http://www.statesmanjournal.com/viewart/20130430/UPDATE/130430041/DB-Cooper-parachute-packer-ID-d-as-homicide-victim-

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=287530&page=5

Note the relevant paragraph:

"They keep bringing me garbage," Cossey told The Associated Press in 2008, after the FBI brought him a silk parachute discovered by children playing at a recently graded road in Southwest Washington. "Every time they find squat, they bring it out and open their trunk and say, 'Is that it?' and I say, 'Nope, go away.' Then a few years later they come back."

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Very typical of the FBI performance in this matter. One basic gaffe after another, from doubting the ability of a parachute to successfully perform its one task, to butchering the location of the plane at the time of the jump, to belief that dismissing Richard McCoy as the likely offender is no different than stepping off one curb and onto another.

This is simple handicapping. It's no different than that proclamation I made many years ago, about the guy who jumped off the bridge in the New England area. Whoppers galore. I scanned a few pages and noticed several threads, touting the latest D.B. Cooper nonsense. There won't be a legitimate break in the case unless Karen McCoy or one of her relatives decides to come forward. Otherwise you can dismiss everything. Granted, it's extremely unlikely, given the stance she has taken, obviously to seek privacy, and to protect the reputation of herself and the family. They've found obscurity instead of being hounded.

As much as it flies in the face of probability, I can't say I'm totally baffled at the lack of acceptance of McCoy as the perpetrator. There's a cottage industry out there, determined to stifle the related information. Apparently the vague mysterious angle is preferable. It extends to the D.B. Cooper Wikipedia page. The handful of people who control that page won't allow the McCoy section to be updated with the specifics. I've tried a few times and had it zapped. Then I was assaulted with related emails, telling me to leave it alone.

Most tellingly, they won't allow the details of McCoy's actions that day, his strange and unexplainable drive from Provo to Las Vegas in the wee hours, preceding the Cooper event. It's spelled out to great detail in the book, "D.B. Cooper, The Real McCoy." We had a marathon thread on this site. That thread, if it still exists, is the best source of McCoy-related material on the internet. The Wikipedia page is so slanted they won't allow any of it, preferring to claim that the book relied principally on an FBI agent's claim that when he shot McCoy, he shot Cooper at the same time. That aspect was a throwaway line in the book, not 1% reliance compared to the accumulation of evidence.

The deflection of McCoy info enables the absurd belief that McCoy had an airtight alibi on the day of the Cooper event. It's exactly the opposite. The alibi was shot down.

Once again...no cheese. :D

Note the relevant paragraph:

"They keep bringing me garbage," Cossey told The Associated Press in 2008, after the FBI brought him a silk parachute discovered by children playing at a recently graded road in Southwest Washington. "Every time they find squat, they bring it out and open their trunk and say, 'Is that it?' and I say, 'Nope, go away.' Then a few years later they come back."

***

Very typical of the FBI performance in this matter. One basic gaffe after another, from doubting the ability of a parachute to successfully perform its one task, to butchering the location of the plane at the time of the jump, to belief that dismissing Richard McCoy as the likely offender is no different than stepping off one curb and onto another.

This is simple handicapping. It's no different than that proclamation I made many years ago, about the guy who jumped off the bridge in the New England area. Whoppers galore. I scanned a few pages and noticed several threads, touting the latest D.B. Cooper nonsense. There won't be a legitimate break in the case unless Karen McCoy or one of her relatives decides to come forward. Otherwise you can dismiss everything. Granted, it's extremely unlikely, given the stance she has taken, obviously to seek privacy, and to protect the reputation of herself and the family. They've found obscurity instead of being hounded.

As much as it flies in the face of probability, I can't say I'm totally baffled at the lack of acceptance of McCoy as the perpetrator. There's a cottage industry out there, determined to stifle the related information. Apparently the vague mysterious angle is preferable. It extends to the D.B. Cooper Wikipedia page. The handful of people who control that page won't allow the McCoy section to be updated with the specifics. I've tried a few times and had it zapped. Then I was assaulted with related emails, telling me to leave it alone.

Most tellingly, they won't allow the details of McCoy's actions that day, his strange and unexplainable drive from Provo to Las Vegas in the wee hours, preceding the Cooper event. It's spelled out to great detail in the book, "D.B. Cooper, The Real McCoy." We had a marathon thread on this site. That thread, if it still exists, is the best source of McCoy-related material on the internet. The Wikipedia page is so slanted they won't allow any of it, preferring to claim that the book relied principally on an FBI agent's claim that when he shot McCoy, he shot Cooper at the same time. That aspect was a throwaway line in the book, not 1% reliance compared to the accumulation of evidence.

The deflection of McCoy info enables the absurd belief that McCoy had an airtight alibi on the day of the Cooper event. It's exactly the opposite. The alibi was shot down.

Once again...no cheese. :D

I agree 100%. There's no doubt in my mind that McCoy was "Dan Cooper". All of the evidence points in his direction, but people still want to believe the mysticism that he got away and no one will ever know his true identity.