FBI Makes New Bid to Find 1971 Skyjacker - DB Cooper - Why are they still looking 4 him?

[Liberal_in_LA]

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FBI Makes New Bid to Find 1971 Skyjacker

Wednesday, January 2, 2008



The FBI is making a new stab at identifying mysterious skyjacker Dan Cooper, who bailed out of an airliner in 1971 and vanished, releasing new details that it hopes will jog someone's memory. The man calling himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest flight in Portland for a flight to Seattle on the night of Nov, 24, 1971, and commandeered the plane, claiming he had dynamite.


In Seattle, he demanded and got $200,000 and four parachutes and demanded to be flown to Mexico. Somewhere over southwestern Washington, he jumped out the plane's tail exit with two of the chutes.


On Monday, the FBI released drawings that it said probably are close to what Cooper looked like, along with a map of areas where Cooper might have landed.


"Who was Cooper? Did he survive the jump? We're providing new information and pictures and asking for your help in solving the case," the FBI said in a statement.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

1. Pfft. Everybody knows that Adam West is D. B. Cooper. n/t

[sasquatch]

3. Newsradio, great episode

[sasquatch]

2. "Why are they still looking 4 him?"

I thought somebody made a deathbed confession to the real crime already. I think they're still obsessing about because somebody beat'em and they're still pissed about it.

[radfringe]

4. maybe they are hoping if they find DBC

he will lead them to OBL?

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

5. DB Cooper claimants

are about as common as east-coast old crones who claim to be Princess Anastasia Romanoff, sole surviving member of the Russian royal family slaughtered by the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. The FBI's latest information includes the revelation that DNA has been obtained from a piece of clothing, ruling out pretenders.

DB Cooper represents a federal criminal who has achieved legendary status, and is therefore a thorn in the side of their "crimefighting" bureaucracy. Think of it this way: how many FBI agents can people recall by name from the same period?

All I know is that whenever I go hiking in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, I spend as much time looking up into the trees as anywhere else, hoping to see some shreds of 'chute, hanging bones, or maybe a suitcase full of dosh!

[monmouth]

6. Did everyone wish Agent Mike a Happy New Year??? eom

[Heidi]

7. Gosh, that only happened 36 years ago. Suppose he still looks the same as he did in 1971?