UPI wire 'D.B. Cooper Enthusiast Plans to Continue Search' re Richard Tosaw
Document date 1982
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-07:011-011 Document: UPI wire 'D.B. Cooper Enthusiast Plans to Continue Search' re Richard Tosaw Id: Cooper-Part-07:011-011 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-07%3A011-011 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 7 p. 11, Teletype, dated 1982 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-07%3A011-011
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D.B. COOPER ENTHUSIAST PLANS TO CONTINUE SEARCH PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) - A FORMER FBI AGENT, FASCINATED BY THE 11-YEAR-OLD LEGEND OF SKYJACKER D.B. COOPER, PLANS TO SEARCH THE COLUMBIA RIVER WHERE HE BELIEVES THE STILL-MISSING COOPER LEFT SOME OF HIS $200,000 RANSOM.
RICHARD TOSAW ALSO HAS ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH FOUR BROTHERS WHO OWN FARM LAND WEST OF PORTLAND TO SEARCH AN AREA IN WHICH PART OF THE $200,000 RANSOM PAID BY NORTHWEST AIRLINES ON THANKSGIVING EVE 1971 WAS FOUND.
AN 8-YEAR-OLD BOY PICNICKING WITH HIS FAMILY ON A BEACH ON THE FAZIO BROS. PROPERTY FOUND ROTTING PACKETS CONTAINING $5,800 IN $20 BILLS; THE ONLY MONEY RECOVERED FROM THE SKYJACKING.
TOSAW, A CERES, CALIF., PROBATE ATTORNEY WRITING A BOOK ON THE SKYJACKING, WANTS TO START SEARCHING NOV. 24 - THE 11TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY A MAN USING THE NAME COOPER BAILED OUT OF A NORTHWEST BOEING 727 WITH THE MONEY APPARENTLY STRAPPED AROUND HIS BODY IN ONE OF THE SPARE PARACHUTES HE DEMANDED.
COOPER HIJACKED THE PLANE AFTER IT LEFT PORTLAND; LET THE PASSENGERS OFF IN SEATTLE AND ORDERED THE CREW TO STAY IN THE COCKPIT AREA AND FLY HIM TO RENO, NEV., WITH THE RANSOM MONEY HE GOT FROM THE AIRLINE.
HE PARACHUTED FROM THE PLANE'S REAR DOOR. THE FBI COMPUTED HE LANDED IN THE LAKE MERWIN AREA NORTHEAST OF VANCOUVER, WASH.
TOSAW, WHO LEFT THE FBI BEFORE THE SKYJACKING, BECAME INTERESTED IN THE CASE AFTER THE MONEY WAS FOUND AND DECIDED COOPER LANDED NEARBY, SOME NINE MILES WEST OF VANCOUVER.
HE WANTS SOMEONE TO DRAG THE RIVER WITH GRAPPLING HOOKS TO TRY TO SNAG COOPER'S PARACHUTE, HIS BODY OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT DIVERS COULD THEN CHECK.
"MY THEORY IS THAT THE PARACHUTE WOULD BE EASIEST TO FIND BECAUSE IT'S 28 FEET ACROSS AND WITH NYLON CORDS AND A CANVAS HARNESS," TOSAW SAID.
HE FIGURES THE MONEY FOUND WAS CHURNED UP BY AN ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS' DREDGE WORKING THE AREA IN EARLY 1980.
TOSAW HAS WITHDRAWN A REWARD HE HAD OFFERED FOR FINDING ANY SIGN OF COOPER.
HE BELIEVES THE HIJACKER WAS AN EX-MILITARY MAN WITH PARACHUTE TRAINING; AND POSSIBLY A STRONG SWIMMER WHO COULD HAVE MADE IT TO SHORE AFTER DUMPING THE CHUTE AND THE HEAVY MONEY BAG IN THE WATER.
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JAN 12 1983 [illegible] / 2/11 - 1311 ENCLOSURE
Serials: 2/11 - 1311