Is this man DB Cooper? Author believes missing Michigan father of four...

DailyMail.com UK ^ | 25 November 2015 | Dailymail.com Reporter

[LucyT]

Most Americans have heard of the case of DB Cooper, who is accused of pulling off the only plane hijacking in the history of the United States that has never been solved.

Now, 44 years after the brazen air heist, a Michigan author has put forward a new theory linking the mystery of DB Cooper to an obscure missing person case involving a married father of four who vanished two years before the skyjacking and was never heard from again.

Over the years, the facts of the skyjacking history have become the stuff of legends: on November 24, 1971, a man known by the name Dan Cooper bought a ticket at Portland International Airport in Oregon and boarded a Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 to Seattle, Washington.

Author Ross Richardson suggested in his 2014 book 'Still Missing' DB Cooper may be missing Michigan man Richard Lepsy.

[Autonomous User]

Oh my God! They’re turkeys! Oh no! Johnny can you get this? Oh, they’re crashing to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! This is terrible! Everyone’s running around pushing each other. Oh my goodness! Oh, the humanity! People are running about. The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement......

[MeshugeMikey]

I’d already left the state for Californiya

[SaveFerris]

[FBI agents found a jumpsuit and a duffel bag filled with cash totaling $499,970]

See, the missing bag was $500,000. There’s no way he spent $30!!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Interesting! Thanks cripplecreek. BTW, before anyone asks, I have an alibi for that day.

[Redcitizen]

Alibi? Were you with that Minoan princess on a greek island or with the Spartans at Thermopylae?

[SunkenCiv]

Since the Spartans were slavers and pederasts, I would say, Minoan princess on a Greek island, naturally.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Looks like Greg Gutfeld!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Wild turkeys can fly. They roost in trees. Watched the biggest Tom Turkey I’ve ever seen fly/glide down to his “girls” in a steep gully last week. Beautiful bird, and yuge!

[COBOL2Java]

Starting college.

[SaveFerris]

Nice work. To me, that wraps the whole thing up. This legend has only grown when it was seemingly pretty-well answered with that guy. If he pulled off one successfully (sorta) then he might have been crazy enough to try two. Maybe somebody tried to copycat and wound up in a lake or in the trees. I suppose that is possible.

[SunkenCiv]

For years now I've been satisfied that Kenny Christiansen was the real guy -- had the experience with risky skydiving, for example, had done hop and pop. The jump 'Dan Cooper' made was no joke. The $5800 from his haul was found some miles away, along the bank of the river, and was found wrapped in his chute, indicating he'd probably walked that far, and left some or all of the money stashed there for later retrieval by some party or other, probably arriving by boat. Egress from the wilderness by boat makes the most sense, probably under cover of darkness, which provides the alternative explanation -- that he just missed some of the money when he was burying the chute to keep it from being spotted. The boat means he'd either arranged with an accomplice, or had stashed the boat in advance.

A comparison between Kenny Christiansen and Lynn Doyle Cooper, with the official F.B.I. sketch in the center.

[SunkenCiv]

• All that is left of DB Cooper: [2013]
• Woodinville Mysterious Death Has Ties to DB Cooper Case [2013]
• Mystery mountain man to Utah cabin owners, Get off my mountain [2012]
• D.B. Cooper: 40 years later -- November 24th, 2011, marks the 40th anniversary of the legendary case [2011]
• 40 years later, new evidence unveiled in DB Cooper case [2011]
• Mystery of DB Cooper air stewardess who was sent to a nunnery..." [2011]
• D.B. Cooper Exclusive: Did Niece Provide Key Evidence? [2011]
• D.B. Cooper Exclusive: Did Niece Provide Key Evidence? [2011]
• FBI investigates tip that dead man is D.B. Cooper [2011]
• FBI: 'Credible lead' surfaces in D.B. Cooper case [2011]
• The 40-year Mystery of America's Greatest Skyjacking [The FBI Hunt for DB Cooper] [2011]
• Mystery prisoner has Utah jail authorities stumped [2011]
• D.B. Cooper mystery -- Did witness see hijacker's parachute? [2010]
• Wanderer's last trail found after 75 years [2009]
• Amateur detectives fish for D.B. Cooper clues [2009]
• FBI: Comic book holds clue in D.B. Cooper case [2009]
• Was D.B. Cooper a French-Canadian comic book hero? [2009]
• Rubber Bands Hold Key Clues in Search for Answers About D.B. Cooper (video) [2009]
• Scientists Helping FBI Solve D.B. Cooper Case [2009]
• May 24/25 COAST TO COAST AM -- has D.B. Cooper been identified? [2008]
• True Crime-Looking Back at the D.B. Cooper Story and New Developments [2008]
• FBI: Parachute isn't hijacker Cooper's [2008]
• Is this the break in the D.B. Cooper hijacking case? [2008]
• Parachute found; was it D.B. Cooper's? [2008]
• FBI: Tattered parachute found in north Clark County may have been D.B. Cooper's (WA) [2008]
• Feds fire up search for D.B. Cooper again [2008]
• D.B. COOPER REDUX -- Help Us Solve the Enduring Mystery (FBI) [2008]
• On This Day In History: Nov. 24, 1971 -- Hijacker "D.B. Cooper" Parachutes Into Thunderstorm [2007]
• Claim: Infamous hijacker lived in Wash. (D.B. Cooper found?) [2007]
• Unmasking D.B. Cooper [2007]
• D.B. Cooper (Vanity) [2006]
• Arkansas man says he's boy who found hijacker ransom money in Washington state [2006]
• D. B. Cooper, where are you? [2001]

[pabianice]

I remember when men wore suits and ties and and women wore dresses to fly commercial. It was considered a special occasion.

[mad_as_he$$]

+1. Also that group of three concludes with a dead sasquatch claim three weeks after the Amelia story.