"Most promising" lead in D.B. Cooper case: FBI

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SEATTLE -- The FBI says it has a "credible" lead in the D.B. Cooper case involving the 1971 hijacking of a passenger jet over Washington state and the suspect's legendary parachute escape.

The fate and identity of the hijacker dubbed "D.B. Cooper" has remained a mystery in the 40 years since a man jumped from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 flight with $200,000 in ransom.
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It'd be nice to close this case out once and for all, but Im not optimistic that it'll ever be solved.
 
I hope its not. At this point, so many years later, isn't it more fun to not know?
 
Cav said:
Perhaps but if the guy didn't die during the jump it just adds to the story imo.
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No no see since we don't know if he for sure dies we automatically assume he lived and got away with it. Pretty gutsy move regardless of what his outcome was.
 
He didn't kill anyone. He made it this long without getting caught. I say we give him a pass and maybe give him a book deal.
 
exneophyte said:
He didn't kill anyone. He made it this long without getting caught. I say we give him a pass and maybe give him a book deal.
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Yeah exactly, I hope if the FBI does find this guy (assuming he's still alive), nothing becomes of it.
 
You don't have read too far between the lines to figure that their new suspect is deader than disco. It's too bad, because he'd make a great Most Interesting Man Alive.
 
Boris Badenov said:
You don't have read too far between the lines to figure that their new suspect is deader than disco. It's too bad, because he'd make a great Most Interesting Man Alive.
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Maybe "The Most Interesting Man in The World" from those Dos Equis commercials is D.B. Cooper himself.
 
I know sometime years later they recovered some of the cash half covered in sand by a land around the area where its believed he jumped. So he's probably dead.

But... if he is alive somewhere and they find him in a condo in Berkeley then he's a dummy because if it I was me I'd be sipping margaritas and being fanned beautiful women in some non-extradition treaty country like Brasil or Thailand. :)
 
Boris Badenov said:
You don't have read too far between the lines to figure that their new suspect is deader than disco. It's too bad, because he'd make a great Most Interesting Man Alive.
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You're right....the FBI is saying it outright:

Fred Gutt, a special agent in the Seattle office of the F.B.I., told The New York Times on Monday that the suspect died 10 years ago. He said the tip came from a retired law enforcement officer who knew a witness who “had an association with” the suspect from long ago.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/us/02dbcooper.html?_r=1
 
upup89 said:
I can see the commercials now
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I don't always Hijack Commercial Airliners, but when I do, I prefer 727s!

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