Jet Age Jessie James (4)
Retired FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who investigated the Cooper case until the day he retired in 1980, believes Cooper gambled and lost.
An extensive ground and air search of the Lewis River basin in southern Cowlitz County turned up nothing. The FBI checked out hundreds of possible suspects without success.
Himmelsbach told The Daily News in 1996 that the pilot later told him the plane actually flew slightly farther east than originally thought, which would have put Cooper's jump over the Washougal River watershed.
Even if the FBI had known that from the beginning, Himmelsbach doubted the search would have been successful, noting that a small airplane disappeared in the same area that month and wasn't found for a year.
An extensive ground and air search of the Lewis River basin in southern Cowlitz County turned up nothing. The FBI checked out hundreds of possible suspects without success.
Himmelsbach told The Daily News in 1996 that the pilot later told him the plane actually flew slightly farther east than originally thought, which would have put Cooper's jump over the Washougal River watershed.
Even if the FBI had known that from the beginning, Himmelsbach doubted the search would have been successful, noting that a small airplane disappeared in the same area that month and wasn't found for a year.
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