Coast listener Kent B. sent in this modified illustration of D.B. Cooper (center) to show just how little would need to change for the original 1972 FBI composite drawing of Cooper (right) to match Galen Cook's suspect photo (left).
Posted on 05/24/2008 11:34:30 PM PDT by doug from upland
Sorry I didn't post sooner. This is fascinating about D.B. Cooper. They may have actually identified who he was --- he survived the jump.
” http://www.coasttocoastam.com/ “
On the page where they show the pictures, the younger suspect picture is pretty much a dead ringer.
They make a compelling case. It’s looking an awful lot like the true identity of “D.B. Cooper” may be known soon
Night owls!
I’ll be listening from bed.
Before he died, he told his sons who he was. One Christmas, when Greg was young, his dad whipped out a wad of 100-dollar bills. He never really had money before.
Other options for FReepers out of the US is WABC.
http://www.wabcradio.com/
I am listening now to Kook to Kook.
WABC also has Rush, Hannity, Laura Ingram, and others.
The only downside is IMUS...yuk.
Nov 25, 1971, everyone was looking for him in Washington. He made it over the Columbia River and made it into Oregon. He apparently planted some money on the Washington side of the river to throw them off track. An 8-year-old kid had found some money in the mud not too long ago that they apparently believe was linked to the hijacking.
Greg and a stepmother were either told or saw a key to a safe deposit box in Vancouver.
If it was on C2C or in the weekly world news, the chances it is true are very low.
Many stations stream it, but I don’t know how many to a foreign IP.
DB was a gambler. He may have lost most or all of it at the casinos.
DB died at 73, broke and nearly homeless. Some friends took him in. All he had at the end was his dog, jogging shoes, and lime green socks he always wore jogging. He had a few strokes and heart attacks.
Next Wednesday, a newspaper is going to run the full story.
Coast listener Kent B. sent in this modified illustration of D.B. Cooper (center) to show just how little would need to change for the original 1972 FBI composite drawing of Cooper (right) to match Galen Cook's suspect photo (left).
I do not know why, but over a year ago, stations stopped streaming to foreign IPs.
Maybe they had to pay more fees to do it and not worth the cost. I don’t know.
I can no longer get my home station WREC from Memphis which
carried all my prigrams.
Other option for those outside of the US is to use a proxy server thats in the US.
Wasn’t there a TV show advancing this theory? It had a lot of detail, but I’m just assuming they were talking about the same guy.
Don’t know about the TV show.
Well, the jawline/chin is different. But the upper picture shows a thinner chin.
If you follow the links on Wikipedia and Coast to Coast, there is a fingerprint of this latest suspect that the FBI should be able to verify. This latest story sounds plausible, and should roll out rather quickly next week.
Also, the FBI has DNA from “Dan Cooper’s” tie, which he left aboard the 727 in 1971. According to their spokesman, this DNA can only be used to eliminate suspects, not identify them.
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The FBI would already have compared the prints of those in the military, wouldn’t they? Particularly jump qualified soldiers.
One minor correction on the money that was found a few years later (1980?).
It was definitely part of the hijack ransom. No doubt about it.
“Dan Cooper’s” family claimed that he buried it well after the hijacking to throw the authorities off the trail.
But I still have a slight problem with the guy flashing $100 bills. I thought the money was all 20’s. I’m sure I missed the logical explanation along the way. Something about laundering it through casinos?
I’m not disparaging the FBI, believe me. But after asking for a copy of my file, they sent me a form letter stating the didn’t have one, which I know isn’t true.
Then there was that identification of the Madrid train bomber that the FBI made through a partial print. Turned out it wasn’t the guy.
My point is that they are not as perfect as most TV shows make them out to be. No organization is. Maybe when they have all of the evidence handed to them, they will be able to make a connection. No disrespect intended, just stating the facts about government bureaucracies.
I thought this had been discussed, perhaps here, many weeks ago, and it was determined to not be true?
Yes, access changed about a year ago! I can get Chicago WIND which carries Hewitt and Prager during my late morning/early afternoon hours and Rush and others in the middle of the night our time. Good luck!
Not to mention their railroading Jewel, the supposed Olympic Park bomber. Some FBI agents should have lost their jobs over that one.
Apparently he was in the military. In one photo he has combat jump wings, so it is possible he could have survived the crash, if this is him.
...The only downside is IMUS...yuk.
I have to turn him off, he mumbles & coughs & drives me nuts! Bring back Steve Malzberg & John Gambling to WABC!
...The only downside is IMUS...yuk.
I have to turn him off, he mumbles & coughs & drives me nuts! Bring back Steve Malzberg & John Gambling to WABC!
Since Kerry, Malzberg has gotten a bit "folksy".
Maybe when the election nears.... :-)
Heard that last night. Very interesting.
That’s a really close resemblance.
“But I still have a slight problem with the guy flashing $100 bills. I thought the money was all 20’s. I’m sure I missed the logical explanation along the way. Something about laundering it through casinos?”
Other than the bundle of money found in the woods, none of the ransom has ever turned up. If D. B. Cooper actually survived the jump and retained most of the money, it didn’t do him any good.
The son said he saw 100s. He had never seen those before. Was the money in the mud found a few years after? I misunderstood that. DB knew the money was marked and would have difficulty spending it and not getting caught. Apparently, the guy also lived on the edge in the gambling world. His son thinks he lost it all at the casinos.
I think you're right! Anyone else want to be a DB Cooper wanna be, you have 18 days before they auction off the money that kid found years ago!
Fascinating.
“Before he died, he told his sons who he was. One Christmas, when Greg was young, his dad whipped out a wad of 100-dollar bills. He never really had money before.”
Thanks. I listened to the first two hours and then went to bed. It all sounded good last night. Today I’m not so sure the father telling his son, wasn’t just for some sort of made up glory. I guess we will find out soon!
The difference that stands out the most for me is the width of the nose. The suspect’s is wider. Then these FBI sketches are rarely exact.
They have recently found a buried parachute of the same type (apparently) as the one used. CBS or someone has an article online about it. The FBI has it now for testing. Finding a buried parachute would point to his surviving at least long enough to bury it.
Yes, I noted the nose width, too. Another pic of him showed his nose looking thinner from the side, so maybe it’s still possible.
But if they want to know if this is the guy or not, they have the DNA.
What’s the latest news? Wasn’t an article supposed to appear in the paper today revealing the name?
I don’t know.
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