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[Shutter]

I don't watch a lot of the new shows. I'm old school. if I don't know the actor, I usually don't watch the show..

I didn't know you had to be up to date on television shows for credibility?

[MarkBennett]

My BIGGEST heart throb, and the richest woman working in television, Marishka Hargatay. Her character, Olivia Benson, just got promoted to Lieutenant in Season 17 of Law and Order, Special Victims Unit.

Shut, what the heck do you watch on TV? I'm beginning to wonder about you....

...Marishka was making slightly less than Christopher Meloni's $365,000 per episode at the end of Season 12, when Meloni/Detective Stabler quit. Marishka carried the show in his absence, and then became Executive Producer in Season 14, I believe. I don't know what her income is at present, but it is probably more than mine.

She is Jayne Mansfield's daughter, so she's a good heart throb.

[Bruce A. Smith]

Also daughter of Mickey Hargatay, Mr. Universe back in 1950-something...

...as for TV, credibility, etc, American TV is where the great minds of our generation are gathering. The writers behind L and O (20 seasons), SVU, Weeds, Orange/Black, Continuum, The 4400, Fringe, are top-notch. They have excelled with outstanding concepts and character development, the presentation of visionary themes, and the play of transformative storylines. I have learned more about the issues that swirl around rape, abuse, incest, workplace intimidation, date-rape, life on the streets, etc. from SVU and Marishka than I ever did in my master's program and 14 years working in psychiatry. When I see how "the system" can defeat even the best efforts of Lt Benson and her team, well, I don't feel so alone in the world...

[Parrotheadvol]

While on the subject of TV, even though off topic, I would highly recommend the Netflix original, "Narcos". It is very good. And while your at it, if you like a good laugh, all 4 seasons of "Arrested Development" are on Netflix as well. Perhaps the most intelligently written sitcom ever.

[Bruce A. Smith]

I'll check out Narcos. Thanks Parrotheadedness.

As for Arrested Development, ug. I thought it was incredibly stupid and poorly done.

[Robert99]

While on the subject of TV, even though off topic, I would highly recommend the Netflix original, "Narcos". It is very good. And while your at it, if you like a good laugh, all 4 seasons of "Arrested Development" are on Netflix as well. Perhaps the most intelligently written sitcom ever.

Were you the writer for the above sitcoms?

[Parrotheadvol]

While on the subject of TV, even though off topic, I would highly recommend the Netflix original, "Narcos". It is very good. And while your at it, if you like a good laugh, all 4 seasons of "Arrested Development" are on Netflix as well. Perhaps the most intelligently written sitcom ever.

Were you the writer for the above sitcoms?

No, If I were, Bruce's description would probably be more accurate. 

[nmiwrecks]

When someone gets caught doing a major crime and states they are not going to be able to hold them. it's unlikely he is going to care, or give any information about anything. he could of been toying with them when they asked him about Cooper. it appears he had no intentions in given any information about anything.

McCoy was obviously obsessed and enamored with D.B. Cooper.  Enough for the blue eyed 29 year old to imitate him in looks (wig, clothes, etc.) and try to recreate his crime, albeit with a few perceived improvements.  Imitation is the the highest form of flattery, some say.

What it comes down to is McCoy wanted to create the illusion that he was Cooper.  We've all seen people like this, trying to imitate people they admire.  How many Navy Seals and CIA agents have we met at the bar?  Way more than actually exist.  Just search youtube for "false valor" and let the fun begin.

So what better way for McCoy to carry on this charade than make comments like "I don't want to talk about that"?  He just wanted to perpetuate the fantasy.  And for some, he has. 

As for Vegas, it's a non-factor.  What do people do in Vegas?  Let me put on my deductive reasoning cap and say that my guess is he went there to gamble.  I know it sounds crazy, but that's why people go there.  If he was a ground man, he would have been in the Seattle area, where Cooper probably intended to jump in the first place.

[georger]

When someone gets caught doing a major crime and states they are not going to be able to hold them. it's unlikely he is going to care, or give any information about anything. he could of been toying with them when they asked him about Cooper. it appears he had no intentions in given any information about anything.

McCoy was obviously obsessed and enamored with D.B. Cooper.  Enough for the blue eyed 29 year old to imitate him in looks (wig, clothes, etc.) and try to recreate his crime, albeit with a few perceived improvements.  Imitation is the the highest form of flattery, some say.

What it comes down to is McCoy wanted to create the illusion that he was Cooper.  We've all seen people like this, trying to imitate people they admire.  How many Navy Seals and CIA agents have we met at the bar?  Way more than actually exist.  Just search youtube for "false valor" and let the fun begin.

So what better way for McCoy to carry on this charade than make comments like "I don't want to talk about that"?  He just wanted to perpetuate the fantasy.  And for some, he has. 

As for Vegas, it's a non-factor.  What do people do in Vegas?  Let me put on my deductive reasoning cap and say that my guess is he went there to gamble.  I know it sounds crazy, but that's why people go there.  If he was a ground man, he would have been in the Seattle area, where Cooper probably intended to jump in the first place.

good post -

[Shutter]

As for Vegas, it's a non-factor.  What do people do in Vegas?  Let me put on my deductive reasoning cap and say that my guess is he went there to gamble.  I know it sounds crazy, but that's why people go there.  If he was a ground man, he would have been in the Seattle area, where Cooper probably intended to jump in the first place.

The problem seems to be that the FBI places him with family, and the credit card states different...I haven't seen any documentation verifying these transactions in Vegas, so who knows the truth behind this story

[Bruce A. Smith]

McCoy and Las Vegas

It's clear to me that Richard McCoy was not DB Cooper.

What is not clear is what McCoy as doing in Las Vegas. Maybe he was gambling. Maybe not. Maybe gambling is where he picked up the money for flying the family back to Carolina in January.

But he may have been in Cooper Country on November 23-25, and November 2-3. Clearly, he was following the exploits of Dan Cooper, but how closely? Up close and personal? Hands-on instruction?

Comes down to: how did McCoy learn to do his skyjacking in April? How did he know what Cooper behaviors to improve upon, such as extending the flight path to half a continent to give him time and spread out the cops?

Adding to this, we have lots of mysteries involved in the McCoy caper. One is that the Salt Lake City feds fingered McCoy as Cooper and dug up a mess about the Cooper retrieval in Reno. Botched fingerprinting, the tie controversy, missing memories for the five top principals.

But more troubling, the Seattle FBI dismissed the forensic evidence that the SLC team found for McCoy in Vegas on November 23-25. Seattle accepts McCoy's alibi for turkey day. How come? Why can't the Seattle FBI admit that McCoy was in Las Vegas and not at home with family? Why is that an issue, when all he could have been doing was gambling or shacking up with a honey-bun?

More problematic is that the FBI never pushed McCoy on Cooper - neither Seattle OR SLC - to spill the beans on Cooper, whatever the beans actually were. Why no pressure? Why no in-depth investigation of McCoy's whereabouts and activities on the days in question? Why no investigation on how McCoy learned the details of the Cooper caper? Why let McCoy skate on his Cooper connection, whatever it might have been?

On the flipside, if McCoy was gambling in Las Vegas why didn't he just say so? Why was Vegas allowed to morph into such a huge issue?

.

[Bruce A. Smith]

When someone gets caught doing a major crime and states they are not going to be able to hold them. it's unlikely he is going to care, or give any information about anything. he could of been toying with them when they asked him about Cooper. it appears he had no intentions in given any information about anything.

McCoy was obviously obsessed and enamored with D.B. Cooper.  Enough for the blue eyed 29 year old to imitate him in looks (wig, clothes, etc.) and try to recreate his crime, albeit with a few perceived improvements.  Imitation is the the highest form of flattery, some say.

What it comes down to is McCoy wanted to create the illusion that he was Cooper.  We've all seen people like this, trying to imitate people they admire.  How many Navy Seals and CIA agents have we met at the bar?  Way more than actually exist.  Just search youtube for "false valor" and let the fun begin.

So what better way for McCoy to carry on this charade than make comments like "I don't want to talk about that"?  He just wanted to perpetuate the fantasy.  And for some, he has. 

As for Vegas, it's a non-factor.  What do people do in Vegas?  Let me put on my deductive reasoning cap and say that my guess is he went there to gamble.  I know it sounds crazy, but that's why people go there.  If he was a ground man, he would have been in the Seattle area, where Cooper probably intended to jump in the first place.

good post -

Why is this a good post, Georger? Please explain.

If McCoy was just gambling in Vegas, then how come what happened in Vegas didn't stay in Vegas? Why did your boys make such a kerfuffle about it?

[Bruce A. Smith]

I'll check out Narcos. Thanks Parrotheadedness.

As for Arrested Development, ug. I thought it was incredibly stupid and poorly done.

Yo, Parrot Voll, great suggestion on NARCOS.

It's a fascinating, Latino-centric, docu-drama on the drug trafficking in Columbia, Muy bueno, mi amigo, so to speak...gracias...

[Parrotheadvol]

I'll check out Narcos. Thanks Parrotheadedness.

As for Arrested Development, ug. I thought it was incredibly stupid and poorly done.

Yo, Parrot Voll, great suggestion on NARCOS.

It's a fascinating, Latino-centric, docu-drama on the drug trafficking in Columbia, Muy bueno, mi amigo, so to speak...gracias...

Glad you like it. I've recommended it to several folks, but I think you're the first to actually check it out.

[georger]

I'll check out Narcos. Thanks Parrotheadedness.

As for Arrested Development, ug. I thought it was incredibly stupid and poorly done.

Yo, Parrot Voll, great suggestion on NARCOS.

It's a fascinating, Latino-centric, docu-drama on the drug trafficking in Columbia, Muy bueno, mi amigo, so to speak...gracias...

Glad you like it. I've recommended it to several folks, but I think you're the first to actually check it out.

Presumably he had amphetamine with him, for himself and the crew? Took the pills with him when he left? Any residue left in the bathroom? Was any of it collected at Reno or in a later canvas of the plane, and tested against known strains circulating in the US at the time ... ? Probably not. This case doesn't seem to have been big on SCIENCE in the early 1970s. Except that Cooper came prepared, with pharmacology being one of his tools he had some experience with.