D.B. Cooper news

[Arnie Madsen]

For anyone who follows the DB Cooper story here is an update

Mar 26, 2008 04:30 AM
SEATTLE–The FBI is analyzing a torn, tangled parachute found buried by children in southwestern Washington state to determine whether it might have been used by notorious hijacker D.B. Cooper.

Children playing outside their home near Amboy, Wash., found the chute's fabric sticking up from the ground, agent Larry Carr said yesterday. They pulled it out as far as they could, then cut the chute's ropes with scissors.

The children had seen recent coverage of the case – the FBI launched a publicity campaign last fall, seeking tips to solve the 36-year-old mystery – and urged their dad to call the agency.

A man identifying himself as Dan Cooper, later mistakenly but enduringly identified as D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland, Ore., to Seattle in November 1971, saying he had a bomb. When the plane landed in Seattle, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 (U.S.) and asked to be flown to Mexico. He apparently jumped from the plane's back stairs near the Oregon border.

Agents doubt he survived, but few signs of his fate have been found.

Carr spoke with the children's father this month and learned the chute was white, like Cooper's.

And when Carr overlaid the family's address onto a map investigators made in the early days of the case, he learned they lived right in Cooper's most likely landing zone.

It's not clear yet if the chute is the type Cooper used.

[Scary Gary]

I can call and ask him if that's where he buried it .

[Kevin_Richey]

Gary, you said in another post awhile back that you knew someone who is related to him who said he is the guy...

[Scary Gary]

It was kinda common knowledge with this particular group I was with and was seldom discussed .
I have been out of that loop , with that group for a long time .
With all the crap that I spew forth on this forum you pick this to question me about .
So people do read this .
I need to keep my mouth shut .

[ezeddie]

Gary,
Not only are you "Scary", you are also.... BAD......

eddie...........

[Scary Gary]

Oh great ! Now I'm BAD ?
Well that will look good on a resume .
So your thrying to say that after all these years my mom was right ?

[jjp77tex]

I happen to know that Dan Cooper is now actually living in Destin FL next door to Elvis and down the street from Jimmy Haffa. I saw him at a AL GORE 'green' and 'global warming' rally. Dan said they all plan to vote for Hillery Clinton because she promised to release all the classified UFO reports and photos of the little space men stored in Area 51. She said that when Bill was in the White House, 'SHE' actually was deeply involved in bringing peace between EARTH and MARS.