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Scientists Helping FBI Solve D.B. Cooper Case
MSNBC ^ | Tues., March. 3, 2009 | CHRIS INGALLS

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: dancooper; db; dbcooper; fbi; godsgravesglyphs; hijacker; missing; mystery; skyjacking; tomkaye
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To: mkjessup

Obama just simply needs to nominate him for a cabinet secretary position.

I’d like the FBI to get Obama’s real birth certificate. Now that would be a case to get cracked.


41 posted on 03/08/2009 7:56:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Candor7
That was quite a high altitude jump,One wonders still if DB made it.

Actually, it was a LOW altitude jump, and yes, he made it.

42 posted on 03/08/2009 7:57:44 PM PDT by Just Lori (Liberalism ---->Socialism----->Communism------>BONDAGE!!!!)
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To: Morgana

lol


45 posted on 03/08/2009 8:56:18 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: Morgana
yes Morgana dear but you are more intelligent than most where they are more interested in their nails than

"What did you say you last name was again sir, MR D.B.what???"

46 posted on 03/08/2009 8:57:56 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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To: Just Lori
They found his chute , did they not?

Its so long ago.

47 posted on 03/08/2009 9:40:53 PM PDT by Candor7 (I love Lucy : http://www.fiftiesweb.com/lucy.htm ( Those were better days))
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To: mkjessup
I want the feds to take another look at Al Capone’s secret vault, I’ll bet Geraldo missed something.

Wanna bet the feds probably got there first?

48 posted on 03/09/2009 12:24:34 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Does so

Yeah and I look like Brad Pitts twin.


49 posted on 03/09/2009 2:58:02 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Morgana

He WAS. =)


50 posted on 03/09/2009 8:42:44 AM PDT by Just Lori (Liberalism ---->Socialism----->Communism------>BONDAGE!!!!)
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To: Morgana
Thank you for flying NorthWorst Mr.Cooper.
52 posted on 03/09/2009 3:10:01 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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Thanks nickcarraway.
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?"
Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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53 posted on 03/09/2009 6:10:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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