ReportLinn County Sheriff's Office transcript of 1/5/96 interview re D.B. Cooper identification5 January 1996page 3 of 5
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Part 51, page 56

DB Cooper-21160

Document date 5 January 1996

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This was the previous wife.

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Yeah, a previous wife, we went back together in Dec, around December and moved back to Oregon and uh, let's see, we partied with him then and stuff and then, you know, I knew him good enough to talk to him, I liked him, he was the kind of guy that he just grew on you real, you know, he was just a good guy, as far as you know, and considerate, he was always considerate to the women and everything, but you never seen him with that many women, he went with a couple of them, but uh, uh, he was no, you know, the other type like the rest of us were,

Or a loner.

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He was a little more of a loner, but reserved, but yet, would stay in the middle of us, you know, and laugh and set back and watch us a lot, and then so we come back in the first part of December, I come back up and that's the last time I seen him, well I've got pictures and stuff of him now, with the dates on them, in sixty-one the girl that went with him and everything, or was with him, you know, and the boyfriend, her boyfriend and then we didn't see him again until nineteen seventy-one, it was in July of nineteen seventy-one, he called from Canada, right on the border of Canada, I believe Langley and I'll tell you why I believe Langley, but uh he called and wanted to know if uh, me and my wife wanted to go to Reno with him and his girlfriend, he wasn't married, we never knew him to be married, it was his girlfriend, and we said sure, come down, so we set a date I remember and he came down right after that to pick us up in the airplane, he flew from Langley to Albany in the airplane and got a taxi, I think from the airport and came to our house on [REDACTED] over in south Albany, I lived there at the time and we was all in the room there getting ready to go and it was in the morning like before ten o'clock I believe somewheres in there and we had a baby-sitter, woman to baby-sit that we had gotten for the kids cause I had five kids and they were, her and women were all, you know, telling the baby-sitter what remember what to do and you know, this and that, he'd been it the bathroom and he come out and he stood in the doorway and it was one of his favorite sayings all the time, well let's get the show on the road and then he'd go oh, oh, oh, he had a voice, if he was in back of you talking, when you turned around and seen who was talking to you, you'd think that the guy was bigger than what he was, he was about five ten to five eleven, maybe six foot, he wasn't taller, much taller than I was at about the same and I was about five eleven, but he had a voice that deep, you know, he, he and he, you'd look at his mouth especially his mouth cause it was small, but that big a voice coming out of that small mouth, I always remembered that, and when

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