The Thermos on the Roof: Why Richard Cooper Turned Off Route 9
The Thermos on the Roof: Why Richard Cooper Turned Off Route 9
A dead man found in his car with a steaming thermos balanced on the roof creates an immediate, eerie image: Richard Cooper was fifty-two, found on February 11, 2003, six miles off his usual route, and someone placed that thermos there after he died. Who turned him off Route 9, and why was a road atlas marked to one of the roads he never had reason to take?
In this episode, we lay out the facts from the scene, the overlooked evidence, and the cold case work that reopened the file nearly two decades later, asking how a pencil mark…
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