Maybe the reason you have never been abducted, Bob, is because the aliens don’t like you either.
Chaucer, that is really cold!
Have you been fornicating with aliens just as Bruce may, or may not, have been doing?
I’ve been married for almost 25 years, so there’s very little fornicating going on at all in my life.
I respect you for your blunt honesty. Hard to find guys like you these days. As for Tina Mucklow, I still think she must want to know what happened to the old boy? She is the only one he would likely be interested in talking to at this stage of the game. If he is alive. I worry more about him quitting the smokes than him surviving the jump. He survived the jump. Gauranteed
If she DOES want to know, she would have the same access - more - than we all do to information. She could see all the photos, hear sound recordings where they exist. If she has done this, she has (a) not come to rest on a particular suspect or (b) has no desire to "dox" DBC. The latter seems unlikely, as she would see him as nothing more than a criminal who held her life in his hands for several hours, however polite he may have been. However, if she wasn't interested in thinking of the case much before but is now, i.e. may be taking a renewed interest, vetting particular suspects through her may be worthwhile if she's game.
However, I can't cross the border atm, not that I'd know where to find Tina, and would not knock at her door if I did. I could at best mail her a nice letter/email asking some questions about particular suspects, maybe humbly gift her a free book, but that would be as far as I would go even if she lived nearby. And I would not have any particularly high hopes of an answer, given that I'm clearly a longtime Cooperite, not a journalist on a story, but you never know.
It's different for women. And I say that as a straight, happily hitched for 25 years woman with tons of close male friends. I don't know if Tina lives alone, but unexpected knocks can be frightening (especially if you've been through trauma), strangers at your door more so, men even more so, particularly if they could be of the merely historically curious OR hopelessly obsessed variety. I freely admit to being unusually fascinated by this case (and two others, William Desmond Taylor and the less deadly Max Headroom Incident) but not enough to forget that the survivors of the DBC skyjacking are as real as I am and deserve the same respect and privacy I would want. They didn't choose their fame and it's up to them how much of it they want to revisit.
As for Coopercon itself, I wish I could be there, especially for the 50th, I'd even have a little book table of my own if permitted, but we've been hit hard here by the Covid shutdowns and are just getting afloat again. Would love it if some of the events were virtual or could be taped for posterity. As far as Tina speaking, I think it's remotely possible in that she has given more interviews of late, but she seems still very private, public speaking is not everyone's bag, and in her place I would want some assurance of security and some rules of etiquette in place for people wanting to ask questions. Just my two cents.
PS EU, if you do talk to her and she's not comfortable being there in person, maybe a reddit-style AMA or a Zoom/Google meeting might be acceptable? Worth an ask and would still be a huge event in Cooperland.