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DB Cooper Update - Can this Case be Solved?

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Julia Rosien | 03/26/2008 - 12:16 | 4 comments

Has the FBI found a clue in the case of the hijacker who got away?

The FBI is studying a torn and tangled parachute found by children in southwest Washington this week. They think it might be the parachute "DB Cooper" used 36 years ago when he hijacked a plane and made off with $200,000. It's the only domestic hijacking case that's never been solved.

On November 24, 1971, a man claiming to be Dan Cooper boarded a Portland to Seattle flight and DB CooperDB Cooperdemanded $200,000 and 4 parachutes. He got the money, released the passengers and jumped off the back stairs of the plane roughly 20 miles north of Portland. The money disappeared along with him.

Until now.

Kids in Amboy found the parachute while playing. It was sticking out of the earth where their father had recently graded a road. The one they found is the same color as Cooper's and found near where authorities suspect he landed. Trouble is, the parachute doesn't have any obvious markings that link it indisputably to Cooper.

If it is Cooper's chute, a whole new mystery will open up. In 1980 a family found nearly $6,000 while picnicking on the Columbia River near Vancouver. Investigators think it's Cooper's money. But there's no way it could have made its way there from where the parachute was found.

Have they found DB Cooper's parachute?

If you're a detective at heart or know something about parachutes, you could help solve this mystery. Read more about how you can help solve the mystery of DB Cooper.

This is one unsolved mystery that I'd love someone to solve. What really happened to Cooper 36 years ago? What happened to all that money?

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Comments

Not sure if Id be that

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 13:03.
Not sure if Id be that honest and return money I found in the river.

You probably wouldn't have

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 13:13.
You probably wouldn't have just kept it if it was as deteriorated as badly as what it was by the time the boy found it in 1980. Have you ever seen those bills? They were totally waterlogged, torn up, stuck together, and in some instances barely visible because they were so covered in filth. The kid's grandfather wanted to throw it all into the campfire.

Wow, it's hard to believe

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 13:03.
Wow, it's hard to believe they havne't found anything from this guy over the years. Part of me hopes he survived and someone knows him -can you imagine the story! It would be cool to talk to someone on the plane that night......The truth really is stranger than fiction.

A young boy found $5,800 of

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 12:54.
A young boy found $5,800 of decaying $20 bills in 1980. They found fiber from his tie that was left on the plane, so they are 99.9% sure this money was from DB Cooper. I have been following this case since I was seven.

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