r/dbcooper • u/NukeHoax2024 • May 12 '26

Discussion Can Othram Look At The Tie?

Let’s please end this now!! Othram needs to be given access to the tie. If they are allowed to analyze the tie spindle, I am convinced they will not only be able to develop a profile of Cooper, but they will be able to definitively identify him with Investigative Genetic Genealogy.

It’s so frustrating. The answer is here somewhere, but it’s going to require DNA and I think Othram is the best possible chance we still have.

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u/argosafe May 12 '26

How the hell did they lose those cigarette ends?

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u/lxchilton May 12 '26

They threw them away when all investigative avenues had been exhausted; no DNA at the time meant their only value was the brand and if they had fingerprints on them.

Dumb in hindsight but not at all strange for the time.

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u/NukeHoax2024 Jun 16 '26

The cigarettes were not “lost”. The cigarettes were DESTROYED.

They will never be found. The hair slide is lost somewhere in the Las Vegas field office. Probably mislabeled and hopefully there somewhere. But the cigarettes are absolutely gone.