Then, in 2011, an Oklahoma City woman, Marla Cooper, came forward to claim that her uncle, Lynn Doyle Cooper, generally known as L.D., was D.B. Cooper of the 1971 hijacking. Lynn Doyle Cooper was known to be a huge fan of the French comic book character Dan Cooper who was a skydiving hero. L.D. was an avid outdoorsman and a logger who was raised in the small town of Sisters, Oregon. He was very familiar with the northwest woods and possessed the survival skills that would be needed to get out of the area following a parachute landing. Marla Cooper believes that he lost control of the money after jumping from Flight 305 explaining why the money has never made it back into circulation.
Marla states that L.D. and another of her uncle’s left her grandmother's house on the morning of November 24th, 1971 on a turkey hunting trip but returned on the 25th bruised and bloody claiming to have been in a car crash. Shortly after that L.D. Cooper disappeared and was not seen by the family again.
Unless something real solid arises, if ever, the DB Cooper story will just stay a part of hijacking lore with many unproven theories and explanations.