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lol, so I guess he sent a taxi to go to PICK UP his chutes as well?

You're just wrong, generally. You have a bias AND you are wrong simultaneously. Nearly every opinion you have about Cooper's look is based on your belief that the 5'8 man with the large growth on his nose and missing half his teeth who requested 3,000 Benson and Hedges cigarettes was DB freaking Cooper. And you do have a bias toward Comp B. I think in your mind if you squint hard enough you can make Bill look like Comp B. If you REALLY squint...and then go crosseyed...then maybe he can look like Comp B. But I think you believe it.

Dude I don't give a shit about discrediting you. You're an excellent researcher and your opinions stand on their own merit. Same as mine. I don't have to "discredit you." What lie am I telling? You take such offense to anyone questioning your thought process that if you lived 200 years ago you'd have been killed in a duel by age 15.

By all means, if you show me about 20 unique eyewitness accounts from the EAL hijacking, including numerous ones putting Bill's height at 5'11 or 6'0, it would change my mind. And Yes, and I'll be glad to show my research on this. There is nothing top secret about Hahneman's witness descriptions, so if I'm going to the trouble of sharing these then I expect you to share yours. Fisher was measured when arrested 6'3 1/2 If in our count we will count a "6'1 to 6'2" as counting as both 6'1 and 6'2 on a chart, it comes out to this from 41 witness descriptions. And it should be noted that Fisher was stalking up and down the aisles the entire flight in full view of everyone. 5'11 - 2 6' - 11 6'1 - 15 6'2 - 13 6'3 - 7 6'4 - 2 So, if anything, the evidence shows that people, at least in Fisher's hijacking, were chronically underestimating his height. 82% of eyewitnesses had him under his actual height.

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Oh yeah, I forgot about him needing one whenever he flew. So it's likely he was actually telling Larry the truth.

No way. 20 DIFFERENT witness accounts for Hahneman being between 5'10 and 6'? I've read quite a lot of information on his hijacking and the highest I've ever seen is 5'10. His official FBI description is 5'8 to 5'9. The crew said 5'8. 5'10 shows up in the AP article, but I can't recall seeing anything taller than that for him. I'd like to see some examples.

Well, it wouldn't matter even if it was a match since clearly NORJAK plane wasn't missing any decals = Edwards sadly wasted a lot of energy writing about that.

Yes we did. But the FBI agents didn't...so they made an assumption. For Cooper to have been the one to have taken something from the crew meals would mean that he went up near the cockpit AFTER Tina was sent up there (food was on first row of first class), which seems highly unlikely. Plus, Tina said that she asked Cooper if she could cook the crew meals and he told her no, so if it's Cooper doing this then he's also taking uncooked/cold food. I don't think we need to infer anything from this other than agents not realizing that the K-9's had gotten into the food.

It's what is called a "hobby case", meaning that the Bureau really only wants you working on it on your free time. Larry only studied the case when he went home. He said he'd just take copies of the documents home with him to read at night or weekends. Of course, sometimes you'd work the case during "work hours", but they really preferred you not to do that. I think that is what got Larry in trouble with his bosses. By going to the media about it, it brought in more leads which meant A) Seattle Office had to answer more calls from people, and 2) that Larry would have to spend more actual "company time" working the case. Larry didn't throw the current guy under the bus on the interview, but privately he said he doubts the current case agent has done any substantial work at all on this case. He said he'd be surprised if the current agent has even bothered to spend any time at all on the Gryder chute since it was retrieved last year. Current case agent apparently has a large sized role in something involving Asian gangs in Seattle.

I agree with this assessment. They look very close and fit within all of the descriptions.

Hard to tell. Port side of stairs on NORJAK plane had a square placard. Not sure if same one. Quality isn't good enough.

Larry said last night that Cossey told him that the ripcord handle was moved higher on the same side as it always was, not moved across the chest. He also told Larry that this had been an old chute of his that he repurposed and sold to Hayden, not that they were his parachutes from his residence or his own personal chutes from Issaquah. That can't be totally accurate though, because Cossey would never jump with an emergency rig that didn't have D-rings for a reserve.

This news report is in my book and I'm confident this is almost certainly from the dogs. Rataczak said the first thing the K-9's did was take the steaks out of the crew meals. The FBI dudes who came on later wouldn't have known about that and made an assumption. Please don't fight this. You can just say "Yeah, I guess that makes more sense."

You're picking out photos of him with his eyebrows raised. His forehead lines weren't normally that dramatic in any other photos I've seen of him. And his hair is super short in those photos you posted. What mainly eliminates him in my mind is his nose. He has a nose like your guy Bill.

Find someone WITHOUT a suspect who actually agrees with you that a sketch drawn from scratch two days after an event is somehow LESS accurate than an identikit sketch created 9 to 12 months after an event. The main witnesses liked A days after the event The main witnesses liked B a year after the event Because these two look like different individuals, they can't both be right, so I'll go with the earliest sketch as being the more accurate of the two. And hey, if your supposed photo of Cooper looks like B, then more power to you. I have no dog in this fight. I could care less if my opinion on which sketch is better is realized one day or not. I'm just being logical and logic suggests that a memory two days after an event is better than one a year later.

Portland office weren't fans of his....

Mitchell 100% spoke to Tosaw. I've had conversations with Bill about his experience with "Mr. Tosaw" (as Bill calls him). I've spoken to Bill recently about another issue, mainly about the obnoxious drunk. He said that it was an "elderly man" sitting in front of him. The only elderly person on the flight was Robert Gregory, who would have been sitting back there. I sent him photos of Gregory and Labissoniere (my candidate for the drunk) and he says he really can't recall the actual face. He remembers the drunk making the FBI agent on the bus doing the roll call laugh by asking "hey, how long is all this going to take, I've got to piss." Gregory's description is pretty thorough, so I just don't think it's him. Lab's testimony, on the other hand, reads like a drunk man's recollection of the events on the plane. Cooper wearing a "blazer and sporty vest". What? Lab also refers to having to take numerous trips to the bathroom and had a DUI at one point. Plus his hair is all disheveled in the video of him coming in the airport and I think he even looks a little drunk.

A discrepancy I've also been curious about. When there is a conflict, I try to always go with the earliest statement when there is no other corroboration. Tina's 302 says "he had another book of matches". It's hard to get "I got up and found him some more matches" from that statement. She also describes the matchbook. That likely wouldn't have been pertinent info to include if it was just a matchbook she supplied him with. Lastly, I go with the 302 because why would a heavy smoker like Cooper commit a hijacking with a mere handful of matches left in a single matchbook? Surely he was planning to smoke both on the plane and during his escape. Two matchbooks makes sense. I'll have to go through Tosaw's narrative again, but off the top of my head the matches contradict with the 302's and Cooper's drink order contradicts the 302's. I believe there are a few other things too. Oh, he has the passengers being moved up much too early. Tina says she only moved them up after they landed and were taxiing to the isolated runway.

Brian had testing done on the wadded clumps he still has. This was around 2017. He said these fragments and wads contained exactly 20 additional numbers, not 19 or 21, but 20. I'll ask him for those serials, or partial serials, and we can see where they land with the known serials recovered.

I mean, would that not be hideous behavior if you had indeed been legitimately threatening me? I didn't call you hideous dude.

Well that's fine then. I don't care about looking ridiculous if I'm proven to be wrong on something. I welcome it. The more accurate information there is in this case, the better.

Are you legitimately that hideous of a person to be threatening me over an internet debate? You're going to dox me like you did to Ulis? I mean, knock yourself out. I don't have any arrests on my record for you to laud over my head.

One of the earliest articles lists him as President of Seattle Sky Sports, so I guess he and Emrich were partners to some degree. I'll attach an image of an interview Emrich gave a few days after the event that may explain your other issues. Hopefully you can read it.

It is absurd.. you can always create doubt in anything with enough imagination. Like you are doing with Cossey's statement from Nov 26, 71? But, you of all people should know that you don't just accept an unsubstantiated claim as fact, especially when there is contradictory evidence. Like you are doing with Cossey's bullshit claims from 2003+ that he received a phone call that night?