olemisscub

I love challenges and can admit when I'm wrong, which you have literally never done. Like, ever.

lol, so I guess he sent a taxi to go to PICK UP his chutes as well?

You're just wrong, generally. You have a bias AND you are wrong simultaneously. Nearly every opinion you have about Cooper's look is based on your belief that the 5'8 man with the large growth on his nose and missing half his teeth who requested 3,000 Benson and Hedges cigarettes was DB freaking Cooper. And you do have a bias toward Comp B. I think in your mind if you squint hard enough you can make Bill look like Comp B. If you REALLY squint...and then go crosseyed...then maybe he can look like Comp B. But I think you believe it.

Dude I don't give a shit about discrediting you. You're an excellent researcher and your opinions stand on their own merit. Same as mine. I don't have to "discredit you." What lie am I telling? You take such offense to anyone questioning your thought process that if you lived 200 years ago you'd have been killed in a duel by age 15.

By all means, if you show me about 20 unique eyewitness accounts from the EAL hijacking, including numerous ones putting Bill's height at 5'11 or 6'0, it would change my mind. And Yes, and I'll be glad to show my research on this. There is nothing top secret about Hahneman's witness descriptions, so if I'm going to the trouble of sharing these then I expect you to share yours. Fisher was measured when arrested 6'3 1/2 If in our count we will count a "6'1 to 6'2" as counting as both 6'1 and 6'2 on a chart, it comes out to this from 41 witness descriptions. And it should be noted that Fisher was stalking up and down the aisles the entire flight in full view of everyone. 5'11 - 2 6' - 11 6'1 - 15 6'2 - 13 6'3 - 7 6'4 - 2 So, if anything, the evidence shows that people, at least in Fisher's hijacking, were chronically underestimating his height. 82% of eyewitnesses had him under his actual height.

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Oh yeah, I forgot about him needing one whenever he flew. So it's likely he was actually telling Larry the truth.

No way. 20 DIFFERENT witness accounts for Hahneman being between 5'10 and 6'? I've read quite a lot of information on his hijacking and the highest I've ever seen is 5'10. His official FBI description is 5'8 to 5'9. The crew said 5'8. 5'10 shows up in the AP article, but I can't recall seeing anything taller than that for him. I'd like to see some examples.

Well, it wouldn't matter even if it was a match since clearly NORJAK plane wasn't missing any decals = Edwards sadly wasted a lot of energy writing about that.

Yes we did. But the FBI agents didn't...so they made an assumption. For Cooper to have been the one to have taken something from the crew meals would mean that he went up near the cockpit AFTER Tina was sent up there (food was on first row of first class), which seems highly unlikely. Plus, Tina said that she asked Cooper if she could cook the crew meals and he told her no, so if it's Cooper doing this then he's also taking uncooked/cold food. I don't think we need to infer anything from this other than agents not realizing that the K-9's had gotten into the food.

It's what is called a "hobby case", meaning that the Bureau really only wants you working on it on your free time. Larry only studied the case when he went home. He said he'd just take copies of the documents home with him to read at night or weekends. Of course, sometimes you'd work the case during "work hours", but they really preferred you not to do that. I think that is what got Larry in trouble with his bosses. By going to the media about it, it brought in more leads which meant A) Seattle Office had to answer more calls from people, and 2) that Larry would have to spend more actual "company time" working the case. Larry didn't throw the current guy under the bus on the interview, but privately he said he doubts the current case agent has done any substantial work at all on this case. He said he'd be surprised if the current agent has even bothered to spend any time at all on the Gryder chute since it was retrieved last year. Current case agent apparently has a large sized role in something involving Asian gangs in Seattle.

I agree with this assessment. They look very close and fit within all of the descriptions.

Hard to tell. Port side of stairs on NORJAK plane had a square placard. Not sure if same one. Quality isn't good enough.

Larry said last night that Cossey told him that the ripcord handle was moved higher on the same side as it always was, not moved across the chest. He also told Larry that this had been an old chute of his that he repurposed and sold to Hayden, not that they were his parachutes from his residence or his own personal chutes from Issaquah. That can't be totally accurate though, because Cossey would never jump with an emergency rig that didn't have D-rings for a reserve.

This news report is in my book and I'm confident this is almost certainly from the dogs. Rataczak said the first thing the K-9's did was take the steaks out of the crew meals. The FBI dudes who came on later wouldn't have known about that and made an assumption. Please don't fight this. You can just say "Yeah, I guess that makes more sense."