The Mystery of D.B. Cooper | Mossback's Northwest 

Just leave me alone! The money is gone! Move along.😎

$20 (price of his plane ticket) in 1971 is ~ $150 in 2023, and $200,000 (the ransom) is ~ $1.5M today.

If they only had his drink glass, with his fingerprints, case closed!

Here's the thing. He didn't jump out . The stewardess was in on it with him. He stayed on board, hidden in a cargo crate. They put the money in her luggage as it wouldn't be searched. She sealed the crate up , let the stairs down , chucked the parachutes out, went back to join the crew. Everyone was busy searching for a parachuter who never left the plane so they never really thought about any other possibilities. Cargo box got delivered, they either split the money or lived happily together.

Fun(ish) Fact: After this incident, and the numerous copycat attempts, aircraft with skystairs were modified. They added a little spring loaded fin. When in flight the air stream rotated the fin against the spring and blocked the stairs from being lowered.

The fact the money was found tells me he didn't survive the jump. Why do all of this to intentionally leave money behind?

he still has a great deal of public sympathy

No, the name of kenny Christianson was proven by the brother and Coopers good friend. Brad Melchers 3 professionals interviewed the brother and friend who both said Kenny Christianson was DB Cooper. The brother had photos of Kenny in a U.S. Army Corporal's uniform. He was the only Paratrooper and trained at the end of WW2. All the other suspects were too young to have been Cooper as he was 44 in 1971. The famous photo of him looks just like Cooper and the flight attendants said so also.

His name was McCoy, got caught when he did it again a few months later. There is plenty of info if you look. He was ex military, combat vet.

Definitely a white daredevil. Probably a Canadian paratrooper. The Canadian comic book character and then jumping near Canada is a clue for me.

It was a conspiracy between him and some of the flight crew. They split the cash and went their separate ways 💸

Sir thank you for using the word. Stewardess 😊 This is the correct word to describe all of the cabin personnel 😊

what if he lost control of the bag and lost the money but survived the jump.

Shoot...??? No, not shoot. Parachute is always abbreviated...chute, not shoot. How are we to believe these theories in the video if the author can't even get the basic fact correct?

There was no trace of the recorded serial numbers the money was never spent... the only conclusion is he never survived the jump!

Since no parachutes have been found I would say he landed in the river drowned and all but that one part of the money washed out to sea.

Odd I remember that nigh quite well! Big family get together, uncle from Seattle. Thanksgiving in Forest Grove Oregon. 6 pm news on the TV. Cold raining evening, jests at sunset. Braking NEWS channel 2. plane hijacked Portland, bound to Seattle. In those day we eat as a family, around a big table, with the TV. still on. DB Copper was the total topic, that hole weekend! I don't care, one way or another, but I don't think he made it. I suspect he bounced when he hit the ground, his balls were so big, he ended up on the moon thank you stay safe

He was the cool dude with big balls and america fell in love with the story of how easy it was to skydive out of the 727 from the rear of the plane. It was so easy he did it again over the city in Utah.

The only way we will really know for sure is if someone finds one of the bills in a safety deposit box or even a hole in the ground. In any case, There is no evidence that the man ever jumped out of that plane. How he avoided getting caught is anyone's guess

Hey I still remember when this happened like it was yesterday! This was the modern day bandits of the past cowboy days! It was viewed by many as hey this dude got away with the money & no-one will ever know who he was how cool was that! Something movies & dreams were made of while watching wild west shows! .overnight day Robyn Hood only he kept the money!

There was no trace of the briefcase or parachute the search was done in the wrong place... remnant of the stolen money was found 20 miles away... from the initial drop site... did the money float in the river for 10 years and then washed ashore?

Walter Reca was D B Cooper. He was or soon became Black Ops. The FBI did not want to reveal him. His skill set was just that good. They used him for years as an assassin.

Back in the day a friend of mine talked about doing this kind of stunt ( before Copper did his ),he did have two jumps to his credit so he was somewhat familiar with parachutes .

At about 3:18 in, I don’t think the editors understand just how large, wide and deep the Columbia river is in SW Washington. This is definitely * not * the Columbia. 😂

Club Fed? What about the statuet of limitations?

D.B. Cooper was Elwood Blues. he's your soul man!

Excellent video! For me, the "odd thing about DB Cooper" is that people decided to keep using that name even though it was realized early on that the hijacker actually used the name "Dan Cooper". Why did "DB Cooper" stick? It's not more mysterious or interesting than "Dan Cooper". In fact, I believe the hijacker purposely chose the name "Dan Cooper" as a tribute to a comic book character, a Canadian pilot/action hero. "DB Cooper" is meaningless and the name should have been forgotten as soon as it was realized to be an error.

I very much doubt if special forces are trained to jump in those conditions. I believe that with the aid of an assistant he walked off the plane when it landed.

@KTZS 9 my grandfather and I buried the cash at Tena bar. I dug the hole and then pushed sand over the top of the bundles of cash. I remember trying not to push sand under the layers of plastic wrap. My father, Michael Robert Barker, used to work at Tektronix. Apparently he went to New York for work and came home early and unannounced only to walk in on his wife and best friend. Michael is still alive and hiding out with the polygamists in Motoqua Utah.

Did any friends, relatives, acquaintances notice the person suddenly now missing from their lives?

Rubber bands rot after a couple years, especially outside. Hard to believe they were still intact on the money.

it was Rackstraw

I have heard so many variations of the money found story. Did the bills actually match the bills by serial number or were they similar?

Love it. Id love to know how he lived his life. But --a thought!! - DNA on the tie he left behind ???? Dint tell me -- they lost the tie

Thumbnail looked like Seth Rogen after a bender.

I want to know if the pilot, copilot, sturdiest, etc. Checked to see if Cooper had jumped while in flight or did nothing until they landed? Why? Because Cooper could have jumped long after they thought he did, at a lower altitude, as the plane was descending to land, or at a ground marked drop zone... Their is a lot of possibilities... Cooper could have very well have had a accomplice on the ground marking a drop zone and then getting him out of the area.

Walter Reca was Dan Cooper.

So what was the odd thing about him?

Let the bad guy win every once in a while

Anyone familiar with chutes probably wouldn't have taken the sewn shut one as a backup.

the real crime is $20.00 airline ticket

I dare someone to go back to the past and put cameras in his eyes and make a Netflix movie! Want to make some real betting money? Lol

Please give me a break!I gave it ALL to Boys Town. NICE FLIGHT.

Excellent presentation; nothing new.

Initially DB Cooper offered the stewardess several bundles of money the stewardess declined... that must have been the bundles of money that were found 10 years later!

He's dead! 50 or so years old in '71, that's 52 years ago. By now if he's still alive would be lucky to remember his name.

The correct word for “stewardess “

There are people who reinact the jump.

Am i the only one to notice this guy is the remote submersible operator from the movie Titanic?

My dad is Db Cooper

Dan made it and lived a comfortable life🌴😎🌴on the beach somewhere.

I wonder if the FBI still has the clip on tie. If so, they might be able to do a genealogy search against any remaining DNA on it?

Would have been one helluva return on investment if they didn’t have the serial numbers and if he didn’t possibly perish

1:01 "People have fingered their relatives" Yes, I've seen the videos.

Obviously his real name is Agent Smith.

It could have been Rackstrom

Look, this has been solved, DB Cooper was Robert Rackstraw. The only people who wont let it go are True Crime Fans and ppl from Cooper Con... It was Robert Rackstraw get over it.

Typical: The Press makes a big error, and no corrections.

Seth Rogan aged fast

I told you, all you accomplished when it comes to me is ruining my normal life.... Eric

Well they make me weird, I told you I don't do anything but watch tv tho...

Cooper never jumped from that plane

The only problem with this is that the rubber bands would never be there for very long after they used rubber bands disintegrate after a short period of time and they snap and go away somebody had to have planted that cash way after the jump and put new rubber bands on because the rubber bands would never stay intact for that long I keep rubber bands in my desk and when I go to stretch them out after a year they just snap so I know that rubber bands don't last that long

Did they check for DNA n fingerprints from his drink

Oh God he's got a buuh. No not a buuh a bomb

Dream of being D.B Cooper? That was what D.B Cooper was all about.......

So what is the ODD thing? Weve heard all this before. We all know about copy cats crime.

Richard McCoy was DB Cooper!!!!

This case has been solved, his name was Richard Floyd McCoy.

I told you, there has got to be a way to make some money off of these weirdos! Eric from the Hollywood

There was no DB Cooper, conspiracy theory.

Is it just me, or does that kids dad look like D B Cooper. Maybe he gave the kid the money to keep the story going.

He never existed?

Cant catch all of our hero’s

I'm pretty sure he was Richard McCoy.

Thunderstorms?? Where it’s was 47degrees F out

1:02

90 years old what fake news I always looked older and to the second point statue of limitations my friends

CHAEL SONNEN KNOWS DB.

Vince peterson

Joe lakich

What if… he never jumped from the plane. What if he hid in a hidey hole until after the plane had landed? Everyone was diverted searching the ground. Is it possible he snuck off the plane when no one was looking?

Like Elvis he is still out there somewhere.

It wuz G.Bush

I am not DB Cooper, not

Just one odd thing huh? Lol

Has anyone really considered and investigated if this never really happened and was all just an inside job?

a complete waste of time

Did you know the name Dan means (God is my judge)

It was my dad why can't you all believe it?!

Clip on tie,so tacky lol

Nothing but BS!!

LIES ALL LIES. MY UNCLE DID IT BUT NOBODY SAW HIM AFTER HE JUMPED. MY DAD & BROTHER HAD TO PICK HIM UP. THEY DID SO. HE MOVED TO ANOTHER STATE. HE WAS MARRIED. HAD 2 KIDS. HE DIED A FEW YEARS AGO.

DB Cooper became an IRS agent and lived out his working days auditing citizens on behalf of the US treasury