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    Okay, I admit, I know nothing at all about the James Bond styled hijacker, who was last seen jumping out of a plane, strapped to his ransom...

    But who do you think he was? And do you think there can ever be proof of an identity?
    There Will Be Trouble! http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-Little-Tro...s=T.+E.+Hodden

  • #2
    No idea who he was but I for one hope he's chilling on a desert island somewhere. They never found the rest of the money, so it's possible he made off with it against the odds.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by TomTomKent View Post
      Okay, I admit, I know nothing at all about the James Bond styled hijacker, who was last seen jumping out of a plane, strapped to his ransom...

      But who do you think he was? And do you think there can ever be proof of an identity?
      Hi Tom
      I doubt they'll ever be proof of identity but of the handful of serious suspects (check out Wikipedia on it) I would imagine theres slightly better than 50/50 it was one of them they have listed. I also think its about 50/50 he died from the jump and body never recovered.
      "Is all that we see or seem
      but a dream within a dream?"

      -Edgar Allan Poe


      "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
      quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

      -Frederick G. Abberline

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Harry D View Post
        No idea who he was but I for one hope he's chilling on a desert island somewhere. They never found the rest of the money, so it's possible he made off with it against the odds.
        Same. I'm generally a "summon the executioner!" sort, but there's something very romantic about Cooper. I hope he at least got away, even if he lost the money.
        - Ginger

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        • #5
          Hello, TomTom,

          Interesting discussion of the D. B. Cooper mystery in Pub Talk section of this forum at: http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=10076

          Facts I've recently learned:

          "D. B." is incorrect, the hijacker flew under the name "Dan Cooper"-- which was also the name of a character in a French-language comic book about an adventurer who was depicted as jumping from a plane with two parachutes. It was a popular publication in French-speaking Canada in the 1970s.

          Tests of the clip-on tie left behind by "Cooper" revealed traces of a rare material probably left behind from the manufacture of (or work with) CRT screens, which may narrow his occupation down.

          Some people think there is a possibilty that the plane changed course enough that "Cooper" would have jumped into high desert, not thick forest-- in which case, he could well have survived.
          Pat D. https://forum.casebook.org/core/imag...rt/reading.gif
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          • #6
            New Development in the D.B. Cooper case may have identified the mystery man.

            It's a bombshell development in a 45-year-old cold case mystery. A commercial airplane hijacker escaped with a daring parachute jump in 1971 and was never seen again.


            Rackstraw denies he is the hijacker. FBI say they still don't have enough evidence to solve the case.
            Pat D. https://forum.casebook.org/core/imag...rt/reading.gif
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            Von Konigswald: Jack the Ripper plays shuffleboard. -- Happy Birthday, Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut, c.1970.
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