C'mon, Jimmy, jump right in - the water's fine! Vortex-Schmortex - we're all just swirling around in our own obsessions. 15+ plus years observing the Vortex from the edges, eh? And a DZ Vet? Impressive.

So who are all the witnesses saying that DBC was Mexican-American, Latino, etc. I only know of Florence saying that. Okay, Alice adds "wavy" hair, but that is not necessarily Latin, or even Italian. The Big 5 of Gregory, Spreckel, Mitchell, House and Labissoniere don't mention that aspect, do they? Please correct me if I'm wrong. I kind of gave up on reading the Colbert FOIA packet as my eyeballs were still rolling after wading through a hundred pages from GG's portfolio, and the segments from Skoland-Reichenbach in the Forum's vault. Yeah, the effing redactions are crazy.

I'd love to hear about your suspect pool. Have you seen my YouTube video that just went up a week ago? It states my point of view, and of course I encourage you to read my book! If you do, please let me know what you think.

First of all, I didn't say this at first, but from a non-participant on here in the 15 years I've been a Cooper weirdo---I think ALL of you are awesome. You guys keep this case alive. I even give reluctant kudos to guys like Rob Blevins and Jo Weber. I give kudos due to the many, many facepalms they've given me over the years. This case is so utterly baffling that it drives me (us) insane. That's why I (we) love it.

On nights I can't sleep I just think about all the possibilities of what could have happened and before I know it, I'm out cold.

I appreciate the warm welcome and I want to preface future posts by saying I think very highly of other people's opinions, even though I disagree with all the commonly talked about suspects. As for me, I'm a staff sergeant in the Air Force stationed at Fort Bragg. Home of the golden knights army parachute team (currently filing through their records looking for possible Cooper suspects) I think the lady that works at the museum thinks I'm weird because the first question I asked about the golden knights was if they jump at night. I'm from Washington State originally, Tacoma and then just south of Canada (Go BC Lions). I decided to finally participate on here because I think private sleuths are unsung heroes. I think Bruce, georger, 377, Robert99 and anyone I've forgotten are all great folks that add a lot to this thing.

I think Tom Colbert's recent find is going to turn out to be nada. Quite frankly.. where is the rest of this parachute that was buried there? I personally think the whole thing with him stinks to high hell. I pray the fbi doesn't pull an LD Cooper and try and say "yep okay case closed you solved it." Also...why on earth would cooper, who just risked his life for 200k, toss 50k into a random lake and hope the FBI finds it?!! Ludicrous, imho. No disrespect to Colbert. I think just he is a bit gullible, maybe. Not sure. Hasty, undoubtedly.

To Bruce- you're an excellent researcher. Georger- Thanks buddy, you are too. I'm just a Cooper weirdo, I'm afraid. My other sleuthing goes to the very solvable Teddy Conrad case. Bruce, do you think Florence is a so-so witness? Honest question. It's hard for me to tell. Also, I'll dig for the description about cooper being mexican. I personally think Cooper may have been French Canadian with native blood. There is a big population of them in BC as well as Oregon. But, I also think maybe Mediterranean. Truly don't know, honestly.

However- the RCAF aero medical evacuation squadron was staioned at McChord during the Korean War. Im still digging on that. Their home base was Manitoba, if Im not mistaken. That could be some sort of connection, maybe. I also think Cooper may have been an FAA guy. Did you guys see the FOIA page about the NWA 727 plane with the passenger asking all the weird questions the day before the hijacking? I'll post it, if not.

I think DB was probably not a career criminal. I say probably because I go back and forth. That said, I think the FBI wasted WAY too much time investigating crappy suspects like Bryant Coffelt. They devote about 30 pages to him in the FOIA docs. Baffling. Himmelsbach's idea that he was a "filthy crook" appears to be misguided. The FBI thought Cooper was going to be on the plane in Reno. They were shocked when he wasn't, I think. They were sloppy and expected it to be solved easily (at first). Ol Coop sure got em there.

Thanks again for the welcoming. Bruce, I'll get your book. I just finished the Rollins ebook. Dunno what to say about that, honestly. I'm sure you can guess my feelings.

First of all, I didn't say this at first, but from a non-participant on here in the 15 years I've been a Cooper weirdo---I think ALL of you are awesome. You guys keep this case alive. I even give reluctant kudos to guys like Rob Blevins and Jo Weber. I give kudos due to the many, many facepalms they've given me over the years. This case is so utterly baffling that it drives me (us) insane. That's why I (we) love it.

On nights I can't sleep I just think about all the possibilities of what could have happened and before I know it, I'm out cold.

I appreciate the warm welcome and I want to preface future posts by saying I think very highly of other people's opinions, even though I disagree with all the commonly talked about suspects. As for me, I'm a staff sergeant in the Air Force stationed at Fort Bragg. Home of the golden knights army parachute team (currently filing through their records looking for possible Cooper suspects) I think the lady that works at the museum thinks I'm weird because the first question I asked about the golden knights was if they jump at night. I'm from Washington State originally, Tacoma and then just south of Canada (Go BC Lions). I decided to finally participate on here because I think private sleuths are unsung heroes. I think Bruce, georger, 377, Robert99 and anyone I've forgotten are all great folks that add a lot to this thing.

I think Tom Colbert's recent find is going to turn out to be nada. Quite frankly.. where is the rest of this parachute that was buried there? I personally think the whole thing with him stinks to high hell. I pray the fbi doesn't pull an LD Cooper and try and say "yep okay case closed you solved it." Also...why on earth would cooper, who just risked his life for 200k, toss 50k into a random lake and hope the FBI finds it?!! Ludicrous, imho. No disrespect to Colbert. I think just he is a bit gullible, maybe. Not sure. Hasty, undoubtedly.

To Bruce- you're an excellent researcher. Georger- Thanks buddy, you are too. I'm just a Cooper weirdo, I'm afraid. My other sleuthing goes to the very solvable Teddy Conrad case. Bruce, do you think Florence is a so-so witness? Honest question. It's hard for me to tell. Also, I'll dig for the description about cooper being mexican. I personally think Cooper may have been French Canadian with native blood. There is a big population of them in BC as well as Oregon. But, I also think maybe Mediterranean. Truly don't know, honestly.

However- the RCAF aero medical evacuation squadron was staioned at McChord during the Korean War. Im still digging on that. Their home base was Manitoba, if Im not mistaken. That could be some sort of connection, maybe. I also think Cooper may have been an FAA guy. Did you guys see the FOIA page about the NWA 727 plane with the passenger asking all the weird questions the day before the hijacking? I'll post it, if not.

I think DB was probably not a career criminal. I say probably because I go back and forth. That said, I think the FBI wasted WAY too much time investigating crappy suspects like Bryant Coffelt. They devote about 30 pages to him in the FOIA docs. Baffling. Himmelsbach's idea that he was a "filthy crook" appears to be misguided. The FBI thought Cooper was going to be on the plane in Reno. They were shocked when he wasn't, I think. They were sloppy and expected it to be solved easily (at first). Ol Coop sure got em there.

Thanks again for the welcoming. Bruce, I'll get your book. I just finished the Rollins ebook. Dunno what to say about that, honestly. I'm sure you can guess my feelings.

...Likewise Im not impressed with the 'storming' of the plane by agents and dogs at Reno. According to some the dogs did a lot of damage inside the aircraft? I know Geoff Gray was interested in this when he was writing his book. The storm-trooper action of the agents boarding the plane seems superfluous, maybe even harmful to evidence. Scott had already gone to the back and looked for Cooper and reported the hijacker was gone before Scott. They likely knew Cooper was gone but they stormed the plane anyway. 
     

If the FBI was confident that Cooper had a dark complexion and brown eyes why pay any attention at all to Sheridan Peterson who has neither? They interviewed him twice and insisted on a DNA sample. Tells us something about how little confidence they had in witness descriptions and the accuracy of the composite drawing(s).

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