Bruce, it appears you typed into the body of my post so that your paragraph below is attributed to me:

"That said, I do agree with many who have posted here and elsewhere that Dwayne/Harold Ingram, Brian's father, sure looks squirrelly in the HC docu. Is he lying to protect Rackstraw and his own involvement in a plant? I don't think so, and I say that with a strong belief, but I do acknowledge that the elder Ingram is weird. Plus, I probably wouldn't trust him with more than enough money to buy a pack of cigarettes."

I did not type this.

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"Some people claim that the money was deliberately buried at Tina Bar.  But they have never been able to provide a meaningful reason for Cooper wanting to bury money there in the first place."

Robert99, if someone did provide a meaningful reason for Cooper wanting to bury money there - and I don't just mean pirate treasure or some unlikely means of throwing the authorities off after a decade - could you see yourself being swayed?

I don't think anyone has, or even can, provide a meaningful reason for deliberately burying the money at Tina Bar.  There was no reasonable expectation that the buried money and fragments would ever be found at Tina Bar or anywhere else.  So burying the money at a remote location just doesn't make sense.

When Cooper jumped from the airliner at about 8:15 PM on the evening of the hijacking, the airliner was above an overcast and several additional cloud layers.  There is no way that Cooper could have known his jump location to within a circle with a radius of about 20 to 30 miles.  He did not know how high the terrain was below the airliner when he jumped.  He simply jumped into a black hole.

If Cooper survived the jump, and I don't think he did, he would have known within three or four days that the FBI were looking in the wrong location for him.  It was quite a lengthy period of time before the FBI released the serial numbers of the stolen bills and Cooper had plenty of time to move to another part of the country, or foreign country, and exchange them for untraceable bills or otherwise launder them.  So there was no reason for Cooper to do anything to try to mislead the FBI since they were not on his trail.

So to make a long story short, I cannot see any explanation for Cooper burying the bills as you suggest that would sway me.

To change the subject slightly, Georger and I are trying to locate a professional Criminal Profiler who would be willing to work up a profile on Cooper.  Do you happen to know of one?

Robert99

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Plant: there is NO evidence of a plant - none, zip, nada!

I'm not so sure. A bundle of bills makes up a six-sided, three-dimensional shape. Not a 4-sided, two-dimensional shape. Whatever degraded the quality of those bills selectively chose only four of the six sides to attack, not the "top bill" side nor the "bottom bill" side. It should have taken an equal amount of material - including the rubber bands if it was mechanical - off of the faces. It didn't. Two of the three bundles had full complements of 100 bills each.

Selecting four of the six sides suggests human selection, not micro organic, and not tumbling down a river.