Speaking of D.B. Cooper...

Dudley Henriques wrote in
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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.


What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. No one there would ever tell
the FBI!.

When the good fellas ran Vegas, the hotel, casinos, and entertainment
were all ancillary to its real business - laundry.

--
Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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