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Somewhere in this mix is a genetic formula that Cooper fits into. I wish we had more definite better info. The one thing Cooper cannot escape is being 'who' he was!

Did Hancock agree with sketch B ?

Oh my! Another new artists sketch of DB Cooper. Will it ever end! ? Total different Cooper look, based on ... read the article on Edward's blog. The 'meaner than a skunk genius' look. ?

My impression is, based on years of knowing Dorwin, he has always been open to an interview so it may be long overdue. Others including producers have interviewed Dorwin many times over the years. Time is running out, literally.

JAG has asked that Dorwin Schreuder be interviewed - I agree! I am rather sure Dorwin would agree to this - good luck. Of particular interest should be the fragment field Dorwin and his colleagues found, its exact location relative to the Ingram find, its contents, its location relative to the Ingram find vis Crystal Ingram's statement about where she said the Ingram's found their money, where the fragments went and are currently stored, ............ and any thoughts Dorwin may have about where the Cooper case goes from here...

Got any proof ?

I want to know why Carr thinks Cooper perished in the jump. He seems insistent on this. Is it because Carr has some piece of evidence nobody else has, or just a general feeling on Carr's part that Cooper was 'incompetent' and a 'novice' ? Carr has read files and talked to a lot of people and he comes out of that still insisting Cooper died in the jump. I want to know why in specific terms, if Carr can explain it. It's my impression that the vast majority of people with real credentials in this matter, don't share Carr's opinion. Am I wrong about that?

Cooper was ahead from the start - he had all of the critical facts in his favor and the FBI and law enforcement could not catch up. Apparently they never will.

Tena Bar does not tell us much, it really doesn’t. It could have if soil and water samples had been kept and examined. In addition, Cooper's exact LZ has never been identified and examined.

If bills get initially passed they still circulate over and over for years.. That is a good point seldom made. That changes the odds over time. All it takes is one detection over a long period of time, and time favors some detection sometime by some means .... however the finding of some Cooper money on a river bank in the area may indicate no money was in circulation to be detected. Nature could have consumed most of it. New money analysis data is needed. We know now the Ingram money, for example, was in a warm/hot dry place for at least the first year after the hijacking - based on rubber band chemistry. With the rubber bands being directly exposed to whatever hot/dry environment the money was in. Is the Ingram money representative of all of the Cooper money during the first year? If it is then none of the Cooper money was in circulation for the first year after the hijacking. Its pure speculation until future data provides more information. This case has run many years on the old data. Future progress hinges on new-better data, imho.

At best Gunther is trying to be a myth maker. Maybe he was just bored with his real life? He is more than intelligent enough to know what real investigation is like and what that involves, but he does nothing to help! Maybe he should have written about Columbus or Einstein instead ? He seems to be wallowing in personal indecision. Do people find his personal problems interesting ... the problems of a True Man ? It's laughable. Meanwhile the real Cooper is somewhere doing something or he is dead. So back to the original problem after yet one more - diversion.

Almost inevitable that True (Adventure) Magazine is going to take on the Cooper hijacking, in some form. All they needed was a writer... Opportunism pure and simple.

Was Gunther a True Man ? Member of Masons, White Shrine, Knights of Columbus, Knights Templar, Oak Island Association, . . . ? Did DB Cooper contact Gunther because he saw himself as a man of like spirit ... ? Did DB Cooper die on Mt Everest ? Killed by a Knights Templar Yeti who tracked Cooper from Washington to Tibet ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_(magazine) True, also known as True, The Man's Magazine, was published by Fawcett Publications from 1937 until 1974. Known as True, A Man's Magazine in the 1930s, it was labeled True, #1 Man's Magazine in the 1960s. Petersen Publishing took over with the January 1975, issue. It was sold to Magazine Associates in August 1975, and ceased publication shortly afterward. High adventure, sports profiles and dramatic conflicts were highlighted in articles such as "Living and Working at Nine Fathoms" by Ed Batutis, "Search for the Perfect Beer" by Bob McCabe and the uncredited "How to Start Your Own Hunting-Fishing Lodge." In addition to pictorials ("Iceland, Unexpected Eden" by Lawrence Fried) and humor pieces ("The Most Unforgettable Sonofabitch I Ever Knew" by Robert Ruark), there were columns, miscellaneous features and regular concluding pages: "This Funny Life," "Man to Man Answers," "Strange But True" and "True Goes Shopping." In January 1950, True went back to press after a sold-out issue in which Donald E. Keyhoe suggested that extraterrestrials could be piloting flying saucers. The material was reworked by Keyhoe into a best-selling paperback book, The Flying Saucers Are Real (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1950). True did follow-up UFO reports in 1967[3] and 1969. Frank Bowers edited The True Report on Flying Saucers (1967). The magazine was the source for a number of other books, including True, A Treasury of True: The Best from 20 Years of the Man's Magazine (Barnes, 1956), edited by Charles N. Barnard and illustrated by Carl Pfeufer, and Bar Guide (Fawcett, 1950) by Ted Shane and Virgil Partch. Cartoon collections included Cartoon Laffs from True, the Man's Magazine (Crest Books, 1958), True Album of Cartoons (Fawcett, 1960), Cartoon Treasury (Fawcett, 1968) and New Cartoon Laughs: A Prize Collection from True Magazine (Fawcett, 1970). . . .

Why would Gunther even publish suspicious UNPROVEN material on DB Cooper, of all things? Why take the risk? What precisely is he contributing and to whom? Nothing Gunther did or said lead to Cooper's apprehension or one new fact in the Cooper case. So what is his contribution - what is his motive? It's newsy and adds to his resume, I guess. I guess he's entitled. He could have chosen a book on any number of topics .......... like the Dead Sea Scrolls or Elvis Presley ... Dolphins You Would Like ? Surely he understood his book would be controversial, or did he care? Publishers cannot force unwilling authors to commit professional suicide - where is the payoff ? Or, maybe Gunther was publishing for the Metaverse, years ahead of his time. ? Like Herschel Walker Candidate for US Senator is ?

A modern FBI Lab might be able to determine the brand of typewriter, based on type style. They might also be able to compare this typed letter with others in their inventory. Once again the need for New evidence surfaces .... alas.

You are saying the letter was typed by Gunther himself. I wondered that also - plus to me there is something curious about the typewriter. It types like somebody's old favorite machine, over used and defective ......... like many writers still use today. I know authors today who still use their old favorite IBMs even though they cant get parts for them. You would be surprised how stubborn some people are to update their old habits and favorite old tools ...

The typist had no eraser, and the machine was defective. ....

Just musing over the overtypes ... anyone decipher it yet after eliminating the 'X' ? Note bad keys on the letter ... the typewriter used would be evidence. Its a D and some other letter overtyped ?

Why did the FBI chase down every ridiculous lead and not this one? I think it’s because they didn’t like Gunther. We dont really know do we ?

But, the cultural distance between Cooper's world and Gunther's world we assume, would be huge, if not unreachable. Who is seeking whom? If the premise is correct then Cooper had a rather specific cultural awareness, somehow. That's not the world your average hijacker in 1971 lives in. Cooper seeks out Gunther of all people! Why didn't he just contact the President of the United States? Why screw around with some writer savant to get his story out - go straight to the top !! Odds are it doesn;t add up .... using Insect Math. The odds are Gunther selected Cooper, not the reverse. Moreover, I will even bet some of Gunther's associates knew this ... which in the end tells us nothing about Cooper.

Likewise .... but writers would be interested in him if only to reinvent him! There is no subject on Earth that escapes the grasp of Writers Workshop people. People from all over the planet gather to develop and exchange .... ideas and story lines. Does DB Cooper now have his eyes set on a Nobel Prize in Literature ? Small wonder the writer Geof Gray will stand in line waiting his turn . . . re Max Gunther: Writing and Selling a Nonfiction Book (1973) Virility 8: A Celebration of the American Male (1975) D.B. Cooper: What Really Happened McGraw-Hill ISBN 9780809248544 (1985 1st print)

By contacting Gunther, of all people, Cooper is now in touch with some very classy people. You do not live in Iowa City, Iowa and not know who these people are . . . Cooper now has 200k$ and is moving up in the world ? The FBI may be beneath him now!

Max Gunther, savant: The person DB Cooper allegedly contact . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Gunther Max Gunther (1927–1998) was an Anglo-American journalist and writer. He was the author of 26 books, including his investment best-seller, The Zurich Axioms. Born in England, Gunther moved to the United States at age of 11 after his father, Franz Heinrich (Frank Henry) became the manager of the New York branch of a leading Swiss bank, Schweizerischer Bankverein (Swiss Bank Corporation or SBC). In 1998, the bank was merged with Union Bank of Switzerland to form UBS, the second largest wealth management organisation in the world and the second largest bank in Europe. Gunther's book, The Zurich Axioms is largely based on his father's trading advice.[1] Gunther graduated from Princeton University in 1949 and served in the United States Army from 1950 to 1951. He worked at Business Week magazine from 1951 to 1955 and during the following two years he was the contributing editor for Time Magazine. He also contributed to Playboy, True, Reader's Digest, TV Guide, McCall's, and Saturday Evening Post. He lived most of his adult live in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Selected bibliography The Weekenders (1964) The Split-Level Trap (1964) Wall Street and Witchcraft (1971) The Very, Very Rich and How They Got That Way (1973) Instant Millionaires: The Secrets of Overnight Success (1973) Writing and Selling a Nonfiction Book (1973) Virility 8: A Celebration of the American Male (1975) "The Luck Factor" Harriman House ISBN 9781906659950 (1977) The Zurich Axioms ISBN 9781906659943 (1985 1st print) How to Get Lucky: 13 Techniques for Discovering and Taking Advantage of Life's Good Breaks (1986) D.B. Cooper: What Really Happened McGraw-Hill ISBN 9780809248544 (1985 1st print) Doom Wind (1987) Confessions of a P.R. Man (1989) References “The Zurich Axioms” by Max Gunther, Reviewed by Victor Niederhoffer . Daily Speculations, October 24, 2006 SANDERS, Jack S. Max Gunther: Prolific Writer (In: http://jackfsanders.tripod.com/G-L.htm) About Max Gunther

Was Gunther ever at the Writer's Workshop in Iowa City? Why didnt Cooper contact one of them? ie, writers with stature. Do Gunther, Clara, and Jo Weber intersect? Didn't Jo say she talked to Clara? Who at the Writer's Workshop did Clara have contact with . . . ? Why didn't Cooper contact The New Yorker ? Was DB Cooper a "savant" - with a message ?