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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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Marty Shapiro wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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C J Campbell wrote:
Seems some guy from Minnesota, Lyle Christansen, is convinced that his
brother Kenny was D.B. Cooper. Kenny Christansen is in fact a dead
ringer for Cooper, was an army paratrooper, bought a house in Buckley,
WA, with cash that he never explained where it came from, and he worked
for Northwest Airlines. On his deathbed he started to tell Lyle that
there was something he had done that Lyle should know, but then he
died.

Kenny Christansen died in 1994 of cancer. The house is now a sign shop.

Last I heard, some woman in Florida said she discovered the man she was
married to for 20 years was Cooper. Don't know what ever happened to
this story.
My guess is that he went into one of those lakes that dot the
countryside where he baled, got tangled up in the shrouds and drowned.
I think someone found some of the money in a stream bed some time ago.
This one will hang in there with some of the other unsolved mysteries of
our time.
Perhaps someday it will get solved :-)

There was a story about DB Cooper circulating at Binion's Golden
Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas years ago. This was told to me by a
blackjack dealer in the casion, so it must be the absolute truth.

About 7 years after DB Cooper bailed from the 727, a man showed up
with two large briefcases at Binion's Golden Horseshoe Casino. At that
time, they had a policy were a customer could set his own table maximum
provided that his very first bet was for that maximum. The man took
$727,000 in cash out of one briefcase and placed it on the "Don't Pass"
at the craps table. The roll was 6-8-10-7. The man filled both
briefcases with $1,454,000 in cash, and the casino treated him to a limo
to the airport. He was never seen again in Las Vegas. They swear that
the bills were dirty and looked like they had previously been buried and
that the man was DB Cooper.

The problem with that story would be that the FBI had all the serials
marked and recorded if I remember right. They would have had a positive ID
on Cooper with the bills alone.

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Dudley Henriques

Look like he parlayed the original $200k (minus what was later found in the
river) into $727,000 so he could make a single bet in Vegas 7 years later.
Not counting any money he may have spent during that seven years. Sounds
like he didn't really need the ransom in the first place.
TP


My guess is that he never made it to Vegas. I still think he's out there
somewhere, probably at the bottom of one of those lakes. It's indicative
that the money bag has never turned up but some of the money did and it
was in the river. Could be the bag went down with him if he drowned
somewhere upstream in something connecting with the Columbia River and
the bills made their way down to where they were found.
I guess dredging every one of those little lakes up there would have
been a bit much on the expense vouchers :-)

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Dudley Henriques