QUICK! LOOK OVER THERE!
FBI still wants its man: D.B. Cooper
by Matthew D. LaPlante
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 01/01/2008 03:19:49 PM MST
How's this for a New Year's resolution? After 36 years, hundreds of suspects and thousands of leads, the FBI still wants to solve the case of D.B. Cooper.
On Nov. 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a passenger plane, traded most of the passengers for $200,000 in cash and then - en route to Mexico - parachuted from the plane in the pitch-black night, in a driving rain, wearing loafers and a trench coat at 5,000 feet.
Many believe that Cooper was Richard McCoy, a Vietnam War veteran, experienced parachutist and BYU political science student who staged a similar hijacking several months later. But the FBI says McCoy - who was killed in a shoot-out with law enforcement officers after a prison break in 1974 - simply didn't fit the description of Cooper provided by two flight attendants.
"The case remains unsolved," the bureau announced in a posting on its Web page, www.fbi.gov, on Monday. "Would we still like to get our man? Absolutely. And we have reignited the case." ...
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_7857853 FBI makes new plea in D.B. Cooper case
By Don Hamilton
The Columbian
... Maybe, he said, some clever hydrologist armed with satellite technology can trace the Cooper cash found on the Columbia River in 1980 back to the very creek or stream where it fell from the sky on that fabled night in 1971. That might lead to the body of Cooper itself ...
The Monday news release included photos from the FBI files of Cooper's skinny black clip-on necktie, a parachute he left behind on the plane and a few of the decaying $20 bills found by 8-year-old Brian Ingram near Frenchman's Bar in Vancouver, Wash ...
"Diving into the wilderness without a plan, without the right equipment, in such terrible conditions," Carr said, "he probably never even got his chute open." ...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004102307_dbcooper01m.htmlFeds fire up search for D.B. Cooper again
The FBI has issued a new appeal for help in finding the mysterious man who parachuted from a Northwest jet with $200,00 in 1971.
By PAUL WALSH, Star Tribune
Last update: December 31, 2007 - 10:12 PM
... The material the FBI is releasing on its website includes photos of some of the recovered currency and of a necktie Cooper took off before jumping. The FBI says the tie has yielded DNA evidence.
"Please look it all over carefully to see if it triggers a memory or if you can provide any useful information," the FBI said ...
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