This is a really interesting theory; it does account for the odd way the money had deteriorated and in a very logical way, based on the existence of that counterfeiting technique.

The parts of it that concern me are:
- The rain continued into the 25th of November, according to what I'm finding on the Weather Underground re precipitation for that date in the Portland area; someone may be able to provide more specific weather details for that date narrowed to the Tena Bar area? If it was continuously raining and DBC was dripping wet, it would have been very difficult to pull off a cut and paste job on the beach, not that that would be easy in good weather.
- DBC probably wouldn't have needed the ransom money to get out of the region once back in civilization; we know he had a $20 to pay for his own ticket, so it's likely he had other money on him, at least enough to get out of Dodge.

Still, that doesn't discount the possibility of "raising". It could just as easily be that DBC discarded some of the mutilated money later to make the FBI think he was dead. (I don't know why Colbert thinks that being the case would make Rackstraw a more likely suspect than anyone else, though. I don't believe for an instant Rackstraw did it, but that's a matter for a different thread.)

LOVE this out of the box thinking. My only thought on the bills themselves is that they were probably in the same spot for quite a while before Ingram found them, because otherwise the rubber bands that splintered apart instantly would likely have done so at some point while the bills were moving under whatever forces, natural or otherwise. (I believe it was georger who was talking about that aspect of the bills' condition - the crystallization phase.) But 9 years is a long time. If the plant theory is correct, he could have planted them any time in there.

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In a word, this is pure "nonsense". No discussion is possible.

What altered currency!? Is this another Galen Cook joke to embarrass this forum and the world? 

Shutter?

Why would this Forum or the world be embarrassed? Are you okay?  It's alright, you don't have to be involved.  Nobody's trying to embarrass anybody. Check it out for yourself.  Here are a few examples:



I'd be happy to Skype with you if you need me to prove I'm not Galen Cook.

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Your posts name Galen Cook and Phil Scoles of Terra Science Inc. and a Lecturer at Wetland Training Institute and Portland State University.

They are being contacted for authentication/clarification.

I named Scoles, but not Cook. Tell him I said "nice work."

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I just talked with Phil Scoles. He says he doesn't remember saying anything to you or anyone else about the Ingram Cooper bills being counterfeit money, or related to counterfeit money, or counterfeiting using Cooper bills either.

There is nothing I know of that would link the found Cooper money to a counterfeiting operation - period.

I have to assume the counterfeiting idea is your idea you are promoting, alone.

The subject is closed as far as I am concerned.   

And, Please stop sending me unsolicited emails about this, questioning my sanity or mental health!!

$20 Amazon gift card to anyone who can produce a quote from me or my article where I claim Phil Scoles says this is counterfeit.
Another $20 to anyone producing a quote where I said this was part of a counterfeiting operation. You choose the retailer. I hear Cracker Barrel is nice.

Meanwhile, this subject does not close because any one person declares it. Anyone who wants to pick apart my theory - that's why I posted it here.

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I just talked with Phil Scoles. He says he doesn't remember saying anything to you or anyone else about the Ingram Cooper bills being counterfeit money, or related to counterfeit money, or counterfeiting using Cooper bills either.

There is nothing I know of that would link the found Cooper money to a counterfeiting operation - period.

I have to assume the counterfeiting idea is your idea you are promoting, alone.

The subject is closed as far as I am concerned.   

And, Please stop sending me unsolicited emails about this, questioning my sanity or mental health!!

$20 Amazon gift card to anyone who can produce a quote from me or my article where I claim Phil Scoles says this is counterfeit.
Another $20 to anyone producing a quote where I said this was part of a counterfeiting operation. You choose the retailer. I hear Cracker Barrel is nice.

Meanwhile, this subject does not close because any one person declares it. Anyone who wants to pick apart my theory - that's why I posted it here.

Kudos for thinking outside the box. Problem #1, the bills were still bundled in order, if one was to trim them they's be separated.. too hard to trim bundled. Problem #2, this pic of Cooper TBAR Bills shows a portion of the "$20" circle on the back of all of them (4 in pic)... a trimmer would not leave those, they would trim well inside of the design.

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Kudos for thinking outside the box. Problem #1, the bills were still bundled in order, if one was to trim them they's be separated.. too hard to trim bundled. Problem #2, this pic of Cooper TBAR Bills shows a portion of the "$20" circle on the back of all of them (4 in pic)... a trimmer would not leave those, they would trim well inside of the design.

Thanks for the feedback, Flyjack. If I sound combative in my replies, it is not intended.  I like you and your out of the box thinking as well.  To address your first issue, I would normally agree with you about trimming the bills one by one. But there were 10,000 of them and a ticking clock, and he reportedly had a pocket knife and not scissors.  He had cut apart a parachute just for the cords, so I don't think he'd have had a problem MacGuyvering this, if he was familiar with raising notes.

As to your second point, I have never found one instance of a raised note being produced by joining a trimmed $10 or $20 with a trimmed $1, and I've been researching this for quite a while.  Universally, they paste the higher value over the top of the lower value, so only one side of the $20 would have been needed. Your observation - a keen one - only points out to me what I already suspect: that he trimmed for the face-side artwork as can be seen in every one of the example photos I posted above.

Based on your feedback, I will amend my language to say that no face-side corner artwork of the Cooper cash has ever been found or photographed. Excellent post. Thank you.

Un-Sherlock, good work. I love the out-of-the-box thinking, even if there is no box! I guess, according to quantum theory, there is both a box and no box until it is observed.

Lots of what-ifs for the raised notes, but it is original. Cutting bundles with a knife, re-wrapping with rubber bands? Whew. But what the hell... Go Big or Go Home, I say.

BTW: It's nice to see Georger blow a gasket at someone else for a change. Thanks. I owe ya one...