To Smoking99 more evidence pointing to Sheridan Peterson being DB Cooper

The Citizen Sleuths were very good at researching and found very small particles on DB Cooper's tie. The two types of Titanium (pure and alloy) were of particular interest to me as there was only one place in the North West that the two types could have come from and that is Boeing. When I talked with Tom Kaye, he ruled out Boeing as he thought we were only using alloy titanium in our SST (Super Sonic Transport) airplane. It was too bad that he made that wrong guess as the particles were like an address as to where the tie had been. The Materials and Processes Lab (M&P Lab) was located in the 9-101 Building at the Development Center in Seattle. The 9-101 building had a full scale cutout of the SST on the North side of the building and could be viewed by the public heading South on Marginal Way. That lab was working with both types of titanium and actually flame spraying pure titanium on the leading surfaces of the wing as the pure titanium had better high temperature and abrasion characteristics over the alloy being used in the SST.

Now, the M&P Lab was located in the North West corner of the 9-101 building on the main floor and had scrap metal tote boxes in the two hallways around the lab. How many boxes? Maybe 20 or so that were used to collect scrap metal from the lab before being scraped. People passed by the open tote boxes as many as four times a day on their way to office spaces on the second floor and to the cafeteria. Sheridan's worked in the Manuals Hand Books Group that was on the second floor just above the M&P Lab. My office for the Structures Test Group was just to the South of Sheridan's office and above the Structures Lab on the main floor. As Sheridan passed by the open scrap boxes, he would have easily looked into the boxes to see the neat scrap things from the M&P Lab and his tie could have hung down into the scrap and picked-up the two types of titanium that were available there. I was doing some strain gage work and using the M&P Lab to flame spray the strain gages on to metal surfaces we tested.

So, the particles on the tie pointed (like an address to his office) to where Sheridan worked and how his tie could have got the particles on it. That ties Sheridan to DB Cooper by the tie left on the plane. Machine operators were not allowed to wear ties as it was too dangerous and could get caught in the machinery. Sheridan was an office worker and would have worn a tie like he did in the Boeing News photo. He was dressed just like DB Cooper including the pig skin loafers.

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here is what I found on a quick search....see photo

Parrotheadvol:

You say:  "Where colored contacts are concerned, I have been unable to find anything that shows they were available at the time of the hijacking. Of course, this would not be the first time I've been wrong. Can someone show that colored contacts would have been a viable option for Peterson, or any other suspect."

I say:    My wife wore contacts in those days and it was common practice for the lens to be tinted (colored) so they could be easy to find when not in the eye. The use by actors to play parts with eyes changed from blue to brown (cosmetic color change) was also common and can be seen in movies of those days. My wife had hers colored blue to make them easy to find but her choice could have been brown too. Tinting was done by the local labs here in Seattle and was not a big deal.

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Soft contact lenses were invented in 1971 according to the graphic Shutter posted, but before then there were hard contact lenses.  Coloring those would be no different than coloring eye glasses.  Anyone who ever wore those know it was basically  putting a piece of glass in your eye -- and they took a long time to get used to and were very uncomfortable.  So if Peterson was wearing hard contacts, he would have started wearing them well before that.

Colored contacts were available in the 1950s. I've got no problem with speculation that DB Cooper could have worn colored contacts. Like I said, Peterson definitely has the qualifications but you can't overlook the sticky wickets. 

My point was only that - to be a truly honest and thoughtful discussion - along with listing the qualifications, one should list the caveats. In Peterson's case, those would be blue eyes, frontal baldness/super - receding hairline (whatever you want to call it - but no witness mentioned that much "forehead"), the fact that he says he was in Nepal, and the fact that the FBI has supposedly ruled him out via DBA/prints. The same full disclosure should be required regardless of the suspect. 

THEN you can proceed to explain all that away and make your case - as you are doing. So all's good. 

Bob,

Do you know what witness reaction - especially Tina - has been to pictures of Peterson?

Hi Bob, does anyone have any handwriting from Peterson? anything to compare to the letters sent to the FBI? what makes you think those letters are from Cooper? I always question them since they were noted by DB Cooper, and not Dan Cooper. I'm not sold they came from Cooper. there is always the possibility though.

Sutter

You say: "Hi Bob, does anyone have any handwriting from Peterson? anything to compare to the letters sent to the FBI? what makes you think those letters are from Cooper? I always question them since they were noted by DB Cooper, and not Dan Cooper. I'm not sold they came from Cooper. there is always the possibility though."

I say:  When I first heard about the four letters, my thought was that some kook had written them, but when I saw the salutation on letter #3 ("The System That Beats The System"), then I knew it was from Sheridan as that was his mantra the whole month he stayed at my home. He even suggested that the two of us had enough College Degrees between us that we should be able to "figure a way to beat the system". Remember he was at my home ten years before Norjak and was in early planing on how to make the jump. When I saw that salutation on letter#3, I knew then it was from Sheridan and that he made a safe jump and survived. I think trying to compare hand writing would be a waste of time as he would have been clever enough to disguise how it looked.

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Smoking99

The evidence that Meyer Louis discovered at the Tacoma Museum Cooper display was the "scar/dimple" shown in both the FBI sketch and the Boeing News photo of Sheridan's face. The scar/dimple is about one inch from his mouth in the direction of his left ear. Could this be FBI hold-back to help them identify the real suspects? DB Cooper sat with Tina on his left and she would have seen the scar/dimple and possibly that is why the mark is shown in the FBI sketch in the blow-up on the Museum wall?

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IF YOU CLICK ON THE PHOTO'S THEY WILL BOTH BE ENLARGED SO THAT THE SCAR/DIMPLE CAN BE COMPARED. SO CICK AND ENLARGE BOTH PHOTO TO VIEW THEM ENLARGED

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