Tom said there was tons of match residue on the tie, confirming probable smoker, right?
I think he said this, when deciding whether it was probably Cooper's tie?

That's my understanding. That said, there should also be cigarette residue all over the tie and it should smell like smoke.

Sheridan could have started smoking after leaving Claire
Or any time between '63 and '71. Maybe in Vietnam.

It could have been a temporary habit.
So maybe Claire wouldn't know during the right time frame.

This is true. Also 377 said he knew of a lot of guys that started smoking in Nam.

Still wondering if the tie particles could be from minerals in soil in Vietnam (not WA)

BTW, I think I previously posted that he wrote for a paper in Wenatchee. I believe that is incorrect. Claire confirmed that he worked for one of two papers that was in the Tri-Cities and that one of them folded.

when he lost his job they went on public assistance and he got the job at the World's Fair. Claire said she remembers loading Sheridan in the car with the kids and driving to Benton City and dropping Sheridan off on the side of the road with his wearing a suit and tie to hitchhike up to Seattle.

Also, I asked if JC Penny sounded like the kind of place Sheridan would shop. She told me, yes as a matter of fact that's where we always shopped when we had some money to buy clothes.

In reply to snowmman
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Interesting Bruce. But probably just speculation? Unless Sheridan said something weird?
Good on the JC Penney's shopping EU. Hmm. a lot of circumstantial things.

Okay I'm going to go out on the speculative limb here on the Filipina.

-I'm assuming birth control was not well practiced, based on Sheridan's writings and real-life.
-So assume the Filipina got pregnant within a year of meeting Sheridan.
-So that means, given the '70 birth, they probably met in Vietnam, around '68..he wasn't at Clark Air Base.

In 1968, Sheridan was 42. Given his sexual proclivities as described in his book, I'm guessing he was after younger woman. The Filipina probably wasn't married before, and didn't have any prior kids.
So I'm guessing she was 22 to 25..i.e. twenty years younger than Sheridan
That would put her at 72 years old or so.

So might still be alive.

What do people think about this speculation?

I'm thinking the move to Nepal may have been half-precipitated by her getting pregnant...It's possible she disappeared shortly after '73 maybe..hence no more kids. Maybe the move back to Vietnam was also connected with her leaving the scene? Who took care of the new kids when Sheridan went back to Vietnam?

If she stayed around much after '72, I would have thought there would be another kid in '74 and then maybe '76 given Sheridan's pattern with Claire

What do people think about this speculation? I can't imagine much birth control in Nepal.