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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1695 on: February 16, 2017, 11:22:25 PM »
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Thanks 377.  I don't know anything else about the photo.  My pilot friend was a fire bomber on the west coast years ago when he knew Gossett, maybe that explains the planes.  They all figured he was Cooper but nothing evidentiary ever surfaced as far as he knows.  When I looked him up his name comes up as William but they always called him Mort.

another bald guy. bring in the wig fairy.    >:D
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« Reply #1696 on: February 17, 2017, 10:49:58 AM »
I did some searches on William M. Gossett.  There are a couple here that fit the age range.  All are dead.

1.
WILLIAM M GOSSETT

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06-20-1906

05-XX-1990

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2.
WILLIAM M GOSSETT

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37055

12-25-1909

02-17-1997

87

3.
WILLIAM M GOSSETT

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04-25-1922

05-08-1983

61

4.
WILLIAM M GOSSETT

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37069

01-24-1929

01-25-2005

76

5.
WILLIAM M GOSSETT

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04-17-1935

05-12-1992

57
 

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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1697 on: February 17, 2017, 11:51:37 AM »
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I did some searches on William M. Gossett.  There are a couple here that fit the age range.  All are dead.

1.
WILLIAM M GOSSETT

Search Last Known Address and Relatives

06-20-1906

05-XX-1990

83

2.
WILLIAM M GOSSETT

Search Last Known Address and Relatives

TN

37055

12-25-1909

02-17-1997

87

3.
WILLIAM M GOSSETT

Search Last Known Address and Relatives

04-25-1922

05-08-1983

61

4.
WILLIAM M GOSSETT

Search Last Known Address and Relatives

TN

37069

01-24-1929

01-25-2005

76

5.
WILLIAM M GOSSETT

Search Last Known Address and Relatives

04-17-1935

05-12-1992

57

William Gossett is Galen Cook's suspect.  His children first brought his name up on a radio show. We have kicked his name around a multitude of times on the Dropzone forum. You can read an article here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1698 on: February 17, 2017, 12:33:35 PM »
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another bald guy. bring in the wig fairy.    >:D

Does the wig fairy have receding hairline wigs? The photo I posted is dated 1976, probably lost his hair figuring out how to launder all that money.   ;)  The photo in the link EVickyW provided looks darn good, early '70s according to the article.  That said, the only thing apparently linking him to Cooper is telling everyone he was Cooper.  Seemed to enjoy name changes though, says he changed it to Wolfgang but my friend is sure he was known as Mort.
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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1699 on: February 17, 2017, 01:25:03 PM »
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another bald guy. bring in the wig fairy.    >:D

Does the wig fairy have receding hairline wigs? The photo I posted is dated 1976, probably lost his hair figuring out how to launder all that money.   ;)  The photo in the link EVickyW provided looks darn good, early '70s according to the article.  That said, the only thing apparently linking him to Cooper is telling everyone he was Cooper.  Seemed to enjoy name changes though, says he changed it to Wolfgang but my friend is sure he was known as Mort.

Another photo of Gossett from 1973 is attached as a PDF file.

Paulami, you may want to do a search on the Dropzone forums to see everything that is Gossett. Here is the link. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. In the upper right hand corner you can search the forums. I just did and here is a link to all the conversations:  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

Basically most of the people on this forum have been beaten to a pulp on the possibility of Gossett. If you read the Dropzone and have any new information that has not been discussed before, please bring it up here.
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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1700 on: February 17, 2017, 01:57:59 PM »
Thank you EVickyW.  My pilot friend has nothing else of substance on Gossett and I'm not keen on pursuing him, just thought I'd post what I thought was an unpublished photo, in case it showed $20 bills falling out of his pant leg or something. :)  I'm so far behind the curve on Cooper that I'm content to just follow along. Carry on.
 

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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1701 on: February 17, 2017, 02:30:44 PM »
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Thank you EVickyW.  My pilot friend has nothing else of substance on Gossett and I'm not keen on pursuing him, just thought I'd post what I thought was an unpublished photo, in case it showed $20 bills falling out of his pant leg or something. :)  I'm so far behind the curve on Cooper that I'm content to just follow along. Carry on.

Here's Gossett
 

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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1702 on: February 17, 2017, 03:25:14 PM »
I've been in the LeClair camp to a fault, and didnt know much about William Pratt (Wolfgang) Gossett. But looking closely at him, there's a lot of interesting  attributes of him being Cooper.  that he spoke fluent French and was living in France the years the Dan Cooper comic hijack issue was issued there, the dark eyes, the turkey neck, etc, among a ton of other things, makes me wanna look closer. Though did he have black hair?  I don't think so, from the photos. I looked for Cooks book but did he write it yet? 
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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1703 on: February 17, 2017, 03:40:19 PM »
Cook has not yet published his book.

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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1704 on: February 17, 2017, 05:42:36 PM »
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I've been in the LeClair camp to a fault, and didnt know much about William Pratt (Wolfgang) Gossett. But looking closely at him, there's a lot of interesting  attributes of him being Cooper.  that he spoke fluent French and was living in France the years the Dan Cooper comic hijack issue was issued there, the dark eyes, the turkey neck, etc, among a ton of other things, makes me wanna look closer. Though did he have black hair?  I don't think so, from the photos. I looked for Cooks book but did he write it yet?

Wolfgang Gossett may (or may not) have been a suspect of great interest to the FBI.  In Grey's book, he talks about how Larry Carr was looking for the cigarette butts to match the DNA with a deceased suspect in Utah, but does not say who it was.  The could have been Gossett, but it also could have been Richard McCoy or maybe someone else entirely.  I think there is a chance the FBI has looked at Gossett already.
 

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« Reply #1705 on: February 17, 2017, 05:49:07 PM »
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I've been in the LeClair camp to a fault, and didnt know much about William Pratt (Wolfgang) Gossett. But looking closely at him, there's a lot of interesting  attributes of him being Cooper.  that he spoke fluent French and was living in France the years the Dan Cooper comic hijack issue was issued there, the dark eyes, the turkey neck, etc, among a ton of other things, makes me wanna look closer. Though did he have black hair?  I don't think so, from the photos. I looked for Cooks book but did he write it yet?

Wolfgang Gossett may (or may not) have been a suspect of great interest to the FBI.  In Grey's book, he talks about how Larry Carr was looking for the cigarette butts to match the DNA with a deceased suspect in Utah, but does not say who it was.  The could have been Gossett, but it also could have been Richard McCoy or maybe someone else entirely.  I think there is a chance the FBI has looked at Gossett already.

Cook has has an ongoing relationship with the Seattle office for years.
 

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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1706 on: February 17, 2017, 07:49:56 PM »
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Wolfgang Gossett may (or may not) have been a suspect of great interest to the FBI.

According to Cook, he says that of the FBI's very short list of viable suspects, Gossett was the only one never eliminated.   The piece that doesn't fit, seems to be his simple brown hair, not black and marcelled.  Perhaps one could put that bryll cream or hair oil stuff people used in the 70s, the wet look would make it seem much darker, I guess.

Gossett was supposedly a degenerate gambler, and that is quite a strong force, the desire to score more funds, when you run out.   Cook's research into tracking Gossett's location at the time of the four mailings is of interest.  I hope Cook publishes his book, sooner than later.
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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1707 on: February 17, 2017, 09:55:39 PM »
The term "marcelled" came from one passenger, and isn't part of the description of Cooper. he could be right, but they had to remember what Cooper looked like after the fact. they never had any reason to remember him so the descriptions vary with the passengers for that reason...
 

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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1708 on: February 17, 2017, 10:25:55 PM »
At a glance, Gossett doesn't seem to have that one glaring disqualifying attribute that the other public suspects have (like Webers ears or KC's height) yet on the voting at the start of this thread, he got no votes. Hes a ringer for the second sketch, has no alibi, was overqualified as being able to pull it off, had the penetrating dark eyes, the turkey neck, the grudge from getting hosed by the custody system as most males do, dengenerate gambler needing the money, and those four letters could arguably be from him, it goes on and on.  To get me up to speed here, what was it about Gossett that would lead none of the 26 voters, vote for him as the hijacker?  His attributes seem far stronger than KC or the others listed, and there had to be something.
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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #1709 on: February 17, 2017, 11:04:08 PM »
He looks very close to the sketch, but the sketch could be off...I don't know a lot about Gossett, he has faults like the others...