The vast number of shards found at Tina Bar are now missing, apparently. PIO Dorwin Schreuder said thousands of money fragments were found and placed into Plasticine envelopes. The KATU video confirms that. However, none of the envelopes, nor any of these shards were found by the Citizens Sleuths in the evidence box in Seattle. Carol Abracadabra told me that she thought the so-called "shards" that were in evidence were actually the residuals of crumbling of the main bills. All of the "pieces" the feds had in Seattle could fit in a small plastic box the size of a small match box. What she described to me sounded essentially like "dust."
As for Harold/Dwayne Ingram truthiness: If he planted the money, how and where did he age it? Or did Briggs/Rackstraw just plant it somewhere, and what he have found is how it decayed wherever it was, and not necessarily by natural means at T-Bar?
Carol is wrong. How would she know anything about this? But, what she is repeating is Brian Ingram's explanation. How would Brian know? He doesn't know. It's just his theory on the matter.... unless he's holding information his father told him but failed to tell the FBI and the world?
The numbers of pieces, their locations and depths, could not have come from the bundles Ingram found. The better explanation would be that the Ingram bundles and all of these pieces were part of a larger group of money that somehow made it's way to Tena Bar and got distributed through many strata layers, somehow. Tom Kaye has consistently said he thinks the money was on Tena Bar early, perhaps before the dredging at Tena Bar in 1974.
As I understand Tom, Tom believes the Cooper money arrived before 1974. And in fact there were periods of massive flooding with very high water levels between the end of 71 and before any dredging spoils were placed on TBar in August of 1974, so there was ample opportunity for a wash-in scenario during those years. Second, Tom also believes erosion at Tena Bar has always been fast and significant (and I agree with that). We just dont have any real numbers on the rate of erosion at Tena Bar but serious erosion has always been a fact of life at Tena Bar. Thus, Tom believes the Ingram money eroded out of pre-1974 strata due to erosion, and this was north and unaffected by any dredging materials dumped in 1974. Tom believes that by 1980 most of the dredging spoils from 74 had washed away, leaving pre-74 strata still intact 100-150 yards north of the 74 dredge spoil site. Tom believes that Palmer mistakenly assigned his clay layer to the dredging layer when in fact the clay layer was an older pre-1974 layer, but that none of this was involved at the Ingram site in any event.
Tom thinks the sand layers at the Ingram site were all pre-1974 layers still intact. Then through erosion of these layers, the Ingram money was finally exposed. That scenario would allow for deeper fragments being found in the vicinity of the Ingram site out to about 50-60+ yards stretching south towards the 1974 dredging spoil site. If Tom is correct in all of this then the Cooper money was on Tena Bar earlier than 1974. It's all a matter of interpretation based on crucial identification of strata at various locations, which so far we lack and are debating ... but Tom could be correct because I agree with Tom - erosion at Tena Bar is a significant variable in this story however it unfolded in different locations perhaps exposing Cooper money to the surface in 1980.
It's a little complicated but the central basic issues at stake are frankly pretty simple, if we could just answer a few of the critical questions involved.
BTW: the Fazio's said they had never seen money or heard any reports of money on their sandbar. Al Fazio has told everyone he thought the money came up with the last tide because (he said) 'the money was found on the tide line'. Tidal forces are one of the erosion forces at work on Tena Bar. But, in 2009 nobody had seen the KATU video and while the Fazios were on the scene and helped with the excavation, they apparently didn't think to connect or explain the fragments being found at 2 feet and deeper, or they didn't think it mattered? The Faxzios weren't think about erosion; they were thinking about placement and deposition. But, the Fazio's originally thought the tide had brought the money up, somehow. I asked Al Fazio, "well do you mean in debris?" (money came up with the tide mixed in with debris, and he replied "No. The tide just brought the money up itself". He had no further explanation.
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