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Sure, anything is possible,, but that would be the exception. Most military guys were young and not successful yet... Point is Cooper was not a successful person, he didn't have 80+ patents, was not an astronaut surgeon, a murderer, linked to the Kennedy assassination or a scientist, he was a chronic underachiever, an unmemorable nobody, probably a narcissist who had the guts to prove he could finally do something others hadn't. Cooper researchers are attracted to high profile people because they have lots of info readily available.. sort of a survivorship bias.

Hair slide,, gone. DNA,, dead end. Tie particles,, IMO, most likely, Cooper obtained the tie right before the hijacking and discarded it. My optimism is based on the information I have and case evidence I am still trying to get.. most is not public. It is getting really close..

I am 90% confident this case will be 100% solved, and 100% confident it will be 90% solved.

Not that I recall.. There was that Coffelt propaganda article claiming Flo,,, mentioned "sad". That article is riddled with errors.

Ryan's book isn't available yet..

Everyone approaches the Cooper case as a normal crime... as the only unsolved hijacking it is extraordinary and something extraordinary happened for it to remain unsolved for so long.. for example Cooper died in the jump... I think that is extremely unlikely but something unique happened, an error, a mistake, luck or something significant occurred for this case to remain unsolved by the FBI. Distributing sketch A as Cooper perhaps.. something big undermined this case. Trying to solve this as a regular crime won't cut it. That didn't work for the FBI and it won't work now. In 1976 the FBI concluded that there is no prosecution without Cooper's cooperation due to weak evidence and faded witnesses.. Cooper is dead by now, evidence isn't much better, DNA is a dead end, fingerprints were unlikely Cooper's and obfuscated. The palm print is possibly Cooper's. So, how is this thing ever solved 100%...

That would eliminate all those high profile so called "suspects"... Cooper did not look like the BING sketch. I have been trying to figure out or establish Cooper's head shape... some witnesses said oval... The sketch looks oval,, but everyone has a triangular shape.. you can claim triangular but is there a standard criteria for head shape? So, I looked for some "official" or consensus on head shape. There doesn't seem to be. It is too subjective to be of value,, unless the head shape is dramatically obvious. I found a measurement system and it was inconclusive for sketch B. Then tried AI online evaluations.. mixed... and unreliable. Conclusion,, Face shape is mixed and not reliable enough... very subjective and AI sucks.

Ryan hinted at a new suspect,,, is it Frank Lawrence Sprenz perhaps. Interesting guy.. not Cooper, too high profile a criminal wore a toupee, was previously on FBI top 10, had a 1" scar on face and crooked finger, was paroled in 1971 but returned to crime. Implicated in death's sent back to prison, actually died in custody,, but never mentioned Cooper. Does not fit Cooper's profile. Another guy with a very high profile interesting background that gets flogged as Cooper... Cooper was a forgettable nobody.... not a master criminal on the FBI 10 most wanted, not implicated in the Kennedy assassination or murdering his family.... not a super badass paratrooper, not a Physician Astronaut, not a PHD metallurgist working on the Manhattan Project. Picking these guys with interesting stories makes for good hype and discussion but they are not Cooper. Cooper was a lifelong loser, loner and underachiever, he did this for the money and to prove he could do something others had not...

In Ryan's newest vid he is still flogging the bogus flightpath map using Cunningham's false times.. Do not ACCEPT those altered times. Challenge these guys, don't let them spread false information. This nonsense undermines the case. Sunk cost fallacy... He is still pushing the wrong jumpzone... Cooper jumped about 8:11. There is ZERO evidence for Orchards/Battleground. It is a baseless opinion. Ryan is minimizing Skip Hall's extreme wrinkles.. says "we are looking for forehead wrinkles", as if Skip's are a plus. NO, Ryan is being deceptive, Skip has extreme forehead wrinkles and severe wrinkles from around his eyes down his face.. not normal or average wrinkles Cooper had. Skip also has several noticeable lumps/bumps on his face.. These are so unique and obvious he is eliminated because no witness mentioned them.. Skip is eliminated and not a legit suspect. "Plausible" suspect's.. NOPE. Plausible definition - seeming likely to be true, or able to be believed: Most of those suspect's Ryan named are not plausible. There was only one Cooper so logically most are not plausible. Ryan is positioning suspect's to fit the term "plausible", they are not. Letters.... I believe two letters were from Cooper, one more highly likely and another maybe... Very hard to prove though. Parachutes... Cooper used the 1960 24' and left the 1957 26', took the newer. Parachutes of different sizes can be made to have the same descent rate, not that Cooper would necessarily know that. Cossey actually claimed the 26 and 28ft chutes had the same descent rate, but he was mistaken/lying about the chutes.. there is no credible evidence that the container Cooper used was an NB6 or NB8 per Cossey. The tie... I now believe, based on my own evidence that Cooper left the tie behind because it was obtained just prior to and only used for the hijacking.. he did not leave it by accident and it wasn't from a thrift shop.

Not sure what Ryan is thinking,, Yes, there is a profile in part #95, starts on page 247 and outlines "INVESTIGATIVE STEPS TO PROCESS NORJAK SUSPECTS" The PROFILE starts with this disclaimer then outlines it.. Elimination isn't final,, I remember reading of a suspect who was eliminated but later re-evaluated as a suspect. Bottom line, an eliminated suspect not based on facts isn't really eliminated.

Feet first..

Newspaper dated.. April 1972. Obviously those props are fake,,

sure, he is part of the community... we don't all agree on things but he should know the forum is active again

Yup, money wasn't human buried but we will never know how it got there outside of a few plausible theories... Based on the evidence this is what I believe so far.. Money came from River. Money landed as one rubber banded bundle of three packets. Money went into the River in Spring/Summer. Money was in same condition/order as when given to Cooper. Money rounded off due to tumbling along sandy bottom. Money tumbled along bottom during a high water event to end up at the high water mark. Have 3 theories for how the money got into the River.. no way to prove anything. Considering a new possible theory that the 1974 dredge layer was on top of money and eroded away by 1980. The dredge layer Palmer identified as 1974 was actually a pre Norjak 1970 layer... The money was on top of the 1970 layer but under the 1974 layer until 1980 when it became exposed. So, Palmer assumed the money arrived after 1974 because it was above the dredge layer. It makes more sense if that was actually the 1970 layer.

For those that don't have it.. Sluggo's page in the archives. https://web.archive.org/web/20190210220215/http://n467us.com/

I agree and I don't have an issue wth new theories even if wrong.. they need vetting. That is how the case moves forward.. The problem is when these things get spread, promoted and used as fact... unchallenged. The PHD people created a presentation for CooperCon using false/altered path times now that presentation becomes fact to many people,, once bad info gets accepted in the Cooper domain it is hard to unwind it from the narrative.

The path is ok, the revised times are wrong.. We lost R99 with the forum change, maybe somebody can contact him?? Georger gets really grumpy when people change the evidence but he has a secret thing with Cunningham. I like Marty, but he went off the reservation with the Clara/Dayton stuff.. Where are the critical thinkers... nothing worse than (falsely) altering case evidence and pushing it as new info.

Original "FBI" Sage map on left.. Cunningham's revised theory on right now used as evidence.. (wrong)

Maybe Cunningham and Ryan can explain their dissemination of fake evidence including a high profile demo at the last CooperCon.... ask them why are times all shifted from the original map.. I don't know if Cunningham was the initial inventor of the altered times but advocated this theory as if fact.. He misled the PHD students and they also spread the false times.. The assumption is that because a mark is missing before 8:05 the map creator marked the times wrong.. one off. So, they changed the evidence.. WRONG. Let's be perfectly clear, this is a theory and is provably false.. not probably, but provably. complete bunk. Now, this map and those falsely altered times gets passed off as factual evidence.. Ryan has claimed Cunningham is the expert he defers to.. aka,, throws Cunningham under the bus. So, we have a small group misleading everyone pushing the jump south and advocating a false jump location. Cunningham has always tried to put Cooper in the Columbia R.. Cooper jumped about 8:11... They distort the evidence then use that lie as proof they figured out the jump zone.. Ryan lied and said the FBI now agrees with them,, they didn't, he was using Carr who is no longer an FBI agent and DOES NOT speak for the FBI.. Do not fall for it. Those altered times are wrong. Their jump zone is wrong. They actually have two errors. They missed a mark and got the spacing wrong. and how can a plane travel double the distance in one minute it did in the previous minute,, distance from 8:15 to 8:16 is double 8:14 to 8:15… and shifted numbers. and the times have been changed by one minute. 8:10 is really 8:11,, right about where Cooper jumped. I don't know what is going on with FB, if anybody has challenged this or not they blocked me even though I never posted anything ever. What are they afraid of, the truth. Go ahead ask them to explain it, they can't it is made up.

On AI... it is a disaster mostly. It is like a bad version of wikipedia stripping info from context,, leading to distorted perceptions. Those AI images people do in this case are also mostly negative for the case.. We have a witness composite sketch, we have witness statements with conflicting info.. flooding the Cooper environment with processed images distorts the case evidence and pollutes minds. Those "interpreted" images replace and become evidence, they are not. Even though we know they are AI, the human mind will incorporate them into their perceptions. AI has its place and can organize data but when it strips info of context it becomes a parody of reality. Tricky to get it right... IMO The FBI FILES are NOT NECESSARILY FACTS OR CONCLUSIONS, they are investigative notes. AI can regurgitate and sort them it can't process them. AI is like the FORCE in Star Wars,, it can be used for good or bad.

Interesting comment... would have been nice if we had a witness image side view,, oh wait...

Ryan seems to have an irony deficiency..

Haha... hilarious. I think Duane Weber was the OG Forrest Gump at the Chinese Buffet... the Skip Hall people have just taken over for Jo Weber.. Hall is actually very rare for suspects, he can be eliminated due to his unique facial features,, even Vordahl can't be eliminated with facts even though I don't believe he could be Cooper. The evidence is so weak and vague in this case, It is actually very difficult to eliminate a suspect if you don't know his location during NORJAK and he is close to the description. Hall can be eliminated.

The FBI file... He "indicated" is Tina recalling her impression, not Cooper's exact words. Cooper was responding to Minneapolis, that suggests he was referring to the characteristics of the people not the physical geography. We don't know for sure what Cooper meant, only he does. but it is reasonable to conclude that Cooper may have been describing the characteristics of the people in that area.

Flo liked KK5-1 Well, he does NOT have a small nose... and he looks much more like sketch B than A... From FBI files..