Nope.

West on I-80, eh? That's more in 377's baliwick. I'm in the I-90 corridor.

Some people believe Tom Kaye supports a plant. I don't see where he says this.

From Tom's site.

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we can speculate that he must have had some human interaction that could have eventually led to the money being buried on Tena Bar. How the Cooper bundles came to be buried where they were remains as big a mystery as who D.B. Cooper was.

He is also basing a lot on Cooper jumping miles away from the Columbia, and the money trying to find it's way down to the river. one of my questions to him is asking if he can rule out the money being closer to the river, or directly falling into the river based on jumping further south having the data wrong on the jump itself in the first place.

speculate ........ exactly!  finally somebody sees it! Took years with Blevins doing all of his made-up conspiracy theory stuff in the meantime  This is one of the reasons I wanted Kaye to come here to clear up a few lose ends.
I have never thought Tom was saying the money at Tina was definitely a "plant". It would have been better had Tom simply said: "we dont know how the money got to Tina Bar", and left it at that.

Blevins survives on making things up and distorting what people say. And people just let him do it.

I have tried a million times to document that the FBI and NWA themselves weren't sure where Cooper bailed, and if the Timeline is off by as much as 3-5 minutes, then he did bail further south than originally thought. That brings Cooper and his money closer to the Columbia regardless of which flight path one invokes.

The money was found at a location where just about everything has arrived from water flow. The money was surrounded by artifacts in the same strata (cans, wood, nails, etc) which had arrived by water flow. All of the forensic evidence points to 'arrived by flow'.

The only real options are the same as they always were: (a) the money arrived by flow, or (b) the money arrived with the dredging debris of 1974. And we are no further along in resolving this dilemma than we were in ...... 1980! The Citizen Sleuth Team has provide no new information on the money, so far?

 

Tom was pretty explicit at the 2011 Symposium during his presentation on the Money Find. He said it was a plant, at least that's what I heard.

It was his conclusion after a long descriptive speculation that DBC caught a ride with someone out of the boonies on T-Day and was driven back to PDX. DBC gave the guy some money- oh, 6 grand or so - and then the guy got the jeepers-creepers and buried the dough at T-Bar until his guilt passed.

Total speculation, but some might say it was also total bullshit. But it sounded sooooooooooo good.

Hollywood Kaye has a reputation as a Grandstander.
 
There is no evidence for a plant. None. And Kaye knows it!

I sure was surprised when Tommy started spinning his story.

I think the riverbed is much like a tainted crime scene, or disturbed. it's been compromised many times over with dredging. I don't know if anything of value is left? even if something was there I'm guessing it would be covered making it even harder to find. NMIwrecks would have a better answer on this.

Unfortunately, the possibility of finding anything in that area is very slim to none.  The water-flow would have moved, covered or destroyed anything significant a long time ago.  I suspect someone searching in that area would come across all kinds of cultural artifacts (junk) making it even harder to discern something that could be relevant.  Rivers are a tough place to work in.

Block of money at 1980 news conference?

I thought the Ingrams had separated all of the bundles they found and turned in groups like those in the news conference photo below -

Now I find the photo below apparently from the news conference? It shows a whole intact block of money. This is the only photo I have ever seen showing a large intact block of money from the Ingram find. Does anyone have any more photos like this? Note the tight alignment and wear pattern on the whole block. This is an interesting photo especially in light of trying to reconstruct the bundles the Ingrams originally found

Did this photo come from Shutter?

 

Block of money at 1980 news conference?

Brian said on "Flight From Justice" that they were all stuck together. i think this is possibly the reason they use "block"

It's what I been saying for a while now, the "bundles" were stuck together, compressed. possibly from being in one original block over the years in the bag. If Cooper had a tight grip on the bag with the rope. one would think they would compress together?