Police statement of Robert Day Cooper, case 255720

Document date 28 September 1952

Part 104page 2881 pageDB Cooper-47253

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 104 p. 288 (DB Cooper-47253), Form, dated 28 Sep 1952 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-104%3A288-288

[illegible] POLICE DEPARTMENT 81339 CASE NO 255720 Sept. 28, 1952 4:15A.

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STATEMENT OF Bob Cooper - Robert Day Cooper We borrowed the gun from a friend - a big tall thin fellow - you go around Aurora to 85th - turn left - 2 blocks turn right 1½ blocks We took him back to town He knew we planned a stickup of a bootlegger. We stuck up a taxicab driver, [REDACTED] had th[e] [guess: gun]. We got 20 some dollars $25 or 26. [REDACTED] stu[ck] the wallet down a drainpipe on one of the one way streets as we went to [illegible]. [He] [illegible] the [illegible] We were riding around [illegible] the offic[ers] picked us up.

Philip A. Crosby

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DB COOPER-47253

Serials: 255720