i wonder if anybody working there is old enough to remember who DBC even is???
Posted on 03/08/2009 1:57:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A team of scientists is in town, helping the Seattle FBI do something it hasn't been able to do on its own. They're trying to find new evidence that will lead to one of the Northwest's most notorious fugitives.
Tom Kaye's casting with cash, which tells you this is ordinary fisherman on the banks of the Columbia River.
Weird science - that's probably the better way to describe the fishing expedition that's going on this week near Vancouver.
Kaye is hoping his experiment can help reel in one of the biggest catches of all: the Northwest skyjacker known only as D.B. Cooper.
"It remains the only unsolved hijacking in U.S. history," said Kaye.
Kaye is a member of a scientific team that is in Washington state this week helping the FBI unearth new leads in the 38-year old cold case. The hijacker, an armed passenger calling himself Dan Cooper, demanded parachutes and ransom before his airliner left SeaTac Airport.
Nearly nine years after his daring jump, a family on an outing found some of the ransom money along the Columbia. Kaye, a paleontologist who normally digs up dinosaur bones, said his experiment may tell him if the money floated ashore or was planted there.
"What happens to bones and how they get preserved is the same question we ask about the money: How did it get buried and how did it get preserved?" said Kaye.
The scientists will examine more evidence, like the necktie Cooper left on the plane, at the Seattle FBI later this week.
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Sherlock Holmes would love this one.
Don’t want to seem quarrelsome, but the hijacker bought his ticket as Dan Coooper, not D.B. Cooper. A reporter erroneously heard someone mention a “D.B. Cooper,” thought he had a scoop and reported it, and the name stuck.
Nah... I’m D B Cooper.
DB lives next door to me and shares a house with Jimmy Hoffa.
Ole DB is probably on the “No fly” list. As well as a host of people who share names with long dead mafiosos and bank robbers who made the list when the various alphabet agencies started dumping their old files into the database.
Its Chuck Norris
Give them both my regards and make sure Acorn regsters them both as Republicans. That way you’ll get to vote three times
Cant they find something current?
Like obama’s real birth certificate......
They should try this new fangled facial reconstruction from DNA.
No you’re not! I am D.B. Cooper...period
I thought the issue was closed—per FR?
i wonder if anybody working there is old enough to remember who DBC even is???
“Cooper landed at Ben and Vera’s rottweiler farm.”
One of his best.
What he didn’t spend, he invested with some guy named Madoff.........D.B. Cooper is now believed to be selling tacos down in the Florida Keys.........
Is Elvis a frequent visitor?
Holmes: " Elementary , my dear Watson, short arms as we see from the way he had to bend over to whipe himself in the loo, see the stains here and here, where he had difficulty?.... and the necktie was his rip cord extension. He forgot it."
Watson," Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwh!"
For those who haven’t seen this....
Check it out.
The FBI is still ticked that this guy got away. They never thought to look for a woman. The FBI thought it was about the money. It never was.
I know Ron Forman. He knew D.B Cooper. He just didn’t put all the pieces together until much later.
By the way...... D.B. Cooper is no longer with us.
He's dead, Jim.
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