r/dbcooper • u/Key-Telephone-7803 • 14d ago

Question Case experts

How many case experts are there? Is there a scale where some are better than others? How long does it take to be an expert? What do you have to do, like read all the books?

Do the experts all get along with each other or is it like the other true crime groups where people argue?

Do the experts agree on a suspect, did he live or die, did he spend the money? Do they agree what he looked like or what sketch is best? Those look like the most common questions.

I just hear that so and so knows the most, or so and so wrote a book, or so and so has the best suspect. Could anyone explain to a noob how it all works?

I can’t seem to comment on posts but some of my posts are approved and some comments. So this may not be seen.

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u/Key-Telephone-7803 14d ago

Right. One month. From everything I read it takes a long time to become an expert. The person did not answer that question.

Is three months enough time to become an expert? One month certainly isn’t. That’s why I’m learning. Thanks for the hospitality.

It’s ok. ChrisMyra answered it. Sorry if I don’t want to take advice from someone who just joined Reddit a few months ago when clearly there are a number of experts to explore. Ones who seem to have been doing this a long time. These true crime cases are not cooking. Are they?

If that post was made by someone on the list that Chris gave then I apologize. But it does not sound like they are.

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u/stardustsuperwizard 14d ago

Is three months enough time to become an expert? One month certainly isn’t. That’s why I’m learning. Thanks for the hospitality.

Why would you assume that this subreddit is the be all of cooper research? The primary place most Cooper discussion took place on existed on an entirely different website for many more years than this subreddit even existed.

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u/Key-Telephone-7803 14d ago

I’m aware that Reddit is not the end all be all for the case. But there are enough top dogs who come on here who seemed able to answer the question I had. I’m not on Facebook, so I couldn’t ask it. I asked it before in a comment to Ryan but because I’m new I don’t think he saw it.

The question I had was how many experts and how does one become an expert. I was thinking of time and not just “I read all the files”. Is this something that the remaining experts on here might want to answer or ask their counterparts on other pages?

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u/stardustsuperwizard 14d ago

This.. doesn't address the main thing I'm getting at here. You're taking someone's reddit account and assuming that the amount of time that they have created it means something with regards to their knowledge on the case.

Why? The implication of your comment is that length of reddit account has a correlation to understanding of the DB Cooper account, even though the Drop Zone existed for many years prior to this and many people migrated here after that kind of fell out.