I'm thinking the Tena Bar money was not the remnants of 3 packets delivered to Cooper..but only the remnants of two packets.
PCGS certified 83 total notes and fragments (serials). This includes the 2nd round of 35 that went to the FBI
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Login"This process revealed 35 additional full serial numbers that are on the FBI’s 1971 complete list of notes given as ransom, but apparently were not recorded when the notes discovered by Mr. Ingram in 1980 subsequently were inventoried by investigators. We are pleased to provide the FBI with these ‘new’ numbers with the hope that any new evidence may provide useful leads in this case."
"A total of 83 notes and fragments were certified by PCGS Currency."
So then the FBI has maybe another 13.
and the insurance company might have what? 40?
I would think just about all of Brian's money has been PCGS certified? no reason why he wouldn't.
So it seems to me there are less than 200 possible serials in the Tena Bar money?
The pictures of the 12 bundles that I posted above, seem like they might be at most 200 bills or so? That would be an average of 17 bills per bundle.
It just seems to me, that it's possible the 3 chunks of money found on Tena Bar, may have been only 2 packets of 100.
The evidence for it being 3 packets of 100 (with some missing) doesn't exist?
it seems like the 3 packets idea came solely from the 3 chunks of money.
But note that since they broke 3 chunks into 12 chunks....those 3 chunks could easily have been 2 chunks to start with.
It doesn't seem possible to me that the FBI correctly determined either the number, or order of, the bills that were found on Tena Bar.
i.e. I think their apparent claim that the money was in the same order as delivered to Cooper, was simply not verifiable in the delay between the Ingram reporting to FBI and the press event
they would have had to disassemble the packets more (more than 12) to know. They probably don't even know what order those 12 bundles were in, relative to the original 3 bundles.