FBI looking for DB Cooper again

[BoondockSaint]

FBI Makes New Bid to Find 1971 Skyjacker (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gcdrR-LPIPrEZBg68AlVg6p-cwIwD8TTAVO80)

No new leads or anything. I guess they need to look busy.

[Tenbatsuzen]

FBI Makes New Bid to Find 1971 Skyjacker (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gcdrR-LPIPrEZBg68AlVg6p-cwIwD8TTAVO80)

No new leads or anything. I guess they need to look busy.

Well, he did disappear after "The Cutting Edge".

[pennington]

What's the point? The statute-of-limitations ran out years ago, so even if they find him, they can't charge him.

[midwestjeff]

Carr said. "Or maybe someone just remembers that odd uncle."

Sorry, memories repressed.

[BoondockSaint]

What's the point? The statute-of-limitations ran out years ago, so even if they find him, they can't charge him.


I don't think there is one for skyjacking.

EDIT: Looks like I'm wrong about that but I did find this:

Even though the statute of limitations ran out on the crime in 1976, Cooper, if he's still alive, is unlikely to resurface, authorities say.

The IRS computes his taxes and penalties well over $200,000, and he still has an account to settle with Globe Indemnity Co., which picked up the original bill.

Fucking IRS will always get you.

[TheMojoPin]

I guess Johnny Johnson unleashed the contents of that dufflebag.

[SatCam]

robbery falls under capital gains?:wallbash:

[pennington]

robbery falls under capital gains?:wallbash:

Remember Al Capone?

[Grendel_Kahn]

Remember Al Capone?



oooooooooooo no you di int!!!:thumbup:

[EliSnow]

Somebody at the FBI watched Journeyman this year.

[led37zep]

Somebody at the FBI watched Journeyman this year.

My thoughts exactly! The FBI is trying to save Journeyman!!!!

[scottinnj]

He's Dead, you see!

[PapaBear]

When I was a kid, I had a book on famous unsolved crimes. I think it was one of those ones you could order like once a month from some pamphlet that they give out in elementary school. I was absolutely sure that, if I drew a mustache and beard on Cooper's composite sketch, I could find him. I figured no one else had tried it.

[EliSnow]

I was certain after seeing the below, that this had already been solved:

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1918/dbcooperrc6.jpg

[Furtherman]

Eli.... you may have been closer than you think!!!

The FBI has obtained a parachute found where hijacker D.B. Cooper is believed to have jumped, and the bureau is seeking the public's help in what may be a major break in the world's only unsolved hijacking. (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/356407_cooper26.html?source=mypi)

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/mugs/C/CooperDB.jpg

[Furtherman]

Was D.B. Cooper a resident of Ogden? (http://www.katu.com/news/local/25965999.html)

Gossett died in 2003 at the age of 73. His son, Greg, still lives in Ogden, where he said his father told him on his 21st birthday that he had hijacked the plane, then revealed to his son two keys to a safety deposit box at a bank in Vancouver, British Columbia, where the money was stored.

[Fezticle98]

They'll never catch him. They'll never catch ol' Douchebag Cooper.

[MisterSmith]

I guess Johnny Johnson unleashed the contents of that dufflebag.

You SOB! I was just about to make a News Radio/Jimmy James comment. :lol:

[ChrisTheCop]

You SOB! I was just about to make a News Radio/Jimmy James comment. :lol:

I can see why youre upset.
It was a close race. :wink:

[midwestjeff]

They'll never catch him. They'll never catch ol' Douchebag Cooper.

:lol::lol::lol:Holy shit that's funny.

[Furtherman]

Not much of an update, but interesting anyway.

FBI: Comic book holds clue in D.B. Cooper case

http://media.komonews.com/images/090317_cooper_comic_210.jpg

PORTLAND, Ore. - One of the Northwest's most notorious unsolved crimes may have a comic book connection and while it may sound kooky, the FBI agent in charge of the case says the new clue is no laughing matter.

In November 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper, later mistakenly called D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle, claiming he had a bomb.

At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes and asked to be flown to Mexico. He jumped from the plane somewhere near the Oregon state line.

The hijacker was never seen or heard from again and thus one of the Northwest's most famous mysteries was born. Did he die in the jump? Did he survive and make off with the money? No one knows, although there are a number of theories out there.

Larry Carr, the FBI agent currently overseeing the case, now believes the hijacker may have taken his name from a French comic book. The Dan Cooper comic book was popular in France in the 1960s and early 1970s and one issue published around the time of the hijacking shows the character parachuting.

Carr said this is an important clue in the case because the comic books were never translated into English, which supports his theory that the hijacker had been in the Air Force and probably spent time in Europe, where he likely came across the Dan Cooper comic books.

This new information brings another twist to the story, which continues to fascinate people decades later. You can read more about the FBI's link to the Dan Cooper comic book here. (http://www.fbi.gov/page2/march09/dbcooper031709.html)

[earthbrown]

What's the point? The statute-of-limitations ran out years ago, so even if they find him, they can't charge him.


Tax evasion


K

[9mileskid]

the congress and senate are passing legislation as we speak to tax 100% of that stolen money

[NewYorkDragons80]

I guess Johnny Johnson unleashed the contents of that dufflebag.

Well done.


I think the most likely suspects are dead anyway. Nevertheless, this was the greatest caper of all time and I hope the FBI reopens the case every 18 months just to wheel out a new cast of characters.

[TheMojoPin]

I would assume that any efforts at this point are just in the hope of identifying him since he's likely dead.

[Furtherman]

Galen Cook, a Spokane, Wash., attorney says he's found perhaps the only eyewitness to Cooper's daring parachute escape from a Boeing 727 more than 38 years ago into the dark abyss of the Pacific Northwest (http://www.standard.net/topics/crime/2010/05/22/db-cooper-mystery-did-witness-see-hijackers-parachute)

Cook, who has been pursuing the Cooper case for more than two decades and is writing a book about his investigation, believes a woman named Janet may have seen the hijacker as he jumped from the plane carrying road flares and a $200,000 ransom.

"Janet has no reason whatsoever to lie, so I believe her story," Cook said in an e-mail to the Standard-Examiner. "I have a suspect (William "Wolfgang" Gossett) who worked for the military, was a trained military parachuter, had special knowledge of aircraft and CIA operations in Southeast Asia, was obsessed with road flares, and retired from the Army at Fort Lewis, Wash. (near where the D.B. Cooper incident took place)."

The Cooper case is perhaps the most baffling unsolved crime in FBI history

Second time I've seen this guy, Gossett, name being mentioned.

He may have just lived in plain site the rest of his life.

[pennington]

I saw a TV documentary years ago about D.B. Cooper. I believe this guy Gossett was named by some people as Cooper. He was still alive at the time and refused to be interviewed but he matched the physical description, he was a parachute instructor at the time and he had confessed to some family and/or friends.

Too bad he didn't leave a written or taped account of the event. Also, what he did with the money, like was it all lost in the jump (certainly an ironic ending) or did he plant some to be found like the article suggests.

[high fly]

I would assume that any efforts at this point are just in the hope of identifying him since he's likely dead.

Either way it would be as anticlimactic as finding out what Billy Joe dropped off the Tallahatchie Bridge or locating P-Funk's Mothership...........better just leaving him lost to the ages

[Furtherman]

FBI's New Lead in Famous Skyjacking Case Points to Dead Man (http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/08/01/d_b_cooper_skyjacking_case_fbi_says_it_has_a_new_l ead_in_famous_.html?from=rss/&wpisrc=newsletter_slatest)

An FBI spokesman said the agency's Seattle office has been investigating the tip for more than a year, and that the suspect in question died of natural causes 10 years ago. If the suspect is in deed the legendary hijacker, that would mean he lived some 30 years after jumping from the plane, "defying those who concluded he couldn't have survived the leap," the Seattle Times reports.

The suspect is believed to have reported an auto injury in 1971, perhaps to explain any injuries he may have suffered in the jump.

The FBI says it is still investigating the case, although so far there appears little evidence to contradict their suspicions that the man – who officials still are not identifying – is the one they have been looking for.

[Misteriosa]

yeah.. i figured it would since he cant defend himself.. isnt this the only unsolved crime of its kind for the government?

[twiggy148]

I am wondering why this new info was first reported by the Telegraph in London. Is European news that slow they have to report on an American crime that took place 40yrs ago?

[Rhah]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070038/DB-Cooper-case-solved-FBI-tells-niece-skyjacking-suspect-matching-fingerprint.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[CountryBob]

Amazing! A one way ticket to Oregon only cost $20 back then

[PapaBear]

Amazing! A one way ticket to Oregon only cost $20 back then
That's very surprising considering there was no such thing as discount airlines, and people still dressed up to fly.