Canopus

I suspect you mean "you're" and "breathe". Mmmm Hmmm "typos" (quotes intended) aside, I'm sure you'll do your best. Best of luck!

Ckret, When you solve this one, then please arrange for egg on my face! Until then, I'm going to enjoy holding my breath!

This particular case will NEVER be solved. Time was ripe between '71-75, but the poor FBI never showed its medal. Their "best" is still alive and to this day showcases his "intellect" in every interview he gives. Fun it is to speculate, but unfortunately we'll never know who did it. We can very certainly deduce who did NOT do it and that's not difficult, there are just too many gold diggers out there with an agenda. So while this forum is fun, I doubt we'll ever solve this case. I'd like to be proven wrong, but I'll take my Vegas odds and live with them.

Skyjack71, Can you help us amateur followers and just post all the verifiable evidence that Duane was connected with this case? I don't mean stories...ie "he/she said" but all the evidence that is verifiable that ties Duane to this case? This would be extremely helpful for those of us "amateurs" interested in this case. Maybe we could help verify and solve! I was hoping you could LIST all the verifiable evidence you have, as opposed to essay format. This would cut to the chase as we're all busy.

QuoteThe FBI's Tie Photo Cooper WAS left handed. Note that the clasp is placed from the left. Duane was left handed. Quote You cannot draw conclusions like this. There is no evidence whatsoever. Anther attempt to support your own personal theory no matter what. Please place Duane in Portland in '71. Please place Duane on the aircraft in '71. Let's start here.

Snowman, This Mcnally thing has shed a whole new light on the case. All the naysayers doubting that Cooper could have gotten away with this are at least temporarily stopped in their tracks. Especially since it's inconclusive whether or not Cooper was experienced, he may very well have been. Why has the thinking on this case been so constrained?

Mmmmm........I think it's important we deal with EVIDENCE. "Stories" are a dime a dozen and get us nowhere. Everyone has a story or two, and most fall into the Fiction category. Let's work with EVIDENCE, and there is no reason it can't be supplied here on this forum.

Jo, I do wish you the best of luck. I hope you sell many homes 4u. However, if I were to bet, I'd bet on the odds of my next lottery ticket netting me financial security for life as one hundred times more likely than Duane having ANYTHING whatsoever to do with this case. Can-op

Don't think Coop would have attempted this w/o any jump experience. Those who bolster far fetched former "antique" dealers w/o any evidence of civi jumps and on hearsay and quote/unquote "gosip" as evidence need to sober up! Put down the Tequila bottle and think. DB's picture is in a jump magazine somewhere. Rest assured and he was FROM the NW (born and bred!), and may very well be living there now .

Well done! Sorry to admit that I may have to borrow this one at the water cooler. Unfortunately where I work there's just too much conspiracy involved in simply getting a drink.

My 2 pennies. When you can't prove something, or don't have evidence, but you're trying to make a point, you do the best you can and always bring up the "sinister" whether related or not. It's called "float time" and it's nothing new.

If this is true, it sure cuts through a lot of conjecture and hits the nail right on the head.

No evidence. Just that it's probable that Cooper died that night. However....to this day NO evidence of that whatsoever. So the question is, who on earth would pull a stunt like this as a novice? Too damn many other ways to take your own life, all of them more direct and effective. If that's the goal, why even ask for a ransom? Seems to me, just on the surface, we're looking for someone down on his luck that needs a quick score. A "FIX" if you will and is willing to gamble for it. The "gamble" is anyone's guess, because if he's not a novice then it's probably less of a gamble than anyone would imagine. Probably dead, but...not so fast. That's just TOO easy right now.

There is a very good chance that Cooper is dead, but there are problems with this theory like anything else. There is so much BS in this case that one needs to have wings to stay above it. Why can't we just assume he survived it for the sake of argument and work some possible scenarios? What would that hurt?? So would if he did survive and escaped description and went on with his life, jumping at his DZ etc. ?? How would that be possible?? Low profile....poor description...smarter than the FBI ??? It's all possible, and any combo, so where do we start? IDK, but that's certainly a question I'd have had for the FBI in the early 70's.

This falls into the same category as "no DZ had ever heard of him". Why is it you seem to think that there should be Hansel and Gretel bread crumb trails right to Cooper's front door??