New evidence in the D.B. Cooper Case...

They have done an electron microscope test on a tie clip of all things...It is titanium...

“In 1971 there was a big upheaval in the titanium industry with the cancelling of the SST project, which happened to be at Boeing, and that laid a lot of people off in the industry. So Cooper could have been part of the fallout,” said Kaye.

Boeing canceled its Super Sonic Transport project, one of the first civilian planes to use titanium, just months before the 1971 hijacking. Washington state was suddenly plunged into an economic crisis.

Could Cooper have been unemployed and so desperate that he would threaten to blow up a passenger jet and then parachute with $200,000 in ransom money?

Could lead to the culprit...maybe...

overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com...

he played the mess out of the government thats all i care about. Cooper deserves a S+F

reply to post by jeichelberg


Plain and Simple , D.B. Cooper was a Thief . He did it for the Money.

reply to post by jeichelberg


Jimmy James from News Radio was D.B. Cooper, case closed.

Seriously though, I would love for them to solve this, and at least tell us if he survived. I know they found money, but that proves nothing. He "could" have survived the jump, he could also have been knocked out in the air blast and died.

To my knowledge they had serial numbers on the money and so far none has ever turned up.

Then again, where are they checking? Canada? south america? Europe? I could take decades for that physical money to make it back to the states, if at all.

Case closed..

reply to post by phishyblankwaters


I did not know they had actually identified D. B. Cooper...do you have a source of this?

I can't find where this case is closed, it's still a mystery.

link

there have been many leads and ideas through the years, but nothing definate as far as I know.

S&F for Cooper getting away with it...

Another very interesting case to me.. I personally like how he has become loved like a 70's version of the depression era bank robbers. I love the legacy behind all of this.. Too bad we will never know the truth in my opinion.

DB Cooper parachute packer ID'd as homicide victim

DB Cooper parachute packer

Some of the money was found.

In February 1980 an eight-year-old boy named Brian Ingram, vacationing with his family on the Columbia River about 9 miles (15 km) downstream from Vancouver, Washington and 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Ariel, uncovered three packets of the ransom cash, significantly disintegrated but still bundled in rubber bands, as he raked the sandy riverbank to build a campfire.] FBI technicians confirmed that the money was indeed a portion of the ransom—two packets of 100 bills each and a third packet of 90, all arranged in the same order as when given to Cooper.

en.wikipedia.org...

reply to post by jeichelberg


I do find it Ironic that Earl Cossey just died. Hes the man that packed the chutes for DB. He was murdered recently.

Link


I am working on the DB Cooper case with Beezzer.


D.B. Cooper Mystery

reply to post by jeichelberg

I did not know they had actually identified D. B. Cooper...do you have a source of this?

The poster is referring to an episode of the TV show "News Radio" in which their boss alludes to really being D.B. Cooper. It is fictional, not an actual ID.

(great episode and show, by the way)

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What is your feeling on the idea of L.D. Cooper being D.B. Cooper?

Originally posted by Gazrok
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What is your feeling on the idea of L.D. Cooper being D.B. Cooper?

Im skeptical of him. I think if it was him, the FBI would have been all over him at the time.

And....his DNA wasn't a match.

reply to post by sonnny1


Yeah, but there's no real reason the DNA on that has to be Cooper's....(and doesn't seem to match Gossett either, the other main suspect, as I'm sure you already know)...