DB Cooper by Jason Wishert
DB Cooper by Jason Wishert
The case of D.B. Cooper was an open investigation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 45 years until they closed the case in 2016. This world famous criminal case was an air piracy hijacking that played out like a James Bond movie over the skies of the Pacific Northwest in the waning days of the hippie movement in the fall of 1971. The DB Cooper case spawned copy-catters around the nation and was a catalyst to tighter security at airports nationwide in the ensuing years.
D. B. Copper was calm, cool and collected as he sat with a cigarette dangling from his thin lips, sipping an alcoholic beverage in the back of the Boeing 727 as he handed the stewardess a note after leaving Portland Oregon. After landing, refueling and allowing passengers to deplane in Seattle, Cooper, with his demands met ordered the Northwest Orient Airlines plane airborne. Heading south into the dark frigid rainy skies, Cooper deployed the aft stairwell with the crew and pilots sequestered to the front of the plane. With nobody watching, Cooper donned a parachute and carefully strapped $200,000.00 in ransom-cash to his body.
D. B. Cooper jumped into eternity as he escaped via parachute over the skies of the vast stands of cedar trees in Washington's evergreen state, near the Columbia River border with Oregon ..........Never to be seen or heard from again.
What happened to Cooper? Did he get abducted by a female Sasquach in heat ? Did he get tangled-up & hang from a tree never to be found? Did D.B. Cooper hike to Canada then take a freighter to Argentina and live out a quiet existence? . . . . . . . . Knowing his motivation was pure greed and not for some political or religious agenda, it is safe to assume that tracking the serial numbers of the money given to him is an easy way to determine his fate.
For the ransom money to be of any use to the cunning-caper Cooper, he must have "spent" it, effectively reinserting it into circulation and trackable by the authorities. The serial numbers were indeed heavily published in the national news media of the day with huge rewards offered for the first person to turn in money with matching serial numbers in hopes of alert business owners identifying the ransom money and the person who passed it off..........More than a half century later we are still waiting for the first dollar to show-up.
The only clue to ever surface of the ransom money was $5,800.00 found along the banks of the Columbia River west of Vancouver in 1980 by an alert 11 year old boy that possessed serial numbers matching Coopers' cash in 1971. . . . . . Did extraterrestrial activity play a part in his disappearance? . . . . . . Did Cooper land in Lake Merwin as suspected, drown then get swallowed-up mysteriously by the icy-cold waters parachute and all? ................Laden to the bottom of the lake by the very loot he lusted and longed for in life? . . . . . . . . Or did Cooper just keep falling and falling into a dark abyss of time and space as supernatural punishment for his evil-ways ?
This is the only unsolved air piracy case in the US. . . . . . . . So why close the case ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . it's still solvable ! ...........Knowing with none of the money spent, Cooper must still be out in the woods or preserved motionless, wrapped in his parachute like an Egyptian mummy at the bottom of lake Merwin awaiting discovery. The victory of the moment of his discovery will be "oh-so sweet" to the investigators as they red-stamp the files of D.B. Cooper "SOLVED-CASE CLOSED" and will be forever remembered in annals of the prestigious "Law Enforcement Hall of Fame in Titusville Florida". http://www.nbbd.com/aphf/
The best crime fighters on the planet never give-up, they stay the course till the job is finished and case solved !….. End of story…. Period.