Queerasfck
08-01-2011, 10:37 AM
Good morning people! For those of you who love a mystery the story of DB Cooper is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in America.
He's considered the "Bigfoot of Pacific Northwest" (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8667855/The-40-year-mystery-of-Americas-greatest-skyjacking.html). Although I was only eight years old when it happened in 1971 I followed the story with great interest for years. I had ordered this book at school thru Scholastic
http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170969915l/79610.jpg and was totally taken with DB Cooper's story also the Lizzie Borden chapter gave me nightmares but I couldn't put it down.
For those of you who don't know who DB Cooper was basically the story goes like this:
On the night before Thanksgiving of 1971, a man who called himself Dan Cooper (a reporter working for one of the wire services misheard the name of the hijacker and ever since then he has been referred to as DB Cooper, instead of Dan) wearing a dark suit and raincoat, walked up to the Northwest Orient desk at Portland's airport and bought $20 on a one-way ticket to Seattle.
When he got on the plane he kept his dark sunglasses on, ordered a whiskey, lit up a cigarette and coolly handed the stewardess a note. In capital letters, it read:
I HAVE A BOMB IN MY BRIEFCASE. I WILL USE IT IF NECESSARY. I WANT YOU TO SIT NEXT TO ME. YOU ARE BEING HIJACKED.
He wanted a mere $200,000, four parachutes and in return he'd allow 36 people to leave the plane when they landed in Seattle. The FBI was contacted and was willing to do the swap and quickly the plane took off again after the passengers were released. On board now with just the pilot, co-pilot, one stewardess and Cooper. Cooper ordered the pilot to head towards Mexico and maintain the attitude of 100,000 feet.
Then, somewhere over the Cascade mountains, about 25 miles from Portland, Cooper opened the door, stepped out, and, with one of the parachutes on his back jumped into the rainy night and was never seen or heard from again!!
Authorities searched for him but never found a trace of Cooper or the money. Then in 1980 an eight year old boy found some of the money-- $6,000 and three parachutes.
Today the FBI announced they have a new lead! A mysterious tip is being checked against the DNA evidence the FBI already has. The FBI will not say whether the new suspect is alive or dead. They have already investigated 1,000 people some living and some dead in hopes of solving the only unsolved hijacking case in American history.
It's pretty fascinating to me and he's always seemed pretty bad ass. I've always been into the DB Cooper mystery although I have to say today I am not as "into" him because I found out it he was wearing clip-on tie. What a downer, you think you know someone.
http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/photos/criminal_mind/scams/DB_Cooper/1-1-Sketch-of-DB-Cooper.jpg
He's considered the "Bigfoot of Pacific Northwest" (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8667855/The-40-year-mystery-of-Americas-greatest-skyjacking.html). Although I was only eight years old when it happened in 1971 I followed the story with great interest for years. I had ordered this book at school thru Scholastic
http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170969915l/79610.jpg and was totally taken with DB Cooper's story also the Lizzie Borden chapter gave me nightmares but I couldn't put it down.
For those of you who don't know who DB Cooper was basically the story goes like this:
On the night before Thanksgiving of 1971, a man who called himself Dan Cooper (a reporter working for one of the wire services misheard the name of the hijacker and ever since then he has been referred to as DB Cooper, instead of Dan) wearing a dark suit and raincoat, walked up to the Northwest Orient desk at Portland's airport and bought $20 on a one-way ticket to Seattle.
When he got on the plane he kept his dark sunglasses on, ordered a whiskey, lit up a cigarette and coolly handed the stewardess a note. In capital letters, it read:
I HAVE A BOMB IN MY BRIEFCASE. I WILL USE IT IF NECESSARY. I WANT YOU TO SIT NEXT TO ME. YOU ARE BEING HIJACKED.
He wanted a mere $200,000, four parachutes and in return he'd allow 36 people to leave the plane when they landed in Seattle. The FBI was contacted and was willing to do the swap and quickly the plane took off again after the passengers were released. On board now with just the pilot, co-pilot, one stewardess and Cooper. Cooper ordered the pilot to head towards Mexico and maintain the attitude of 100,000 feet.
Then, somewhere over the Cascade mountains, about 25 miles from Portland, Cooper opened the door, stepped out, and, with one of the parachutes on his back jumped into the rainy night and was never seen or heard from again!!
Authorities searched for him but never found a trace of Cooper or the money. Then in 1980 an eight year old boy found some of the money-- $6,000 and three parachutes.
Today the FBI announced they have a new lead! A mysterious tip is being checked against the DNA evidence the FBI already has. The FBI will not say whether the new suspect is alive or dead. They have already investigated 1,000 people some living and some dead in hopes of solving the only unsolved hijacking case in American history.
It's pretty fascinating to me and he's always seemed pretty bad ass. I've always been into the DB Cooper mystery although I have to say today I am not as "into" him because I found out it he was wearing clip-on tie. What a downer, you think you know someone.
http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/photos/criminal_mind/scams/DB_Cooper/1-1-Sketch-of-DB-Cooper.jpg