Posted on 03/25/2008 3:48:33 PM PDT by jazusamo
FBI agents in Seattle are examining a tattered parachute found recently in north Clark County, looking for evidence that it might have been used by legendary skyjacker D.B. Cooper.
The 'chute was found by children living near the center of the jump zone where the skyjacker bailed out of the 727 jetliner with $200,000 in cash in 1971, never to be heard from again.
Larry Carr, a special agent in the FBI's Seattle office, said the property owner was putting in a road on the site and his tractor blade uncovered some cloth. The children pulled out the canopy until the parachute's shroud lines appeared.
The owner of the property contacted the FBI, and Carr picked up the parachute earlier this month.
Now, after examining the parachute for about three weeks, the FBI could use more help, Carr said.
"We need to go back to the public. We need someone with knowledge of jumping equipment," Carr said by telephone from Seattle. Investigators hope to learn whether the parachute Cooper was given in 1971 matches the canopy in their possession.
People with information are asked to contact the FBI's Seattle office at fbise@leo.gov.
The average politician steals $2M before morning coffee break.
“Now, after examining the parachute for about three weeks, the FBI could use more help, Carr said.”
What, it took them three weeks of looking to determine that it really is a parachute? I work in private industry and wouldn’t have a job if I worked like that...
How old would DB be today
Yep, yawn. At least DB has a mystery.The politicians are boringly predicatable and far less romantic.;^)
No one in the FBI knows about parachutes?
That is not the game.
The game is the FBI thinks that DB himself will call and verify himself as some kind of expert.
And that a list of ‘experts’ from that time might have had contacts with DB.
There would seem to be reason for them to suspect he is still alive, given this recent uncovering of evidence.
That really sounds lame to me, they have all kinds of contacts.
I am sure they did. The FBI has always wanted to claim that he died in the parachute escape. Nothing would please them more.
No, I am D.B. Cooper.
Dr Evil...That is what I was trying to remember! Thanks!
I am Spartacus.
Not what is happening. The case was dormant for several years but has been reactivated. Why and how is not public info at this time.
“...the FBI could use more help...”
Ass, both hands, flashlight........
Queue the Dr. Evil picture.
I. M. Pei
they photocopied money back in the 70s??
What, it took them three weeks of looking to determine that it really is a parachute? I work in private industry and wouldnt have a job if I worked like that...
They’ve “looking” for this guy for over 12 years now and he worked for them
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/bulger.htm
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