Actually you raise a real issue - was the money marked

Recording the serial numbers is marking the bills. that might be what Gray was implying...

Bruce wrote:"...that damn woman [Jo]almost got me killed twice in Vancouver, and we only drive about three blocks!  After having dinner with her that evening and witnessing how she treated the waiter, I almost strangled the woman. Sometimes, my restraint amazes me. Truly."

Hey, even when a major accident was ruled her fault she blames the accident on a govt conspiracy to kill her.

As for the waiter, what exactly did she do? Jo does not impress me as a rude person.

Her latest emails are very interesting, secret missions using the Fulton Skyhook to lift loot from abandoned Russian ice stations, but NOTHING credibly linking Duane to any of these daring exploits. It's always some mumbo jumbo about Duane belonging to a secret group of ex cons who were unsung special ops commando heros.

She hasn't put Duane in a parachute, EVER. And she sure can't put him in the Norjack NWA 727.

I kinda like the ex con commando fantasy. Its plays better than the skydiving pipe welders.

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Ah, to dish on Mrs. Cooper... Good Morning, America!

As for the waiter, he was the last in a long line of wait people that Jo had terrorized throughout the day. She has Crone's disease, Ciliac-or-something, and is beyond fussy when it comes to food. At din-din she requested a veggies stir fry and told the waiter what to tell the cook on how to prepare it. The interaction was too painful to watch.

So Jo has switched to some new kind of gov't op? Where? On Bobby's website. Gee, sounds like fun....

It's actually very interesting reading, but has no credible connection to Duane. Jo sends out mass e mailings which are uncool because everybody's email address and many names are in the header.

Yep, I see your email attached to the same emails I get from her, including the Seattle, and Portland FBI....

She hasn't put Duane in a parachute, EVER. And she sure can't put him in the Norjack NWA 727.

She wrote this in October of last year. this was on another forum.


1962 - 1965 - Weber was off the map - but, he was with Intermountain communications out of Leadville, Co....a group headed up by a man by the name of Richard "Paperlegs" Peterson...who was also a former smoke jumper.... Cooper asked for a chest pack as smokejumpers usually called them chest packs....Weber was a rigger and a spotter so he had to know how to use the chute

Jo wrote: Weber was a rigger and a spotter so he had to know how to use the chute

Seeing how Duane fared in his main profession, crime, I'd never trust him to pack my reserve in his side gig, parachute rigging.

There is a long standing custom in parachuting. If your reserve chute saves your life, you have to buy the rigger who packed it a bottle of any liquor he or she chooses. I've had to do that twice in 48 years of jumping.

It's a strange feeling to cut away from a malfunctioning main canopy and go for plan B, your reserve. There is no plan C and believe me, you are thinking about that as the reserve deploys.

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Jo wrote: Weber was a rigger and a spotter so he had to know how to use the chute

Seeing how Duane fared in his main profession, crime, I'd never trust him to pack my reserve in his side gig, parachute rigging.

There is a long standing custom in parachuting. If your reserve chute saves your life, you have to buy the rigger who packed it a bottle of any liquor he or she chooses. I've had to do that twice in 48 years of jumping.

It's a strange feeling to cut away from a malfunctioning main canopy and go for plan B, your reserve. There is no plan C and believe me, you are thinking about that as the reserve deploys.

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There is no evidence "Weber was a rigger and a spotter". At least neither Jo or anyone else has ever shown any!

This is just one more attempt on Jo's part to fit her man to the Carr-FBI profile "theory".

So lacking any evidence whatever could we just say Jo's statement is a "lie" .

 

Yes, it's a lie, but a special kind, one in which brightly burning hope melts a harsh reality and the molten slag is poured in to the Duane Weber = DB Cooper mold. It's not vicious or conniving, it's just the result of extraordinary bias and a lingering hope that a small time loser was in fact a big time mastermind criminal. And Duane was not even a real criminal, it was all deep cover for the private heroic  commando group that he belonged to. The "do no harm" special ops group seems to be entirely made up by Jo. It is a deus ex machina.

But I still like her. 

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Vincent G Badolato

Denise Hollar-Hambrook called me today to discuss the suspect she has identified: Vincent G Badolato. We spoke about this fellow several years ago, and Denise is still stirring the Cooper Pot.

She caught my attention today by telling me that she has discovered an individual high in government intelligence by the name of Edward Vincent Badolato, and she wonders if they are related. She has no confirmation on this, and I was unable to get much when I Googled the guy.

But Denise posits that DB Cooper was Vinnie Badolato, and was given cover by his purported family member, Edward. Denise also thinks that Vinnie may have whacked Earl Cossey.

Denise told me that Geoffrey Gray published a "last interview with" Cossey and reported that Coss was claiming DB Cooper was probably a military guy and most likely survived the jump. I had never heard Coss say anything remotely like that, and GG has never broached those dynamics with me, either. She is sending me the link to GG's statements. She's thinking that Coss got killed because the Powers That Be were getting worried that Coss was figuring out the Vinnie-Eddie angle, and knew that DB Cooper was still alive.

Talking with Denise is like talking with Jo, but ya never know....