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uh this is my third reaction uh, or in one of his videos, I'm doing a reaction to what I did previously with Jack the Ripper and the Lost Colony of Roanoke, which are topics I know a bit about, especially Jack the Ripper, but to a lesser degree, Roanoke comes into this one. blind i mean i have seen some documentaries about db

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Definitely check it out. I tell them they've been studying Jack the Ripper for 30 years. I have seen almost all the documentaries read. all the important books you can find on the subject, his YouTube series might be the best treatment of Jack the Ripper I've seen anywhere. He's so good, so I highly recommend all of his stuff. The re

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is good. The presentation is phenomenal. Let's dive into the search. for db cooper just let me know a daring parachute escape from a flying 727 somewhere between the investigation was done of the plane we immediately don't know who it was, where it came from or where it went, I hope we keep searching until we find it or find out what happened.

Even so, there's such a cool intro and I don't know what he uses to do his animation that's way above my pay grade as far as doing that kind of cool stuff, but I don't. I don't know something about the way he presents these things that makes him so interesting to watch. On the afternoon of November 24, 1971, a middle-aged man carrying a briefcase walked into Portland International Airport and bought a one-way ticket. to Seattle, Washington, USA. The man identified himself as Dan Cooper and along with 36 other passengers and a crew of six soon boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 305.

Once aboard Cooper he made himself comfortable in the middle of the last row of seats on the right side of the cabin and ordered a drink. and I smoked because it was the '70s, not only that, but think about this, this is a flight from Portland to Seattle, this is like a little short flight in the '70s, anyway, you know, today you'd probably be in a plane. that was four seats wide if that for a flight like that when I fly from pittsburgh to new york there are four seats there are two on each side uh this is a type of plane that is six seats wide here uh this is a big plane of course you're having cigarettes and you know you don't have the IDs that you have now, you don't have all the security that you have today, so you have to keep that in mind when we look at this is that we can't think.

Of this, the way we would think something like this happens today because everything is different with air travel than in the 1970s, once the flight was cleared to take off, Cooper turned around and handed an envelope to stewardess Florence Schaffner. Inside the envelope was a note with a handwritten message saying it had a bomb. Schaffner reluctantly sat next to her and glimpsed what appeared to be eight sticks of dynamite inside her briefcase. Cooper's demands were quite simple. I wanted the same thing again here, you'd think well, how the hell did the guy, get on the plane with a briefcase like that, well, you know, even before 2001, the world was different when it came to travel today in day, we have body scanners, you know, everything goes through metal, you know, not only metal detectors go through Parachute also demanded a fuel truck ready to refuel the plane once they landed in Seattle in case they didn't comply with his demands, he threatened to summon them to do the work once the flight was in the air.

Shaftner went to inform the cabin crew while another flight attendant named Tina Muklow remained by Cooper's side using a phone in the back of the cabin. she acted as an intermediary between Cooper and the rest of the flight crew for the remainder of the hijacking over the next hour and a half. Flight 305 remained in a holding pattern near Seattle as local and federal authorities scrambled to secure the rescue and the four parachutes. tenth and again here it does not seem that there was any consideration to not give in to the demands that you know today we would say that you do not negotiate with terrorists because if you negotiate with a terrorist then 10 more terrorists like them come I come out of nowhere and say: "Hey , he got what he wanted." This is an effective strategy to get what I want, which is why you don't negotiate with people in this situation, but in the '70s they said, "Okay, we'll do it." any different time, man, different time, 1000 20 notes were collected from a local bank while the owner of a nearby skydiving school supplied the shots at 5:45 pm, more than two hours after their scheduled arrival, Flight 305 It finally landed in Seattle.

By this time it was well after sunset and the plane was taken to a remote section of the runway. Once the flight stopped, both the rescue and the parachutes were handed over to Muklow, who then brought back on board in exchange, Cooper also allowed two of the flight attendants. like all the passengers who disembarked, many of whom had not yet realized that the flight had been hijacked, it's kind of impressive when you think about it, all of this happened, including going around in circles for an hour and a half while they gathered demands rescue and most of the people on board didn't even have a clue what was going on so kudos to the flight crew for keeping everything very calm with the ransom paid and only four crew members left on board Cooper gave him He told Muklow to inform the captain. who wanted to fly to Mexico City, they had to fly with the landing gear down with the flaps at 15 degrees and below 10,000 feet.

Did the plane have the range to go to Mexico City with the gear down and the flaps like that? I would think that would create a lot of drag and loosen or increase fuel consumption and if this is an airplane that flies short routes like that, I would think that it didn't have the range for that, they would probably have to do it. stop somewhere, the cockpit lights had to be turned off and the aft ladder that opens from the bottom of the fuselage had to remain extended. Two of Cooper's demands could not be met, firstly, the flight configuration he had requested. didn't allow a nonstop flight to Mexico City, so I figured Koopa proposed a refueling stop in Phoenix Yuma or Sacramento before everyone agreed to travel to Reno Nevada.

Secondly, it was not possible to start with an extended ventral ladder. Cooper agreed to retract the stairs. On the condition that Mukla stay by his side and teach him how to extend them, the plane was parked in the air for almost two hours due to complications with refueling, Flight 305 returned to the air at 7:36 p.m., less five minutes after takeoff, Cooper said. Muklow headed to the cabin and that from that moment on he was not to be disturbed. The last time he saw Cooper, he was standing in the middle of the hallway as if he was preparing to jump.

Muklow joined the rest of the crew and closed the door. cabin door behind her and about three hours later, flight 305 landed safely in reno, once the flight stopped the crew carefully ventured to the rear of the cabin, but there was no sign of Cooper or the pump, the stern ladder had been extended halfway. flight and was slightly damaged upon landing it seemed like there was only one explanation for the hijacker's absence sometime between seattle and reno cooper had tied himself to a parachute went down the stairs and jumped in the dead of night now it baffles me that they flew for three hours without even checking to see if the guy was still there.

I don't know, there's something really weird about that that they didn't like. I'm not curious. Look, I mean, the guy threatened them and said? I'm going to blow the thing up if you don't stay locked up until we land. I don't know if that's a little strange to me. As soon as it became clear that Cooper was no longer on board, dozens of FBI agents converged. on the plane only to discover a disappointing amount of physical evidence—a black tie with a clip, eight cigarette butts, and two of the four parachutes—was all Cooper left behind.

Now the cigarette butts, I don't know if they still have them today, but assuming. They now recognize that 40 years have passed, so perhaps there is nothing left, but it is at least conceivable that they could obtain some DNA from those. Evidently, he had brought the ransom and the briefcase with him in the interviews conducted the night of the kidnapping. Described by crew and passengers as a white man with brown eyes and dark hair, he appeared to be in his 40s and was wearing a dark trench coat, dark suit, white shirt, black tie and dark shoes shortly after boarding, also Si you put on a pair of sunglasses now, you might look at that and think that man between five nine and six feet between 35 and 50 between 150 and 190 the reality is that eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable think about this in your In your own life there are times when you remember something and you're sure it was like that and then you find out it wasn't like that at all and you've believed it for years because you think you remember it that way when it wasn't like that at all. and this can happen even immediately after an event like this, think about it if you were asked to go back and remember someone you saw a day or two before, even a couple of hours before, how good is your memory even in a situation like Here you may have interacted with that person and in a situation like this where there was a kidnapping problem, you are still not going to be one hundred percent sure and you have seen people who look like they are 50 years old and who are 35. look at 35 which is 50 It's all a guess based on this description, the FBI produced the first of several composite sketches before they could mount a search, however the FBI had to find out when Cooper abandoned ship, but that was easier said than done.

All four crew members witnessed Cooper jump from the plane, nor did the pilots of the two fighter jets that escorted the flight between Seattle and Reno, which is not too surprising given that it was the middle of the night, although the flight crew reported something Strange the last communication with a hijacker occurred between approximately eight and five p.m., when the crew used the intercom to offer assistance, which Cooper declined. In the next 10 minutes, the crew experienced what they described as a sway or vibration of the aircraft at a time that the crew suspected could have been produced by Cooper's jump and a later re-enactment of the hijacking supported that conclusion making sense. , okay, so you took care of the when, but what about the where?

While Cooper was very explicit about the configuration and destination of the flight, he never specified any type of route in In fact, Cooper became so impatient with the slow refueling in Seattle that he dismissed the captain's request to submit a flight plan and he simply told him to cite the road show, so the captain decided to fly along an airway known as Victor 23 without any input from Cooper, but I don't know, I'm not an expert on this by any means, but planes basically fly on air highways, okay, not only do you know if you're flying from New York to Los Angeles, you don't just fly in a straight line from New York to Los Angeles, there are lanes that they have and if you ever look at certain flights you'll see that there are particular flight routes that take on a strange peculiarity, for example, when flying from New York to Pittsburgh.

I've noticed that my flights don't go directly from New York to Pittsburgh, they actually go north, almost to Erie, Pennsylvania, and then down to Pittsburgh. I don't know why they do it that way, because it takes a lot longer, but there's a reason they have these flight paths and they go from point a to point b to point c to point d to point f to get to where they are going, so this is one of those highways that use Victor 23. As a guide, the authorities estimated that the most probable location of the flight at the approximate time of the jump was about 40 kilometers north of Portland, so at dawn the The FBI mounted an impressive search operation using helicopters, planes and ground troops, the problem was even bigger.

If the estimated rescue point was accurate, Cooper's final landing or drop zone was much more difficult to identify. The vaguely defined search area covered a vast expanse of wildernessThere were eyewitnesses on the ground who saw the guy come down, but that also eliminates the possibility of a soft landing, I mean, you're jumping. at night in a desert like this, there's a good chance the guy didn't even survive. jump but you would think they would have found something by now it was really like finding a needle in a haystack apart from the difficult terrain the search was further complicated by the low temperatures and inclement weather that persisted for days despite their best efforts the authorities never They were unable to find a single trace of Cooper or the items he brought with him, having made little or no progress in early December, the FBI turned its attention to the ransom of two hundred thousand dollars, the money had been raised from the First National Bank of Seattle, who kept a two hundred and fifty thousand dollar bailout package just for such an occasion because they just have money saved up, this is for any time it might be a bailout, I had no idea that was something banks did, I wonder if they still do it As of this time, the serial numbers of the ten thousand and twenty dollar bills issued to Cooper had been documented in advance, a complete list of which was quickly made available to financial institutions, government agencies, and the general public for Cooper had the hardest time spending his money.

Northwest Airlines and several newspapers even began offering rewards to anyone who could find a ticket with a matching serial number despite these efforts. one once did that until almost a decade later, in the early 1980s, a young man named Brian Ingram was lighting a bonfire on a small beach in southern Washington while digging in the sand, Ingram discovered three wads of cash totaling of five thousand eight hundred and eighty. Having heard about the infamous hijacking, Ingram's parents took the severely degraded packages to the FBI. The bills were immediately inspected and, sure enough, the serial numbers matched those of the ransom.

Once the excitement subsided, however, the money managed to raise many more questions than it answered. The most significant thing was how the money ended up so far from the delivery area. When looking at this map, it might be tempting to think that Cooper simply dropped some of the money which then fell into the Lewis River and the packages could have been transported. further down the Columbia River before finally being washed ashore at Tinabar, which is the name of Tina Muklow Tinabar Beach. Coincidence, yes, coincidence anyway, the problem with this idea is that the Columbia River flows in the direction Oppositely, this has led some, including members of the FBI to reevaluate the initial assessment of the drop zone, for example, if the drop zone was much further southeast, near a river called the Washougal River, it is conceivable, although unlikely. , that the money floated to tinabarr.

It could be that none of this is the In this case, maybe the guy just buried it there so he could come back for it later, alternatively the packages may have simply landed on the beach if the flight path was further to the west, yet natural explanations struggle to explain how three independents potentially in free fall. and/or free-floating wads of cash ended up in the exact same place on the same beach to complicate matters. Sediments from the river bed were excavated and dumped in a tinabar as part of a dredging operation in 1974. And according to an analysis, the money was discovered. about this layer of sediment, if true, that would mean that the money reached Tinabar sometime after 1974. or it was at the bottom of the river and was dumped there, but a reexamination of that analysis found that what was believed which was a layer of deposited sediment could actually be a perfectly natural layer of clay, not only that, but the sediment was clearly dumped some distance from where the money was discovered, furthermore, when Ingram discovered the packets, the bands The elastic bands that held them together were still intact.

This is significant. because experiments conducted in 2009 revealed that this brand of elastic bands could not withstand exposure to open air or water for more than a year, so unless the bundles were protected in some way from the elements, they must have They were buried in Tinabar within a year after the kidnapping. Therefore, the most likely explanation seems to be that Cooper or someone else deliberately buried the money. Did Cooper survive and bury the money himself? Did anyone else bury the money? Of stumbling upon Cooper's remains. If there is an explanation that does not require human intervention, it was achieved. eluding investigators for decades suffice to say that this is a mystery within a mystery since Ingram's discovery in 1980, both Tinabar and the land around the Bashugal River have been the subject of numerous searches, but to date there have been no signs of Cooper or the rest of the money.

So this whole DB Cooper thing has become kind of like the treasure of Oak Island. You know, it's one of those mythical things where everyone thinks they're going to be the one to solve the mystery. Everyone goes there thinking they're going to solve it. be the one who finds something, people come up with new theories and you know it's just one of those mysteries like jack the ripper that just sparks endless debate and speculation from the start, many assumed Cooper didn't survive his audacity. escaping wouldn't be a very exciting conclusion to this story, but that's the thing about stories, they're usually much more exciting than reality, while there's no hard evidence for or against Cooper's survival, the assumption of who fell and died is not exempt. credit when Cooper jumped into the darkness, Flight 305 was passing through a freezing storm about 10,000 feet above southern Washington, the wind was so violent that it tore the sign off the aft ladder which was later recovered in 1978 almost directly below the estimated temperature.

Flight path To say that Cooper was not dressed for the occasion would be an understatement, meanwhile the ground beneath him was obscured by multiple layers of cloud, which likely means that Cooper jumped without knowing his precise location, even if he could see the ground. and had a specific drop zone in mind, the parachute he selected was non-steerable, meaning he would not have been able to direct his descent toward a specific landing site, precluding any potential coordination with an accomplice stationed on the ground, while Cooper expressed some familiarity with parachutes, his current level of proficiency is up for debate, it is widely believed that Cooper demanded two pairs of parachutes, two primary and two reserve, to make authorities believe he intended to take a hostage. , that is precisely what happened as the FBI contemplated it, but ultimately decided not to sabotage the shooting as they did not want to risk the life of an innocent civilian but in their rush to get that they are really smart and had not thought of the idea of that they would sabotage the shoots so that the guy would end up dying uh really fascinating and that part never occurred to me before, in them they inadvertently provided Cooper with a non-functional dummy shot intended for training purposes.

This mishap appears to have gone unnoticed by Cooper because that dummy shot was one of two missing from the plane, not only that, but Cooper chose to provide himself with the older and technically inferior parachute of the two main shots, so in In both cases it seems that Cooper made the worst possible decision, but there are other ways to interpret this information, for example, it is possible that Cooper used the dummy shot not as a reserve, but as a means of securing the bag of money, in fact, that is precisely what Cooper attempted to do with a functional reserve shot.

He first tried to place the money in the canopy of the parachute before removing some of the suspension lines and wrapping them around the bag, perhaps him. he used the dummy take for a similar purpose and Cooper's decision to use the older primary take is not necessarily an indication of inexperience; It could also be a sign of familiarity because the shot he left behind was a civilian deluxe shot while the one he used was a military shot. The argument is that Cooper could have been trained as, say, a paratrooper and chose the military shot. older because it is the one he was most familiar with and there is at least one other reason to suspect that Cooper had military experience while making the flight. he was in a holding pattern near Seattle.

Cooper mentioned that McCord Air Force Base was just 20 minutes from Seattle Tacoma Airport at the time. That was an accurate assessment and could suggest military background aside from any possible military connections Cooper might have had. links to the central intelligence agency, you see, the type of plane Cooper chose to hijack a Boeing 727 was also used by the CIA to covertly drop agents and supplies during the Vietnam War, it all seems a little off, but I guess I see where they're coming from with that, I don't know, I just feel like sometimes we make too many assumptions, too far-fetched, a task for which the Boeing 727 was uniquely qualified due to its distinctive aft staircase, so it's pretty safe. assuming that Cooper chose to hijack a Boeing 727 specifically because it provided a relatively safe means of escape, yes, but there are plenty of reasons why he could have known about it without necessarily having a connection to the CIA, if he learned about this from the CIA.

Whether you come to that conclusion independently is another question, however, the fact that Cooper chose to hijack a flight operated by Northwest Airlines was apparently a fluke. When Tina Muklow asked Cooper about his motives, he responded that it's not because he wanted to. hold a grudge against your airline, it's only because I hold a grudge, he further clarified that flight 3-5 was in the right place at the right time, yet it is clear that Cooper came prepared. He seemed to know a lot about airplanes and aviation. He appeared to be familiar with the local terrain. He kept a low profile to avoid panic.

He covered his eyes with a pair of glasses to conceal his identity. He left very little evidence and demanded four parachutes to force the assumption that he had been taken hostage. He was even clever enough to recover the note he had initially given to florence schaffner - other than the name he wrote on his plane ticket, there are no other samples of Cooper's handwriting - but despite all his planning and cunning, it seems Cooper didn't put enough thought into his eventual escape. Only he didn't specify a route, but he was forced to make a last-minute destination change from Mexico City to Reno.

It may be that just by saying that Mexico City didn't really care what the destination was because I was planning to jump anyway, I basically wanted it to be that way, you know, and maybe I just mentioned Mexico City because it was the bigger city in that direction, I don't know, that might not mean anything at all, it might have demanded more appropriate skydiving equipment. such as a pair of boots, a helmet, or overalls, he might even have specified that the ransom would be delivered in larger denominations to make it lighter and less cumbersome to carry, assuming it survived the fall and reached the ground safely after could be about to do. his way through a dense, partially snow-covered forest in nothing but moccasins and a trench coat in late November.

Yes, I get the distinct impression that Cooper's escape was much more of a leap of faith than a carefully executed leap, so On the other hand, authorities never received a missing persons report matching Cooper's description after the kidnapping, this could suggest that Cooper survived and quickly and quietly resumed his normal routine. Furthermore, other kidnappers have performed similar maneuvers and many of them survived even if they were quickly understood, the simplest explanation for how three wads of money ended up in Tinabar is human intervention, at the end of the day, most of this is based nothing more than assumptions, without any concrete evidence of Cooper's disappearance, leaves the door open to much more.

Exciting proposition that he, in fact, survived. My gut tells me that he probably at least survived the fall. Now maybe he broke his leg or something happened. I mean, because you would think that if the man hadn't survived, something would have been found at the last minute. 40 years, you know, something would have turned up if it weren't remains, because the animals could have taken the remains, some remains of, you know, his backpack, his gunshot, the money, beyond what we saw, it's too much for me to think that did not survive. When the press learned of the kidnapping, the FBI had already begun investigating some potential suspects, among them was a man in Portland with the initials db and the last name Cooper.

ThisCooper was quickly eliminated as a suspect, but due to confusion on the part of the press. the name dan cooper was confused with db cooper and the rest is history, while dan cooper is probably a pseudonym. There is a comic series with the same name. the comic is written in french and focuses on a canadian pilot named dan cooper, while the comic. was not translated into English or sold in the United States before 1971, it was available in Canada, which has a large French-speaking population, since American and Canadian accents can be difficult to distinguish, it is possible that Cooper, whom was described as having no discernible accent, was a bilingual Canadian and not only that you're not far from Canada, although you're not close to the French Canadian part, eastern French Canada, it's uh Quebec, that area and this is western Canada , but perhaps this could even be backed up by something that Cooper could.

I said you see, when the captain relayed Cooper's demands to air traffic control, he used the phrase negotiable US currency. It seems doubtful that an American citizen would specify American currency, so perhaps Cooper was not American. The problem is that we don't know if it is a US coin. Cooper's direct quote or captain's paraphrase Look, here's the problem with all this, I could have been, I could have said this I could have gone down this way, I could have been five nine, I could have been six feet tall, I could If I had If he was 35, he could have been 50.

There are so many variables that make it almost impossible to nail this down, for example, the notes taken by the crew during the kidnapping simply contained the phrase negotiable currency, while the crew provides testimony after the kidnapping. . It includes phrases like two hundred thousand dollars in cash and there was one American currency in circulation, so Cooper could have been Canadian and could have taken his name from dan Cooper.comics just as he could have been American and taken his name from something or someone he has It's been almost half a century since the kidnapping took place and in that time thousands of suspects have been questioned and investigated, obviously it would be impossible to cover them all here, but let's take a look at some of the people who at one time or another have been suspected of ser db cooper robert rackstraw first became a suspect in 1978 and on the surface seems like a solid candidate, he was a decorated army. parachutist and helicopter pilot had experience with explosives had an extensive criminal record had an uncle named John Cooper who was an avid skydiver was kicked out of the military just a few months before the kidnapping which could suggest a motive after all the kidnapper said he had a grudge all fair statements the bomb part i don't think knowing how to make a bomb matters because we don't know for sure if it was a bomb, it could have just been some flares strapped on that were enough to scare someone into thinking it was a bomb when they did it They were confronting journalists and private investigators, Rackstraw neither confirmed nor flatly denied that he was DB Cooper, instead he said things like I could have been or he wouldn't rule me out, on the other hand, Rackstraw was light colored.

Eyes Cooper was only 28 years old at the time of the hijacking, this is well outside the age range reported by the crew and passengers, most of whom believed Cooper to be around 40 years old. . Kenneth Christensen first became a suspect in 2003, when his brother noticed certain parallels between him and Cooper Christensen had served briefly as a paratrooper in World War II and since 1953 had worked for Northwest Airlines as a mechanic and flight attendant. Yeah, I see, that would make sense. He asked me if there was anything specific about that airline, but he tried his best to say there wasn't, but maybe he's just throwing people off.

He was 45 years old at the time of the kidnapping. He was left-handed. What Cooper? It could have been, for example, that Cooper used his left hand to interact with his briefcase and the clip-on tie he left on board was fastened with a tie clip applied from the left shortly before he died in 1994, Christensen had allegedly told him To your brother, there is something you should know, but I can't tell you. After his death, his family discovered more than two hundred thousand dollars in his bank accounts. To make matters worse, Florence Schaffner declared that Christensen's photographs looked very similar to Cooper's.

On the other hand, Christiansen did not match Cooper's physical description, he was shorter and lighter, while Schaffner saw a strong resemblance. She commented that Cooper had more hair and that is supported by the composite sketches and there was nothing suspicious about the large sums of money he had simply earned. selling land to Richard, what we will see is that there are reasons for and against each of these people, so none of that brings us any closer to when you first became a suspect in 1972, when you hijacked a Boeing 727 and his nose was completely different. the last guy had the same nose, um, yeah, the eyes, maybe a little, the eyebrows are different, the hair works, yeah, I don't believe the physical resemblance, why does the stern ladder look a lot like D.B.

Cooper because of the significant overlap between the two kidnappings. some believe they must have been committed by the same person McCoy used a fake name used a fake hand grenade to threaten the crew used handwritten notes to issue his demands both McCoy and Cooper used the phrase not funny as a warning to the crew McCoy demanded $500,000 in cash and four parachutes. McCoy could also be that he was inspired by Cooper to do this and saw that on the news he thought it was a great idea, he thought he could accomplish the same thing and then he did it. rescue the rear of the plane once they passed over his hometown in the state of Utah, Aside from the similar modus operandi, McCoy had also served in the Vietnam War as a demolitions expert and helicopter pilot.

McCoy survived the fall and managed to evade authorities for two full days before being arrested and sentenced to 45 years in prison before his death in 1974. McCoy refused to confirm or deny that he was DB Cooper, on the other hand, McCoy He was an avid recreational skydiver and even came prepared with a skydiver. helmet and jumpsuit, he gave very specific instructions on the flight path, in addition to the fake hand grenade, mccoy also used an unloaded pistol to threaten the crew, yes, but you know all that could potentially now, I'm not saying I believe that he is dan.

Cooper, but all of that could be a progression, I mean lessons learned from the first one, where you corrected and did better the next time, so the fact that those things don't match up could just be a learning process in the one who failed. to recover one of the notes he had given to a flight attendant, he was only 29 years old at the time of the kidnapping and the three flight attendants were fairly certain that McCoy was not Cooper, although there are significant parallels between these two cases McCoy could have simply been an impersonator who had read about db cooper in the yeah, see if the flight attendants on the dan cooper case said this guy wasn't him, I mean, and that's close enough to that, it's not him news dwayne weber first se He became a suspect in 1995 when shortly before his death he allegedly told his wife I have a secret to tell you, I'm Dan Cooper, yes, but if you see ears like that, you'd remember, I'd think that would hold up after his bedside confession. of death, Webber's widow recalled. a series of fascinating details claims that they found a bank bag similar to the one used in the hijacking claims that weber had suffered a knee injury after jumping from a plane weber supposedly had a nightmare but left his fingerprints on the stern stairs and a year earlier the money was discovered in Tinabar, Weber had supposedly made a quick visit to the same place, furthermore, Weber was a World War II veteran, had an extensive criminal record, matched the physical description and was 47 years old in 1971 On the other hand, Webber's fingerprints do not match any of the prints collected on Flight 305, although, to be fair, there is no way to know if any of those prints actually belong to Cooper.

Additionally, Weber's DNA does not match a DNA sample collected from the tie clip, but again there is no way to know if the DNA on the tie clip actually came from the kidnapper and not someone else. What's so frustrating is that the FBI probably had a much better source of DNA at one point, if you remember, eight cigarette butts were collected from the scene and there is a good chance they were also used with Cooper's DNA. The problem is that the evidence was lost at some point and hasn't turned up since. Look, if they still had it, you could match it to the DNA of ancestry 23 and me, and get relatives and you could nail it.

This case William Smith first became a suspect in 2018 Smith served in the Navy during World War II and likely had some experience with skydiving He was 43 years old at the time of the kidnapping He had dark brown eyes He matched the physical description that shared a certain resemblance to the composite sketches, especially this speculative sketch of an older db cooper, a student named ira daniel cooper who died in world war ii attended the same high school as smith smith worked as head gardener for a railway company for most of his life, but in 1970 the company went bankrupt as a result, Smith lost his pension, which could suggest a trigger for, for example, many of these cases where people do these things that You know, people who are law-abiding citizens who don't otherwise have a criminal record or do anything crazy.

An event happens that triggers them and sends them in this direction, so that could be their triggering event. He has developed a resentment towards the airline industry for his role in bringing about the downfall of In the rail transport industry there is further speculation that Smith could have used his knowledge of railway networks to board a train and escape undetected; On the other hand, Smith spent his entire life in the northeastern United States, since the kidnapping occurred on the other side of the country and was committed by someone who at least appeared to be familiar with local terrain.

Smith is not the most ideal candidate, however, the fact that Smith worked as a garden teacher is interesting. You see, the loop Cooper left was recently examined using an electron. microscope which discovered several metallic particles, some of these particles, especially pure titanium, were quite rare in 1971. This could suggest that Cooper worked as a manager in some kind of chemical or metallurgical facility or possibly at an interesting railway station, at least, I hope This limited selection of suspects illustrates how difficult it is to be sure when you have so little evidence to work with for these five individuals who look nothing alike, but any of them could be DB Cooper.

If I were to place my bets, I would make this my number. one suspect and this my suspect number two, the other three I just don't believe it, especially this guy here, there's no chance that he maybe now the nose was very different, it wasn't him either, um, yeah, I'd say one of these two, but chances are that probably neither of them were really Cooper in their 40s or just looked old for their age. Did Cooper really serve in the military? Which of these sketches looks most like Cooper in 2016? The FBI had to admit defeat and officially close the case.

Unless someone stumbles upon Cooper's remains or manages to track down the rest of the money, there seems to be little hope for resolution. I can't believe they lost. Did Cooper survive? I have no idea, but as long as that possibility cannot be ruled out, the legend. by db cooper will definitely persist once again fantastic job by lemino uh putting this together everything cool I've seen so far let me know your opinion who do you think it is? Is there another suspect that was not mentioned? Do you think he's one of those five he mentioned? Is there anything else you know about the case that you would add to what was mentioned here?

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