DB Cooper Parachute May Have Been Found

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:42 AM EDT

Article Source: The New York Times

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SEATTLE — The worn parachute that children found while playing on their family's property in rural southwestern Washington this month may be the one that D. B. Cooper used on that mysterious night in 1971 when he carried out what the authorities call the only unsolved hijacking in United States history.

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luckydog

It may be totally unrelated but it would be interesting if it is his chute.

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3 votes

#1 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:43 AM EDT

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Eddie French

What a fascinating story. I have never heard this before. Probably because I was in South East Asia in 71.

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4 votes

#2 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:59 AM EDT

{"commentId":1625481,"authorDomain":"luckydog"}

luckydog

Wow Eddie you are a rarity indeed. I would say that in American folklore DB Cooper ranks right up there with the shootout at the O.K corral or Bonnie and Clyde.

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4 votes

#2.1 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:18 AM EDT

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Eddie French

Ahh, could be because I am a Brit.

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4 votes

#2.2 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:34 AM EDT

{"commentId":1625558,"authorDomain":"luckydog"}

luckydog

That could be it.
There are so many suppositions of what happened to DB Cooper. Anyone got any particularly interesting ones?

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3 votes

#2.3 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:39 AM EDT

{"commentId":1625622,"authorDomain":"wood-s"}

trex-138069

60 Minutes interviewed a woman, about 10 years ago, who claimed to have been married to him after the hijacking. He'd assumed a different name, but she suspected something when they went on a trip to Washington and he went off into underbrush to look for something. She also says his favorite song was "you'll never know if you don't know now." Thin evidence, if you ask me, but it got her on television. Hey, 15 minutes of fame is 15 minutes.

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2 votes

#2.4 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:54 AM EDT

{"commentId":1626176,"authorDomain":"luckydog"}

luckydog

Yep, pretty thin Trex but shows the level of interest in this mystery. I vaguely recall some business man in Bellingham being thought to be DB but it is just on the edge of my memory and I am not sure. Some say he got away and was locked up for some other crime and died in prison and of course some claim he couldn't have survived the jump or the wilderness (I have my doubts about this) as I suspect he had a military background. He was certainly familiar with that aircraft.

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1 vote

#2.5 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:39 PM EDT

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Sectim42

Even the Fox show Prison Break included him in on the plot. One of the inmates was somehow related to the dude (it may have been him, I am forgetting) and that is the money they were after.

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1 vote

#2.6 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:49 PM EDT

{"commentId":1626357,"authorDomain":"wood-s"}

trex-138069

I think the man you're thinking of was John List, who killed his family in Westfield, New Jersey. Years later he was captured, thanks to America's Most Wanted. There was some speculation at the time that he might have been D.B.Cooper, because of the correspondence between the money Cooper demanded and an amount that List had deposited in a bank under his new identity, but I think that's been thoroughly debunked.

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1 vote

#2.7 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:14 PM EDT

{"commentId":1626014,"authorDomain":"DesmondUK"}

DesmondUK

I know what happened to him,

I am reliably informed that he had a sex transplant and secretly married Elvis Presley before Elvis faked his death. They now run a Fish shop with Bin Laden as a lodger. I was told this by Lord Lucan who visits regularly.

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1 vote

#3 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:08 PM EDT

{"commentId":1626188,"authorDomain":"luckydog"}

luckydog

Now you have me stumped Desmond. Who was Lord Lucan? In the US we have a Judge Crater that vanished and of course Jimmy Hoffa.

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1 vote

#3.1 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:42 PM EDT

{"commentId":1626374,"authorDomain":"eddiefrench"}

Eddie French

I'll get this one for you Desmond.
Lord Lucan was a suspect for the murder of his young 'Nanny'.
His clothes were found on a deserted beach in the UK. He has never been seen since though we do get the inevitable 'Elvis' type sightings periodically.

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2 votes

#3.2 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:19 PM EDT

{"commentId":1626512,"authorDomain":"luckydog"}

luckydog

Interesting. A little off topic but what do you make of the fact that the body in the cellar has been proved by DNA to not be the wife of the infamous Dr. Crippen who was executed for her murder?

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1 vote

#3.3 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:46 PM EDT

{"commentId":1626578,"authorDomain":"wood-s"}

trex-138069

Well, SOMEBODY was dissected and buried in pieces under Dr. Crippen's basement floor, which leads me to believe that whether or not it was Cora, he was not exactly innocent. However, DNA tests this long after the fact are a bit suspect.

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1 vote

#3.4 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:00 PM EDT

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