Agreed.  I pledge to do my best to avoid that topic.

Getting back to Gossett as suspect....in Geoff Gray's book there is one part where Carr is trying to locate the cigarette butts to do a DNA test for a suspect from Utah.  I don't think he'd say who it was, but it seemed likely that he was referring to Gossett or  McCoy.  So, I don't think talking about Gossett as a suspect is out there.

One point made, and it was made by the person we aren't mentioning, but it seems like a good point.  I never checked it out, though.  That is that the photo of Gossett that bears such a good resemblance to the drawing was from well before the hijacking and a photo closer to the hijacking (early 1973 I believe) showed Gossett much older looking and fatter.  Again, I can't confirm.

Of course, the drawing is a drawing and if they ever do find Cooper, he might not look exactly like it, either. So, who knows?

Agreed.  I pledge to do my best to avoid that topic.

Getting back to Gossett as suspect....in Geoff Gray's book there is one part where Carr is trying to locate the cigarette butts to do a DNA test for a suspect from Utah.  I don't think he'd say who it was, but it seemed likely that he was referring to Gossett or  McCoy.  So, I don't think talking about Gossett as a suspect is out there.

One point made, and it was made by the person we aren't mentioning, but it seems like a good point.  I never checked it out, though.  That is that the photo of Gossett that bears such a good resemblance to the drawing was from well before the hijacking and a photo closer to the hijacking (early 1973 I believe) showed Gossett much older looking and fatter.  Again, I can't confirm.

Of course, the drawing is a drawing and if they ever do find Cooper, he might not look exactly like it, either. So, who knows?

Interesting point regarding the age of the Gossett picture that seems to look so much like DBC. Assuming Gossett was by late 1971 quite stocky in build it certainly goes against him. I think I read RH commenting that Kenny was too solid to be a fit for DBC.

Something I'm very conscious of is how flattering black can be as a clothing colour. What colour do most overweight women prefer? Black, because it makes them look slimmer. DBC wore a dark suit - some referred to it as having been black. Either way. Being dark it may have hidden some pounds?

Gosset is pretty darn close to the sketch. Kenny doesn't match if you ask me. he has a round face, and dimples/laugh lines what ever you want to call them. plus he is missing a lot of sod on the fairway 

also, Kenny's hair is combed straight back, and not to the left.

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Gosset is pretty darn close to the sketch. Kenny doesn't match if you ask me. he has a round face, and dimples/laugh lines what ever you want to call them. plus he is missing a lot of sod on the fairway 

also, Kenny's hair is combed straight back, and not to the left.

I don't think Kenny had enough hair to qualify TBH, and as you said, his face is the wrong shape.

The likeness between that pic of Gossett - even if it was taken years earlier - is quite eerie.

Then again, I've read Gossett was a huge bullshit artist. So perhaps when he saw how much the DBC sketch resembled his earlier self he thought it would make a good bullshit story to go around claiming he was DBC?

I've heard that through Bruce. I don't really know enough about Gossett to make any conclusions. I keep saying I'm going to look into this suspect, but never get there 

Regarding Gossett, probably the best historical source of information on Wolfie is via John Craig. Galen has given him tons of info, although there is nothing new in the past year or so.

There should be a link to John in my book, or just Google John Craig + Wolfgang Gossett.

I am in regular email contact with Galen and he tells me that his DB Cooper interest has taken a back seat to lawyering and making money.  He also has a lady in his life, and as we all know that means, well, anything.

My sense of Galen and his book is that he only wants to publish when he has solved the case, and that hasn't happened. I'm not sure why, either. In any regard, I have encouraged him to publish what he does know - about Gossett and the rest of the case - but he declines my advice. Sigh!

Galen also has an elderly mother to watch over, so life is a bit complicated in the Land of the Midnight Sun.

Was Gossett a CRACKHEAD! as alleged? The buzzword is out of the closet!

Or, has Gossett just been the victim of a well-orchestrated unrelenting hatchet job?

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A second interesting quote - this time from Sluggo Monster - using the same shortcut to DZ :

Here’s what I have been led to believe:

Strands of hair from Gossett’s bandana (the one with the “Airborne Wings” (that you have seen in photos) and a full set of fingerprints (from some military document) were sent to the FBI.

The FBI sent the hair back (I believe) and suggested that Cook get a lab to run the DNA/mDNA and forward the results to the FBI.

I don’t know what they said about the prints. But, remember, the Bureau has only a partial (I don’t know which finger) print that they feel reasonably sure (read THINK) belonged to Cooper.