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Got bored and decided to try and make Flo's Dracula looking sketch more like a traditional Cooper sketch.

Posted about him a few weeks ago but the way that Cooper copycat Melvin Fisher was described by the flight crew is remarkably similar to Cooper, yet Fisher was an unemployed house painter. A total loser essentially. Makes me wonder if we inflate the few statements that we have about Cooper and perhaps turn him into something he was not. From the UPI article covering his court appearance: "The captain and two stewardesses, in opening day testimony, said Fisher appeared rational, coherent and knew a lot about airplanes." "Capt. Charles Dodds said it became apparent that Fisher, 49, 'knew a little more than the average person knew' about flying when he told Dodds it would be all right to take off with a tailwind if the wind was less than 10 knots. 'Also', Dodds said, 'he knew about our dual communication system.' " "Dodds said at one point, Fisher told him an exact pattern to fly and at what altitude, and insisted that he lower the rear stairwell and lower the flaps to slow the airplane." "Dodds said Fisher appeared 'very, very reasonable.' " "Dodds said he received a note from Fisher which said '$550,000 in circulated $100 bills and a parachute.' " "Stewardess Susan Sigmier...testified that Fisher appeared 'calm'. 'I'm sure he was nervous, but he didn't act real nervous and was real courteous,' she said." Interestingly, in the Fisher case, he brought a briefcase on board that had a fake bomb that he showed to the crew and also had walkie-talkies with him. He had one of them taken to the pilot, which is how they communicated.

LaPoint was a door gunner in Vietnam. I'm not sure where the media got that he was a paratrooper from, but that was repeated in the papers a bunch at the time. There's no evidence he had jumped before during his civilian or military life. Also, investigated him further just now and I'm not sure this is something that needed to be "defused". Sounds like he just had a bunch of flares.

Copycat Richard LaPoint's bomb was apparently real.

He’s in the 302’s that have been released. Not much but he’s there. His photos were apparently exhibited to witnesses.

The hearings were a year after Hahneman's hijacking. He was a nobody just like all the other copycats. I'm not sure precisely sure why this was brought up at the Watergate hearings, but I believe it had something to do with the fact that one of the burglars had some dealings with Honduras. Perhaps the Hahneman hijacking was the only thing this bloviating Congressman knew about Honduras.

I must have missed it. That's the problem with mega-threads like this one and the ones over on the other site. Miss a month and you're 50 pages behind.

Hahneman was mentioned in the Watergate Hearings

May have been posted before, but it's the full scan of the Inflight NWO magazine for Nov-Dec 71. Pretty cool map inside of it. https://northwestairlineshistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NWA_mag_Passages_1971-11.pdf Also, what is this about? I'm assuming they're referring to how you can adjust the height of the flame on those Bic type lighters.

I asked an AI program to "show me the face of D.B. Cooper". Not bad

As expected, he looks more like the Bigfoot sketch than any Cooper sketch.

Hopefully just misplaced.

Looks more like Reca than any of the others.

Sketches of George Ames and Robert Wilson aka Fred Hahneman and Martin McNally

Yeah, the only Cooper sketch with zero input from the eyewitnesses. Definitely use that one.

Good times tonight on my Facebook Live

lol what?

Time for me to eat some crow. I royally messed up on my attempt to track down Alice. The Alyce Gorley born in Texas in 1947 is NOT Alice Garley Hancock of Flight 305. Here's where I went wrong and I think it's a reasonable mistake to make. The "Garley" in Alice Garley Hancock is NOT a maiden name. That was my assumption and I'm sure the assumption of just about everyone else who ever came across that name in the Cooper case. Garley was her previous married name. She was born Alice Opp in Minnesota in 1947, then married a guy named Richard Garley in 1968 and was divorced within a year. Then in Sept 1971 she married Jim Hancock (they divorced in 91). So when I went deep diving to try to find a better photo of Alice (since all we have is a crummy one from the press conference), I searched for an Alice Garley, born in the late 40's on Ancestry. There was only one: Alyce Gorley of Texas. Turns out she was a beauty queen and as we know many of those type girls from that era went on to become stewardesses. I figured that when she moved away from home to be flight attendant she just changed the spelling of her name for whatever reason. So ya, major research error on my part.

fwiw, Alice said she didn't think it was a hairpiece

I’m hardly an expert on Bigfoots, haha. Totally talking out of my ass on the Gimlin footage. I know nothing about it. If it’s fake then kudos to those guys who did it. It looks damn good! And your criticism is warranted; we were just having fun with the ages. Although I will continue to contend that Wesley Jensen’s hair color is a good analog for Cooper’s. You can tell it’s unnaturally black. Oh, and I’m legit concerned I had a mini-stroke in the middle of talking about Michael Cooper. Got lightheaded briefly. That was weird! Maybe I was just fatigued for talking for an hour and a half straight.

Why are you including me in this? I don’t have anything to do with his efforts. But if he can get more access to the tie with sticky stubs or whatever, then I’m all for it. Also, I’m pretty sure the DNA tech who he has lined up is a female.

yes, it would absolutely be worth it. Eric isn't wrong in thinking that there may be viable DNA in the tie knot screw. That would be a good place to check. It would also be nice for Tom to have more access to the tie for his sticky stubs. I believe only 15-20% of the tie was sticky stubbed last time. I don't think lawsuits are going to give us access to the tie again, but rather someone being able to pull the right string.

Not gonna work. Physical objects are explicitly exempt from FOIA.

and yet Yogi Berra is "sallow"...