Cooper and Jack the Ripper! Never solved. Announced same week as OJ is released and starts looking for his wife’s killer.
This entire case has always been interesting. The only way it could have worked was by “insider help” and FBI help or ignorance.
I dunno about "Jack". Check out Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution
Makes more sense that just one madman.
What has always puzzled me is the amount of money he asked for. $200,000 was a lot of money in 1971 but the amount seems oddly specific.
It was almost like he figured he was owed money plus interest and rounded it at $200,000.
The insider angle is interesting too.
Maybe Cooper had to double the amount he demanded in order to pay off his insider?
Maybe some law enforcement officer found a dead/injured Cooper in the woods and kept the loot?
Maybe Cooper went to Florida instead of Mexico to throw the FBI off his trail?
Maybe he made it to some accomplice and drove to Mexico and spent the rest of his life sitting beachside sipping his favorite adult beverage?
So many possible outcomes to the story.
This was before the computer age and instant communications so anything is possible and feasible.