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D.B. Cooper Exclusive: Did Niece Provide Key Evidence?
ABC News ^ | 8-3-11 | PIERRE THOMAS and JACK CLOHERTY

Posted on 08/03/2011 2:11:18 PM PDT by bigbob

A woman claiming to be the niece of infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper has spoken to ABC News in an exclusive interview about her role in the recently re-ignited 40-year-old cold case that has haunted the FBI for years.

Marla Cooper told ABC News that she has provided the FBI with a guitar strap and a Christmas photo of a man pictured with the same strap who she says is her uncle, Lynn Doyle Cooper.

After clarifying her childhood memories surrounding the incident and more recent conversations with her parents, she is now sure that her uncle is in fact the notorious man who hijacked and threatened to blow up a commercial plane flying to Seattle in 1971, then parachuted to the ground with $200,000 in hand.

"I'm certain he was my uncle, Lynn Doyle Cooper. Who we called L.D. Cooper," she told ABC News.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cooper; dancooper; dbcooper; godsgravesglyphs; lynndoylecooper; marlacooper
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To: bigbob
a guitar strap

You gotta know that anyone who pulls off what he did with SUCH style plays the guitar. You rock, DB.

Now it's time for your niece to pimp your memory. But you probably left her the playbook for that, too, didn't you?

21 posted on 08/03/2011 2:43:22 PM PDT by _a_0_0_
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To: bigbob
As an item of interest, $200,000 in 1971 would be equal to about $1,100,000 in today's money.


22 posted on 08/03/2011 2:46:59 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort (Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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To: Magic Fingers

Ya, I had also heard he requested the jet to slow down far slower than 500 mph, and to fly below 10,000 feet, and that’s when he made the jump.

But, having said that, he parachuted into cold November weather, into some dense forest, wearing a business suit and ordinary shoes. There’s always been debate about whether he could have survived the jump, and then survived in the wilderness.


23 posted on 08/03/2011 2:48:05 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Erik Latranyi

I think they recovered some of the money on the ground. Years ago, I remember a report that a few bundles of moldy bills were found.


24 posted on 08/03/2011 2:50:37 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Erik Latranyi

So we agree he’s a democrat ?....:o)


25 posted on 08/03/2011 2:50:58 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: bigbob; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono

I AM D.B. Cooper!


26 posted on 08/03/2011 2:53:52 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: bigbob

Her childhood recollections sound authentic. She seems to have been affected by the tension surrounding some very strange conversations between her uncles and remembered it.

The adults around children are very influential and they absorb the unusual.

Will be interesting to follow this saga.


27 posted on 08/03/2011 2:55:53 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God's redemption.)
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To: Sicvee
If it was a Seattle to Portland flight the distance is only 170 road miles.

That was the initial flight ... when he hijacked the aircraft. The NW flight landed in Seattle, Cooper got the $200 thou and the parachute he demanded, the aircraft was refueled and took off for Mexico. Approx. 30 minutes into the flight he jumped.

28 posted on 08/03/2011 2:56:20 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: laconic

He didn’t he had them drop.

Jump clubs make “DB Cooper” jumps all the time from the same type plane,too.


29 posted on 08/03/2011 2:56:22 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Secret Agent Man

ATC transcipts http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/files/library/dbcooper_transcripts.pdf


30 posted on 08/03/2011 3:01:46 PM PDT by wolficatZ (Somebody once wrote "Revenge is a dish that has to be eaten cold".)
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To: laconic
How do you jump out of a 600 mph jet at 37,000 feet wearing a business suit and survive?

He jumped from less than 10,000 feet at less than 200 mph.

31 posted on 08/03/2011 3:04:26 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: bigbob

Why is she just now coming forward?


32 posted on 08/03/2011 3:04:58 PM PDT by camerongood210 (Obama's Debt Ceiling = $16.7T. GDP for 2010 = $14.7T)
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To: bigbob

Ratting out your uncle, not cool.


33 posted on 08/03/2011 3:06:01 PM PDT by muddler (Diligentia, Vis and Celeritas)
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To: bigbob
Everyone except the FBI knows Hunter S. Thompson was actually DB Cooper!


34 posted on 08/03/2011 3:08:33 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: laconic

As a result of this hijacking, aircraft installed an interlock to prevent the rear stairs from being lowered in flight.


35 posted on 08/03/2011 3:09:50 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: JohnG45
You mean Dan Cooper (aka D.B. Cooper because of a reporter's mistake) actually used his real last name and the FBI still could not find him? Geez!

That, I can believe.

36 posted on 08/03/2011 3:21:46 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: JohnG45

That’s what was so suspicious about the neice’s story. Her “uncle” changed his FIRST name to escape detection? Ah, yes my fake name is Tonto Hrabosky. You’ll never catch me!


37 posted on 08/03/2011 3:26:35 PM PDT by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Where’s the body


38 posted on 08/03/2011 4:27:50 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: BluH2o

Thanks, I forgot those details.


39 posted on 08/03/2011 7:36:47 PM PDT by Sicvee (Sicvee)
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To: bigbob
"Sounds like a fascinating mystery may be solved."

Now if we can only address how pickng up hitch hikers on a NV rural road can result in inheritance claims...

40 posted on 08/03/2011 7:41:12 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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