The Legend of D.B. Copper
On November 24, 1971 a man going by the name of Dan Cooper purchased an airline ticket from the ticket counter of the Northwest Orient Airlines in Portland Oregon. Dan Cooper paid cash for a one-way ticket from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. Dan Cooper boarded a Boeing 727 carrying 37 passengers and 5 crewmembers. What followed is a series of events that has left law enforcement agencies and amateur sleuths alike dumfounded for well over 40 years. Who is the D.B. Cooper?
Dan Cooper, now famously known as D.B. Cooper due to a mix up by the media in the early days of the investigation, was the embodiment of nondescript being about 45 years old, standing around 6 feet tall and weighing in at approximately 175 pounds. D.B. Cooper was wearing a typical business suit and Homburg style hat, which was typical for males in the early 1970’s. He had brown eyes short brown hair and wore no facial hair. D.B. Cooper was a white man and spoke with no discernable accent. No passenger or crewmember took particular note of D.B. Cooper before boarding the airliner.
Shortly after takeoff D.B. Cooper handed Flo Schaffner, a flight attendant with less than 2 years of flying experience, a note. Schaffner immediately stuffed the note in the pocket of her uniform incorrectly assuming it was a come-on from Cooper a room number to his Seattle hotel or his telephone number. Noticing this Cooper later told her, “You’d better read that. I have a bomb” Cooper then gestured toward the briefcase he was carrying on his lap. Schaffner soon share the note with fellow flight attendant Tina Mucklow. The pair showed the note to the cockpit Capt. William Scott, First Officer Bob Rataczak, and Flight Engineer H.E. Anderson. Captain...
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...s arrested for highjacking a commercial airliner on April 9, 1972 using techniques very similar to the Cooper highjacking. It is also claimed that McCoy once owned a mother of pearl tie clasp similar to the one found onboard by investigators onboard the airplane. The FBI does not consider McCoy a suspect in the Cooper highjacking due to the significant age difference between what witness estimated as Cooper’s age and McCoy’s actual age at the time of the crime.
While D.B. Cooper left behind few clues to his actual identity, this has not prevented law enforcement and amateur detectives alike from pouring over them in in an attempt to uncover the infamous D.B. Cooper. Cooper’s identity will likely never be definitively determined although several men have proclaimed and some proposed to be Cooper none of these men have been linked by physical evidence.
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Even though he was not convicted for the rape, the evidence clearing him of rape, stood for the robbery too, as they were both connected. In 1979, two black assailants forced a man and a woman at gun point into the man’s car at a drive-in grocery store. As they were going down the highway, the perpetrators robbed both victims, then forced the man out of the car. After a failed escape attempt by the woman, the two men drove her to a nearby park where they raped her.
The murder of JonBenet Ramsey has become one of the nation's notorious unsolved murder mysteries. A wide range of crime scene investigators and police officials have searched for clues for JonBenet's killer, but countless authorities have already considered this murder to be one of the most inexplicable cold-cases in America. As the world marks the twenty first year anniversary of the tragic event with still no standing suspects, an abundance of evidence proven through research points to one suspect in particular.
The Process of Identification The eyewitness in this article, Mr. Gauci, was first questioned on 1 September 1989, about 9 months after the purchase, and was shown the clothing that was in the suitcase with the explosive in the plane. The shopkeeper recognized the pattern of the clothing and remembered there had been a man who came into the store sometime in the winter of 1988 and bought several pieces of clothing. He described the event and said that after the man was done shopping, he went out and opened an umbrella because it had been raining and then the shopper and the man took the things out to a taxi. Mr. Gauci mentioned how the man was about 6ft tall or more and spoke Libyan.
The murder of JonBenet Ramsey has become one of the nation's notorious unsolved murder mysteries. A wide range of crime scene investigators and police officials have searched for clues for JonBenet's killer, but countless authorities have already considered this murder to be one of the most inexplicable cold-cases in America. As the world marks the twenty first year anniversary of the tragic event with still no standing suspects, an abundance of evidence proven through research points to one suspect in particular.
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...piracies that have been debunked over the years, there is no denying that there are many flaws in the initial investigation. Until the flaws can either be explained or fixed there will always be a chance that what was said to be true is not.
If I had a dollar for every time Ralph Himmelsbach has been mentioned in my research, I would be a billionaire. By far, Ralph Himmelsbach is the most knowledgeable person on the D.B. Cooper subject in history, and his brain is a great resource to investigators. He has been involved in the Cooper case since day one, and, despite retiring, shows no signs of stopping his search for D.B. Cooper. So, when the wisest man on the subject says Kenny Christiansen is not D.B. Cooper, that means he is not D.B. Cooper Kenneth Christiansen, as the quote mentioned, was suspected of the hijacking post-mortem by his own brother. They were both left-handed, ond of bourbon, and heavy smokers; but these descriptions are not rare by any standards. Besides the
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At least one legendary unsolved serial case may already be on its way to answer. There are many others with available DNA evidence that’s never matched any existing DNA profiles in law enforcement databases. Leaving aside the huge questions about privacy regarding this kind of investigation for a moment, read about a sampling cold cases—some famous, others obscure—ripe for genealogical investigation below.
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