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New Avatar for Cooper - we do not know his age but we estimate 25. Besure to check it out against the CPS fire crew attached below.

Remarkable look-alike, plus that particular man does not check out.
In fact two of them...do not check out.

Does any one have any information on Marvin Doerksen or Melvin Duerkson and the the last chap Max Miller? The only Melvin of Marvin born in the right time frame I have found is deceased and his niece says that man in the photo is not her uncle...but maybe I got the wrong family. Tjhere could be others I haven't found - expecially those still alive.

I NEED YOUR HELP TO FIND THIS MAN AND OR HIS FAMILY.

The Max Miller is just a curiousity since it is a common name - I have a hunch he is someone introduced to me under another name.

The other 3 Unruh, Harder and Flickenger are all deceased from what I have been able to find.

HELP.

By the Way Thank you to a forum member Dr.Echo who helped me get the photo so I could manage it.
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Two photos attached ( Hand on Hip). One will be the Snow line of the CPS showing the guy with his hand on his hip.
There will a be double photo of Duane which is 2 pics of him in this SAME POSE - very same pose as of course a MUCH OLDER MAN.
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Two photos attached ( Hand on Hip). One will be the Snow line of the CPS showing the guy with his hand on his hip.
There will a be double photo of Duane which is 2 pics of him in this SAME POSE - very same pose as of course a MUCH OLDER MAN.



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The new Sarah Palin look to your quest?

Isnt it a shame this forum has been trashed.

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Skyjacker at large
A Florida widow thinks she has found him

BY DOUGLAS PASTERNAK

It was the day before Thanksgiving, Nov. 24, 1971. As Northwest Airlines Flight 305, from Portland, Ore., to Seattle, sped along the runway preparing for takeoff, the man in Seat 18C, wearing sunglasses and a dark suit, handed a flight attendant a note. It said he had a bomb and threatened to blow up the Boeing 727 unless he received $200,000 cash and four parachutes when the plane landed. The man in Seat 18C purchased his ticket under the name "Dan Cooper."

After receiving his booty at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, the man released the 36 passengers and two members of the flight crew. He ordered the pilot and remaining crew to fly to Mexico. At 10,000 feet, with winds gusting at 80 knots and a freezing rain pounding the airplane, Dan Cooper–mistakenly identified as D.B. Cooper by a reporter–walked down the rear stairs and parachuted into history.

What followed was one of the most extensive and expensive manhunts in the annals of American crime. For five months, federal, state, and local police combed dense hemlock forests north of Portland. D.B. Cooper became an American folk icon–the inspiration for books, rock songs, and even a 1981 movie. Over the past three decades, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has investigated more than 1,000 "serious suspects" along with assorted crackpots and deathbed confessors. Most–but not all–have been ruled out. The case was back in the news just last month when FBI agents investigated a skull discovered nearly 20 years ago along the Columbia River. It turned out to belong to a woman, possibly an American Indian. Today, the D.B. Cooper case remains the world's only unsolved skyjacking.

In March 1995, a Florida antique dealer named Duane Weber lay dying of polycystic kidney disease in a Pensacola hospital. He called his wife, Jo, to his bed and whispered: "I'm Dan Cooper." Jo, who had learned in 17 years of marriage not to pry too deeply into Duane's past, had no idea what her secretive husband meant. Frustrated, he blurted out: "Oh, let it die with me!" Duane died 11 days later. Jo sold his van two months after his death. The new owner discovered a wallet hidden in the overhead console. It contained a U.S. Navy "bad conduct discharge" in Duane's name and a Social Security card and prison-release form from the Missouri State Penitentiary, in the name of "John C. Collins." Duane had told Jo that he had served time for burglary under the name John Collins. Still, says Jo, a real-estate agent in Pace, Fla., Duane rarely spoke of his past. "His life started with me, and that was it," she says.


The FBI sketch strongly resembles a photo of Duane Weber.

In April 1996, Jo discussed Duane's criminal and military past with a friend. She also mentioned that just before he died, Duane had revealed the cause of an old knee injury. "I got it jumping out of a plane," Jo recalls him saying. "Did you ever think he might be D.B. Cooper?" the friend asked.

Handwriting match. In May 1996, Jo checked out a library book on D.B. Cooper. "I did not realize D.B. Cooper was known as Dan Cooper," Jo says. The book listed the FBI's description: mid-40s, 6 feet tall, 170 pounds, black hair, a bourbon drinker, a chain smoker. At the time of the hijacking, Duane Weber was 47, 6 feet, 1 inch tall, and weighed around 185 pounds. He had black hair, drank bourbon, and chain-smoked.

The similarities between a younger Duane and the FBI's composite drawings struck Jo. "It's about as close a match as you can get," agrees Frank Bender, a criminal forensic reconstructionist who has worked with the FBI for 20 years.

Jo never knew Duane to go to the library. Yet in pencil in the book's margins was what looked to her like Duane's handwriting. On one page he had written the name of a town in Washington where a placard from the rear stairs of Flight 305 had landed. "I knew right off the bat that handwriting was his," says Anne Faass, who worked with Duane for five years.

Jo called the FBI the night she read the D.B. Cooper book. "They just blew me off," she says. Eventually she began a dialogue with Ralph Himmelsbach, the FBI agent in charge of the case from 1971 until his retirement in 1980. At his urging, the FBI opened a file on Duane Weber in March 1997. They interviewed Jo, as well as one of Duane's former wives and his brother. They compared his fingerprints with the 66 unaccounted-for prints on Flight 305. None matched, although the FBI has no way to know if any of the prints were Cooper's. Himmelsbach finds Jo Weber, who has agreed to take a polygraph test, to be credible. There is no reward money to motivate her. He thinks she simply wants to learn the truth about her spouse. "The facts she has really seem to fit," he says. But the FBI dropped its investigation of Weber in July 1998. More "conclusive evidence" would be needed to continue, they say.

Though the facts are few, the circumstantial evidence is compelling. Retired FBI agent Himmelsbach believes the skyjacker must certainly have had a criminal record, military training, and familiarity with the Northwest. U.S. News has confirmed that Duane Weber served in the Army in the early 1940s. He also did time in at least six prisons from 1945 to 1968 for burglary and forgery. One prison was McNeil Island in Steilacoom, Wash.–20 miles from the Seattle-Tacoma airport.

The skyjacking was a desperate act by a desperate man. In 1971, Duane Weber's emotional and physical health were failing. He was on the verge of separating from his fifth wife and had been diagnosed with kidney disease; he was not expected to live past 50. Himmelsbach believes the skyjacking may have been a criminal's last hurrah and says Weber is one of the best suspects he has come across.

A skeptic at first, Jo Weber now believes her husband of 17 years was D.B. Cooper. "If he is not," she says, "he sure did send me on the wildest ride any widow has ever been on."

PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
Much of the circumstantial evidence linking Duane L. Weber to skyjacker D.B. Cooper cannot be confirmed. But retired FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach says: "The number of coincidences...would stretch the imagination."
• The dream. In May 1978, a sleep-talking Duane said he left his fingerprints on the "aft stairs." "He woke up dripping sweat," recalls his wife, Jo. Cooper had jumped from the plane's aft stairs.

• The vacation. On a 1979 trip to Washington, the Webers stopped west of Interstate 5 across the Columbia River from Portland. Duane walked down to the river by himself. Four months later, a boy digging a fire pit in the area found $5,800 in tattered $20 bills–the only Cooper cash ever uncovered.

• The bag. In February 1990 Jo saw a "white wheat" colored bank bag in a cooler in Duane's van. The $200,000 in ransom money was in a white canvas bank bag.

• The ticket. In January 1994, going over tax records, Jo found an old plane ticket that said SEA-TAC and Northwest Airlines. She could not find it after Duane died.

• The bucket. In the hospital in March 1995, Duane said he forgot where he buried $173,000 in a bucket. Jo and Duane's former employee Anne Faass were both in the room.



WEB SITES
Who2. Learn more about D.B. Cooper and other famous disappearing acts.
Columbian.com offers additional information about D.B. Cooper, plus a quiz that tests your "D.B. I.Q."

Seattle Times. Access a profile and a recent story on D.B. Cooper.

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Skyjacker at large
A Florida widow thinks she has found him

BY DOUGLAS PASTERNAK



Can you date and link the original article? I don't know if that was yesterday or 10 years ago.



That article was in the US News and World Reports July 24, 2000. A follow-up appeared in that same magazine in May 12, 2003.
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Two photos attached ( Hand on Hip). One will be the Snow line of the CPS showing the guy with his hand on his hip.
There will a be double photo of Duane which is 2 pics of him in this SAME POSE - very same pose as of course a MUCH OLDER MAN.



Tne new Sarah Palin Look?
???? What does tha mean?
Are you thinking I shoud use the old avatar? This is the picture I want out there right now. for a few wks.

I am going to WA with lots of pics and there is a place I am going donw in Origon and also back to that darn creek.

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Isnt it a shame this forum has been trashed.



No it has not been trashed, but we often get quiet time due what is going on with in our country. Right now most of us have the elections on our minds and trying to make some decisions. I think I wll just write my dogs name in just for the hell of it. At least it said I voted and that I don't agree.

Obama will stutter us into oblivion and Palin should have had the sense to say no - this is not her time. What we have there is no better than 2 high school students - hell some of the kid I know could answer those question better than either one of them did.

Neither party is ready to run this country - What a disaster we will have..

I got a call frome the east about something I wrote in this forum - remember that many yrs ago an attornety from the north contacted me - about a suspect he had there - seem like I found his suspect in the middle of my own search and he never told me who his suspect was. I guess that means he has been folllowing his forum Now to figure out if he thing's Duane is the supsect of some one else - his suspect haled from the MASS NY area. He counciled his client not to pursue this - Lucky woman - she has a life now.....but i walked right into this suspect.....my my my - how could that be?

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Back after a week away and catching up... slowly.

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I know stories that the FBI has never heard of because some people are afraid to talk to the FBI
Wonder Why?

There are individuals who have contacted me because they are afraid of the FBI --- afraid of having to go thru exactly what you and the FBI and others have put me thru.



My reaction to this is: put you through what, exactly? Do you mean calling you out on inconsistencies and "evidence" that isn't there or doesn't add up? Yes, those kind of things probably don't go down too well with the FBI, for obvious reasons.

Now, unless I missed this, can I just confirm that while you keep on saying that the FBI removed the registration page, you did not actually get confirmation from the FBI that they did? So we still only have the clerk's word for this (and here I agree 100% with what 377 et al were saying...) Ckret has posted that he cannot say without doubt what happened but that he cannot find any records relating to this in the files.
Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

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Back after a week away and catching up... slowly.

Jo:

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I know stories that the FBI has never heard of because some people are afraid to talk to the FBI
Wonder Why?

There are individuals who have contacted me because they are afraid of the FBI --- afraid of having to go thru exactly what you and the FBI and others have put me thru.



My reaction to this is: put you through what, exactly? Do you mean calling you out on inconsistencies and "evidence" that isn't there or doesn't add up? Yes, those kind of things probably don't go down too well with the FBI, for obvious reasons.

Now, unless I missed this, can I just confirm that while you keep on saying that the FBI removed the registration page, you did not actually get confirmation from the FBI that they did? So we still only have the clerk's word for this (and here I agree 100% with what 377 et al were saying...) Ckret has posted that he cannot say without doubt what happened but that he cannot find any records relating to this in the files.



The whole story is based on heresay. Not one shred
of tangible proof in what by now has become a Jo
Weber Epic more prolific than any other Cooper confessor story and promotion, in the whole
history of the DB Cooper case.

Were this not an inconsequential matter in the first place, something I think Jo relies on, I would say
that Jo is a paid schill being paid to divert attention away from the DB Cooper case. Jo has her own motives and Jo's efforts are obviously full of
"motivation of some kind". And the end is endless!

Jo has made her own mark more noteworthy
than Duane will ever be. Perhaps that was her goal
from the outset. She must have felt she was owed something by somebody?

So where is any tangible proof of anything?

Example: a photo copy of the library book with
Duane's handwritten notes on the hijacking?
Hard physical evidence the world could see and evaluate. Maybe Jo has these documents but she
has never produced them to my knowldgde. Instead
its all 'he said, she said, some third party said".
All heresay.

All of the socalled evidence magically vanishes the
moment it becomes necessary to see it . . .

Its like a Cassey Anthony story. One story piled
on top of another in ever increasing complexity,
and never one shred of simple unimpeacable
evidece independent of endless dialogue.

The whole is like some kind of endless Communist
Dialectic, to me.

I guess we can all be thankful Duane was not Stalin
or we trully would be in real trouble, and historians
would have to be going to Jo Weber for the truth?

Maybe Jo is Anastasia?

It's an event de sociologique!

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I know stories that the FBI has never heard of because some people are afraid to talk to the FBI
Wonder Why?

There are individuals who have contacted me because they are afraid of the FBI --- afraid of having to go thru exactly what you and the FBI and others have put me thru.



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My reaction to this is: put you through what, exactly? Do you mean calling you out on inconsistencies and "evidence" that isn't there or doesn't add up? Yes, those kind of things probably don't go down too well with the FBI, for obvious reasons.



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Orange, I will try to explain that statement with the below example:

1. I have recieved in 13 years approximatedly 7 phone calls from the FBI. One of those calls was ASKING for DNA in 2002.
They did nothing with that DNA until November of 2006 and early 2007....how do I know that ....(they accidentally left the report in the box and called me to retrive it).

2. In late 2007 I get a phone call from the current agent (brief) telling me that they had extracted DNA and that they had multiple particial DNA's but none of that included Duane...he was giving me a courtsey call just before they went public - he was on his way to a function or taping that had to do with this. He wanted me to hear it before I heard it on TV. Yet, he is reported to have said that I had been told about the DNA in February of 2007. This out and out misrepresentation caused me grief even though I knew it was not true - it made it appear that I was hiding information.

If you wish to hound the registration and the cigarrette butts and the night clerks interview to death - that is your choice. It would serve you better to re-read CKRET's statement and My statement: - What he and I are doing is ACTUALLY agreeing...He is being VERY careful with his wording and that is justifiable. Note what he says and how he says it. Then read my replies that reply that is NOT slamming him but making it obvious to the reader - if this is true then this is true statements. If this happened then this could have happened.

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Now, unless I missed this, can I just confirm that while you keep on saying that the FBI removed the registration page, you did not actually get confirmation from the FBI that they did? So we still only have the clerk's word for this,



The clerk told me the FBI took the registration. Ckrets' explanation says he cannot find it - that does not mean it does not nor never existed. We all know that the FBI took possession of the tie and cigarette butts in Reno, but you don't ever hear anyone say the butts did not exist. You are hearing the same thing in regards to the registration - it is not there - not that it never existed.

Orange state:

Ckret has posted that he cannot say without doubt what happened but that he cannot find any records relating to this in the files.



You and Ckret answered the question yourselves - others believe that if it is not in the file it didn't happen. I do believe that evidence has been misplaced and mishandled over the yrs - that is sloppy FBI work on a major case.

For instance the tie and butts - how did one of these end up in Washington and the other lost. We were told that the tie was never removed from evidence to show to a suspects widow - how did it end up in WA...Why weren't the butts and other evidence kept together? What happened to the chain of custody of evidence?

As for the registration card - ALL I have is the night clerks. word. What I do have is that the FBI interviewed those hotels. AND one last time I will state that 1971 was not a yr of technology...you put a tired agent on the street and he has to make his report at the end of the day.

The agent checks out the names on that card - but they don't go anywhere - obviously they returned the card to the hotel or destroyed it...but if a name didn't check out then why bother with printing it. I am trying to use the mentality of the FBI in 1971 and what would the average investigator have done, under such a massive search. John Collins was a very common name and without computers to check it out - it was not done. If it had a Auto tag number and home phone and address with it - those probably went no where - because they were fake.

Maybe the registeration card was entered into evidence because it had the signature of a man on it whose identity did not check out, but then maybe it was not considered to be important at that time. There are too many maybe's in this.

Maybe the FBI didn't keep the cigarette butts either. Maybe they never existed. Then all we have is the stewardess's word that Cooper smoked.

Because Ckret cannot find the registration or the interview with the clerk does not mean it didn't happen. Considering the fact that the hotels were paid a visit supports the fact that it could have happened.

You see the jest of all of this - boring and never ending. I have been working on finding certain people and/or relatives of these people - Hence why I changed the Avatar - and keep posting these pictures of the Snowline and Snowcrew.
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Were this not an inconsequential matter in the first place, something I think Jo relies on, I would say that Jo is a paid schill being paid to divert attention away from the DB Cooper case. Jo has her own motives and Jo's efforts are obviously full of
"motivation of some kind". And the end is endless!



I wish that was true - then my health would not have take the toll it has - the ONLY MOTIVE IS TRUTH...I have never recieve one cent for anything I have ever said.
It was hard to get me to consent to interviews.

:)AS for being a schill - that best describe you and your postings:)
You are the one who is inciting and you know that inflamatory remarks can cause the site to be closed - those are the kind of remarks a shill makes.

:S[:/]Who are you acting as a shill for? Could you be Galen Cooks' Shill - it is about time for his book to come out.;)

:oDid my avatar change make you nervous?

:D:D:DGeorger knows Ckret because of the money research, Georger lives in WA, Cook lives in Wa. Therefore we could say these 3 guys are working together. I know this is not true, but it is no more believable than my being a Schill.
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Example: a photo copy of the library book with
Duane's handwritten notes on the hijacking?



:)and they were sent copies of those pages in 1996. I have kept samples of Duane's handwriting over the yrs to compare with the handwriting in the book. FBI has a few of these samples.:D

I would not release that information to you, but the FBI does have copies of the pages.
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All of the so called evidence magically vanishes the moment it becomes necessary to see it . . .



;)Evidence I have or Evidence the FBI has?:| The things I saw and held in my hands happened before I knew they were evidence and Duane was still alive.

I have held on to DNA, prints, records anything that I had not destroyed in that yr after he die and before I knew who "DAN COOPER" was.
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Do you mean calling you out on inconsistencies and "evidence" that isn't there or doesn't add up? Yes, those kind of things probably don't go down too well with the FBI, for obvious reasons.




:)

Think about that statement:

You and others have done that in public forums - therefore you or anyone who questions my statements are/or maybe FBI.
:DI have to laugh out loud on that - GOD help this country if you are FBI.:D

:(Why bother to make note of what I have said or not said unless you have, as you accused me - A motive? Without a motive what does that make you?:D:D:D
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Darn,

Just as I was getting a good night's sleep... Insomnia will rise again as I anxiously await the new development.

Glad to know Ckret is still on the case and that he still reads this often meandering forum.

377
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Soon we will all have something to actually discuss, we are a few weeks away from what I hope will be the first new evidence/information since 02 of 1980.

Just thought I'd throw that in since it seems the discussion has taken a turn.



Oh Ckret, you have made my day :)
I am so sick and tired of hearsay and piling up of "evidence" (read: straws) which seems to be one assumption leading to another etc etc with clearly no foundation whatsoever, simply repeating something does not make it fact, which some people don't seem to get. Looking forward to something tangible. Just hope it is not a dead-end like the parachute that was found.

Georger... agreed!
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Feb of 1980 is when the FBI went public about the money find.

I remember this because the day after the find was reported in the newspaper - Duane submitted his resignation.

If Georger was involved as he has mentioned in the forum then the opinions will be biased - he has made it clear in the forum what he thinks of me, but I will hope for the best.

Georger (supposedly a money specialist) is away for a wk and then we get a message from Ckret.

What could they discover with new technology about the money.

1.How long it had been in the water.
2.How long it had been in the Columbia.
3.If it had ever been buried elsewhere and then thrown in the river.
4. If there was blood on it (the cut on Duane's hand).
6. If the marks match a part of the jumping apparatus.
7. If the marks match a part of the belly pack.
8. If more money was there than they thought.
9. If there is residue that shows the money was buried in a container.
10. DNA not likely - the money has been handled by multiple agents and lab techs prior to the rubber gloves requirement regarding such evidence.

Someone else add to this list.
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Example: a photo copy of the library book with
Duane's handwritten notes on the hijacking?



:)and they were sent copies of those pages in 1996.

REPLY>

You say above, you sent copies of Duane's BOOK notes to the FBI in 1996. That was 12 years ago.

Scan the copies and show them here now.

Show me yours, and I will show you mine!

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Do you mean calling you out on inconsistencies and "evidence" that isn't there or doesn't add up? Yes, those kind of things probably don't go down too well with the FBI, for obvious reasons.




:)

Think about that statement:

You and others have done that in public forums - therefore you or anyone who questions my statements are/or maybe FBI.
:DI have to laugh out loud on that - GOD help this country if you are FBI.:D

:(Why bother to make note of what I have said or not said unless you have, as you accused me - A motive? Without a motive what does that make you?:D:D:D


Motives: I was thinking about this today. Sounds corny but one of my motives is so children of the future will have this case solved and not have to
think about it!

I'm funny that way.

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New evidence won't matter.

We had new evidence before, that raised a question that should have been simply answerable. No answer was found.

Ckret produced 3 new photos of Tena Bar area, from '70, '74 and '79.

The '74 photo was dated 9/6/74
We know from other records that the dredging in the Tena Bar area took place approx. 8/74 thru 10/74. (some records indicate 8/74 for OR side, 10/74 for WA side).

In fact, there is a pipeline dredge in operation, in the 9/6/74 photo, which I highlighted before. (attached again). My post back in Jul 25, 2008, 8:12 PM had some pictures (closer up) of pipeline dredges on the columbia at willignham for comparison. It's a match to what you see in the 9/6/74 photo.

I did a montage of all available photos. The circled areas were theorized to be the money find location. (what else could it be? (edit) they were present on the photos as given by Ckret).

The important part: the 9/6/74 photo shows the money find just N of a "bump-out" in the sand..i.e. the beachline is disturbed too abruptly to be natural.
Since:
1) we know sand was dumped at the Fazio's,
2) and it sure looks like a pipeline dredge was used that summer, (photo) which spits sand out close to shore (a slurry of water+sand)
3) and Tosaw said a pipeline dredge was used based on talking to the Corps of Engineers,
4) Those two bumps of sand were not there in '70 and had disappeared by '79, they don't appear to be naturally reoccurring? Google Earth shows them not there now.

The attached montage (which I posted before) zoomed and aligned the areas from the 4 photos as best I could for ease of comparison.

In short, I think there was strong evidence to suggest that the money was found at the point where a pipeline dredge deposited dredge spoils at the Fazio's.

It would seem to be an easy proposition to show the '74 picture to Corps of Engineer folks. Either back in '80 or now.

The '74 sand bumpouts at the money find location, with the money being found "above" or "in" dredge spoils, seems like too much coincidence to me.

Sure there's the unanswerable question about going thru a pipeline dredge .But the simple question of "Was the money found right where the pipeline dredge spit stuff out?" should have been easily answerable.

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Jo didn't give all the known facts (i use that word as in Jo's interpretation) of how Duane threw the money in the river. I'll fill in the details here.
If I'm wrong, Jo can correct.

It's important to understand that the Duane didn't transport the decomposed money to the Northwest in '79.

It's also important to understand that most of the decomposition happened before Duane threw the money in the river. There was too much for it to happen in just the 3-4 months between Duane's throw-in and discovery...

The full story is that Duane split the money up into a couple of buckets and buried them in 1971. It's unclear if they were plastic or metal buckets. I put out some info that suggested plastic 5 gallon buckets with the self-locking/sealing lids that are so common now, may have just been coming on the market then. Possibly less likely to be used by Duane 007.

Jo and Duane proceeded to return to the area in 1979 because of a business trip. While on this trip, Duane dug up one of the buckets, got the money bundles and put them in the paper bag as Jo as described. It is unclear if there were more bundles or only 3 at this time.

Obviously all of the money was not in one bucket, because all of the bundles wouldn't have fit in the paper bag Duane threw in the river. There was also the later Duane testimony about not being able to remember where he put a bucket.


This was then tossed in the river. The paper bag and rubber band were apparently new in '79, provided by Duane. There was no description of what was done with the bucket that was dug up. Apparently it was left behind, or maybe thrown in the river also?

In any case, it was important to throw the money in the river, rather than leave it in the hole/bucket it was in, or have Duane retain it.

That's the whole story. There is another detail about Duane apparently knowing about the money find already, when Jo read about it in the paper, and Duane muttering how it was no good. (And the $173,000 in a bucket story)

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I have information that a FBI informant in Alaska, known as Deep Congeniality has been tracking all known US terrorists. (There are 3.2 million). I talked to her, and she informed me that the alias "Dan Cooper" has initials "D.C.". She pointed out that Flight 305 originated in Washington D.C. "Didja every notice that?", she said.

Suddenly, things got very quiet in the room, even though there were 8 guys with nice jackets and things in their ears, standing around.

She then said "Ever hear of the North Woods". I said "You mean Northern Exposure? Or ....'Operation Northwood? Fake terrorist attacks' ?" ..She winked, and said "Did you look under the 727 schematics in the safe deposit box?". I hadn't. I went back and found the attached two pdfs.

Page 3 has been removed. It is too politically damaging and I have been threatened and beat up. When I was a kid we played "hot peas and butter" with my cousins. The thing is, they always swung with the buckle end free. I was in a bar once with said cousin. The men at the pool table took one look at us and muttered "You're in the wrong place my friends". We wisely left.

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Example: a photo copy of the library book with
Duane's handwritten notes on the hijacking?



The FBI is more than welcome to make copies of those pages and they were sent copies of those pages in 1996.

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You say above, you sent copies of Duane's BOOK notes to the FBI in 1996. That was 12 years ago.

Scan the copies and show them here now.

Show me yours, and I will show you mine!

Georger



On this subject, Jo, did the handwriting just "look" like Duane's, or did you ever actually get a handwriting expert to compare the two? Again, my immediate response is: if the FBI were sent something and didn't bother to do anything about it, well, maybe that's because they didn't think the so-called "evidence" was worth anything.
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Jo posted the following on May 16, 2008 3:05 PM

"This is the page showing a map, but Toutle is written in pencil and circled -there are other notations on another page. I recognized the handwriting as being Duane's - and the person had to have known where Toutle was located --- the mark is dead on. "

I attached her attached jpg. (supposedly scan of a xerox) She never posted the supposed other page.

Remember, Jo never tells a single coherent story. She leaves it as bits and pieces on purpose, so the reader can invent a better story for the gaps. If Duane did have knowledge of Toutle and did note it in the book, it's implied to be sinister knowledge. If one accepts that he called himself Dan Cooper, then you would think he'd have news article-level knowledge.

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Example: a photo copy of the library book with
Duane's handwritten notes on the hijacking?



The FBI is more than welcome to make copies of those pages and they were sent copies of those pages in 1996.

REPLY>

You say above, you sent copies of Duane's BOOK notes to the FBI in 1996. That was 12 years ago.

Scan the copies and show them here now.

Show me yours, and I will show you mine!

Georger



On this subject, Jo, did the handwriting just "look" like Duane's, or did you ever actually get a handwriting expert to compare the two? Again, my immediate response is: if the FBI were sent something and didn't bother to do anything about it, well, maybe that's because they didn't think the so-called "evidence" was worth anything.



REPLY> The relevant quotes are these, from post
above:

"Jo never knew Duane to go to the library. Yet in pencil in the book's margins was what looked to her like Duane's handwriting. On one page he had written the name of a town in Washington where a placard from the rear stairs of Flight 305 had landed. "I knew right off the bat that handwriting was his," says Anne Faass, who worked with Duane for five years.

Jo called the FBI the night she read the D.B. Cooper book. "They just blew me off," she says."
(US News & World Report, 2000)

Jo never names the book in question -

Claims Duane had written the name of the "town"
where the placard was found. (The placard was not
found in a town but in the woods & Duane could have picked this info up from a newspaper?)

The date when Duane was in the library writing these notes?

Has an independent witness to these notes being
Duanes handwriting - one Anne Faass who had worked woth Duane.

Lastly, Jo ignores the possibility Duane just went to a
library, got interested in DB Cooper case, got a book
to read on the subject, and made notes in the
margin of the book - as is very common in libraries.
But her reaction is to call the FBI!

Next time I have a water leak I think I will "call the
FBI for help"! Hell ... I will call the President! Might
as well go right to the top?

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Lastly, Jo ignores the possibility Duane just went to a library, got interested in DB Cooper case, got a book to read on the subject, and made notes in the margin of the book - as is very common in libraries. But her reaction is to call the FBI!



Or the simple possibility that someone else with handwriting similar to Duane's (no idea what the writing looks like) and, as you say, did what people often do - annotate in the margins of something they are interested in. (For the record, my opinion is that it is extremely bad behaviour to write in a book that doesn't belong to you, even if it is in pencil.)

Looking at it from an evidentiary perspective - I doubt that any court would accept "hearsay" evidence that someone "knows" whose handwriting it is. Wouldn't the courts want a handwriting expert at the very least? And this really is something that Jo could organise very easily and without much expense - I agree that it is still nothing conclusive (like you say, Duane may simply have been interested) but at least there would finally be something in Jo's story that stood up to minor scrutiny.
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