Airtel SAC Milwaukee to SAC Seattle re suspect Donald Jack Shea
Document date 1 July 1975
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-119:022-024 Document: Airtel SAC Milwaukee to SAC Seattle re suspect Donald Jack Shea Id: Cooper-Part-119:022-024 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-119%3A022-024 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 119 pp. 22–24 (DB Cooper-54501, DB Cooper-54503), Memo, dated 1 Jul 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-119%3A022-024
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 7/1/75
SAC, MILWAUKEE (164-36) (RUC)
[handwritten, faint: Sub 771]
UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper, Northwest Airlines Flight 350 Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
OO: Seattle
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On 3/28/75, [redacted] Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, advised that he and another local resident, [redacted] recently saw a newspaper article containing the artist's conception sketch of the UNSUB and both thought there was a similarity in appearance between the UNSUB sketch and DONALD SHEA, Route 2, Prairie du Chien. [redacted] advised that SHEA raises beef cattle and operates a small farm, while his wife is employed as a teller by the Federal Savings & Loan Association, Prairie du Chien.
[redacted] who works at the Federal Savings & Loan Association, Prairie du Chien, with Mrs. SHEA advised 3/28/75, that SHEA was formerly employed by a bank in Chicago, Illinois, and tended bar at the Pink Elephant Restaurant and Lounge, Marquette, Iowa.
It was ascertained that the SHEAs signed up for LP gas with Petrolane Gas Service, Prairie du Chien, about two months prior to the hijacking.
DONALD JACK SHEA, Route 2, Prairie du Chien, was contacted at his farm by SA [redacted] on 6/20/75, at which time he furnished the following information:
He was born 9/5/32, at Chicago, Illinois, to DANIEL and EILEEN SHEA[,] 3011 Moore Road, Michigan City, Indiana. He graduated from St. Leo High School, Chicago, in 1957; served in the U. S. Navy as a Yeoman 3rd class from 1951-1955, [handwritten, faint: Sub 771]
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2-Seattle 1-Milwaukee HCL:mhb (3)
[handwritten, faint: 164-81-654(?)]
[stamp, partially illegible: SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ JUL 7 1975 ___ INDEXED(?) ___]
DB COOPER-54501
MI 164-36
Serial No. 461 11 95; was employed as a loan officer by First Federal Savings, Chicago, for 4 years and by Home Federal Savings & Loan Association, Chicago, for 6 years. He has [REDACTED] in Memphis, Tennessee; he met his present wife JO ANN SHEA, nee Obler, in Chicago while both were employed by Home Federal Savings & Loan. He was employed about 8 months by IRS at Rockford, Illinois, as a Revenue Officer before moving with his present wife to his present address.
They purchased their farm of 140 acres for $19,500 and the mortgage is held by the Federal Savings & Loan Association, Prairie du Chien. They had been coming up to Prairie du Chien for several years with friends before they purchased their farm and subsequently decided they wished to live in the area. He said he moved to Prairie du Chien for reason of his health as he was suffering from ulcers and other nervous disorders.
When he and his wife moved to the farm, both commenced working for the Pink Elephant Motel and Lounge, Marquette, Iowa, in September, 1971, and lived at the motel. He tended bar while his wife managed the motel. When his wife terminated her employment at the motel in December, 1971, to accept a position with the Federal Savings & Loan Association, Prairie du Chien, they moved into their farm house which they were in the process of renovating at the time. He worked six nights a week at the Pink Elephant with Sundays off. After quitting his job at the Pink Elephant in April or May, 1972, he has been self employed raising beef cattle, corn and grain. He is unable to recall specifically his activities on 11/24/71, but said he would have been working that night if it was not a Sunday because he did not take off any time from the job.
On 6/23/75, [REDACTED] the Pink Elephant Motel & Lounge, Marquette, Iowa, with [REDACTED] advised she could not locate her payroll records for SHEA, but recalls having hired SHEA as a bartender about 8/15/71, and his wife as manager of the motel in the 2nd or 3rd week of September, 1971. She quit her job in December, 1971, to work for the Federal Savings & Loan Association, Prairie du Chien, where she is still employed. She let DONALD SHEA go in February or March, 1972, for she suspected he was shortchanging her at the bar and in addition she suspected his wife was also
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MI 164-36
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withholding some of the income at the motel. She advised he worked evenings and was off on Sundays. She said the SHEAs lived at the motel while both were working for her. She advised the SHEAs did not take any time off during November, 1971, and would say with certainty they were working at the lounge and motel on 11/24/71.
SHEA is a white male, born 9/5/32 in Chicago, Illinois, 6'1", 150 pounds, slender build, brown hair - graying, hazel eyes, long slender face, fair complexion, SSAN 354-24-7703, self-employed farmer.
In view of the above, no further investigation is being conducted re SHEA as a possible suspect.
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DB COOPER-54503