DB Cooper - still beating the horse
The public should be outraged at the waste of time and money curesty of the FBI in still looking for this. Don't they have better things to do?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/01/db.cooper.ap/index.html
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- The FBI is making a new stab at identifying mysterious skyjacker D.B. Cooper, who bailed out of an airliner in 1971 and vanished.
The FBI released a sketch this week showing what D.B Cooper may have looked like in 1971.
The FBI this week released new details that the agency hopes will jog someone's memory.
The man calling himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest flight in Portland for a flight to Seattle on the night of November 24, 1971, and commandeered the plane, claiming he had dynamite.
In Seattle, he demanded and got $200,000 and four parachutes and demanded to be flown to Mexico. Somewhere over southwestern Washington, he jumped out the plane's tail exit with two of the chutes.
On Monday, the FBI released drawings that it said probably are close to what Cooper looked like, along with a map of areas where Cooper might have landed.
"Who was Cooper? Did he survive the jump? We're providing new information and pictures and asking for your help in solving the case," the FBI said in a statement.
The FBI said that while Cooper was originally thought to have been an experienced jumper, it has since concluded that was wrong and that he almost certainly didn't survive the jump in the dark and rain. He hadn't specified a route for the plane to fly and had no way of knowing where he was when he went out the exit.
"Diving into the wilderness without a plan, without the right equipment, in such terrible conditions, he probably never even got his chute open," Seattle-based agent Larry Carr said.
He also didn't notice that his reserve chute was intended only for training and had been sewn shut.
Several people have claimed to be Cooper over the years but were dismissed on the basis of physical descriptions, parachuting experience and, later, by DNA evidence recovered in 2001 from the cheap tie the skyjacker left on the plane.
In 1980, a boy walking near the Columbia River found $5,800 of the stolen money, in tattered $20 bills.
"Maybe a hydrologist can use the latest technology to trace the $5,800 in ransom money found in 1980 to where Cooper landed upstream," Carr said. "Or maybe someone just remembers that odd uncle."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/01/db.cooper.ap/index.html
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- The FBI is making a new stab at identifying mysterious skyjacker D.B. Cooper, who bailed out of an airliner in 1971 and vanished.
The FBI released a sketch this week showing what D.B Cooper may have looked like in 1971.
The FBI this week released new details that the agency hopes will jog someone's memory.
The man calling himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest flight in Portland for a flight to Seattle on the night of November 24, 1971, and commandeered the plane, claiming he had dynamite.
In Seattle, he demanded and got $200,000 and four parachutes and demanded to be flown to Mexico. Somewhere over southwestern Washington, he jumped out the plane's tail exit with two of the chutes.
On Monday, the FBI released drawings that it said probably are close to what Cooper looked like, along with a map of areas where Cooper might have landed.
"Who was Cooper? Did he survive the jump? We're providing new information and pictures and asking for your help in solving the case," the FBI said in a statement.
The FBI said that while Cooper was originally thought to have been an experienced jumper, it has since concluded that was wrong and that he almost certainly didn't survive the jump in the dark and rain. He hadn't specified a route for the plane to fly and had no way of knowing where he was when he went out the exit.
"Diving into the wilderness without a plan, without the right equipment, in such terrible conditions, he probably never even got his chute open," Seattle-based agent Larry Carr said.
He also didn't notice that his reserve chute was intended only for training and had been sewn shut.
Several people have claimed to be Cooper over the years but were dismissed on the basis of physical descriptions, parachuting experience and, later, by DNA evidence recovered in 2001 from the cheap tie the skyjacker left on the plane.
In 1980, a boy walking near the Columbia River found $5,800 of the stolen money, in tattered $20 bills.
"Maybe a hydrologist can use the latest technology to trace the $5,800 in ransom money found in 1980 to where Cooper landed upstream," Carr said. "Or maybe someone just remembers that odd uncle."
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Lets see.......NOPE I can't think of a dam thing they should be doing in stead. They want their money back i guess[}:)] 0 -
You can have Cooper on the news or Obama/hillary/edwards and mitt/huck/john. You choose.
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If the FBI is so sure he perished in the jump then why look for him.
This is just like John Doe Number 2 from the Oklahoma City bombing.
He was the most wanted man in the world for about 8 months. They had a detailed artist's drawing of this guy.
Then when the FBI couldn't catch him, they declared that he had never existed.0 -
Well, as one who has personally parachuted out of the rear exit of a 727 at night, during a rainstorm over SW Washington state. I can tell you that it is possible Cooper survived. [:D] 0 -
Fatstat, how do you reckon that package of bills that the kid found got lost. Maybe slipstream might have sucked it out of his(your?) bag. I have thought of buying a few of them myself. Tom 0 -
Aha, Fatstrat, so it is you! Small world.
Listen you criminal, send me $50K of that loot via UPS and I won't turn you in. Sure what I'm doing is extortion but you are a skyjacker, and in today's world would also be charged under homeland security laws with Terrorism, so don't be the Pot calling the Kettle black.0 -
Can't wonder on how much was spent to try to recover $200K. Sure the man should be held accountable but after ths many years and the possibility he has been eaten by possoms 35 years ago perhaps funds could be spent more wisely elseswhere. $200k probably wouldn't cover the FBI's annual donut bill! 0 -
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SSSSSSHHHHHHH! Look busy! They see us![:D][:D][:D]0 -
I found him!![:D]
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spend a million dollars to achieve no tangible benefit.
sounds just about right for the FBI.
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Yea their next move is team up with OJ to find the real Killers! 0 -
Kinda makes one wonder what they are up to that isn't newsworthy. 0 -
if they spend this amount of money on one man, what will it cost to find 30 million mexicans????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 0
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