Teletype · Denver to Philadelphia and Seattle re source on Walt 'Skip' Hampton · 3 March 1972 · page 2 of 3AIType, title and date: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
Document date 3 March 1972AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 109 p. 391 (DB Cooper-49904), Teletype, dated 3 Mar 1972, serial SE 164-81-2490 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-109/pages/391
The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
DN 164-98
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ONLY SHORT TIME TO LIVE.
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ON MARCH TWO, LAST, [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] FT. COLLINS, COLO., ADVISED THAT WALT "SKIP"
HAMPTON LIVED WITH HIM AND WORKED FOR HIM AS A SALESMAN FROM
APPROXIMATELY APRIL, SEVENTYONE, THROUGH SEPT., SEVENTYONE, AT
WHICH TIME HAMPTON SKIPPED TOWN AFTER WRITING SOME BAD CHECKS
ON THE COMPANY J AND A DISTRIBUTING.
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[REDACTED] ADVISED THAT HAMPTON INDICATED HE HAS DONE CON-
SIDERABLE PARACHUTE JUMPING AND SKYDIVING IN THE PAST APPARENTLY
IN THE MILITARY AND HE ALLEGEDLY WAS WOUNDED WHILE IN KOREA.
ACCORDING TO [REDACTED] HAMPTON ALSO INDICATED HE HAD A BAD HEART
AND CANCER AND ONLY A SHORT TIME TO LIVE.
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A COMPOSITE DRAWING OF UNSUB EXHIBITED TO [REDACTED] AND HE
ADVISES COMPOSIT SOMEWHAT RESEMBLES HAMPTON ALTHOUGH STATING
HAMPTON APPEARED TO HAVE FULLER SQUARE FACE AND MORE RECEEDING
HAIRLINE. HE DESCRIBED HAMPTON AS FOLLOWS: W/M/A, FORTYONE
YEARS, FIVE FT. SEVEN INCHES, ONE SIXTY LBS., MEDIUM BUILD,
BALD SPOT ON TOP OF HEAD, [REDACTED]
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