Part 51, page 54
Document date 5 January 1996
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 51 p. 54 (DB Cooper-21158), Report, dated 5 Jan 1996 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-51/pages/54
Transcript
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LINN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE Albany, Oregon
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This is Detective [redacted]. The date is January fifth, nineteen ninety-six. The time is twelve fifty-five p-m. We're currently at the Linn County Courthouse in the polygraph room. Present in the room with me is [redacted] birthdate is [redacted] and his [redacted], her birthdate is [redacted] They both reside at [redacted] [redacted] Albany. Home phone number is [redacted]
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You both are aware that we're tape recording this?
Yes.
Uh-huh.
And do you have any objection to that?
No.
Okay. Uh, now bear in mind that we are tape recording, so uh, try to keep your hand gestures down to a minimum and explain you know?
Oh yeah.
Right. What are we here to talk about today?
Okay. We're here to talk about D-B Cooper. A friend of mine back in nineteen sixty-one. I lived in Yreka, California, well, sixty, it was sixty actually when I lived there, in nineteen sixty I met this guy. Had just gotten out of the service he said and I thought he said he was from Los Angeles, now I'm not sure about that, he was from Los Angeles, we had parties together and stuff, he was always there at the parties, never drank, much, occasionally, uh, he was older than we were, I was [redacted] at the time, and we figured, I figured at the time he was five, six, seven years older than I was and what we find out now he could have even been older, but like I say he was at different parties with us and he never joined in with us on anything, you know he stood back and watched us, laughed, joked, you know he was that kind, but he was not a rough and tough guy. He was not a fighter or you know, bragged about fighting like we did, see we was pretty into that stuff, that's what made him so different see, he was, you know, more grown up than we were, you know, but he still hung around with us and he lived there at uh, at Yreka in the [redacted] [redacted] and one day I went to get my check and I was walking by and he went with me, I think we went to the post office to get our checks and uh, we got to talking and uh, he cashed his check and
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DB Cooper-21158