CRIME - Cold Case Revived

"D.B. Cooper Alive? Cold Case Revived" by Gene Byrd 1/2/2008

Is D.B. Cooper alive and well? The case has now been revived and authorities are again trying to figure out exactly what happened on November 24, 1971. A man calling himself Dan Cooper (now the notorious DB Cooper) boarded a jet in Portland for Seattle thirty-six years ago and then would disappear creating a folk legend.

After receiving a ransom payout of two hundred thousand dollars he jumped from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest somewhere over the Cascade Mountains, possibly over Woodland, Washington. No conclusive evidence has surfaced regarding Cooper's whereabouts, although the FBI believes he did not survive the jump, though legend says he is alive and well, or at least was after the wild caper.

The case remains unsolved. A film about the wild case hit theaters in 1981 titled "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper." In real life, the FBI is asking for your help to solve the case. Crime Library called it this way. "The case remains unsolved more than 30 years later, and D. B. Cooper has become the Bigfoot of crime, evading one of the most extensive and expensive American manhunts of the 20th century. The whereabouts of the man (or his remains) is one of the great crime mysteries of our time."

They add, "There was modest collateral damage to Northwest Orient's bottom line, and the FBI's swollen ego was bruised to the bone. Cooper pulled his buccaneering swipe in the twilight of the 47-year tenure of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who died not long after the hi - jacking. The director no doubt went to his grave with teeth gritted over his agency's inability, in this case, to get their man."

Now the FBI asks in a statement, "Who was Cooper? Did he survive the jump? We're providing new information and pictures and asking for your help in solving the case."