Or he went "to a place you would like" ... in Mexico!

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I've always thought that if Cooper cratered he would have left behind a lot of pending/continuing financial obligations (rent, house payments, utility bills) that would have screamed "missing person" when he failed to pay.  The FBI was looking for that.

But what if Cooper planned to leave his home area for good after the skyjack and got all his affairs in order? What if he got ready to leave without any hanging obligations? Tell the neighbors you are relocating, sell the house, terminate the rental, shut off the utilities etc. Nobody would think missing person.

Would he have thought that far ahead?

377

Maybe he was in some branch of the service, or just out, and had few ties, and was off the map.

But if Tom's vita is correct he was a real known person with a real life, somewhere.

Or he went "to a place you would like" ... in Mexico! The search for Cooper could have been stopped at some border or boundary difficult to cross or investigate. Maybe he went to live in Saigon.

Nobody will know the details of DB Cooper until he is found ... and by then nobody will believe it anyway! Its the perfect crime. It doesnt exist until its observed and then it is gone - instantaneously - like Schrodinger's cat! Maybe Cooper's ultimate revenge was to do something noteworthy, vanish, and then drive people mad stumbling over each other looking for a ghost? It's almost as if the whole thing was designed to never to be solved. It's a talking point and nothing more.

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I've always thought that if Cooper cratered he would have left behind a lot of pending/continuing financial obligations (rent, house payments, utility bills) that would have screamed "missing person" when he failed to pay.  The FBI was looking for that.

But what if Cooper planned to leave his home area for good after the skyjack and got all his affairs in order? What if he got ready to leave without any hanging obligations? Tell the neighbors you are relocating, sell the house, terminate the rental, shut off the utilities etc. Nobody would think missing person.

Would he have thought that far ahead?

377

Maybe he was in some branch of the service, or just out, and had few ties, and was off the map.

But if Tom's vita is correct he was a real known person with a real life, somewhere.

Or he went "to a place you would like" ... in Mexico! The search for Cooper could have been stopped at some border or boundary difficult to cross or investigate. Maybe he went to live in Saigon.

Nobody will know the details of DB Cooper until he is found ... and by then nobody will believe it anyway! Its the perfect crime. It doesnt exist until its observed and then it is gone - instantaneously - like Schrodinger's cat! Maybe Cooper's ultimate revenge was to do something noteworthy, vanish, and then drive people mad stumbling over each other looking for a ghost? It's almost as if the whole thing was designed to never to be solved. It's a talking point and nothing more.

It would not be that hard to disappear and not be missed.  Not everyone has lots of family, friends, and acquaintances like most of us have.  Some people are real loners, really lonely, real recluses, they have no family -- not seeing them for days, months, even years would not be so unusual.  For some, it would not be that hard to walk away from it all unnoticed.  Don't assume everyone has the gifts, activities, and family that most of us enjoy and take for granted.

Or he could have staged his disappearance to make it look totally legit.  Or a staged, planned death -- a staged drowning, a hiker who disappeared, or like the guy who flew his plane into the wilderness.... never to be found again.  Lots of possibilities...

Meyer

To steal a phrase from Jaws, I'd have to say " I think we need a bigger pump ". Weather here is looking better with sun on the way. I will be in Portland next Saturday and report back. As you know, warm weather brings on snow melt in the mountains so this will take time.

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To steal a phrase from Jaws, I'd have to say " I think we need a bigger pump ". Weather here is looking better with sun on the way. I will be in Portland next Saturday and report back. As you know, warm weather brings on snow melt in the mountains so this will take time.

Still, though, in my lifetime, I have never seen anything like we are witnessing now re: the Columbia River.  The one year we want to do our project is the one year the River is high, and stays high, and keeps staying high...and is still high....and it's going to be July in 2 weeks.  I've never seen anything like it.  What about that Trapper and Kermit?

Meyer