Here Sheridan is apparently bragging about his 'first' at age 17. His first turned into a 2-week stint as a boy-toy for a cougar.

He's musing about a prostitute in the leadup. Note the '44 reference is correct vis-a-vis his WWII registration card I posted before. 10 days in the brig afterwards. Apparently worth it. He says for the next few years he could never get enough after that.

He kind of sounds like Trump here...that would be the ultimate insult to Sheridan!


Grecco was tempted to keep her for a few days. It had been a long time since he'd had anything nearly so nice. If he were younger, things would be different. He thought back to '44 when he was a seventeen-year-old Marine on leave for the first time. A hostess at the famous Hollywood Canteen had picked him up. When she found that Vince was a virgin, she sent his uniform to the cleaners with instructions to keep it until she called for it. She wouldn't let him leave the hotel room for two weeks. When Grecco finally got back to Camp Pendleton, he was locked up in the brig for ten days. After that his appetite for pussy was insatiable. For the next few years, he could never get enough.

Dropzones in the 60s and 70s had more free love going on than the Haight Ashbury did. Sheridan probably explored this aspect of skydiving. Not sure if he wrote about it though.

Wonder if he hooked up with any Bubbleator passengers? Was he seen as a mere elevator operator or a pilot?

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I just completed a 3 hour phone conversation with Claire Peterson, Sheridan's ex-wife. It was very interesting.

I am going to fill everyone in but I need to take a couple of hours to type my notes regarding the conversation first.

Nice. Looking forward to it.
So she threw Pete out in 62? Wasn't his choice? Any child support? Visits? Was his nickname Dan then? How did they meet in Montana?

She did not throw him out in 1962. He left to take the job in Seattle at the World's Fair and the job was arranged by the state or county because they were living off of public assistance at the time. She confirmed the story of him clearing brush along the Columbia River as true.

She said she took the opportunity to divorce him when he left for Seattle. Their relationship was difficult, he was violent with her.

He essentially sent no child support and was out of touch with them during his many years overseas. In fact, while she knew he was in Asia and Nepal, she did not know he had been in Vietnam.

He has always gone by the name Pete. They met in Montana while she was a student there.

She said Sheridan did not smoke. She confirmed that he is left-handed.

She also mentioned that they lived in some type duplex housing--she said there was A housing, B housing, and C housing--along the lines of company housing in Richland, WA. She stated that the people who lived there--not Sheridan obviously--worked at Hanford which was about 10 miles away. In fact, she stated that most people in Richland worked at Hanford.

She said she does not recall telling the FBI that the hijacking sounded like something Sheridan would do. However, she said she may have. Nonetheless, she said she did not think Sheridan was likely to be Cooper and that him hijacking an airliner for money didn't strike her as something that he would do.

Here's the bombshell: She stated that based upon multiple conversations she's had over the years, Sheridan's Filipina wife is still alive and living in the Philippines. Sheridan has said virtually nothing about his Filipina wife except once when he stated that she died from pneumonia in the late 70s while in the Philippines. This is highly interesting considering his Filipina wife would know whether Sheridan was Cooper or not. Stating she died means she doesn't get tracked down and interviewed. 

When would the Filipina have left?
If the 2nd child in Nepal was born in '72, then things were fine during '71 and '72?

Did she leave when Sheridan went back to Vietnam? Did Sheridan take the kids with him to Vietnam?

What was the Filipina's name?

If Sheridan basically made up the story that his ex-wife said "That sounds like something he would do"
that's interesting.
Why would he bother doing that?

Another good question to ask Sheridan the self-promoter