Part 118, page 328
DB Cooper-54448Serials SE 164-81
Document date 26 October 2000
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 118 p. 328 (DB Cooper-54448), Memo, dated 26 Oct 2000 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-118/pages/328
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To: Seattle From: Las Vegas Re: SE 164A-81 , 10/26/2000
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SA [REDACTED] confirmed previous sub-file # 766 reporting brief investigation of Franklin John Painter in 1975 and 1976 but no positive investigation was developed to confirm Painter as identical to Dan Cooper. On 5/21/75 a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Peckham at San Francisco, California advised that an acquaintance, Mary Painter, of Reno, Nevada, who died in 1974, told her that the composite she had seen in the newspapers of D.B. Cooper looked very much like her son, who was a paratrooper in Germany in the U.S. military. She also reported that the FBI also checked her other son, Joseph Painter, but cleared him of being identical to D.B. Cooper.
A physical review of photographs of Franklin Painter compared to the artists rendering of Cooper then, and now, indicate there is a very close resemblance.
It is noted that Franklin John Painter is described as a White, male, American, age 35 in 1971, 5'11" to 6'2", 160 to 170 pounds in 1971, had dark brown or black hair, was born on April 27, 1936 in California and of 7/29/1975 (in interview by (former) SA [REDACTED] of [REDACTED] at Farson, Wyoming) smoked moderately, Winston, Marlboro, Camel filters, Raleigh filters, and Pall Mall cigarettes.
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Enclosures: Enclosed here with for the Seattle Division, are the following items:
1) The orginal and two copies of an FD-302 interview of [REDACTED] Nevada on 10/17/2000 and 1A interview notes from SA Dushek.
2) One color photograph fairly current of Franklin John Painter, with beard and mustache.
3) One copy of computer printout of FBI rapsheet for FBI # 828046B for Franklin John painter.
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Details: On 10/18/2000, SA [REDACTED] FBI Laboratory, Latent Fingerprint Section, advised he has made previous comparisons of several partial latent fingerprints obtained in Reno in 1971 from Northwest Orient flight 305 following hijacking and retains a copy of these latents.
On 10/18/2000, SA [REDACTED] Carson City RA, confirmed that he and SSRA [REDACTED] interviewed Lucinda Reyes at Yerrington, Nevada on 10/17/2000 and obtained other photographs and a handgun left with her by Franklin Painter in
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