a response back from Eng, Jerry Thomas called him. Eng told Jerry that he did not think my dad looked much like the sketch and that he was not going to pursue it. Is it a coincidence that this was the same time Marla was also speaking to the FBI about her uncle, L.D.?

So to answer your question.....I don't know if Mel is on the radar, however I know they looked up his case with the mugshot as I gave Eng his FBI # over the phone and he looked it up on his computer as we spoke. He asked me to write the email to him recounting our discussion and I never received a direct response from him. I only heard second-hand from Jerry Thomas.

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