Part 39, page 144
DB Cooper-15311Serials SE 164-81
Document date 27 January 1977
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 39 p. 144 (DB Cooper-15311), Memo, dated 27 Jan 1977, serial SE 164-81-9333 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-39/pages/144
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SE 164-81
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receipts, but this would not guarantee that the customer would indeed be the customer that dropped those trousers off in that the numbers are repeated over and over again on a sequential basis.
In addition, cleaning establishments do not save their records in a uniform manner as one establishment may save records for five years, another may only save records for three or four months.
Finally it was learned that most laundry cleaning establishments use this system and therefore, it would be impractical to contact all the laundries either specializing in martinizing or not specializing in martinizing, in the State of Washington, and possibly even in the State of Oregon, to determine the owner of the trousers. It is felt that this lead would be unproductive and because of the measurement size, that of a waistband of 42" and an inseam of 31", and also because of the fact that it does not appear that the trousers were in the wooded area for a five-year period, no further investigation concerning this aspect of the case will be conducted at this time.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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DB Cooper-15311
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