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New episode out now! DB Cooper Didn't Get What He Wanted with Jude Morrow. Enjoy! https://thecoopervortex.podbean.com/e/db-cooper-didn-t-get-what-he-asked-for-jude-morrow/

Don’t you mean interesting how people getting caught skyrocketed?

Cooper searchers and consultants pre and post 1980 and the Ingram find - Tosaw is not on this list. The people listed largely ignored Tosaw . Some of the people listed were either consulted by the FBI and interfaced with the FBI during its excavation in 1980 ... or went to Tena Bar by boat or car and engaged FBI diggers during the excavation. In any event this list of people had a professional long time interest or involvement with the Columbia River - some voiced their opinions publicly about how Cooper money might have wound up on Tena Bar. Some of these people had professional relationships with Dr. Leonard Palmer and knew him well.... Divers and search teams: *Aquatic Sports – Portland, John Powelson (deceased), Jeff Powelson Portland 1966 to present. Powelson journal of searchers and searches lost after his death ? *Walt James… long time Columbia salvage consulted with Portland FBI/Himelsbach. Salvage and related People: Sid Macken – “Black Water”. History of diving Columbia, Historical Diving Soc., Santa Barbara CA 805-934-1660 *John Glen – found parachute back in 1972 on Mt Hood ? was judged not Cooper’s. *William Carpa *Glenn Rassmussen Lars Larson FM101 talk radio … KXLFM101 – impossible to get. Followed and catalogued Columbia private searching post Ingram find and along with John Powelson kept a log of people's searches and results .... ran a radio talk show and interviewed a number of people about the Cooper case and the Ingram find ... may have believed that the money at Tena Bar was related to 1974 dredging ... (the above is just a partial list!) Tosaw divers – crews: Dates: . . . Curtis W Rainey, Debra Rainey, Bob Rainey, ‘Rod’ Rodney Rainey. All pro divers. Blake Payne Galen Cook Tosaw Crews: 1982-85 ran two crews: Curtis Rainey lives in Idaho, Debra Rainey, Jamie Winkle (acquired divers), Blake Payne had new boat with sonar, Bill Sweeny owned a boat died 2017 auto accident, checked wingdams and dragged main channel etc, Worked closely with salvage operators relying on their experience and advice ...

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Here's another break-in report. Seems to be a rash of break-ins in the FBI DZ the night of the hijacking. I doubt Cooper was responsible for all of them.

It would be hard to imagine a rubber banded bundle of 3-5 packets remaining together for that journey. .......... unless they were in a bag with the rest of the money and the bag or part of the bag was transported to TBar, in some fashion. Post Ingram discovery, the whole area including all of the wingdams were searched by various divers operating out of Aquatic Sports at Portland, including the whole area at the junction of the Lewis and Columbia. The owner of Aquatic Sports kept a log of various people reporting their searches but after he died that log was lost (according to his son) so there is no way to even known the names of all of the people who searched and reported .... and apparently the FBI at Portland did not keep a log of searchers phoning in results to them ? Tosaw was not alone among people searching the Tina Bar area post Ingram-find. Tosaw pestered the Portland Office constantly for any 'news' following the TBar excavation ... the office got tired of all of his phone calls asking for the latest info ... I dont understand why people are so resistant to accept the obvious suspect! The dredging in 1974 which dumped spoils at Tina Bar close to where Ingram money was found. Its almost as if there is some agreement to avoid that actual event - at all costs! The 1974 dredging that placed spoils on Tena Bar is THE DEAD HORSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD - DUHHHHHH! ??? Its amazing to me how people ignore it and avoid it at all costs, starting with Tom Kaye!

Heisson Store was never confirmed,, it is probably 90%... I looked for other general stores in that area in that era, 10 miles South of the Dam, and didn't find any close. The South Fork Lewis is the river near Heisson that flows to the Columbia. If a high water event caused the money to flow to the Columbia it would end up at the mouth of the Lewis River downstream of TBAR... There were clamshell dredge operations in the Columbia that barged material upstream and dumped above TBAR.. IMO, this is a long shot. It would be hard to imagine a rubber banded bundle of 3-5 packets remaining together for that journey.

If we were still in the pre-vault Dark Ages back when we were grasping for every little straw, this tidbit from 1965 about passenger William Murphy could have caused a rabbit hole to form.

Nothing confirmed. I feel like Nicky may have spoken to the original owners or their children or something and they seemingly confirmed that it happened, I could be mistaken. But it never appeared in any papers or anything.

Yep. How we long for those Nixon days of honesty and transparency.

Jude has an overall negative take on Cooper, which I’d say is somewhat refreshing to hear. Kinda gets old hearing the same old takes on the hijacking. Also great listening to Cooper discussed through a Northern Irish brogue. He gets a few facts wrong but overall his knowledge is very good for being so new to the case.

https://uptvector.com/tandem-rigging/ Trim chart

If anyone thinks they are going to get a social-psychological profile of Cooper based only on the drink he ordered at the start of his tenure aboard 305 - guess again.