Is Bob and Jane the sailshaw couple? They id Sheridan as olive complexion and smoking cigarettes outside the house in this interview.
This I think was the first time sailshaw arrived on the scene?
They name Richland as the prior site of Sheridan before Seattle (see my Bold)
The FBI agents confirm that the ex-wife had given the Richland address 10 years before the Bob/Jane FBI interview in 1972. So Sheridan was in Richland in 1962. That aligns with the resume showing him as a reporter then, and his book stating he was a reporter, and all the location clues I've previously excerpted above.
I also bolded where Bob/Jane said Sheridan introduced himself as "Dan" and said to call him "Dan"
This is a good interview. I forget if I was banned or in jail while Bruce posted this to Dropzone.com.
377 didn't bring all articles when he visited all those years.
BruceSmith at Dropzone.com
Mar 21, 2011, 10:45 PM
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Report on Sheridan Peterson: Interview with Bob and Jane
Sheridan Peterson
Interview with Bob and Jane
Bob and Jane A contacted me a few days ago to discuss Sheridan Peterson after reading some of my writings on the DB Cooper case in The Mountain News. I interviewed them on Monday, March 21, 2011 in their home. Below is my report:
In early 1972, an FBI agent named White showed up at the home of Bob and Jane A. and asked about Sheridan Peterson. White told the A's that Peterson's wife in Richland, WA had given the FBI their address as his last known address, even though it was 10 years old.
Here's what Bob and Jane told Agent White:
A young man calling himself Sheridan L. Peterson II stayed in their rooming house for one month in the fall of 1961, until they kicked him out for non-payment. He had been living in a basement apartment.
Peterson had presented himself as an English major at the nearby University of Washington in Seattle. He also told them he was going through a divorce and that his ex was living in Richland, WA.
The A's later saw him again in the spring of 1962 as the emcee on the Bubbleator at the Seattle World's Fair.
Jane told me that when Agent White came to their home shortly after the DB Cooper skyjacking, she did not remember Sheridan Peterson initially.
"I remember him distinctly, now" said Jane. "But, when the FBI came I couldn't find any records of him, and later realized that was because he had never paid rent!"
"He was cool, calm and collected," said Bob, "even when I kicked him out."
"He was a very interesting guy," said Jane. "He had done so many interesting things, and gone so many places."
After a brief conversation with Jane, Agent White handed her his phone number and asked her and her husband to call when Bob returned from work, which they did. Bob told Agent White everything that is in this report, and Bob himself has written down much of this material.
Much of what they told me was anecdotal types of information, as Bob and Jane had many conversations with Sheridan in his brief stay.
Highlights:
Sheridan called himself "Dan."
"You can call me Dan," he told the A's and they did - and still do.
They said Dan was tall - "just over six-foot tall, and very slender," Jane told me.
"He had an olive complexion, and looked Greek," said Bob, adding, "he looked just like the FBI's composite sketch - a ringer."
They also told me that Dan smoked, and did so outside the house.
In addition, Dan did not speak with any discernible accent.
"He spoke perfect English," said Bob.
Dan and Bob talked a lot about being fire fighters. Bob is a former member of the Forest Service and Dan was a smokejumper in Missoula. Dan told Bob specifically that he was not afraid to jump at night, in the rain, over water or over forests.
"The only thing he said he was afraid of when jumping, was if he landed on a cliff - where the cliff would break his fall and the chute would collapse," said Bob.
I asked Bob if he had any indication that Dan was bs-ing him.
"No, he knew too many details about fighting fires," Bob replied.
Bob also told me that Dan announced on one occasion that he could "walk out of anywhere."
"Dan was a very rugged, capable kind of guy," Bob said.
Dan was a bicyclist, as was Bob and Jane.
Also, Bob said that one time, or more, Dan confessed to re-setting forest fires in order to get over-time pay.
"He was an intelligent, clever guy," said Bob, "but he had never made use of his intellect or his English degree - if he had one. All the work he told us about had to do with him working with his hands - like smokejumping or digging ditches."
Dan talked incessantly about devising schemes to make money and get ahead, Bob described, and he notes a "DB Cooper letter," apparently written to the San Francisco Chronicle, in which DBC declared that he had "designed the system that beat the system."
Bob said Dan had used those exact words numerous times in their conversations.
Bob also said that Dan used to talk about joining forces to "beat the system."
"'We're smart enough to it,' he used to say," said Bob. "It was like he wanted me to join him."
Bob was working at Boeing on the 737 as a mechanical engineer in 1961. Bob said that Dan pestered him about the aft stair capabilities of the 727s, asking if they could be deployed in flight, how much would they bounce, etc. The 727s had just been put into commercial production.
In fact, in 1961 Bob was working on the mechanics of the 737s' starboard aft stairs deployment.
When Bob told Dan that he had not worked on the 727 and didn't know anything about the functionality of its aft stairs, Dan reportedly lost all interest in Bob's work and engineering skills.
Bob and his wife live near the UW campus, and they say that Dan told them he got the Bubbleator job because his English Prof had written the script.
Bob attempted to contact Agent White after the initial round of conversation, asking for a meeting, but was unsuccessful.
Bob said that Agent White had confirmed Dan "was one of our suspects."
In the past few years, Bob has become interested in the DB Cooper case. In addition, he has crafted a list of "predictions" on how and why Dan did the DB Cooper jump, including the money find at Tina's Beach. In Bob's speculation it was planted by Dan to convince a book publisher that he was DB Cooper and thus publish a book about him - but more importantly publish what Dan truly wanted in print, a novel that Bob says Dan was sure to write.
Along those lines, Bob has sent many emails to Larry Carr, detailing what he knows about Peterson and sharing his "predictions." Bob has not received a single reply from Larry.
Bob has not read extensively on the case, but he has a sizeable newspaper clipping file. He has also read Petey's autobiography that was written when he was running for Windsor City Council, or some such.
I expect that Bob will be joining the DZ shortly.
Bob also gave me numerous emotional and psychological observations about Dan.
"He seemed like a regular guy," said Bob. "We trusted him."
"Yeah, he convinced us to break our number one rule - pay the first and last month's rent before you move in," said Jane. "I don't know how he managed to do that!" she said, laughing.
"He was a calculating kind of guy," said Bob, adding that Dan had given them lots of excuses on why he didn't have the rent. "He said he was waiting to get paid, and hadn't been."
Bob is utterly convinced that Sheridan "Dan" Peterson is DB Cooper. He also has a nearly unshakeable conviction that his speculative "predictions" about DB Cooper are correct. As a result, Bob had a very difficult time listening to any inforamtion I shared about differing opinions of the case, such as the money find - Bob is adamant that Dan planted the money as part of a literary ploy to get a novel published.
Bob also has a passioante view of the recent parachute find in Amboy, WA, and Bob is utterly convinced it is the Cooper chute.
I will be continuing my conversations with Bob and Jane, and will have more to report in the near future.
(This post was edited by BruceSmith on Mar 21, 2011, 10:47 PM)
