BruceSmith

How do you know this, Bobby. Where can we go to confirm it? Thanks!

It may be time for us to develop a unified witness profile: 1. Tina: DBC was 5'10 - 6', gentleman, mid-40s; sat with skyjacker for 5 hours. Had to look up to see skyjacker. 2. Flo: DBC was 6'-6'1", Latin, deep brown eyes, mid-40s; interacted with skyjacker for less than fifteen minutes. 3. Alice: unknown 4. Robert Gregory: DBC was mid-30's, marcelled hair, russet suit coat, but RG told the Seattle Times afterwards that he was sitting in the front of the cabin and didn't see the skyjacker until the passengers stood up to leave the plane at Sea-Tac. Nevertheless, the FBI wrote down in their files that Gregory was sitting initially in Row 18 with Cooper, according to Geoffrey Gray. 5: Bill Mitchell: skyjacker was an "old" guy, nerdy looking with bad hair, and a turkey gobble under his chin. But skyjacker didn't have HUGE ears like Duane. Bill sat in Row 18, and at 6'2" and 220, was "way bigger" than skyjacker. 6. Jack Almstad, came to the rear lavatory and joked with the skyjacker and Tina as he waited to use the rest room. Almstad says the skyjacker looked like the sketches he later saw "in the newspapers." Who else? What other descriptions? Five passengers volunteered themselves to talk with the feds in the terminal, saying they had seen the skyjacker: Mitchell, Gregory, Labonissiere, and two others that I forget.

OKay, let me get this straight: 1. Duane is related to Stan Gilliam, the flight engineer at Boeing. 2. Duane knew Margie Geestman, wife of Bernie. Anything else?

WTF? So many buttons....

Good questions. Here is what I know: The missing grocery store money was investigated jointly by the Michigan State Police and the Grayling Police Department. All records from both agencies have been purged. I talked with the only surviving officer of the Grayling Police Department during that time and he vaguely remembers the incident. He recalls a suspicion that Lepsy had fled to Mexico with a paramour, but the person in question was found not to have left the area. There are no missing women from that time period in the Grayling area. I want to be careful what I say here. Allegedly, Lepsy confessed to his wife that he had an affair with one of his employees, months before he disappeared. She had just graduated from high school. Yes Bruce, she was very attractive. Nobody knows of Lepsy's activities in Mexico, so it's anybodies guess how he could have learned about 727s. It's my understanding the Cooper suspect didn't know how to open the aft stairs and had to be shown. Book smart? There are whispers of a Mexican drug connection. For years, grocery stores in small towns where thought to be the distribution center for drugs being delivered by trucks carrying produce from southern states. All rumors, but there are rumors. How about the wife and daughter? What have they turned up? They've been active in finding Dick, such as Sally Jesse Raphael. What do they say about DB C? As for solving cases, in my case not so much. In fact, after I solve the DB Cooper caper I'd like address the number one question of my life: why did those women marry me? Just can't figure it out. Know what I'm sayin'?

Don't leave out Warehouse 13. The money could be sitting right next to Cossey's NB-8, gathering dust.

Yup. I'm tired of the same ol' parade. So tell us more about Lepsy - what did the cops say about him in their investigation? How does a grocery clerk escape to Meyhico and then steal an airplane, learning all about the metrics of a 727 on the way? What about his love life? Anything on the side? How about drugs? Ya gotta give us more than the pix, Nimi Wrecks. As for my kahunas, I prefer to call them cajones. Yea, I think they're big enough. They don't call me Cousin Brucie for nuttin', ya know.

Not so much.

I see that.

Where's my chisel! I gotta write this in stone. Seriously, I'm gonna save this to a word doc so I can send it to people who ask me what I think of Kenny Christiansen and the Grand Opus of Porteous and Blevins.

Will wonders ever cease! Welcome to the investigation, Bobby.

A Public Service Announcement from Cooper Royalty: Robert Nine-Nine, I think you misunderstand Mrs. Cooper. Left-handed people only sit on the port side of an airplane when they have a bomb in their lap. Otherwise they are "free to move about the cabin" like normal people.

Update of Jo Weber's behavior Is this your version of being nice? You call my home three times today requesting information about what Lee Dormuth said about Duane, and then you write this garbage? Let me clear, Jo. Fuck off.

Update on the Lee and Jane Dormuth Interview Don't worry 1K, I'll keep ya focused and informed. Trust me... - Prince Bruce More like FOCUSED on your misrepresentations - such as the night you intruded unannouced on the door of Tina's brother in-law and her sister. That interview was as obtuse as you interview with Tina. Also unannounced. Prove I spoke with them the night before. Prove that I was not on the line the night you intruded into their privacy. Well, it seems that Jo has got her knickers in a twist again, so let me explain what I know happened at the Dormuth residence back when I stopped by for a chat: 1. I have no personal knowledge of when Jo called the Dormuths and whom she spoke with. All I can say is what I was told by Lee, which was that Jo had called the night before, had spoken with Jane exclusively, and was on the phone for a lengthy period of time. 2. I was not invited to the chat. I tried to arrange for an interview, but Lee did not respond to multiple phone calls from me, so I drove to his house and knocked on the front door. 3. As for not getting invited inside, there are a number of possible reasons: First, Lee was not too happy to see me. Secondly, it appeared there was company in the house. It was late on a Sunday afternoon, and my knocks on the door were initially answered by a young lad about ten years old. I asked for Jane, and about 2-3 minutes later Lee came to the door, stepped outside onto the stoop, and we began talking. 4. The nature of the conversation has been described extensively and in detail at the DZ and the Mountain News. Lee was not hostile, but he was guarded. We spoke for about ten minutes, mostly about Tina and her health, state of mind, etc. At the end, I asked if I could come back for a follow-up with him, and he replied that it would be okay with him if I had "something big to report." 5. I returned a few months later after I had spoken with Tina in Oregon. Our second chat was virtually identical to the first conversation.

No thanks, Jo. Even though I am Cooper Royalty, I am a man of the people!

When I was speaking to Lee Dormuth the first time, he mentioned that you had called the night before. He wasn't sure I knew who you were when he mentioned your name, so he simply said, "She was married to him." "You mean DB Cooper," I asked. "Yeah," he replied. That's it.

You may find this interesting~ http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2482853#2482853 Thanks, T, I loved the story. And the pix. Your Dad still with us? No he passed a few days after I wrote that...going on nine years ago - - a little further in that thread I describe the funeral. The 2nd page of the thread I tell about visiting the WWll memorial in D.C. a week after Dad was buried. All blessings and thanks to you and your Dad. My Dad passed in '07, and when your Dad was at the Rhine, mine was a little further north, in Belgium, fixing busted jeeps and other stuff. His aunt rode out the war in Brussels, keeping her mouth shut because she spoke her French with a New Jersey accent.

You may find this interesting~ http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2482853#2482853 Thanks, T, I loved the story. And the pix. Your Dad still with us?

Don't worry 1K, I'll keep ya focused and informed. Trust me... - Prince Bruce

So, what did they say? 1. Tina? 2. Alice? I know that Lee Dormuth believes that your husband was DB Cooper. Isn't that enough satisfaction? Who else do you need to agree with you that Duane was DB Cooper. Yes, I know that Billy says that Duane's ears were too big, but hey, his eyeballs were busy elsewhere, if you catch my drift....

The issue of the bombs has a corresponding dynamic. If the bomb was real, would that kind of person actually have a wife like Jo Weber, or a brother like Lyle Christiansen? Or would they ever confess - to anyone? With over 900 folks already confessing to being DB Cooper, it's clear a lot of people WANT to be DB Cooper. The reasons why people do that are unknown for certain, and as a result, it makes any confession suspect. So, a good rule of thumb would be: if you think your guy made a dummy bomb, he ain't DB Cooper.

I understand the Wehrmacht had the same problem in WW II at the Remagen Bridge. There was a mix-up between civilian dynamite and military grade and the sappers used the specs for the wrong stuff and when they blew the bridge it didn't have enough oomph. As a result, the 9th US Armored was able to get across.

which one was Mitchell's seat? No. 1 is 18 C, his allotted seat. No. 2 may be where he moved to later...yeah ask someone 1K, here's what I know: There were no "allotted" seats. It was "open seating." Bill Mitchell sat in 18-B, put his coat in 18-A, and books in 18-C. The diagram that Bobby provided is a bit misleading, as it shows a more modern version of a 727 than the one Coop skyjacked, which had fewer rows. Hence, Cooper's Row 18 was the last row in the plane. Cooper moved twice, as I understand his movements. Initially he sat in the aisle seat, 18-D, to hand the note to Flo, sitting behind him on a galley jump seat. Then he moved over to 18-E to accommodate her as she sat next to him in 18-D for Bomb Inspection. Then, when she left to seek refuge in the cockpit, Tina sat in 18-D. Cooper stayed in 18-E until he went to the lavatory while the passengers deplane in Sea-Tac.

Hey Smok, good to see you are still around.

To give Billy Tina's phone number. Wouldn't Duane do something like that to a long-suffering 20 year-old? That's the Duane I've come to know.