The money found in 1980 is confusing through the FBI and the media...
One report states a "a wadded up bunch of $20 bills" or "fist size clump" was found after the Ingram's find..newspaper reports as well as video states $3,000 was found by Brian, not $5,800 even after checking serial numbers...another newspaper stated "one bundle" and Cooper was given several bundles...
do we have enough to claim two separate bundles were found since we have newspaper reports, or was Cooper only given a couple bundles or several as they agent stated? answer, no, with reports all over the board how can anyone come to any conclusions as to what was actually found by Brian or the FBI?
All we know is a good estimate is around $5,800 found, and serial numbers missed in the original estimate in 1980..
Is it possible they put several bundles together, yes..you could also notice a difference in each bundle if they were different amounts when picking through the bag, you would feel the difference...Carr was pretty specific when stating they had different amounts..he had to of read it somewhere in the 302's...this is part of the problem by not having all the facts...
This is similar to Blevins claiming an agent stated the case was closed because Kenny is dead...at about the same time Robert got this news a rumor/joke was floating around the FBI focused on agent Carr. they played a trick on him saying the case was closed..it's possible they used Kenny in this joke and this could of been taken seriously by other agents not involved or a joke that turned into fact over night..the agent who made the claim could of been feeding off of this joke..
The newspaper articles were all over the map - mass confusion at first. Plus the Ingrams themselves were milking the press and giving multiple accounts ... because ... they wanted a reward and were denied by Himmelsbach. They even contacted radio stations to lobby for a reward! All of this history is DOCUMENTED. Add to that there was friction in the Ingram family over the whole matter. Crystal Ingram finally ratted the family out and told the FBI the Ingrams had not turned in everything they found! Nobody knows to this day if the Ingrams turned in everything they found or if their "stories" (plural) were the whole story and truthful.
Beyond all of the Ingram's 'subterfuge', pictured below is what they turned in. Crystal Ingram brought in four more bills several days later. Everything shown in this photo was sent in to the DC lab for analysis and finger printing. Crystal Ingram turned in four more bills and they were sent in to the lab several days later.
There is every reason to believe the Ingrams are not a believable group of people! Nobody apparently has divulged the full truth of how the Ingram made this discovery and what happened next, even though there were at least 5-6 people involved. The record beginning the next day after the discovery is pretty well known, because the Ingrams (several different Ingrams) contacted various people in regard to their discovery which ultimately lead to Dwayne Harold Ingram calling the FBI ...
The picture below is what the Ingrams turned in minus four more bills turned in later. The DC lab separated the groups of bills as best they could, analyzed the money to some extent, and finger printed some of the bills using the old silver nitrate test method. The serial numbers on the bills were checked against the inventory list given the FBI by the bank. That inventory list had stop and start marks for each "bundle" assembled and rubber banded by bank employee Baker and this allowed the FBI to determine that the Ingram find represented basically three bundles assembled and banded by Baker, and the serial numbers in each bundle were still in the same order as when bundled and bagged and given to be delivered to Cooper.
So far as I know, the fact that different people have used different terms to refer to the 'bundles' as packages or packets or groups or bundles or whatever ... is merely an artifact of language and has nothing to do with how Baker assembled the money and what was given to Cooper. The fact of that is demonstrated by the fact that Tina, for example, using the terms "small packages" and "bundles" all within the same sentence for describing the same thing, namely the groups of assembled bills each rubber banded that were in the bag she brought in and gave to Cooper!
Flyjack's contentions are invented nonsense in this whole matter, as far as I can tell. Flyjack has no real evidence for anything he says!
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