Coopericane
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Looks like our new friend has gotten in trouble before... https://arrestfacts.com/Fred-Catalano-2p7u54
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Fred Catalano, sixth from the end.
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Gossett ruled out by DNA?
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So TSL was a smoker. He could have started after the hijacking though, I guess, and I think he can be ruled out based on the other information Flyjack reported. Catalano was a purser at TWA... not done glancing the files yet. Did we learn anything else significant about him?
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Very nice work, Fly. Seems that Langseth is deceased as of 2009 and would have been 37 at the time of the hijacking. Worked in "Service Occupations". His addresses: https://radaris.com/~Jason-Langseth/1105402219
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"When I arrived at the airport in Minneapolis, I... talked to the two stewardesses. ... The two stewardesses differed a little bit on their description... They described the unknown subject as... ah, middle aged person, dressed in a suit, with a dark complexion, and, sort of a protruding lower lip. The rest of the face was rather nondescript, nothing unusual about it."
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Very neat... there's also this 302 on page 261 of part 11 where a passenger (Robert Gregory?) mentions briefly seeing Cooper without his glasses.
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Not to poke at too old of a topic, but... guess what Vordahl's wife was named? I'm not convinced of any one possibility, but I just made this connection in my head after looking into Vordahl a little bit more.
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I think I can buy Cooper being in his mid-fifties. That was the original estimation in the crew notes. 57 might be pushing it but I think Vordahl looks young for his age. That's only one of the obstacles as a suspect he faces in my eyes, though... but I am looking forward to a more complete presentation of the case for him to the public in whatever form it takes (maybe a Vortex episode?).
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What year is this picture of Vordahl from?
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It seems that Vordahl was quite the outspoken individual... lots of newspaper clippings with his opinions in them from a simple Google search alone. Not really the sort of person I'd expect to slip through the cracks. He was quite a bit on the older side for Cooper, too... 57 in 1971? And he's not the best match for Composite B I've ever seen, but he does look somewhat compelling when placed next to it... regardless, I am curious to know more details about the case being made for him.
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Wow, that's actually kind of insane. What're the odds that someone matching Cooper's description is asking all of these questions the day before the hijacking on another NWO flight...? I mean, I guess it could be a coincidence... I'm sure the thought of jumping out those stairs came to some other passenger's minds... but still. I wonder if it's connected in any way to the 302s about someone from the film industry asking similar types of questions, I want to say maybe a week or two before the hijacking? I don't remember the details or have the exact files handy.
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Memory conformity is a menace... Didn't he also at a later point add something to his story about thinking Cooper was suspicious?
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There's a copy of his main interview on page 146 of part 18... a few duplicates are scattered around too in other parts. I can't say if he has any other mentions due to redactions, but that particular interview had to be him.
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The new Ulis suspect is here... https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2022/11/new-db-cooper-suspect-revealed-through-lab-analysis-of-skyjackers-tie-just-in-time-for-coopercon.html
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How old would he have been in 1971? Just kidding...
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I've been thinking about it, and the Cooper hijacking really seems to present a fairly unique case of eyewitness testimony... here we have multiple different witnesses observing the same man over a long period of time, and some of these witnesses even interact directly with him several times... hell, one is sitting next to him for hours. Frankly, I can't think of another case quite like it, but I'd be curious to know if there is one... especially one with a sketch available. It would be an interesting experiment on its own actually to see how prolonged eyewitness observations contribute to presumably better composite sketches.
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That 95% is interesting... that would roughly account for the money left on Tena Bar. It could just as easily be him taking his own cut or simply coming up with a random arbitrary number, though.
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So 5,166 missing person reports from 1971-1972 were checked... interesting, I had not heard of an exact number. Though it seems to have come up before
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Are Eric and Nicky both homing in on the same person now? They both seem to have new POIs that they are very confident in. Can't tell for sure from the little information I have if they are the same though. I thought I heard something about them collaborating so that may be where my confusion stems from.
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Gunther's book also has him wearing thermal underwear underneath his suit.
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Great episode on the podcast olemisscub! Out of curiosity, do you think that you could share that picture of McCoy laid to rest here? (Or maybe just privately message it if that's all you're comfortable with).
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It's interesting that WSJ's relatives seem to be becoming a little more irritated with his status as a suspect, per the recent edits on that site... I think I get it too, it's not fun to have a loved one accused of a crime you don't think they committed. I'm hopeful they choose to share more information with the public in the future, whether it exonerates WSJ or not.
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Here's a list of all the coincidences connecting Gunther's book to William J. Smith. In a vacuum, some of these might not be particularly impressive, but when they're all laid out together like so... well, I start to have a hard time believing we are still dealing with mere coincidences. We could still be, there's no true smoking gun... but I personally find WSJ to be one of the most promising suspects ever proposed and look forward to any future developments...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Gunther Here's some basic background information on him. It was apparently work on an article for True Magazine called Do-It-Yourself Divorce that attracted Cooper/the hoaxer to him. I've never read any of his other works, but he seems to have been a fairly serious journalist. That being said, it couldn't hurt to learn more about him.
