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Good bye Marla. Good bye and good riddance. I hope you enjoyed discussing your checkered past. I thought you were coming here to discuss the DB Cooper case. I was a sure book sell before. I'll have to think about it now. Maybe I'll spend the money on Gray's book instead. The Money Connection

When I saw the report on ABC news I was really excited about some new information in the case, and the FBI's claims of the most credible person they had interviewed. It was after that I joined Dropzone. If the slur that this sjsmith says is true, then it really casts some doubt on her and her whole story, but doesn't necessarily prove it's false. Blevins and B. Smith as well as many of the people here have their pet theories to defend, and I can't see where either one of them are very strong. As far as Marla goes, can the FBI be so easily fooled? All these assertions about polygraphs, and closing the case, Is the FBI really a bunch of Keystone cops? When Marla came to dropzone I thought she expected to answer some questions. That was quick. The Money Connection

We don't. We won't. We never really can unless something really amazing happens. Same thing with pretty much everybody's stories, but especially those coming from anonymous folks on the interwebs. Anybody could create an account, make up a name and claim anything -- and they do. Who is "sjsmith"? What is that person's motivations for coming here and telling us this story? To discredit "Marla"? Why? To what end? Is Marla out of this thread? Will she be allowed to post here anymore? The Money Connection

How do we know that any of this is true? The Money Connection

Perhaps this will ultimately explain everyone's theories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation Maybe everybody with all of their disparate theories are correct in their own universe -- just not this one. The problem with that is I'm not the size of an atom. I only live in one world where there was a DB Cooper hijacking. The Money Connection

Is she gone? Have we run her off already? The Money Connection

Marla, Welcome. I'm one of the newer members here. I joined back in August when I saw you on ABC. Of course many of the members here are not receptive to your stories because they've followed the crime for years and have there minds made up as to just who did the crime. I've been interested in the crime since it happened, but I think most of the theories presented as to who DB was are pretty weak. Apparently the FBI feels that way too. The FBI seems to have a positive outlook on your story. I think Blevins raises some valid questions about LD's condition that thanksgiving, his treatment and the attitude of the rest of the family about that. Do you remember anything about that? Sorry if that's already been addressed. I'm a slow typer. Also I was wondering if you ever saw your uncles experimenting with flares. Do you remember them checking airline schedules before the hijacking? Did they spend nights away from home hunting, or drinking or whatever. What I'm getting at is did they spend time where they could have been planning the crime? I realize this was 40 years ago. That's a long time to remember, and you were only 8 and possibly not aware of this info. Thanks again. Another thing, do you remember just when they left to go hunting? Was it the same day of the hijacking, or earlier? The Money Connection

Part of Marla's story that smells kinda fishy is the comic book part. How did LD get Dan Cooper comics, or tintin, or whatever they were back in Oregon? Possibly he would have been first drawn to them because of the Cooper name. Maybe somebody noticed the name similarity and gave him one. Comic book subscriptions have been around since 1922. Could he have subscribed after he was first introduced to the book? The Money Connection

I thought it was a great article Mr. Blevins. I enjoyed it as much as the Bruce Smith article, which I enjoyed a lot. Great work. The Money Connection

How can she be guilty, or is it innocent? The Money Connection

Just the same, eyewitness testimony and circumstantial evidence are used to convict people everyday, rightly or wrongly. The Money Connection

It is my father. It was taken in March of 1971 by the FBI during surveillance. He disappeared in September 1971 and has not been heard from since. He was a career criminal and has Federal warrants for his arrest for counterfeiting charges out of Wisconsin and Minnesota. As far as I know, there is no relation to Dan Cooper. That would take evidence. Not speculation. Okay. Sorry for your loss. From the picture I thought you were trying to imply that he was Cooper. What draws you to this forum anyway? BTW, you may not know this, but witness testimony plays a big part in a lot of cases. Marla claims to be a witness to certain things. Are repressed memories out of the question? Repressed memories have played a part in a lot of child abuse cases. The Money Connection

Who's picture is that you use for an avatar, and what is his relation to DB Cooper? The Money Connection

I note that Blevins has endeared himself to Marla and she has given him the affectionate name of "chicken shit". The Money Connection

In addition to the timeframe they left the family home , why would they bring a duck blind to a hi-jacking? From Bruce's article and his interview with the police officer, Arden Dorney: It sounds like they were planning to go hunting. Someone please explain to me the relevancy of when they left Sisters, and when they bought the ticket. I don't think Marla has said when they left Sisters, she's simply said they left and said they were going hunting didn't she? I don't think she said when. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm guessing the information is probably known about when he bought the ticket. I would assume he bought it when he went to the airport. I don't understand why these questions are important. People seem to dismiss the credit given by the FBI to Marla. Doesn't that carry some weight? As far as Marla's family is concerned, that's what Bruce Smith's article is about. I think it's a pretty good article. The relevancy of a time-frame of events IS important. Can someone be in two places at the same time? Many innocent people use timelines of events as an alibi for a crime they are accused of committing. The driving distance from Sisters to Portland takes 2 hours and 38 minutes. This is assuming that stops were not made along the way; the weather in the mountains did not hamper their progress; or packing a duck blind in a two seater Austin Healy slowed them down. http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?q=portland+to+sisters+oregon&mkt=en-US&FORM=BYFD So this line of questioning is relevant to setting up a time-line of events. When did they leave the home to go turkey hunting? Was it the day of the hi-jacking, was it the evening before? Was it three hours before? Why did they pack a duck blind to hi-jack a plane? The following mental image gave me a laugh. Picture if you will: Dewey is driving the two-seater Austin Healy and L.D. is hanging on to the duck blind. The wind catches the blind and rips L.D. out of the passenger seat at 55 MPH (being conservative here). L.D. hits the pavement hard. OUCH. The injuries sustained by launching yourself out of a vehicle at 55 MPH are consistent with Marla's recollections and could have been a result of scraping the pavement or hitting the ground. I still don't understand what this has to do with Marla's story. She doesn't say when they left as far as I know. She may not remember very well. I can speculate as well. They may have set up camp under the pre-arranged drop site a day or two ahead of time. Camping equipment would be consistent with the idea they were going overnight to spend the time hunting turkeys. He purchased the ticket when he went to the airport. However, I don't see where speculation, yours or mine, has much to do with checking the truthfulness of Marla's story. The Money Connection