Interview of Apache Junction witness re Arthur B. Derham (file copy)
Interviewed 9 January 2004Transcribed 12 January 2004
Part of: Interview of Apache Junction witness re Arthur B. Derham
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-77:205-205 Document: FD-302 interview of Apache Junction witness re Arthur B. Derham (file copy) Id: Cooper-Part-77:205-205 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-77%3A205-205 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 77 p. 205 (DB Cooper-33548), FD-302 interview, interviewed 9 Jan 2004 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-77%3A205-205
FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95)
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 01/12/2004
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On 01/09/2004, Special Agent (SA) [REDACTED] Federal Bureau of Investigation, interviewed [REDACTED] outside her residence [REDACTED] Apache Junction, Arizona.
After SA [REDACTED] identified himself, [REDACTED] provided the following information:
[REDACTED] DOB [REDACTED] Arthur B. Derham, aka Arthur Boy Derham.
[REDACTED] Derham collapsed [REDACTED] on 03/02/1998 and had to be hospitalized due to what [REDACTED] described as a "cerebral bleed". Derham died 07/20/1998 from cancer at Mesa Lutheran Hospital, Mesa Arizona. [REDACTED] had the body cremated and spread the ashes in the area. [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] Derham often hinted to [REDACTED] that he was D.B. Cooper. When watching a videotape of a documentary about D.B. Cooper, Derham made comments indicating that he knew the true facts about the case that the documentary producers did not, saying the money Cooper had been taken had been hidden at the landing site but not retrieved or found by the authorities. Derham also said he was very familiar with the airplane used in the hijacking. On the day of his death, Derham told her that he was in fact D.B. Cooper, and that he had committed the hijacking not for money, but for "the notoriety of sport parachuting." Derham said he had been interviewed by the FBI in Chicago, who allegedly told him that "you are the only man who could have done this." [REDACTED] also believed Derham had committed the hijacking at the direction of the FAA, FBI, or [REDACTED] to improve airline security. [REDACTED] claimed Derham had connections with, or inside knowledge of, Howard Hughes, [REDACTED] and organized crime. [REDACTED] said she suspected Derham may have been in the Witness Protection program.
[REDACTED] said Derham had been born 02/07/1933 in Knoxville, Illinois as Arthur Boy Anders, but had his name legally changed to Derham. Derham had always insisted on the use of the initial "B" in his name. [REDACTED] speculated that the middle name "Boy" may have indicated he was a foundling.
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Investigation on 01/09/2004 at Apache Junction, Arizona
File # SE-164A-81-DNA ~[REDACTED] SE/644-81-1058-2 Date dictated n/a
by SA [REDACTED]
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DB Cooper-33548
Serials: SE-164A-81-DNA, SE/644-81-1058-2