When i was a kid, i saw this story on the unsolved mysteries... and was always interested in it...Robert Stack had the best voice for narratives in story telling....i miss that show.
In the then age of low airport security and increasing skyjackings Dan Cooper was an FBI agent tasked with raising airplane/airport security by simulating a skyjacking. It worked. The crew was sworn to secrecy and the groundskeeper smuggled him off upon landing. Next question...
Or... it was Richard Floyd McCoy. McCoy, using an alias Dan Cooper gleaned from the numerous comic book series he read at the time, was a Green Beret, special forces demolition expert, jump qualified parachutist and a Helicopter pilot during his two tours in Vietnam. Who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, Army commendation medal and Vietnam service medal. McCoy would later serve in the Utah National Guard as a Warrant officer Chopper pilot and was an avid skydiver. - wikipedia
No such person . DAN COOPER was the name on the ticket = DB cooper is a real American hounded by the press & totally innocent , yet the name stuck , just like Lee Harvey Oswald was never ever called that his name was simply Lee
In his speech, the guy pointed out that Vince Petersen owned the tie up till 1965 and then was used by "DB Cooper" in 1971, but what happened to it between those years? Like they didn't donate/resell stuff in the late 1960's? "DB Cooper" may have gotten the tie just about anywhere. Also, he didn't address what Vince Petersen was doing on that particular Thanksgiving eve. Simply asking "Could your father have done it?" ain't gonna cut it. Impressive work, but I don't think he found the suspect.
If it is actually this Vince Peterson guy then that means he was successful in jumping off the plane when the FBI said there was no way he survived. He died in 2002.
NONE of the news outlets are asking Eric Ulis the right question. Eric acquired DB Coopers DNA from the tie a year ago. Now he says that Vince Petersen is DB Cooper. Sooooo! Does the DNA match or not???
Very good point. They should be able to test the DNA against that of the alleged Cooper's son to see if there's a match. Otherwise, all we know is that the tie once belonged to Peterson (Petersen?). Can it be safely assumed that DNA found on the tie WAS from Cooper, and not from someone who handled it years before the skyjacking?
I always had the impression that the incident was the result of inner agency turmoil. He had known that money was available in the event of a situation. I don't think it was common knowledge.
I don't know about this new evidence! Sheridan Peterson from Northern California stated in 2007 Smoke Jumper Magazine " At the time of the heist, I was 44 years old. That was the approximate age Cooper was assumed to have been, and I closely resembled sketches of the hijacker. But what was even more incriminating was the photo of me simulating a skydiving maneuver for Boeing’s news sheet. I was wearing a suit and tie -- the same sort of garb Cooper had worn, right down to the Oxford loafers. It was noted that skydivers don’t ordinarily dress so formally.” So the person who actually hijacked the plane was a fan of Dan Cooper comics, smoked Raleigh cigarettes, lost his job because of the end of government funding for the Boeing SST in 1971, quite possible learned about the 1971 Qantas bomb hoax, may have watched the movie The Doomsday Flight written by Rod Sterling, had a gold mother of pearl neck tie clip, and asked for 200,000 dollars, and saw an image of Sheridan Peterson on a Boeing's News Sheet. Says a lot about this dudes personality. The guy leaves the neck tie behind purposely as to give a middle finger to which ever company provided the neck tie clip to those who would lose the contract? Boeing 2707, 707, and 727-51. Rem-Cru April of 1957 has an article involving Dupont and a titanium thermowell, Rem-Cru in June 1957 has a patent court issue REM-CRU TITANIUM, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Robert C. WATSON, Commissioner of Patents, Defendant.
The QANTAS Bomb Hoax crims only got caught because of one man's vanity, although the temptation to buy a brand new Ford Falcon GTHO Phase 3 would have been hard for me to resist too!
I found a remote outhouse in a forest in SW Washington with a huge, ancient turd in it that I think should be tested for a link to DB Cooper. My theory is he stopped, pooped, and then went on his way.
But you failed to take a bite so you're in good company with the inept FiBi's.... Remember, if it looks like a turd and smells like a turd and tastes........oh snap!!!
No idea why I’m here and so intrigued by this. Anyway 51 years ago today he disappeared off the face of this Earth. Wish we knew ugh it leaves to be desired 😭
DB copper was smart i don’t think he told anyone he did the high jacking and got away with all the money and kept his mouth shut and was wise with the money. He probably stashed a car or an ATV in those mountains and landed near it. He knew what he was doing. And I believe he is dead and we will never know who he was. Guy is a legend.
Cooper most likely didn't survive the jump, no cash has ever turned up in circulation. The jumper had to be familiar with the B727, an experienced jumper, and had survival training.
Have you watched movie depictions for banks during this time frame? For example look at Catch Me if you Can. They had to do everything by hand. Do you honestly think every clerk eyed every bill they took in? Now they are scanned. They had no tech to speak of for this. Heck, they had to go through fingerprints card by card by card. How many bills circulated through the country at this time? Also, this person would be the correct age to have been a parachuter during WW2. I believe those guys could jump out of anything and make it.
He jumped out of the plane in the wide open area of Reno, not the presumed dense forest area. All he had to do was jump on the exit ramp to throw off the real plan, a safe exit over wide open reno desert area.
I prefer the one DB Cooper theory that he died after his jump. There was a movie that expanded on that and they found the body of D.B Cooper and discovered he had broken his leg falling into a hole after his jump and he burned his money for warmth in his final moments. Can't remember the movie name for the life of me though.
@@keenanace6401 possibly! I think i remember Mathew Lillard in it. Were they all longtime friends and after one of them passes away they all decide to go looking for DB because he was obsessed on the mystery?
@@keenanace6401 yeah great movie. Didn't go into it with high expectations but was actually suprised how good it was lol Definitely my favorite take on the DB Cooper mystery.
My grandfather was DB Cooper. He was a founder of the Oregon skydivers organization. He was a truck driver. He was a green baret army ranger. He was in the Korean war. He had a commercial pilots license. The money was in a shoe box He had in the back of his hanger for about 10 years before he threw it out of a plane over the lake near where he angered his cesna. With the money he bought opal mine and a condominium with the money that he ended up losing to divorce. The name he used l get the ticket AFTER ALL THESE YEARS WAS DUNCAN not Dan!! The money was a government payroll. The door was down before takeoff. He was the first man in the US military to test jump the 737 for the air force. Full bird Colonel Jennifer Reves his neice who ran the 341st missile division in Montana has video footage of my grandfather jumping out of planes. The parachutes are buried in metal drums near the Seattle airport. He jumped shortly after takeoff. He was a pro skydiver. It was his favorite hobby. He helped to blow the Hangang bridge in Korea. He knew explosives very well. He was a member of a well known biker club. He used to smoke and loved bourbon but converted to mormonism in his latter years. He was born in 1936. MY GRANDFATHER WAS DB COOPER.
The $200,000 demand has always struck me as a bit odd. I would think that a lone hijacker would ask for $100,000, or perhaps $250,000. But $200,000 makes me suspect the plan was for two people to share it, $100,000 each.
They discarded the cigarettes that he had smoked, which would have been useful. The tie was likely handled by many, without gloves nevertheless one would think they could develop multiple profiles to see if they match suspects.
@@theloniouszappa not necessarily because he jumped into the middle of the ocean with a faulty parachute. He. Sharks probably ate him ti pieces plane have crashed in the ocean and people have never been found! Like I said I think he is dead!
@@theloniouszappa a perfect example is Boeing 737 that crashed in China carrying 132 passengers and not one of them were ever found it happens more than you think!
I like how this investigator used particle evidence to track down a suspect rather than a death bed confession. You just have to see if something else in his life collaborates with the idea of him being Cooper.
Eddie B.Cooper from Fallon,NV. Moved to Fallon right around the time of the hijack,from North Carolina. He was one of the first frogman so he would’ve had to know how and expertise for the jump. Not long after the hijacking she bought up a bunch of land around Churchill County. Not bad for a broke bum from North Carolina. Throughout his lifetime he spent every summer taking road trips in his RV with his wife specifically right straight through Oregon and Washington and all the way up to Alaska. He spent a lot of time around the rogue River and the three sisters in Oregon on those trips. Spent a lot of time on all the rivers from Klamath and the rogue River the Umpqua all the Way to the Columbia. EDDIE B. COOPER That was his real name nobody in our family ever knew what the b was for. I look at old pictures of him now and and compare it to the sketch. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. EDDIE B.COOPER/FALLON,NV.
The parachute given Alias Cooper from the paratrooper company in the Washington National Guard was designed for mass deployment, and was very different from sports parachutes, having no directional controls. Paratrooper static line chutes only had a deflation valve at the top of the chute to quickly deflate the chute after hitting the ground, the paratroopers given no choice of a landing site.
The static line type parachute was designed for paratroopers who have no choice of drop zone, and used by sky diving schools for the first or second jump. It is not known who the Pinchot parachutist was or why he came down in rugged snow capped mountains. The body was found by the observation of bear activity on the Pacific Crest Trail. It's possible the jump was delayed because the jumper was unfamiliar with that type of parachute. There were two other parachutists found on Mt. Ranier in December 1971, who may have been sports jumpers.@@mcfcguvnors
If you are referring to the DOA parachutist found after unusual bear activity on the Pacific Crest Trail in December 1971, and after a bloody parachute canopy was found, writings found with the body in an eastern European language and with addresses in Idaho a few doors from the addresses found in registration checks on the pickup trucks involved in bear poaching in that area of the Pinchot forest. @@WarrenHolly
@@mcfcguvnors They could only be steered slightly, by pulling on the risers giving minimal directional control. Nothing like today's sport parachutes. They'd be very subject to winds.
They will never solve it. That gentleman pictured to the right of DB Cooper is not DB. Just look at his hair line and his nose. Keep in mind that the sketch was made by the FBI after asking several people, that dealt with DB to give as much of a pictorial representation as possible. That other man does not come close. Also, his daughter said that it could no have been his father. Finally, besides those $22,000 or so found by the boy on the side of that river, are the only ones recovered. Where is the rest? It never circulated. They all were marked
I've read the tie was sold by JCPenney. Anyway, the hijacker probably died in the cold and wet Pacific Northwest wilderness, jumping into the dark night in late November, if he did survive the jump and didn't end up being stuck in a tree. He might have been a tasty feast for a bear. Wearing a business suit and tie isn't the proper attire to survive very long out there. His shoes were described as loafers. Not something I would wear to go hiking. I doubt this guy's story.
@@24vijay I think the tie just means someone came in contact with those metals when they WHERE WEARING the tie, but that dosent mean 2 different men may have worn it , and it’s a solid lead , perhaps a wrong turn somewhere 🤔
the sketch man has a tiny nose. that old guy has a big nose. and i doubt he would commit a heist while wearing his work tie, then LEAVING IT THERE!! cant they test the tie for DNA?!
The only evidence is that this tie was at the titanium research lab. Doesn't mean Cooper himself wore the tie at the research lab. Cooper could have bought the tie at a garage sale or Good Will. I still believe that McCoy fella is DB Cooper.
