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After 36 years, FBI reopens D.B. Cooper airplane hijacking case
By Susan Saulny Published: January 2, 2008

CHICAGO: It is considered one of the great unsolved mysteries of
American crime: how a man in his mid-40s hijacked an airliner
somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nevada, in November 1971, then
parachuted in his loafers and trench coat, making off with $200,000 in
cash.

Who was he? Did he survive? After all these years, the federal authorities
say they still do not know, and the case lingers and vexes and fascinates
as the only unsolved airplane hijacking in U.S. history. "It's a mystery,
frankly," agency officials said in a December news release issued
periodically to update old cases.

But now, with the advantage of technologies that were not available
decades ago and with newfound attention from an agent on the West
Coast, the FBI has announced that the cold case is officially hot again.
And the search is on for the man who called himself Dan, and sometimes
D.B. Cooper.

For the first time, the FBI is providing pictures and information on the
Cooper case to the public on its Web site, fbi.gov.

The agency hopes that pictures like the one of Cooper's black tie, which
he removed before jumping, will prompt a memory, or that someone will
offer fresh insight into what happened to all that cash, some of which was
scattered in the wilderness and found by a young boy in 1980. (Already, a
DNA sample taken from the tie has ruled out several men who claimed to
have been the parachuting hijacker.)

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/02/america/hijack.php

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Headline Archives (FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION)

D.B. COOPER REDUX
Help Us Solve the Enduring Mystery
12/31/07



On a cold November night 36 years ago, in the driving wind and rain, somewhere between southern Washington state and just north of Portland, Oregon, a man calling himself Dan Cooper parachuted out of a plane he�d just hijacked clutching a bag filled with $200,000 in stolen cash.

Who was Cooper? Did he survive the jump? And what happened to the loot, only a small part of which has ever surfaced?

It�s a mystery, frankly. We�ve run down thousands of leads and considered all sorts of scenarios. And amateur sleuths have put forward plenty of their own theories. Yet the case remains unsolved.

Would we still like to get our man? Absolutely. And we have reignited the case�thanks to a Seattle case agent named Larry Carr and new technologies like DNA testing.

You can help. We�re providing here, for the first time, a series of pictures and information on the case. Please look it all over carefully to see if it triggers a memory or if you can provide any useful information.


http://www.fbi.gov/page2/dec07/dbcooper123107.html

[mistermasan]

he is dead. jumped. didn't knowhis altitude. into strange place. itis known that his reserve chute was sewn shut. goodness knows whatthey did to his main chute. i know what i woulda done to his main churte.

like dillinger, a good story...but thiat is all it ever will be- the one who got away.

[Bibbitybop]

Why doesn't the FBI start watching Prison Break. The guy died in prison while attempting to escape.

[cangel]

He never jumped. He opened the tail section and tossed out a packet of money and his chute and then hid out on the plane. Once the plane landed, he put on a maintenance crew uniform and exited the plane, after the police had looked it over. Plenty of places to hide. Didn't you see Flight Plan?

[canuckistan]

An unplanned jump in the dark over rough terrain? He probably whacked a tree/cliff/mountain on landing and that was either it, or a more miserable demise from 2 busted legs.......grizzly food.

[JamesFord]

He's alive and living with Billy the Kid and Elvis.