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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsD.B. Cooper update, in case you wanted to know.
New D.B. Cooper suspect revealed through lab analysis of skyjackers tie, just in time for CooperCon https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2022/11/new-db-cooper-suspect-revealed-through-lab-analysis-of-skyjackers-tie-just-in-time-for-coopercon.html
This much you can say about Eric Ulis: he doesnt give up.
The true-crime investigator, who organizes the annual CooperCon in Vancouver, believed for years that a man named Sheridan Peterson was the celebrated skyjacker D.B. Cooper. He told The Oregonian/OregonLive in 2019 he was 98 percent certain Peterson was the pseudonymous criminal whos inspired songs, countless books and even a feature film.
But unlike many other dedicated Cooperites trying to bust open the only unsolved airline hijacking in U.S. history, Ulis is willing to reevaluate his assumptions when the evidence doesnt quite line up.
He abandoned the late Peterson as a suspect about a year ago when he couldnt find anyone in the former smokejumpers long life who knew him to puff on cigarettes. The skyjacker, who bought a $20 plane ticket at Portland International Airport on Nov. 24, 1971, under the name Dan Cooper -- and later jumped out of Northwest Orient Flight 305 with $200,000 in ransom smoked cigarette after cigarette while onboard the Boeing 727 that day.
But while Ulis gave up on Peterson, he didnt give up on the Cooper case.
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D.B. Cooper update, in case you wanted to know. (Original Post)
Mme. Defarge
Nov 2022
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hlthe2b
(102,231 posts)1. I thought they'd all but pinned it on someone who died not that long ago...
I remember reading something, but I'm obviously not a follower of the lore or hunt.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)2. I've always thought
and still do, that Cooper's body, his parachute, and the rest of the money headed downstream, toward - maybe even to - the Pacific Ocean.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)3. Come on any one who has read
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0818Y23KK?binding=kindle_edition&qid=1668118753&sr=8-5&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tukn series knows where DB Cooper is.