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The faded ink on some of the Ingram bills probably takes more than 3-4 months even with direct sun exposure in NW winter? And a buried bill (even in a bucket a la Jo) wouldn't get the selective fading like that? The ink fading may be the strongest evidence that Jo's story about buried money being thrown in the Columbia a couple of months before discovery, is not possible.??? There would have to be a plausible ink fade story. (ignore brittlement/decomposition/browning since that could be multiple sources). I don't think microbial decomposition causes the ink fade? (edit) on the high quality ingram auction photos I've posted before, there is some uniformity to the ink fade, within a single bill? That could be interesting, since the paper decomposition is non-uniform.

This paper on counterfeiting US currency abroad had an interesting chart http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/mt/20070301/cover.pdf chart attached. Shows increase of US currency abroad vs home, since 1971 looks like 1/3 of US currency is abroad today? less in 1971.

This paper recommends using a Jasco FP6200 fluorescence spectrophotometer for doing a spectral scan...for determining counterfeits. http://www.jascoinc.com/literature/pdf/appnotes/FP_01.02.pdf However, they also say the fluorescence changes with aging...which is good since there might be something interesting about the Ingram bills, then. I suspect the Ingram bills display a variety of fluorescence. the good bills might even be "close" to new bills. They're focused on the security thread, but it also applies to background fluorescence of the bill. Figure 1 on page 1 has a chart of a scan of background fluorescence. Hey 377, it notes that in 1997 alone, there was $136,205,241 in counterfeit US currency discovered worldwide. The paper says US currency has a high starch content. I didn't realize that? I thought it was the other way around...low starch content.

I just thought this was interesting. incandescent, near UV and near infrared for the multichannel, it's near-UV (standard color camera), visible, and near-IR. Red maps to IR. Green maps to visible. Blue maps to UV. Series 1999 $20 Series 2001 $10 Series 2003 $5 (edit) this is all from http://photos.staticfree.info/things/US%20currency%20in%20UV%20and%20IR/ more detail: in the near-infrared spectrum. Taken with an incandescent light and a Wrattan 87 filter. in near-UV light. Taken with a visible light camera to show fluorescence

One theory I had was that there were no black bills when the Ingrams discovered the money and that they darkened more over time, going from brown to black. I was reading this note "Causes of Deterioration of Paper" at http://cool-palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/maravilla/deterioration-causes.html and while the lignin content of US currency is not as high as some papers, it raises the interesting question of UV initiating reactions that continue after the UV is removed. While we've been focused on the water and microbes and their affect on the found bills, a UV effect may be interesting, because it points in a different direction..i.e. that the bills were exposed to the Sun for a period of time, rather than being buried at all times until the Ingram discovery. It would be very interesting if Tom could show that some amount of UV exposure was required to get the bills in the found state..as opposed to microbial and/or chemical effects being sufficient. (chemicals from river bottom etc) (edit) I've also found notes about US currency ink behaving differently in different batches. Even the front and back inks have slightly different behaviors. Have to find out more about that, although 63-69 info may be required. (a small number of the ransom bills were actually series 1950, 1950A and 1950C) from that web site: "Pigments and dyestuff fade when exposed to light and this is very noticeable in water colors. Unfortunately, colors fade selectively, some disappearing while other remain unchanged, which means that the color relationships of a painting can be grossly distorted. Rapid and serious deterioration of paper is caused by the oxidation of cellulose brought about by the ultraviolet rays in sunlight and fluorescent light. There are two effects of light on paper that result in its ultimate embrittlement and deterioration. First, it has a bleaching action that causes some whitening of paper and fading of colored papers and certain inks. Second, it causes any lignin, which may be present in the paper, to react with other compounds and turns it yellow or brownish. It is this reaction that results in newspapers' turning yellow on exposure to light. Certain invisible changes also occur at the same time when these visible effects of light are taking place. Fibers in the paper are broken into smaller and smaller units until they are so short they can no longer maintain the bonds necessary to hold the paper together. Some woods bleach under the action of light; some turn "yellow" and some darken. Unfortunately, the reactions initiated by light continue after the source of the damage has been removed." In other work, I've taken to heart the feedback that in-person hijackings are so passe nowadays, and the team has made significant progress in the tools required to hijack the Boeing A160 UAV helicopter. This should be helpful when swarms of them are deployed over the U.S.

Origins of the 727 idea are well documented. June 1959 is the earliest date for "serious development" Initial design studies in 1956. you can google "boeing 727" 1956 The December 1960 issue of Flight which confirms the summer 1956 date and talks about some of the design issues/changes comparing it to another plane. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%203096.html I snipped the interesting table and attached. The whole article is 3 pages and interesting because it introduced the 727 in 1960 and has a technical detail. It starts here, and you can click thru the pages (or save them or print them) http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%203094.html (edit) The cover of that 1960 Flight attached just cause we can.

Hmmm, we really do need a second money find. Sluggo, where should it be? I know you are busy. We'll start aging the bills and await instructions. ahem. Ah yes, the "decomposition" tests Tom is doing for us. See the dumb guys decompose their planted counterfeit bills under the kitchen sink. The smart guys get a paleontologist and subcontract the job. Always make sure your weapons are as good as the other guy's...They got SEM, we got SEM.

got it - face#24- nice face - interesting nose vs Cooper's. . yeah I got that picture for a funny reason. He's a lawyer. (be great if we could hang it on a lawyer). But the reason I got that guy's photo is that he was son of another guy I was looking at. There was a father to son transmission of facial structure. I thought that was interesting. If Cooper had a son, his son might be a match for the sketch.

Well, we'd have to substitute a portable cassette or 8 track player, but I'll write it into the script. "Riders on the Storm" or ? That number 3 Rod Serling shot looks a lot like James Garner, but it's just Rod with a few years and pounds added. Does anyone remember the Twilight zone episode with the Gremlin out on the airliner wing messing with what had to be a radial engine? 377 Remember? We don't need memories any more. We can drink nonstop..kill all the brain cells. Here's the gremlin episode. Bill Shatner! advance the timeline up to like 5:37 and Bill starts looking out the window... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7yJl2mUN2U hey even Bill looks like he could be a good snap! I'll get that

I always thought that's what jail's for, so you reconsider? I did leave myself one out (although you'll notice the bill is just blurry enough to not be an issue with the SS troopers) It's a series 1969. If you look at where the series numbers are, they're too blurry to read, but you can tell there's nothing there for the A in 1963A. I could have got it a little better, but hey, it was just a 5 minute job. Note the serial numbers are a little misaligned, and the green ink on the 5 is light because I got it from another bill. (edit) I always thought the best scam would have been to plant decomposed counterfeit twenties on Tena Bar.

here's another modern day one. it was color but I b/w 'ed it.

if we're just looking at facial structure, then do all photos get turned into b/w before they're analyzed (may happen inside the tool. I was wondering how all the duane pictures would look if they were all b/w. Sometimes it's easy to get carried away by a "color match" to the 80s composite, because there weren't that many color photos in the '60s? just musing out loud.

Jim Morrison 1963 mug shot. Hey do you think Cooper liked Jazz? I'm thinking of the Daddy-O sunglasses. I would like it if he had The Doors cranked full volume so you could hear it over the engines....on a little MP3 player he left on seat 18c before he jumped. Can it be that way in the movie?

Here's 3 of Rod Serling. I loved Twilight Zone. Key in the formative years... (edit) Even though Rod seems to fit the classic "myth" look of Cooper, I think a facial structure analysis will show he's off.

Have all 23. #6 is very dark and low angle if you can find a better. Did you want me to include your last posted facial of Jack? (I have the "no no no" part on the other, trying not to laugh.) G. Just use them as is. I can probably find more, but I got tired of it. It would be interesting to see how it deals with not so good photos. People might not have great shots of Cooper. Or photos may be damaged. Just see what happens.

oh btw: If you're having a hard time with hundreds of Cooper related jpgs etc. Picasa 3 is good and free from google. does lots of stuff. .good for indexing all photos on your computer...fast looking thru thumbnails...etc http://picasa.google.com/ Oh, and for 377 Plug the serial number of the attached bill, 1963A series into http://www.check-six.com/lib/DBCooperLoot.htm The first J and last A should be capitalized. i.e. J38784665A 1963A

No the LIFE photo should be the control. It's the SKETCH. from 1971. see the problem is, the other versions we have of the sketch are low resolution and missing detail. They look "washed out". REPLY> Shall I include this one also ? attached. no no no. Right before Jack left the apartment to go to PDX, we yelled that we had to get a picture in case in didn't work out. This was the last one at the kitchen table before he put the black suit on. He actually thumbed a lift to the airport.

No the LIFE photo should be the control. It's the SKETCH. from 1971. see the problem is, the other versions we have of the sketch are low resolution and missing detail. They look "washed out". I think the LIFE photo is the closest to the original sketch, isn't it? It looks a lot better doesn't...i.e. easier to imagine a real person. It must have been scanned from a negative of a picture they took of the sketch back in '71/'72? (the caption said 1971) Did you not realize the one labeled "LIFE" was the '71 sketch? (or '72..whenever it came out) The other photo is just a random modern photo of some guy from a studio portrait shot. It was in color, I changed it into b/w. Actually I've got some good color shots of "olive" complexions also. (edit) I just realized I misread georger's original post...hopefully I've not confused the issue.

It's totally significant, if Cooper is alive. although Canada is likely to be more lenient than US, there's a good argument for jury nullification here. i.e. if Cooper just gives himself up, and pleads guilty, (assuming alive and in 80s) then it's unlikely he'd serve any jail time. The biggest thing the prosecutor would probably look for is prohibiting Cooper from making any money off the crime. Cooper could have kids. So there could be that reason to not plead. But the idea of the FBI slapping the cuffs on Cooper and making a big deal out of it...don't see it happening. They'd be laughingstocks if they did. Remember: this whole Cooper thing is a big cartoon now. The Canada case is interesting because it's a precedent for what a conviction might bring, if Cooper had lived right since then. It's a little bit unfair, cause some US hijackers are still in prison. Some US hijackers are out of prison. It seems to me the courts were inconsistent in how they sentenced back then. It would be even funnier if the argument that doing it "just for cash" was worse than doing it for political reasons....i.e. "terrorism". (edit) It should also remind us of how foolish it is to get all serious about this thing. It's just an interesting mind puzzle. Real life is ugly. This is cartoon. (edit) A reason to not confess might if other crime had been done since then. There might be an investigation that could uncover something worse? (edit) Or: if any part of the grudge was "F*** the system" the maximal F*** is maintained by not confessing? Then again Critton didn't confess. Maybe it's just a hassle, and no one would think of doing it.

two attachs One is from LIFE, and is nice because it's the highest resolution copy of the 1971 sketch I can find. You can save it and zoom in and see details of how the sketch artist drew it. Pretty nice. The second is just a random picture of the web when I was looking at olive complexions. The guy is a good example of nose too big, and lower cheeks too broad. Forehead not big enough? But if you really wanted to, you could convince yourself, kinda close. It's a modern pic. I'm guessing the guy's in the cooper age. Overall, a bit too masculine. I'm curious if this thing georger is talking about can actually produce anything interesting. What kind of output does it produce? A single number? How does it weight various parts of the "match". What if the sketch is wrong on one part...doesn't that screw us up badly? How are varying hairlines dealt with in terms of the final "match" number?

Critton only got sentenced to 5 years in 2002. So he must be out already. (actually the article says he would have been released in a year...pretty cheap!) http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2002/06/12/critton020612.html If Cooper was caught today (if alive), heck he might not get any sentence? just parole. Funny that a fugitive for a 30 year old hijacking, with other crimes too, just got 5 years. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E1D8143CF935A25755C0A9649C8B63 Armed with a handgun and a grenade, he released all passengers in Toronto and forced the crew to drop him in Havana. It was the only successful hijacking in Canadian history, and there were no injuries or reports of violence. ... Mr. Critton pleaded guilty to all charges, Mr. Irving said, adding that the judge showed leniency in sentencing because he released the passengers and did not mistreat the crew. ''The crew said that he was joking with them and showing them pictures of his children,'' he said.

there was the guy in '98, hijacker, that was found after 30 years by immigration guys when he came back in the country. (Rolando Peterson-Coplin) This guy Critton was more recent though. Guy googled him. Note the police computer came up dry. Google didn't. This was 2001 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E7DE1538F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/F/Foreign%20Service Traced on Internet, Teacher Is Charged In '71 Jet Hijacking By C. J. CHIVERS Published: September 11, 2001 Thirty years after a black-power revolutionary hijacked a jetliner from Ontario to Cuba and disappeared, Canadian and federal authorities matched the fingerprints he left on a can of ginger ale in the airplane with those of a teacher in Westchester County and charged the teacher with the crime yesterday. The teacher, Patrick Dolan Critton, 54, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., was charged with kidnapping, armed robbery and extortion in United States District Court in Manhattan. He is facing extradition to Canada, where a detective had tracked him down through a simple Internet search. The authorities said that Mr. Critton, a fugitive for 30 years, had been hiding in plain sight for the last seven years, working as a schoolteacher, using his real name, raising two sons and mentoring other children. Even one of the police officers who arrested him said he had the appearance and demeanor of a gentleman. But as a young man, the authorities said, Patrick Dolan Critton was a revolutionary with a taste for the most daring of crimes. By 1971, when he was 24, he was wanted by the New York City police on charges that he participated in a bank robbery that led to a frantic gun battle with the police, and that he had worked in a covert explosives factory on the Lower East Side, where the police said he made pipe bombs with other members of a black liberation group, the Republic of New Africa. Because of those charges, the police said, he fled to Canada. And on the day after Christmas in 1971, according to court papers, he boarded an Air Canada DC-9 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, on a flight to Toronto, produced a pistol and a grenade and successfully hijacked the jet. In Toronto, the papers say, he released the passengers and forced the crew to fly him to Havana -- never to be heard from again, until his case was reopened in earnest in June. Superintendent Edward Toye of the Peel Regional Police in Ontario said that a new unit in the department had been investigating cold cases. Detective Donald Jorgensen, an investigator assigned to the unit, pulled out the 1971 hijacking file. ''He wanted to know what was the oldest case we had, and this was it,'' Superintendent Toye said. Detective Jorgensen began his work with the broadest and most basic type of search: he typed the words Patrick Critton into an Internet search engine. Almost instantly, he located a March 2001 newspaper clipping in The Journal-News of Westchester County in which Patrick Critton was mentioned in an article about mentoring black youth. The article said that Mr. Critton was the director of the Community School Initiative in Mount Vernon. The Canadian authorities contacted the F.B.I.-N.Y.P.D. Joint Terrorist Task Force, and soon Mr. Critton was under surveillance in New York, said Inspector Charles J. Wells, commander of the New York Police Department's Special Investigations Division. Inspector Wells said investigators quickly noticed that they seemed to have found a perfect fit. They said the Mr. Critton who was wanted for the hijacking had briefly been a public-school teacher in Brooklyn after graduating from Hunter College in 1969, and that the Mr. Critton in Mount Vernon was working as a summer schoolteacher at the A. B. Davis Middle School there. Their heights also seemed to match: Mr. Critton in Mount Vernon appeared to be about 5 feet 4, just like the vanished hijacker. Moreover, investigators soon found a fingerprint card from 1994 that Mr. Critton submitted when he applied to be a per diem teacher in Brooklyn, and it matched the fingerprint card from 1969, when a man with the same name first applied to be a New York City schoolteacher. But the Canadian authorities wanted a better identification, Inspector Wells said, so New York detectives resorted to a ruse. After staking out Mr. Critton's home, he said, investigators knew the route he took on his weekday walk from his apartment to his summer teaching job at the middle school. On Aug. 15, detectives posted themselves along the route, putting up fliers of a missing girl from the Bronx. When Mr. Critton walked by him that morning, a detective handed him a photograph. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22575754_ITM Unusual suspect: thirty years after he robbed a bank and hijacked a plane to Cuba, Patrick Critton was finally busted. The cops expected a hardened criminal. The man they met came as a total surprise. (Crime). DETECTIVE DONALD JORGENSEN IS 40 years old, a father of two and a 15-year veteran with the Peel Regional Police. Thickly built, he has a ruddy, healthy complexion, and blond hair so tightly cropped a pinkish hue shows through. Given the sort of people he has to deal with, Jorgensen is amazingly congenial: when you first meet him, he projects the bonhomie of a contented bulldog. In May of 2001, while still a constable, he returned to 22 Division in Peel after having been on loan to the homicide department for the previous seven months. He was handed a dossier of cases with outstanding arrest warrants. Buried in the pile was the oldest such case in Peel's history: on December 26, 1971, a New Yorker named Patrick Critton had boarded a Toronto-bound DC-9 in Thunder Bay, which he then hijacked to Havana. Nearly 30 years later, Critton was still at large. Jorgensen ran Critton's name through the Canadian Police Information Computer, or CPIC, and came up dry. He then put it through the American equivalent, known as NCIC. Nothing. He did a driver's licence check in every province and state and still had no luck. Finally, he typed Critton's name into the search engine Google. He was not particularly hopeful: given the undiscriminating nature of the Web, he knew he'd most likely be presented with hundreds, if not thousands, of useless entries. It's this tendency that ordinarily makes the Internet all but useless for police work. Had he entered his own name, for example, he would have gotten no less than 25,000 entries. On the first page alone, he would have found references to Donald Jorgensen the animal neonatologist, Donald Jorgensen the North Dakota district Supreme Court judge and Donald Jorgensen the '40s-era baseball player. For this reason, he was completely astounded when he typed in the name Patrick Critton and was presented with one entry, and one entry only. ...