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FBI: Tattered parachute found in north Clark County may have been D.B. Cooper's (WA)
The Columbian ^
| March 25, 2008
| Tom Vogt
Posted on 03/25/2008 3:48:33 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: Responsibility2nd
Oh come on! That’s not the real one. The dead giveaway is his about page. It doen’t say a dang thing about what he did with the money or how he got away!
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:02:17 PM PDT
by
saganite
To: devane617
It dawned on me after I posted that there might be a shallow grave nearby...
What if someone on the ground caught/found him?
That much cash then might have been a temptation, and the body would not have been worth much reward if it had a couple of moldy bullet holes in it...
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:02:40 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: jazusamo
They were marked.
Any ransom, drug-buy, bank robbery money always is, one way or another. Nowadays it's often photocopied.
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:03:02 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Rebelbase
This is north Clark county and the bills were found in the south along the river.
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:03:50 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
To: San Jacinto
I would have just glanced around . . . with that handy tractor blade.
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:04:34 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: infantrywhooah
"recovered" About $6k was found along the banks of the Columbia river. I've never heard of any more being recovered but then I suspect it would be hard to track money by the serial number, especially back then with no OCR.
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:04:55 PM PDT
by
Proud_texan
(Election 2008: What Clayton Williams said)
To: jazusamo
If they find him we can then ask him what happened on the Grassy Knoll and where Hoffa is buried. Too late for Amelia.
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:05:02 PM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: jazusamo
Where does the watershed run? If the bills were in plastic bags, they might have travelled a good way downstream.
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:05:28 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Nabber
If he got an 8% return and had never spent a nickle it would be >$2.1M today.
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:06:05 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: stayathomemom
At one time John List was considered a suspect. He died Friday. I just read about him (List) today on FR and for some reason I thought of him again reading this post. Now I know why, I heard that too a few years back.
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:07:13 PM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: AnAmericanMother
The watershed goes to the Columbia as far as I know.
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:10:36 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:10:57 PM PDT
by
Robert357
(D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
To: devane617
I’ll bet that the average income in 1971 was about $8000 a year. $200k would have sounded like a huge amount.
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:11:09 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: HEY4QDEMS
I could be wrong but I doubt seriously that the type of person that would hijack an airplane for $200,000 is going to be investing that cash.
To: jazusamo
Yeah that DB’s chute alright!
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:11:30 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
To: jazusamo
Not impossible, but it is 37 years ago.
To: devane617
“If DB only knew how funny 200k sounds today.”
But if he’d invested it in Microsoft, it’d be say $200 million today.
To: TruthWillWin
You could be wrong but if I was betting, I’d put my money on you.
To: capt. norm
Gotta' give them (FBI) credit for persistence. That's about all.
With their almost unlimited resources and access to sources of information we can't even imagine they can't find someone familiar with parachute equipment of that era.
"Now, after examining the parachute for about three weeks, the FBI could use more help, Carr said.
"We need to go back to the public. We need someone with knowledge of jumping equipment," Carr said by telephone from Seattle. Investigators hope to learn whether the parachute Cooper was given in 1971 matches the canopy in their possession."
I bet most Freepers could find a knowledgeable source within three weeks without FBI resources.
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:15:28 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
To: Brilliant
You’re right, it’s a stretch.
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posted on
03/25/2008 4:17:04 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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