Document date 15 August 1976AIDates: 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.
To:
Northwest Airlines Inc.
Sub:
D.B. Cooper
Gentlemen;
Last fall while hunting in the Sierra Mountains, I found a piece of parachute hidden under a log. I thought the chute may have been Cooper's, so I gave it to the F.B.I. and they brought it back to me this spring, and said that it could be his chute, they couldn't tell. Since then, my wife and I have made several trips back up there, but it wasn't until July, that conditions were right that we could track him. We followed his trail for 2 1/2 miles and found enough evidence to prove to us that it was Cooper, that he was badly injured and that he could not possibly have made it out to the nearest habitation, but I had to come home to work so [text continues on next page]