Andrade1812

Thank you Fly, you are the best

Hey Fly, Hate to bug you again, but I'm gearing up for the Con. Can you post that picture from the ground search HQ where the FBI flight path map can be seen in the background?

Fly, I'm prepping for Cooper Con, and this question relates specifically to survivability and not suspect discussions, what level of parachuting experience did Hahneman have?

What I'm trying to understand is how Soderlind could expand the search zone all the way to the Columbia while pinpointing the actual time of the jump to within minutes with the FDR and the audio recording.

Fly, Can you repost the FBI snippet about the little bob at 8:09 and anything else to do with the analysis of the FDR? Please and thank you,

I read somewhere that Larry Carr volunteered to be the Cooper case agent, and was expecting to walk in, look at the evidence and prove McCoy was Cooper. Not only did Carr not do that, he changed his mind to the point where he believes Cooper wasn't any of the known suspects and that Cooper must have died in the jump. If you read the files, you realize just how much effort was put into investigating McCoy with a null result. McCoy was home at 10am on Thanksgiving day and was probably in Salt Lake city the day of the hijacking. None of the witnesses thought it was McCoy and he didn't fit the description or the FBI profile. The particles on the tie completely eliminate him.

Interesting. I went through the NamUs database, didn't see any new matches, not from New England anyway.

Eric U is now a no-pull guy?

Fly, Can you please find the FBI document EU is referring to about the parachute being modified? Thank you.

Didn't you post information showing Cooper had nicotine stains a few months ago?

Could you please summarize it for us?

Chauser, It would be nice to have those calculations from Soderlind or Tosaw's notes from that interview with Soderlind. Otherwise, all we have are the FBI search zone maps, and none of them include the Columbia from what I can recall.

I was willing to push the jump zone very far south until I saw one of the reports that Fly should be able to find of Rataczak's ears being popped by the jump, and that was associated with the 8:10--8:11 time frame.

I and a few other guys are trying to identify these two people. If we can get their names... well, that'd be huge. We're hoping to find local sources in Shelton and in Egg Harbor.

There were some new details about EHS, the biggest was his release from TWA after the hijacking and his lack of an alibi during the hijacking... We think. The files are so heavily redacted we can't be sure. It also appears as though they had EHS' work, military and education history as well.

I have heard of email, and if I wanted a straight-up rejection that's what I would do.

So you don't know? I'm confused...

Jarvis was a profiler? Did he ever work on, or was he ever otherwise assigned to the Cooper case?

There are two, the man from Shelton, and the man from Egg Harbor.

The FBI couldn't *prosecute* the case, but that doesn't mean they didn't solve it. Based on what I'm seeing it looks like they believed they had a suspect they thought was Cooper, but couldn't prove it in court.

There is a lot of valuable information in these documents, especially in regards to the named suspects like Duane Weber, Rackstraw and McCoy. There is also a lot of information on the "unresolved" suspects like the Egg Harbor Suspect and the Shelton Lead, but you have to read through the documents and the redactions to find it. To say that less information is better than more information is to confuse the distinction between the signal and the noise. More noise is fine, if one can find the signal contained therein. #57 had more information on one of those unresolved suspects, and was of great interest.

There is a very specific description from Rat somewhere in the FOIA docs where he talks about his earpiece falling out and getting a pop in his ears from the pressure change as Cooper jumped. Between that and the FDR, it's highly unlikely Cooper jumped farther south.

Fly, maybe you can assist here. How many parachutes are mentioned in the FOIA files? I know of one north of the Lewis River, the one on the S. Fork Lewis River, and the Amboy chute. I know there were others, did you keep track?

I would leave the final answer up to Tom, but based on the conclusions in his paper, that scenario doesn't work. There is a distinct disconnect between the timing of the hijacking and when the TB money is exposed to the Columbia river. They are different events.

The dredging timeline doesn't fit the diatom analysis, unfortunately. Which means the money has to be out of the bank bag and fanned out, in the Columbia, in June.