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Parachute found; was it D.B. Cooper's?
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| 3/25/08
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Posted on 03/25/2008 6:39:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
To: Gondring
You seem to know a lot about this. Coincidence? I think not.
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posted on
03/25/2008 7:46:48 PM PDT
by
killermosquito
(Buffalo (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
To: NormsRevenge
Amboy is a small logging community in rural Clark County. My children went to school with kids from that community. They were jokingly referred to as “Ambodians.”
To: indcons
I saw him the other day sitting in a Starbucks in Portland with Jimmy Hoffa and Elvis.
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posted on
03/25/2008 8:16:11 PM PDT
by
Busywhiskers
(Strength and Honor)
To: NormsRevenge
....I’m not too proud of this, but at the time I was pulling for Cooper to make it...it reminded me of one of those heist movies back in the 1960s....his caper was very appealing...didn’t some of the money turn up in a creek bed later?....and doesn’t the FBI still have a man assigned to the case after all these years?
.....we had a similar thing here in the mountains of N.C back in the 80s....an ex-Vietnam green beret parachuted out of a smuggler’s plane into the national forest...he had a duffle bag of pure cocaine strapped to his body....something went wrong with the chute and the guy was killed....a bear wandered by, ripped open the duffel and ate a bunch of coke...it was too much for him and he died at the scene.
To: Brian S. Fitzgerald
There was a story about DB Cooper on the Discovery channel last month that tried to figure out if he was able to survive the jump. The conclusion pointed to him having a pretty good chance of surviving even if he landed in water. The stuntman who recreated the water landing found that the parachute and moneybag acted like a buoy that helped keep him afloat.
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posted on
03/25/2008 8:33:16 PM PDT
by
peeps36
(OUTLAWED WORDS--INSURGENT,GLOBAL WARMING,UNDOCUMENTED WORKER,PALESTINIAN,TERMINATED PREGNANCY)
To: Brian S. Fitzgerald
...remiss the FBI didn't dig up the entire area immediately.Probably afraid that some "native American" tribe will claim some ancestor was buried in Washington state so it's a sacred burial ground.
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posted on
03/25/2008 8:40:23 PM PDT
by
FreePaul
To: NormsRevenge
In 1980, a family on a picnic found $5,880 of Cooper's money in a bag on a Columbia River beach, near Vancouver. Some investigators believed it might have been washed down to the beach by the Washougal River. But if Cooper landed near Amboy and stashed the money bag there, there's no way it could have naturally reached the Washougal. "If this is D.B. Cooper's parachute, the money could not have arrived at its discovery location by natural means," Carr said. "That whole theory is out the window."What if some of the money became separated from D.B. during the jump?
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posted on
03/25/2008 9:00:15 PM PDT
by
Rockitz
(This isn't rocket science- Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
To: NormsRevenge
It's hard to imagine he could have done much with the $200,000 beyond small cash transactions - even in 1971. He could have had a decent rental, and maybe a small cash business to launder the money.
I doubt that he could have bought a new Mercedes, for example, with cash and not have been busted. So at best, he might have lived a low to middle class lifestyle.
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posted on
03/25/2008 9:11:19 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: NormsRevenge
Wonderful news if this is attached to the infamous DB Cooper. This newfound clue (the parachute) could finally provide the conclusion to this long mystery. Is DB dead and buried next to the parchute? Does it hold other clues such as blood and/or other forensics? Looking forward to the FBI investigation...
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posted on
03/25/2008 9:54:19 PM PDT
by
vox_freedom
(John 16:2 yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God)
To: vox_freedom
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posted on
03/25/2008 9:57:08 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
To: tubebender
This will fire up more tv shows based on this find.
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posted on
03/26/2008 11:09:42 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Hussein ObamaSamma's Pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11")
To: NormsRevenge
Thanks, and this latest story gives additional information including a 2007 video by the FBI agent who is in charge of the case:
Seattle PI article, 3-26-2008
A few questions are prompted: did DB Cooper survive the jump, how did the money -- found in the river miles away -- get that distance from the chute, and who was/is he?
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posted on
03/26/2008 11:34:48 AM PDT
by
vox_freedom
(John 16:2 yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God)
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
DB Cooper must be seared into their memories.
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posted on
03/26/2008 11:44:03 AM PDT
by
JZelle
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