McCoy successfully perpetrated an identical hijacking a few months later but got caught because of an errant fingerprint and spent years in prison for it.
He was always DB Cooper Suspect #1, but they could never prove it.
The second hijacking removes all doubt, in my opinion.
Interesting.
Didn’t know about a second strike.
Still criminal, BUT if no one got hurt and he got away in such an ingenious way, almost makes you wish he gets away with it.
Just had a thought right after hitting submit.
Your reasoning isn’t sound.
People love to imitate other criminals. “If he can do it, so can I.”
Just because this other dude did it and got caught does not mean he was the Cooper from the first time.
Remember the woman that cut her husband’s dick off?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt
After that there were several of those.