Who D.B. Cooper most likely was
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Avid sky diver here and every year people make that jump in suits as joke to celebrate Dan Cooper. So actually yes that jump in a suit even in rain at night is very survivable.
its not just the suit thats the issue, he grabbed the wrong chute combo, he was jumping over bad terrain in a terrible storm with low visibility on top of countless other issues. Saying "haha we jump in suits" as evidence is kinda silly. "even in the rain" hjow about a terrible storm? thats not just rain lol
Yeah... Jumping out of a plane at night during a rainstorm .... is something a soldier would do.
All he had to do was pull a cord. I’m sure he had no other thought after he got out of the plane. If he pulled it, he survived. At least he survived to the ground or lake. After that, who knows
@@kingcrustytut7544 it wasn’t actually that bad. If he wore thermal underwear he was okay. People said loafers, but that’s an assumption. How much do you remember from someone sitting next to you on a plane? He could have used black jump boots and no one would have noticed with his black suit. Who knows really, but multiple other copycats happened after him and all survived, including one in colorado in the mountains. That guy never even put on a parachute before. In fact, except for McCoy, none were experienced jumpers. Cooper is famous because he did it first and never was found. all the others were caught.
@@johnbaugh2437 100% agree, I have no idea what happened after he hit the ground but that's a completely survivable jump.
William Pratt "Wolfgang" Gossett is my grandfather. He was constantly on the run. I only met him twice in my life. Both times, he only stopped by to see his son, my dad, and us for 1-2 hours. He didn't bother to learn our names. He could fake and lie his way through anything.
He was definitely an interesting person and I liked him as a suspect too. He is like a lot of suspects though, he was interesting in his own right and had the type of personality capable of doing it, but no actual evidence exists other than a confession to friends and family. Weirdly, lots of people have confessed to this crime, even on their deathbed.
Jennelly, if you really are related tell me this,,,who got his belongings? X wife? The file cabinet! You would think one of the sons would show more interest! I mean what the heck? If my dad told me he was Cooper I’d be all ears but his young son blew it off like it was nothing. 😳 William didn’t seem to be close to family but that also fits a Cooper profile. 🤷♀️
he was not db cooper everbody wanta to be db cooper my opinion that real db cooper is dead in river that night
it was Rackstraw
Ted Braden is the best suspect ..by far
FBI said he died. But they have to say that. Most skyjumpers said a mediocre skydiver could survive
Source?
Ive heard military trained paratroopers say this guy couldnt survive lol.
If you add up all of the conditions he jumped under, the fact he grabbed the wrong chute combo etc. He definitely didnt survive
@@kingcrustytut7544 source?
@@EnjoySackLunch watch ANY documentary on DB Cooper, they bring in people to interview. Ive watched countless docs on DB, you saying "source" to anyone saying anything kind of sounds like "im too dumb to do my own minimal research into this"
@@EnjoySackLunch you asked for the source from op, which is him saying hes heard skydivers say hes live. LOL.
WHat would the source be there? YOu want him to find random people? Stop being stupid
I like to think that he made it. People have recreated his jump and it is possible to make the jump dressed like he was and survive. People speculate that the wind would rip his shoes and clothing off, that was disproved. And we don’t know what he had on him. He could have been thermal underwear under is clothes, a flashlight in his pockets along with a lighter and possibly a map and compass. He planned enough to get the ransom and make the jump, I’m he planned for after the jump as well.
I just think of all the missing hikers who vanish into seemingly thin air. A lot could have happened even if he survived the jump. Even people who walk normally into the woods do simply disappear, reclaimed by mother nature. My grandfather vanished while walking along a calm river, simply disappeared & didn't leave a shred of evidence (to be fair, he was 78 & a complete SOB, and it was 1960). I would guess he would not leave the money behind, you don't bail on your plan after you jump out of a plane & i assume he would chose death over prison, based on his risk level. So much of wilderness cadaver recovery is pure luck. Someone falls in a river but the body gets tucked away & the remains lie undisturbed, yet 5 feet away, they might become food & be irretrievably dispersed in days.
Skyjacking was so common in the 70s that when we went to disneyland i was excited because i hoped we'd get to see Cuba on a detour 😂 My parents yelled at me lol. To be fair, i thought the passengers at least got to tour for the day. At this time, cuba was closed to americans lol so i assumed it was Eden. I was a confused kid, geopolitically.
You would think the flight attendant, Tina Mucklow, would have a better idea of who the hijacker was after seeing the photographs.
The FBI has a sore hieny over this one as well as the three escapees from Alcatraz.
….. and their fabricated Russian Dossier.
The DNA can be matched to DNA databases of potential relatives and narrow down the search that way such as was done to find the Golden State Killer.
Fear response can prevent a person from remembering precise facial details.
her responses to FBI interviews about suspects were pretty clear - seems that none of the early suspects were the right person.
@@jayritchie2785 And the later suspects?
William Gossett is still one of my suspects, there’s pictures of him with a dark tan and he had the funky lower lip while talking (In vid) and a turkey neck as described. He was a trained survivalist and even when he was old they would drop him in the woods and he would hike his way out alone ( for fun) he was also a bit eccentric.😂 His DNA doesn’t match the partial on tie but can you trust it? That tie was passed around and played with more than a basketball. 🤷♀️ He once did the FBI a favor so who knows they could be covering him or someone else out of embarrassment or “ties.”
The tie DNA has always been a no go for me because DB could of bought that tie at a thrift store the day of the flight. The DNA could belong to the original owner. They also found different types of minerals and metals on the tie that pointed to the aerospace industry. I believe that the FBI closed this case a few years ago. Even if he was still alive what could they really do now,the case is closed. But I don’t think that we will ever find out who DB was
It was a cheap tie that wouldn’t make a thrift store, and even then why use a tie if you don’t own them? The FBI stated that Cooper would still be prosecuted to this day and agent Carr even tried to make that deal to help solve the case but upper management said no.
I wonder if Cooper could have been Canadian, with conexions with the US, opposite to Gossett. He had some (actually a lot) experience in the air travel industry. He knew that the aft ramp could be deployed in flight, something that even the crew did not. He recognized Tacoma airport from the air. He knew that even though it would take less than 40 minutes from Portland, the plane had enough kerosene to stay in the air for 2.5 hours, despite the Seattle stop being the last one on schedule that day. Another thing, he had some accomplice, because no one knows how he got to the airport: no taxi, no car left behind...
I know many different Nations send their soldiers through the US Army's Airborne school. I think a Canadian could be possible.. ID checking was different then.
I could spot a NW Canadian a mile away, even when slight they talk funny and different .
He could not have just walked to the airport? People used to walk much further distances, I just assumed he got there on foot. Although I guess that would be memorable, even by 1970, suited men weren't usually strolling along the highway ... Ok I've debunked myself, lol...
Hadn't thought about an accomplice, that opens up another avenue of thought.
" He knew that the aft ramp could be deployed in flight, something that even the crew did not." Prove the crew didnt know this!
Always noticed eyebrows. People forget to change them. Another, Rackshaw had a different set of the mouth, a rectangular face and large ear lobes. Surprising how many people can "match" any face to a precise artist's impression that contradicts them..
Gossett seems a better suspect of the two. Besides his appearance matching the description, him having a lot of cash that Christmas, witnessed by two people close to him, seems like conclusive evidence against him. If he had a gambling problem, a casino could have money laundered the bills as a lot of them were connected to mobs.
So if he DID die, and his tie contains evidence he worked in tech, why didn't anyone report a guy missing who looked like the sketch?
Its an interesting thing that very few (I can only think of one who attracted serious attention) people who were missing appear in the FBI files and other research.
There is one tech guy that did go missing.
who? source?@@unclejim2330
@@unclejim2330source?
Why do people always think that he was not carrying a true parachute under his jacket, because let’s face it, it would make more sense
Because that's ridiculous and implausible 😊
Rackstraw looks to have blue eyes, Cooper had brown. Also not much of a resemblance, especially along the chin and jaw.
First man, too young. Second complete different facial features
@@debbieanne7962 its because DB died so all of the "suspects" look nothing like him
No part of me believes it was Rackstraw
Considering none of the money turned up, he either lost it or died.
Could have paid org crime for gambling debts and, in turn, they laundered money through offshore accounts, in Europe etc.
@@livingadreamlife1428 Yes, but at some point in the next twenty years some of them would have made their way into circulation and would have been noticed by a bank or the Fed when they received them for destruction. While $20 bills are rarely deposited, after 50 years, they would have worn out and the Fed would have checked their serial nos.
Do you really think that everyone was checking a huge list of serial numbers against every $20 bill? The copies of the list I have seen don’t even have the serial numbers in numerical order.
@@TrussttN01 Someone might have checked one of the 50.000 bills over the last 50 years. And the Fed checks the serial numbers of all bills they destroy. Since the average U.S. twenty dollar bill only lasts 8 years, almost all the bills would have been received by the Fed.
@@nickd4310 No doubt, the serial numbers could be scanned and compared to a list via current technology. But I wonder how well that was done in the 70s.
Jumping out of a plane in the dark of the night is survivable but unlikely. The money? Never used. Some bills were found in a waterway years afterwards. DB Cooper most likely died upon impact. And his body consumed by the animals in the forest. The guy was a daredevil but also a fool. He had marked bills and was not smart enough to suspect that and not one bill ever turned up used. People love stories but reality is often a bummer.Dying upon impact is less interesting than being an army paratrooper or a member of a police department or an employee of Boeing.
None of the above. DB Cooper was Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr. - the unique parachute harness he used for the jump has been recovered from RFM's mother's estate.
It was McCoy. You are correct.
@@vonmazur1 Wasn't McCoy's behavior much different than DB Cooper's?
It's kind of hard to argue with the flight attendants testimony. They were interviewed immediately afterwards and they both said McCoy was not him. McCoy was much younger than the eyewitness reports and he was not calm. This information is a problem for the Richard McCoy theory.
Problem. McCoy had prominent ears. They stuck out like open doors on a taxi cab. The Flight attendant certainly would have noticed that. No description of "Cooper" mentioned those ears.
@@billlawrence1899 All the evidence points to one person. That's right, Joe fcuking Biden.
Richard Floyd McCoy was D.B. Cooper
Nope , All witnesses said no 100% and he acted nothing like Cooper . Homework people!
@@unclejim2330 Dan Gryder of Probable Cause sealed it for me 100%. Excellent documentary. It was McCoy.
In high school I did my Junior Theme on this story, so I have done lots of research and I believe it was McCoy too.. The D.B.Cooper job, McCoy's first heist was nearly a perfect crime, but he lost the money on the way down when he jumped and so he had to pull off the second job, but this time he was much more careless and got caught.. I'm certain the FBI knows it was McCoy too, but they don't want the public to know that, because they were still looking for who found and kept that bag of dough from the first heist.. I think the reason the FBI finally gave up on the case some 10 years ago was because, those old style $20 bills would been hard to pass off, and they knew that money was probably long gone..
Wait at the start you said D.B Cooper didn't know about skydiving cause he would have noticed the safety chute stitched shut and had no way of steering it. But your best suspect is an extremely experienced paratrooper?
Wasn't that a quote? Did he say that he agreed with that?
Cooper knew it was a practice chute and cut it for cord and left the card in with another ( they found both cards in one left behind)
@@unclejim2330 The FBI says he took the dummy chute with him when he jumped.
The thing that was very interesting to me is the “Dan Cooper” comic books which I believe were only published in French and were available in French speaking Canada. If you google the comic it shows on the cover a guy jumping out of a plane.
Very interesting, it could make sense that he was Canadian. I wonder if the FBI has considered Canadian suspects.
@@hihunter7 They did consider that. The FBI were the ones who came across the French Comic Book. On Google type Dan Cooper Comics and then go to images and you will see exactly what I’m talking about
Easily verifiable, but the original flight attendant said that the Police Sketch didnt look Anything like the individual she had to talk to, etc..She said the FBI was in a mad dash to get a sketch out there, and didnt appear to care alot about whether the resemblance was accurate of not. I guess a "mere likeness" was good enough for them at the time in leau of getting the sketch out immediately.The FBI (as corrupt as they are now!) has no interest in this case anymore because the statutes ran out long ago.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the FBI was in on it and covered it up. Since that’s what they do nowadays lol.
not back then, because they were a reputable organization. But now? Forget it.@@myvidaloka
In my opinion, DB Cooper lived to be a ripe old age. Someone this innovative and notorious just will never be caught!! DB Cooper won and the FBI lost, END OF STORY!!
Rather circular logic. We can only assume that he was innovative and notorious, from the brief ACTUAL information we have, if he lived to a ripe old age. He made some very bold moves, which shows his confidence. But there's often misplaced confidence. He made a jump with a non stearable chute at night in the rain. Lots of confidence in his ability. We can't assume he succeeded because he was confident. So If he survived and lived to a ripe old age, then we can figure that he was innovative and notorious enough to survive and live to a ripe old age. The fact that some of the money he got was discovered a LONG time later, with him never reclaiming it, seems like there's a good shot he may not have survived a complete escape to never reclaim his fortune. If he were that innovative, then he would have been prepared enough be able to recover it, or to not have to abandon it in the first place. Now if we assume a lot of information outside of the actual verified account, like believing the movie or any of the theories of who he was or what he did after, then we could assume he was innovative. But that's not basing off of only the information we have verified from the event itself.
And there were 3 Oswalds! and 12 shots!
@@peterfraser9070 Is that all that were involved? 😁😁😁
@@williamcarey8529 No, there were storm drain shooters involved as well in this unsolved hijacking
@peterfraser9070 I don't doubt any of that what you mentioned about the extra shooters. I know Lee Oswald was NOT a shooter in the JFK assassination!!
Excellent videos!
Always interesting videos. Curious though: what is the frequent photo in the woods with the pallets and junk? What is that about?
U tub crap photo.....
As unconvincing as all the Zodiac suspects.
Correction! The Flight Attendant never identified any of those early suspects as DB Cooper! Rackstraw, Gossett and many others are mentioned as early suspects so can be ruled out! I think some of the new suspects such as Joe Lakich should be looked at more closely! No point talking up the old suspects again and a again when the flight attendant clearly never said it was possibly one of them!
Awesome stuff!
Portland to Seattle ffs what could possibly go wrong ??
Lol
Bad fish sandwich
I read that the sketch of Cooper doesn't look like the actual man, according to one of the flight attendants. That's very interesting, and if true, means that we really have nothing visual to nail Cooper on, and that the suspects who look like the photo couldn't in fact be Cooper, because if any of them were, the attendant wouldn't have said the picture was inaccurate. The FBI was trying to get a sketch out as quickly as possible and rushed through the details, which if you ask me is the most unfortunate part of the case, because those who matter the most to the case, the flight attendants who actually sae and interacted with Cooper, weren't fully probed for information while it was still fresh, and the drawing, the most iconic and helpful item in potentially identifying Cooper, is apparently incorrect. Overall is just unfortunate, and I don't think any speculation or investigation of people will yield any conclusive answers. The only way we'll ever know Cooper's real identity is if DNA evidence can give us a conclusive answer, and that'll only happen if Cooper's DNA can be extracted, and if it matches a person that's in the database. I don't know, and would frankly doubt, as really unfortunate as it is, that we'll ever know the identity of Dan Cooper. His case is probably at the top of my list of unsolved mysteries, and I want to know who he was, what happened, why he did what he did, whether he survived the jump, and what happened afterwards, but we'll most definitely never know most of that, so at this point identifying him is all we can hope to do. Hopefully if he DID indeed perish on the fall, we can eventually find where he went down, maybe some debris from the landing, and maybe bones that may still be left in the area, likely buried. But if he jumped into the wilderness, that's like finding a ring dropped in the ocean. I'm wondering if he's possibly Canadian, and if the list of suspects or databases of DNA could be missing him because he's not American. There's no strong evidence for it, but the takeoff location isn't far from Canada, and someone mentioned that there's a French comic strip with a guy named Dan Cooper, and the front cover shows him jumping out if a plane. Could be a coincidence, but interesting nonetheless.
If he survived, the money certainly didn't. Since none of the serial numbers of turned up he probably lost his loot in the river.
Maybe didn’t do it for the money! Most conclude he might have done to get at the airline and show it can be done
I tend to think he's dead. Maybe someday, someone will be in the woods and find his skeleton.
Some money was found actually
@@chuckleberryfinn1992 “show me the money”. ha ha (just kidding) I think he made it but he 100% wasn’t any of those suspects they always bring up.. and the loot wasn’t used as he found out it was recorded so knew not use it! The bit they found I bet he planted later to show he made it
@@VintageVera Weirdly enough we'll probably never know as the area he jumped in was consumed by the Mt St Helen's eruption.
Ted Braden
100%
got be considered
"Refute" means to disprove - not merely to deny or dispute. This mistake is becoming rampant.
It is curious to me that at the 0:17 mark of this video showing the envelop and the note that it is signed "D.B. Cooper" instead of "Dan Cooper".
I live in that area. I firmly believe that DB worked for Boeing.
The name he chose, Cooper is a barrel maker. Planes, barrel roll.
Pretty sure it was actually dan gryder😂
Kenzie Christiansen A Northwest airlines flight attendant and former paratrooper was always a good suspect. There’s a whole lot more to the backstory on Richard Rackstraw and then recently in the last year to someone from Seattle that did work with Boeing In machining and titanium and had access to 727 manuals forget this latest persons name
Nope and no and the other guy you are thinking didn’t smoke. 😂
Gossett looks more like the police sketch of Cooper than any other suspect I've seen.
Oddly enough, the fact that someone later confessed, bragged, or hinted they were D.B. Cooper is only a minor point of evidence for their guilt. That’s because a lot of people have confessed or claimed they did it, and only one of them, at a maximum, could have been the hijacker. After most high-profile, well-publicized crimes, police are plagued with “confessing Sams” who contact them to claim responsibility. Most of them couldn’t possibly have done it.
The FBI had 100’s of confessions but one interesting thing about Gossett was he waited until his sons where 21 and also seeked advice from his lawyer .
And the longer the legend builds, the more appealing it is to confess.
@@montananerd8244 In my grandparents’ time, old men would say they were really Billy the Kid or Jessie James, having somehow escaped their famous deaths. More recently, it’s D.B. Cooper.
DB Cooper is James Harden. He now plays for the 76ers
Maybe the real DB Cooper was the friends we made along the way.
Yep! I'm Him!
Glad that "Dan" was able to get away with this. No one was physically hurt. The government has been made to look foolish. Doesn't get any better than that.
If i had to bet a significant amount of money, I'd bet Cooper landed in the river and died. But if he had died, wouldn't someone have come forward to say that their husband, father, son, or brother disappeared around that time? And seems like they would have realized their deceased family member might have been DB Cooper. But I really want to believe Cooper survived. It'd be interesting to see if any of the suspects were into the Dan Cooper comics.
You would lose that bet because he never jumped by the river as proven by the pilot and good military radar. The pilot felt the bump when he jumped and documented it on radio and that it is exactly how the caught the other 5 copycats.
@@unclejim2330 I never said he jumped by the river. Who knows where the wind carried him with the parachute? Nobody knows, including you. Lol
I've read 7 books and all have some credibility and holes too
D B Cooper - Dead or Alive? by Richard T. Toshaw(retired FBI Agent) was one of the 1st and damn good. Bruce Smith,Geoffrey Gray. Real McCoy by Rhoades & Calame, Blevins & Porteous "Into The Blast" amongst them
The money was found by the river and the bills had water damage. So he must've buried them in the river.@@unclejim2330
The investigators should have contacted CBS and invited all the suspects to the sow "to tell the truth".
#2, did you enjoy the experience ?
Will the real DB Cooper please stand up.
My name is Lynn Tornabee, I am a high school imposter.
Im 110% convinced it was richard mccoy.
If he died, there would have been a dude who went missing at the time & matched DB, never happened so he lived for sure!
I find it funny that people think that he didn’t survive but all 5 copycats after survived so why wouldn’t he
Larry Carr backtracked on his comments about Cooper, he initially gave Cooper's chances of survival as 50/50 - he also now thinks he did survive and that the dummy reserve was cannibalized to carry part of the ransom. I've also often wondered if there was someone on the plane who carried on extra kit for Cooper - after all, checking the overhead bins would hardly be a priority of the cabin staff after the passengers disembarked. And in 1980, it wasn't one, but three bundles of notes found together they showed signs of being washed down river, but strangely were found alongside each other.. Also you state Cooper's 'bomb making skills' as a way of whittling down suspects... but apart from one of the cabin crew, Florence Schaffner (who described the device as 'two rows of four red cylinders', some wires and a battery), no-one else saw the 'bomb'.
"According to one of Gossett's spouses, he spent a great deal of time in Reno, Nevada, without her knowing precisely why..." ehhhh, he was described as gambling addict and guess what's in Reno? (it also explains the incidences of him having cash)
Ah, a reasonable comment. 👍 I never saw where Carr admitted he might be wrong about Cooper surviving ( must be very new) he’s got a rap for being lazy though and letting the real researchers find facts. 🤷♀️🙈 Can anyone trust the FBI? Especially today? 🙀🙈🤭🐀💥🔨
What happened to the FBI claim that it was a guy named McCoy
They never did. He was cleared by his wife giving him an alibi. Even though he pulled of the same exact heist a few months later.
McCoy also was involved in a string of robberies after the second incident, and was killed when he was ambushed by an FBI agent at his safe house. I think the most compelling piece of evidence implicating McCoy was that the FBI recovered a Raliegh cigarette butt on the plane after the first hijacking. That brand of cigarettes was regional to North Carolina at the time, where McCoy was originally from.
No one will ever know just like the zodiac its too late.
Other than the money found in 1980, did the ransom money ever get spent? I heard it never circulated in the country
All of these videos and shows are ridiculous. The person who did it was the guy who pulled off the same type of hijacking about a month or two later. The people who saw him said they were positive that he was a Mormon. His mode of dress and other things tipped them off. The guy who did the second hijacking, same exact mo, was a Mormon and the witnesses said he looked like the guy. He had the right background for the job also. The only reason he was 'cleared' was because his wife said he was at home. That is one really sound alibi.
McCoy?
Exactly
McCoy was thoroughly investigated and cleared. There are masses of details in the FBI files. Witnesses were shown his pictures and stated the he wasn't Cooper.
McCoy’s hijacking was completely different than Coopers. They were positive he was Mormon by looking at him?? Cooper was in his mid 40s, McCoy in his late 20s. It’s not McCoy.
@@jamiewilson5679 The uniquely altered parachute harness that DBC used has been recovered from Richard Floyd McCoy Jr.'s mother's estate. The Probable Cause channel has two documentaries about RFM.
Ted B. Braden.....'Paratrooper of Fortune'....
If he was really D B Cooper, then he would know the name was Dan Cooper.
An army analyst likes a guy from NJ named William J Smith for Cooper. He makes a compelling case with a number of connections, and the photo of a mid-80s Smith is uncanny resemblance to the DB Cooper composite. But isnt that the case with all the potential suspects. On a different note, the one of best bars in Salt Lake City when I first turned 21 was called "DB Coopers," as a nod to the long time local rumor that Cooper was from Utah, and that more than a few people in the city could have identified him, if anyone had ever cared to ask. Interesting then that the second suspect discussed in the video supposedly confessed to a retired SLC judge.
Smith is an interesting suspect for sure. I’d like to learn more about him.
I am absolutely convinced it was Smith. I'm surprised he isn't mentioned more frequently as a potential suspect, considering how well he fits.
@@beeroftherat1 He fits stunningly well if you believe the book by Max Gunther and believe that Gunther/ his informant used real names and locations. If not he is just one of a couple of hundred thousand possibilities.
You saw who conducted the hijacking. The man giving the OK signal carrying his blue coat. All of the passengers deboarding the plane kept their eyes on him decisively. He was, I believe, McCoy in a somewhat different look. The money and parachutes were most likely thrown out of the plane. The question is where. It could have been impossible for the hijacker to know where. Is that why McCoy tried again in Utah?
2:26 "Between Seattle and Reno"
Lol. The ENTIRE State of Oregon is between Seattle and Reno. And so is nearly the entire State of Washington
He dead or and the money is for sure gone, NOT one bill ever showed up in any banks as stolen serial number. Only few found in river.
Of course he was military trained. Forget about the jump. Knowing where to jump and what not was amazing. He made it, and I'm sure lived a very long time..
I always felt DB Cooper was Richard Floyd McCoy. He did an almost identical hijacking a few months after the DB Cooper case down to the same 4 parachutes and having the same No Funny Stuff written in the notes given to the flight attendants. To me, McCoy also looked closer to the sketch of DB Cooper too. When you add everything up I feel like McCoy was indeed DB Cooper.
Not sure why it seems to be important that these suspects had had previous experience in skydiving when they said the person who did it didn't know anything about parachutes.
I highly recommend the movie "Bigfoot VS D.B. Cooper" it really opens up possibilities and I think it really happened that way.
You know that UFOs are often associated with Bigfoot as well.
A very well thought out film, with in depth character development and a gripping final confrontation.
Bigfoot helped him escape into the forest?
I thought by the thumbnail that DB Cooper was Oscar Goodman from the 6 Million Dollar Man. You might be on to something, because The 6 Million Dollar Man did hangout with Bigfoot…twice.
@@davidmitnick868 I hope it got an equal share of the loot!
The F.B.I. had a 1,000 suspects but failed to put me on that list. I confess, I did it.
hes an american icon, no one got hurt.
he makes o.j look like a saturday morning ACTION cartoon.
Cooper didn’t suggest Reno. After he was told Mexico wasnt possible he was given several alternatives. He turned a few down before agreeing to Reno.
it was Rackstraw
At this point, after all of these decades, nothing would surprise me about the D.B. Cooper case.
Couldn't it have been the flight crew and pilot, therefore there was no hijacker at all? Thoughts?
How did they get the money off the plane. Did they walk off the plane with the money shoved up their anuses
I don’t know people probably would have been bringing about what they had done so because of that I don’t think that even possible
One of the most hated theories along with he hid in the plane. 😂 Both debunked.
Why would an experienced paratrooper take the dummy chute that had been sewn shut?
Probably ex cia or ex fbi. Never trust anything the “authorities” say
McCoy makes the most sense
Have you been looking for a thumbnail designer??
It’s me, I be this copper fella😅
The wires and sticks of dynamite are all homemade from arts and crafts purchased at “MICHAEL’S”.
He is alive today and he was actually 5 foot 11 and 155 pounds. I know this is a fact. He was actually 37 years old and he was not a smoker, but this was part of the act.
Part of the act? Pretty smart. But why smoke if he didn’t normally? That would have made no difference in identification until DNA testing could have been done. Who is this person? Was he an experienced jumper? He sure smoked quite a bit for someone who didn’t normally smoke.
jumping from a static line is quite different than jumping off the rear stairs at 10,000 feet in the dark.
I think the cops kept the money and claimed he wasn't found
Not a bad theory but they wouldn't be able to keep their mouths shut long enough
@@bigwoody4704 that's fair but it also depends how many people were in the area at the time when it was found
Ya know it's not out of the realm that someone found Cooper augered in(dead) and just grabbed the loot and finished burying him.Certainly as plausible as many of the other theories. Perhaps a hunter/fisherman or one of hill people living off the land
He was navy trained not army trained. He assumed the name of his commanding officer of whom he did not like. Dan Cooper.
When they don't know who people are you know why just like the zodiac "he's between 5"2" and "6'11", between 150 and 700 lbs, he was either black or white, had long blond short dark light hair....."
Who does the flight attendant think it was? She was prob the best eye witness so I wonder who she ruled out and who she most likely thinks was DB COOPER!
10000% correct! Can’t be any of those old suspects as the flight attendant would have singled him out early on! Must be a different suspect not shown before….
maybe Joe Lakich fits that best
@@jayweiss4378 or he died and thats why she never got to see him, because he was dead
People are horrible eye witnesses.
Especially as time goes by.
Look it up.
Eye witnesses are the number one cause of false convictions!
@@disciple2742correct.
Counter intuitive, but correct.
Weird question, but what if he didn’t jump?
I know kinda silly to ask. However what if he’d thrown money and a the wrong parachute. Hid on the plane? Since he would have known planes, he could have hid.
I may be mistaken, but as I understand it, no one saw him jump.
Stowing away on a plane to leave later could have been the plan all along.
@@PresenceUponMe cool thanks. Good suggestion. The more I think about it the more I wonder if the FBI might be with holding this information from the public… nah, that begins to sound… then again. Say you did investigate it and found evidence that a access panel had allowed the high hackers to discreetly hide. Complete a quick change into mechanic overalls, and slip away. The wrong parachute giving investigators the idea you died.
But ya, a lie that big?
I’ll go watch your show thanks.
Agree, maybe just walked off the plane when it landed in a Captain uniform! I doubt they looked at the crew too closely
@@jayweiss4378 you doubt they looked at the crew? lol
@@kingcrustytut7544 Just looking at other ways he could have pulled that off! Making it look like he jumped and staying on sounds plausible! Maybe the crew was in on it?? I find it strange with so many suspects early on and including the ones in this video that no crew member identified any of them as DB!
@@kingcrustytut7544 “Catch me if you can” film In reverse…. He gets off the plane in a pilot or crew uniform or even better a police uniform….
What was the old movie about hunters found money on shore
It was Kenny Christianson
This is the perfect case for genetic genealogy! That will find out the answer quicker than anything! The FBI needs to contact the Doe Project and start tracing the DNA. If they send the sample to Paragon Nano Lab or Othram, they only need a minuscule bit and we can finally have the answer. At 74, this was a big deal to my friends and I and DB was kind of a counterculture folk hero. But, if you are going to jump out of a plane at night you should pick somewhere that isn't 10's of miles of close together trees!
not really because they have no clean match everything the feds collected has been corrupted.How they lost the cigarrette butts defies expalnation.
FBI
F***ing ball Busting Idiots
It was Kenneth Christiansen
D. B. Cooper was actually, Richard Anderson.
FBI and the US president should offert him a freecard to avoid jail and a 100 000 dollar check just to let him tell about this case in detail…
It should bring him to tell everything long time ago but DB Cooper had a very large IQ so he knew that only 45 + years in jail was waiting so he kept quiet..
The aircraft was in a very low speed and not so high on attitude so I am sure that he did it very simple that night ..
Cooper face was never covered. Did the whole plane crew die? Why show all of these different suspects
Who's the most likely?
It was not Robert rackstraw the stewardess Tina Mucklow look at his photograph in 2016 and said it was the last time she was looking at any pictures and it was most definitely 100% not rackstraw
Was or is a cool guy
That’s for sure!
There's only one man who could have pulled this off and that man is Dan Poynter.
Chael sonnen said it’s a Native American who wore make up that knew the forest he jumped into.
The thing with that is that subsequent investigations have concluded that its possible the FBI got the location where he jumped wrong. They determined his landing based on where the plane was when he jumped and didn't factor the wind direction correctly. Later investigations into the weather conditions show that the FBI was likely wrong about the wind speed and direction. It is now believed by some that he would have touched down in a nearby farm community, hence likely landing in a field.
One thing has always puzzled me. The instant "Cooper" opened the back door, a light on the flight engineer's panel would come on. He should have noted the exact time and location when that light came on.
@cK / Conservative Kirby / cK XI uhhhh.... to find his location???????
@cK / Conservative Kirby / cK XI Well yeah! The location where he opened the door to jump out might indicate the location to start looking for him on the ground.
@cK / Conservative Kirby / cK XI if the plane were flying over a river near vancouver when he jumped out, don't you think the river and surrounding area would make a good starting point? It's not like he'd jump out there and float all the way to Germany you idiot.
The door open moment is not when he jumped. He jumped after the door had been open for some time. Given the speed of the plane, the moment the door opened is of little value.
@@bills6093 How do you know?
Looks like billy waugh to me.
Billy believed he knew who Cooper was.
Robert Rackstraw I was a liar, and I watched the film and documentary on him claiming to be DB Cooper. Nothing he said made any sense only the fact that he robbed a big boy and that was what he was known for so why wouldn’t he say yes, I am DB Cooper, because let’s face it what are you got to lose he only waited until after his death to leave a note in the CIA connections give me a break
It was Charles Westmoreland. IYKYK.
Neither were Dan Cooper IMO. Rackshaw far too young. Gossett has completely different facial features, just look at the nose. Nothing more than pretty eccentric. Cooper was smart in asking for 4 parachutes. If he'd only asked for one it would have been sabotaged. Asking for multiple would have been conceived he may have taken hostages. I believe he died after the jump. The discovery of some the money in 1980 leads me to assume he died pretty quickly after the jump. By now there would be no remains, long scavenged by animals. Men writing letters signed D B Cooper were hoaxes as that wasn't the name the hijacker used. This is a case that will never be solved
If he was smart in asking for 4 chutes, why did he end up grabbing the wrong combo'? They said they purposely sent in a backup chute as a test and he grabbed that one, implying he doesnt have indepth knowledge of parachuting etc.
He died either directly after or during the jump, that part youre correct on.
and the last part is the most important, he wasnt even DB cooper, he identified as Dan Cooper and a news organization misnamed him IIRC.
The first drawing composite of Cooper wasn’t right according to the witnesses and he’s a dead ringer for #2 it’s not a picture! He also had the turkey neck as described and the training. If he died show us proof, according to the Diatoms found on the money , the bills got wet in the summer. The tests show money doesn’t float and rubber bands don’t last and there’s so much more.
Not sure who it was - but it might very well be that he is the one who got away!
I believe that while there was only one person in the airplane - D.B. Cooper might not have worked alone! He knew if this went wrong he might die - so chances are he knew what he was doing.
This means that he must have been quite the expert in aviation and parachuting! Who really knows that he only brought his loafers and his trench coat? He might not have had his own suitcase or other carry-on baggage. But there could have been a second person who got on the plane in Portland with a carry-on that included all the equipment he needed for the jump. He must have known that at that time, the airplane he kidnapped didn't have the range for a non-stop flight to Mexico and knew the captain had to suggest an airport for a refueling stop. Reno or LV were the stops he could anticipate before the flight. As well as I don't think he jumped where they think he jumped - why would he in the first place? The terrain they believe he jumped is a suicide terrain and if he stayed on 15 minutes longer he would have jumped after they passed Portland in much easier terrain with much better light conditions (from the Portland city lights). With a stopwatch and knowing the speed of the airplane he knew exactly where he was once they passed Portland - having a friend waiting south of Portland would have made the getaway easy. They did have walkie-talkies then already for communication once he was down...
Gossett makes more sense