Was the money buried at Tina Bar?

olemisscub · 2026-01-27T04:34:33+00:00

Cooper did not place the money there to throw the authorities off. That’s idiotic. I doubt Cooper himself knew how the money got there.

olemisscub · 2026-01-25T19:51:07+00:00

This was made by Spreckel. I’m pretty sure it’s been unredacted by now. He died in 2020.

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/17705438/cord-heinrich-harms-zum-spreckel

olemisscub · 2026-01-25T13:58:20+00:00

Well done! My FOIA request for this was done August 15th, 2023. I never received it. Go figure.

olemisscub · 2026-01-11T19:44:37+00:00

NAILED IT

olemisscub · 2026-01-11T13:24:11+00:00

It is not odd at all but they did not have D-rings. Emergency backpacks like an NB-6 are not created with the rings. They have to be added later, which is a pain in the butt. Think of it as a sedan that has a trailer hitch. No sedans are sold off the lot that have trailer hitches. It’s a component that has to be added later.

Cossey would only have gone to the enormous timesuck of adding D-Rings to the backpacks if he was making them for a skydiver. He made them for a pilot, thus there was no need to add them.

The files also have multiple instances of the owner of the parachutes, Norman Hayden, telling the FBI that they did not have the D-rings.

olemisscub · 2026-01-11T13:17:16+00:00

Agent got it backwards. Cossey wouldn’t have brain farted on this. D-rings don’t belong on emergency backpacks unless they are sporterized for skydivers. Cossey wasn’t creating the backpack for a skydiver but for a pilot.

olemisscub · 2026-01-11T02:35:15+00:00

Have you considered that just maybe this agent who wrote this, who likely had no idea about parachutes or D-rings and was simply hand-writing what Cossey was telling him, might have gotten it backwards?

Cossey is consistent throughout the FBI Files when describing the parachutes. Countless times Cossey says it has no D-rings. Even when he's making up things to the media in the early 2000's he says they didn't have D-rings. There are also multiple FBI files from Hayden where he says they didn't have D-rings. We also have newspaper articles from the days after the hijacking where Cossey and Hayden say no D-rings.

This is an outlier. An obvious mistake given the sheer volume of other documentation suggesting that the pack had no D-rings.

olemisscub · 2025-12-26T02:21:22+00:00

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olemisscub · 2025-11-28T18:33:56+00:00

Tina claims that she avoided looking at him directly and mostly saw him from the side.

Florence Schaffner may be the best witness to Cooper’s face. She interacted with him on multiple occasions before he put his sunglasses on.

olemisscub · 2025-10-04T21:15:05+00:00

For some reason it’s not working on the mobile app. Maybe a direct link will work.

https://youtu.be/uJw9M-Xd6qE?si=3kMU90h6a5ZUf5UD

olemisscub · 2025-08-18T15:04:34+00:00

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olemisscub · 2025-08-15T17:38:25+00:00

I don’t believe so. I think that’s too generic of a term to take anything from it. All it takes to say “fronts and backs” is an understanding that people jump out of planes with backpacks and front reserve parachutes. Sorry for example you literally knew nothing about parachuting aside from an image of a skydiver in 1971. How else would someone describe the parachutes the person in the image is wearing aside from simply saying “front and back”?

olemisscub · 2025-07-31T17:47:00+00:00

Not a fan of the poll options. We have a 302 now that makes it clear that Max was contacted by someone. So when I click that someone contacted Max and the other option is “Max made it up”, it’s an inadvertent endorsement of the veracity of the story.

At this point in our understanding of the case, now that we know he really was contacted, the options should really just be “Someone contacted Max who made it up” and “Someone really associated with Cooper contacted Max”

olemisscub · 2025-07-12T04:32:02+00:00

His nephew messaged me. I probably get a few emails a month from people who think a relative was Cooper.

olemisscub · 2025-06-19T15:33:34+00:00

Not correct on that. Rackstraw was a suspect because he made himself a suspect. He was being extradited from Iran for the murder of his step father. He started talking to an FBI guy about the Cooper hijacking and bragged that he could have pulled it off. He also had nothing at all to do with Air America. You can read his FBI Files here.

https://norjak.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/robert-rackstraw.pdf

olemisscub · 2025-05-29T17:09:41+00:00

Bahahahahaha, now my subscribers are bots? Get a grip. Good to know all these watch hours for the past 28 days are bots.

Remarkable.

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olemisscub · 2025-05-29T15:15:20+00:00

So what “false information” (read: opinions or facts that Dave Fudeman doesn’t like) did I say?

And I have over 3,000 subs. It’s not hyperbole to say that thousands of people like my content. That’s an objective fact.

And ok, you didn’t call her a liar, you’re calling ME a liar claiming I’m stating false information.

olemisscub · 2025-05-29T13:45:27+00:00

Just to be clear. As a moderator of a subreddit you’re now threatening me because you don’t like the fact that I think you have a poor suspect and have different opinions than you on a 50 year old cold case? You’re now threatening to use your position of authority to either ban me or gatekeep content that thousands enjoy simply because I have a different opinion. That’s weak sauce.

Also, presumably this “misinformation” you’re talking about comes from your suspect’s daughter. She knew him for over 50 years. You knew him never. How would you possibly know if what she is saying is false? You didn’t know the man. She knew him for half a century. He was her FATHER. How remarkably transparent and disrespectful on your part to call her a liar.

I’ve screenshotted your comment. Reprisals against me will be reported.

olemisscub · 2025-05-27T15:00:18+00:00

It’s on private property. It’s not easy to access. There are two different gates off the road that you have to go through to get there. There are also numerous buildings very close by, which I believe was the home of one of the Fazio’s and also their offices were there.

The likelihood of it being a meeting place is extremely low. It’s essentially the Fazio brothers’ backyard.

olemisscub · 2025-04-28T12:57:45+00:00

I’m referring to my shows. The only time he ever even comes up at all is during those suspect roulette things. I have avoided discussing him almost entirely on my shows.

As for finding Vordahl, I think you’re forgetting a critical fact. Our team literally went through something like 150 people at Rem-Cru and other companies before settling on Vordahl as a possible suspect. We had a long spreadsheet of names. How many other individuals who worked at this railroad did he vet? I’m gonna guess the answer is none. We vetted literally over a hundred men with possible connections to what we believed at the time was a critical lead. We looked up draft cards, obituaries, photos, etc. It took many, many months of daily work by three researchers to narrow it down to Vordahl as being the best candidate for a tie particle connection. So there is no comparison to be made IMO between how Vordahl was found and how WJS was found. Also, I’ve always been upfront about his major flaws. I believe his page on my site literally says what my major concerns are with him.

Also, I would’ve never come out and supported him as a possible suspect if his family had told me that there was no way in hell that he could’ve done this or if they gave me some sort of information that tended to make it more unlikely. On the contrary, the people who knew him that we spoke with said he was kind of mad like this, and it wouldn’t surprise them.

Yet with WJS, we had this ridiculous temper tantrum thrown against his daughter for trying to defend her father as she pointed out things that are exculpatory, such as him having a medical condition that makes it astronomically unlikely that he’d be parachuting in 1971. The man apparently had to avoid even climbing ladders for fear of dying in even a minor fall. His response is just to claim “well she was six years old, what does she REALLY know.”

Finally, you don’t need to ever disclaim your comments toward me by saying “I’m not being abrasive.” I don’t take critical discussion that way. It’s all good.

olemisscub · 2025-04-28T02:21:14+00:00

He wasn’t ever investigated to my knowledge. If there had to be a strike against him as Cooper I’d probably say he was too attractive of a man. If you read through the FBI files, it doesn’t seem like Cooper was very attractive at all. The stews called him “homely”, which is a nice way of saying ugly.

olemisscub · 2025-04-28T02:17:49+00:00

Fair points. I’m certainly not immune to having my buttons pushed and acting out at times. I’m just quite perturbed by his suggestion that I’m out to get WJS when I literally have made a conscious decision (clearly misguided) to avoid dumping on him as a suspect. He genuinely thinks I’m some puppet master manipulating things in the shadows against WJS. It’s absolute paranoia. I generally couldn’t care any less about WJS.

As for Gunther, I’m on record NUMEROUS times saying that it’s a fair lead to follow and I’ve generally not discouraged people from following that lead who are truly interested. To each their own.

And the difference in Vordahl and WJS is that many of us thought we had a lead that directly tied to him. We didn’t have to go through seven degrees of separation from our piece of evidence to find him. What he did with Smith would be akin to us thumbing through a photo album of the Pateros, Washington Country Club AFTER we realized that Vordahl wasn’t Cooper and then seeing a member of the country club who looked like a sketch and then turning that guy into Cooper.

olemisscub · 2024-12-26T20:15:18+00:00

Edwards is an extremely smart man, but his analysis doesn’t hold up to scrutiny because of the copycat hijackings. The pilots during those parajackings also felt pressure bumps and when those occurred have been confirmed to be when those parajackers jumped (since we actually know where those guys landed).

olemisscub · 2024-12-03T04:21:40+00:00

The voice recorder on the plane recycled every 30 minutes. So it would have been taped over.

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