Georger you say: " Why would Peterson surface 40 years late in a still existing quarrel over the hijacking money? "
I say: You must have skipped over what I said, that Cossey might have been the launder and investor of the loot that was to last many years and grow in size. When the loot and investment ran out after 40 years, I think Sheridan would have traveled to be eyeball to eyeball with Cossey and find out what happened to the investment. Sheridan is getting old (around 90 years old) but could have traveled to Seattle to talk and when a fight took place (around that time Sheridan took a beating to his body someway) with Cossey walking away and getting hit in the back of his head from Sheridan's anger and not a planned killing. Just my thought on what could have happened.
Bob Sailshaw
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The last rumor that I heard about Petey's health and ability to travel is that Petey traveled to Atlanta several years ago in the company of his daughter to attend his son's wedding. Who took care of whom is unclear, as Ginger has her own issues.
Currently, all indications I got from Petey's neighbors is that Sheridan is quite frail and has significant cognitive impairments. He was unable to take care of himself in a senior apartment complex. His next-door-neighbor told me that his apartment was a total wreck and had to be gutted after he got kicked out for living in an unsanitary manner.
He also had cancer in one eye, reportedly, although that has stabilized. I have no idea what his current health situation is, but it is widely believed that he is in some kind of assisted-living situation in Santa Rosa.
Petey is really afraid, too. He hung up on me, and in emails he consistently accused me of being a CIA/FBI dupe. 377, too.
Sheridan Peterson is thoroughly unreliable at this point. Nothing he has told me checks out. The only thing that is corroborated is that he lived with Sail for 30 days in 1961, and now Petey denies that. Also, he was an English teacher at Lake Washington High School in the mid-sixties. He was also a freelance reporter with the Eastside Journal during the same time period, but he did fluff pieces, such as HS sports, according to his friend and co-writer that I contacted in Tacoma several years ago.
Did he kill Cossey? I seriously doubt it. Did he want to? Maybe, if he could remember him. They clearly have secrets and I do believe that they knew each other. Everybody in the skydiving community that I know, knows of Earl Cossey. Everyone.
As for Cossey, he can't tell the truth at all. He may have shut down Sail for the same reasons he didn't want to meet with me - greater control over his narrative.
To whit: Coss totally bamboozled the FBI over the chutes. First it was an NB-6, then it was a 28-foot canopy stuffed into an NB-6 rig, and lastly it was an NB-8. Every time I talked with Coss he had a slightly different story.
Carr believed the NB-6 story, but clearly Larry didn't read his own department's notes on Hayden, as Larry fully believed that Coss owned the chutes. In addition, Larry never talked with Geoffrey Gray about the Hayden matter, nor did GG know how big a find his Hayden discovery was! And still doesn't since he never talks about it!!!
In fact, GG is participating fully in the re-creation of the Cossey legacy, and currently writing that Cossey believed that DB Cooper made a successful jump and that it wasn't too tricky an endeavor.
That is totally opposite of what Cossey told me. Coss was
adamant that Cooper died in the jump and was an incompetent jerk who no-pulled. In fact, what Cossey told me about Cooper is
exactly what Petey told the FBI cuties when they talked with him in Santa Rosa back in 2002-3. So those two were certainly reading off the same script. Did they write it together? Or were they acting in someone's else's escapade?
Further, we have not been able to confirm Petey's participation in the Marines, Boeing, caves in Nepal, or travels throughout Asia. Nor do we know anything about his stated work history for US defense contractors in California, although I have not explored that angle.
Petey's brother disbelieves everything about Sheridan. In turn, Petey can't stand him, and hates his wife.
As for Cossey, his many friends loved him, but every time I spoke with him and throughout all of my professional observations of him, such as on talk radio shows, my impressions was clearly that he was a lying sonofabitch who liked the spotlight. I've spoken to a number of people who crossed paths with Cossey on the Path to DB Cooper, such as during film shoots, and they had nothing complimentary to say about the guy. I sensed he was very isolated once his glory days as a jumper were over, but still hungry for fame.
Was Coss Cooper's accomplice? I don't think so.
Was Petey the skyjacker? I don't think so.
But I know there are a lot of secrets here to be explored.
My trip to Oregon with Sail to see the King of Blowhards, Ralph Hedley, might turn up something along these lines.
