I'll see you in the ethers, Georger, or at least at T-Bar.

BTW: How far away from the Maharishi are you?

Not as far as I would like! Used to be called Parson's College - old Iowa College finally went broke. Actually they have a pretty good small college level physics program there. Their sports program sucks. If you are ever in the area let me know ... 

The Fazio story is a bit convoluted, and I never fully straightened it out with Richard and Al.  Here's what I got:

1. Al said that he was not at home when the feds showed up. Hence the FBI were at the beach long before he ever showed up.

Al said that he was at a cattle sale and was held on the road until he got cleared to enter his property. SO, the FBi was there in force, and seemingly had become well established if they had set up a roadblock and had enough agents to do so.

Yet, Al told me that there were shards on the tide line and no where else. How he would know as he was late to the party? He never explained and I never asked because I wanted to keep everybody in a happy place.

2. In terms of the money find, Al was the big talker and Richard didn't have much to say. The only thing that R was enthused to talk about was his service in the AF in Thailand during the Vietnam war. He also did a lot of talking about the mutilated cattle, a subject that really made Al anxious, who sweated profusely when I asked about the incident. Richard very proudly grabbed his "X-File" folder and posed with Al when I asked for a pix. Richard smiled, too!

There is a Mutt and Jeff quality to Richard and Al. Richard is younger, skinnier, more shy and a lot taller. Al is older, shorter, and acts as the boss, which I believe he is. Al is the guy who walked out his air-conditioned office when I showed up in 105 degree weather and asked me who I was, but he knew right away that I was a Cooper guy. He can smell a reporter from 50 paces! He was very gracious, actually, and drove me down to the beach and left me alone to roam about. I even went swimming! The current is strong!!!

track the days leading up to the money find?  Explain.

Just wondering if anything out of the ordinary happened on the river days before the find. ship wreck, or something that could of stirred the river up? if pieces were visible on the surface, you would think it probably wasn't there very long prior to the find. (pieces)

Anchors could disrupt?

I can see high levels bringing the money to the shore, but I can't see it dropping off "shards"

Are we to assume the high water level brought the money, and then as it slowly deteriorated the money it dispersed the "shards" to different locations?

What was the FBI's conclusion about the dredge? that it would of destroyed the money, or rip it to "shards"

Could small pieces survive that long on the beach? why did the bundles get attacked by insects, but not the small pieces over time when they should have vanished? if you put a whole cracker on the ground, and then a few crumbs will the insects only attack the cracker, and not the crumbs? I don't think so. the crumbs will disappear before the whole cracker does. 

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I can see high levels bringing the money to the shore, but I can't see it dropping off "shards"

Are we to assume the high water level brought the money, and then as it slowly deteriorated the money it dispersed the "shards" to different locations?

What was the FBI's conclusion about the dredge? that it would of destroyed the money, or rip it to "shards"

Could small pieces survive that long on the beach? why did the bundles get attacked by insects, but not the small pieces over time when they should have vanished? if you put a whole cracker on the ground, and then a few crumbs will the insects only attack the cracker, and not the crumbs? I don't think so. the crumbs will disappear before the whole cracker does.

I think we are back to possibility and probability.  Is it possible for high water and current to deposit the money?  Yes.  Is it probable that this happened and the three bundles remained together?  That's a tougher question to answer.  I would say no.  I think the shards could be pieces of the outer layer of the money that deteriorated or another money stack(s) that was in a more advanced stage of decomposition.  The money bundles are negatively buoyant, so it would take quite a bit of current to push them to where they were found, which would make it tough for the bundles to remain together.

Another possibility is the money fell and landed at or near where it was found.  The question there is the probability of it not being discovered by someone sooner.  The impact could have buried it, though.

Did the Fazio's ever give their opinion as to if the money bundles could have come from the dredge piles?

So you dont believe news reports that fragments of money were found at 3 feet etc?

The rest of your questions have already been addressed in prior posts here and at DZ.

The source of the shards is unclear.

Dowin told me that the FBi found "thousands" of pieces, and many of them were 2-3 inches in size. Many were also the size of dimes and nickels. How many Himms says they found is unknown, but it seems much less than "thousands."

So, how many bills would it take to make thousands of shards, half or so about 2-3 inches in size - big enough to read serial numbers and confirm it was Cooper's?

Most people feel the shards came off a few of the top bills of the "three bundles," or "tres bundolares" as Georger so famously puts it. However, a few loose bills, as Al Fazio and others claim, ain't gonna give you "thousands" of pieces.

Hence, the mystery continues.

The source of the shards is unclear.

Dowin told me that the FBi found "thousands" of pieces, and many of them were 2-3 inches in size. Many were also the size of dimes and nickels. How many Himms says they found is unknown, but it seems much less than "thousands."

So, how many bills would it take to make thousands of shards, half or so about 2-3 inches in size - big enough to read serial numbers and confirm it was Cooper's?

Most people feel the shards came off a few of the top bills of the "three bundles," or "tres bundolares" as Georger so famously puts it. However, a few loose bills, as Al Fazio and others claim, ain't gonna give you "thousands" of pieces.

Hence, the mystery continues.

Neither are a few bills "on the surface" going to give you 'fragments at three feet' or 'a fist sized wad of what looked like decayed money at one to two feet down' ...

And again, the digging photos show them digging in a number of places. Time was a major factor - each one of those digs took time which they had little of so one has to think there was some reason for them digging at these disparate sites ...