Interview of Lucinda Reyes re her brother Frank John Painter, aka Nick Leuis
Interviewed 18 October 2000Transcribed 19 October 2000
Also filed at: Part 118 p. 338
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Id: Cooper-Part-118:333-333
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-118:333-333 Document: FD-302 interview of Lucinda Reyes re her brother Frank John Painter, aka Nick Leuis Id: Cooper-Part-118:333-333 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-118%3A333-333 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 118 p. 333 (DB Cooper-54454), FD-302 interview, interviewed 18 Oct 2000, serial 164A-SE-81 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-118%3A333-333
FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95) [two solid black circular marks] - 1 - FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 10/19/2000
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Lucinda Reyes, nee Painter, a female having Date of Birth (DOB) March 19, 1934, and Social Security Account Number (SSAN) 520-32-3927 was contacted at her residence of 320 Reyes Way. Reyes subscribes to telephone number (775) 463-5562. Reyes provided the following information concerning her brother Frank John Painter, also known as (aka) Frankie and Nick Leuis.
Reyes advised that she and her two brothers Frank and Joseph were living with foster parents in Lander, Wyoming, in 1945. They all moved to Ely, Nevada, in 1946 to live with their mother Mary Nicholson and stepfather. During a visit back to Lander in 1948, Frank chose to remain with his father and did not return to Ely with the rest of the family. Since that time, she has had little contact with Frank as they were not close and did not get along when together.
In 1953 she visited briefly with Frank when he was residing at Fort Washkie, an Indian reservation near Lander. Shortly after this visit, she learned that Frank had joined the Army and was sent to Germany as a paratrooper. While in Germany he married [REDACTED] name unknown. She learned this information from her mother as she (Reyes) had no direct contact with Frank.
In early 1960, while residing in Yerington, Reyes was visited by Frank who stated he had been dishonorably discharged from the Army because of his alcoholism. At the time of this visit, Frank stated he was living and working in Tempe, Arizona, and that he had been divorced from [REDACTED] Frank returned to Tempe however soon quit his job there and moved to Yerington where he worked at the open pit mining operation known as Anaconda, probably as a rock crusher.
In 1962 or 1963, Frank quit his job and moved from Yerington to an unknown location. On December 5, 1964, her mother (Mary Nicholson) got a letter from Frank who stated he was living in Stateline, Nevada, had married a woman identified only as [REDACTED] In the letter, Frank stated they would soon be leaving for South America and then possibly to France.
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Investigation on 10/18/2000 at Yerington, Nevada
File # 164A-SE-81 [REDACTED] Date dictated by SA [REDACTED] SA [REDACTED] DB COOPER-54454
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SE 164A-81-[illegible] [handwritten/stamped, partially illegible]
Serials: 164A-SE-81