ML/NJ
Left: An FBI sketch of "D.B. Cooper." Right: Kenneth Christiansen, Northwest purser and
former paratrooper; the suspect.
Posted on 01/01/2008 11:50:12 PM PST by dennisw
It has been more than 37 years, but the FBI hasn't lost interest in Dan (D.B.) Cooper, the man who parachuted from a Northwest Airlines jet over the Pacific Northwest while clutching a bag with $200,000 in ill-gotten gain.
Federal agents say they have reignited their pursuit of the mysterious Cooper.
In a news release issued Monday, the FBI said it is providing to the public a series of photos and information about the case, which has baffled and mesmerized authorities and the public for decades.
"Would we still like to get our man?" the FBI release said. "Absolutely."
The FBI said it's taking the action because of "new technologies like DNA testing."
The questions the FBI said it hopes to answer: Who was Cooper? Did he survive the jump? And what happened to the loot, only a small part of which has ever surfaced?
The agency said it has pursued "thousands of leads and considered all sorts of scenarios
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Are you talking about the $5800 that a kid found in 1980 along the Columbia River linked to Cooper, or is this some other cash that was found? FBI statements I've read say that the parachutes (4) he was provided with were training 'chutes and were sewn shut. None of the 'chutes would have worked, but Cooper wouldn't have known because apparently he wasn't a skydiver and had no experience with parachutes.
IIRC, he said that he was going to have one of the stewardesses also jump, using one of the chutes; and that therefore all the chutes provided were functional.
He will be easy to spot because he still dresses in suits and ties all the time like the dad in those Dick, Jane, and Sally readers.
He’s dead and even Bigfoot doesn’t know where the corpse is.
ML/NJ
Left: An FBI sketch of "D.B. Cooper." Right: Kenneth Christiansen, Northwest purser and
former paratrooper; the suspect.
Dad! ;-)
Likely, but usually the FBI doesn’t re-open a case with such publicity unless they have some new hard evidence in hand. I’m betting the money is starting to show up somewhere, and the spender is likely an elderly man.
I thought that money was found on the Columbia River around the year 2000 (or thereabouts). And, I didn’t know anything about the parachutes being sewn shut. That’s really the first time I’ve heard that about the parachutes. I would have thought that this would have been talked about prominently, but it hasn’t.
Regards,
Star Traveler
A guy who is writing a book on this was on Art Bell show last night. Of the four chutes (two back chutes, two belly chutes) one of the belly chutes was a trainer and was sewn shut. Cooper took one of the functioning back chutes and, strangely enough, took the front training chute. There was no doubt at the time he was a trained jumper because of the expertise he displayed and because he was upset that he had not been provided with any "D-Rings" (whatever those are.)
He’s with Steve Fossett
Any way, one story about a death bed confession had the wife, who'd never heard of Cooper, look him up in the library, and found her dead husband's handwriting in the margins of a couple of books on Cooper.
So, her husband was apparently fixated on Cooper, and tried to pass himself off as Cooper before he died, relying on public information.
And, couldn't DNA be collected from any of your guy's "Earthly" possessions?
I suppose you’re talking about that guy “Weber” that I referenced in that Wikipedia article. It sounds like the situation, as near as I can figure.
As far as the DNA, apparently there was a DNA test where the FBI compared Weber’s to someone’s who was on the tie that D.B. Cooper had. But, I was speculating as to whether someone else’s DNA could have been on that tie and not necessarily D.B. Cooper’s.
Regards,
Star Traveler
FBI looking for him for over 37 years... SHEESH! Isn’t there a statue of limitations for such a crime?
You've got that right. The guy is probably dead of old age having lived frugally off the stolen $.
I guess the FBI has no bigger crimes to solve than this one since nothing much has happened since then... /s
Coast to Coast
Tonight’s first hour guest, attorney Galen Cook, has provided this D.B. Cooper suspect photo.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2377.html?theme=light
btw/Happy New Year FReepers! Is good to be back here.
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