Coopy

I do not know why a suicidal man would be careful.

The line about an FBI agent digging up a wad of twenties is untrue as far as I know.

It is amazing how inaccurate newspaper reporting can be.

Probably because you fall for his endless arguments traps.

Appears to be about 2 feet. If you speed up the video you can better appreciate the in/out wave action caused by the freighter The wave action would cause debris to be tossed to shore. Be nice to have freighter activity logs for about the time the money supposively washed ashore. If I remember correctly a Crewmen on a freighter in the area notice a white parachute or something dangling body? from its underbody. It disappeared not long after they saw it.

Interesting research. What explains the small chards of money found at different depths? Were these these chards broken off from the bundles of bills found by the boy? Or were these chards from different bills not associated with said bundles?

KC was exposed as a suspect on national TV years ago. Yet, the case for KC being Cooper is stuck in the mud.

Is there enough proof that the money bundles were taken out of bank straps and rebounded within rubber bands before Cooper took possession? I find it kindof odd that in the McCoy hijacking (not long after) they did not bother to put the 500k of bundles into rubber bands. Most banks at the time had (given all the extortion for money) bundles ready to go for such events without having to reshuffle/record SN and bind with rubber bands.

KC was exposed as a suspect on national TV years ago. Yet, the case for KC being Cooper is stuck in the mud.

Eliminating his suit and hair style one can really see an American Indian trait and a Hispanic ethnic leaning.

Maybe that is why Tina Mucklow can quickly eliminate suspects 45 years later. (Ex. Robert Rackstraw - 4 years ago). Even with faded memory you can remember the ethnicity of a person.

Also interesting that Dan LeClair was French Canadian. Gunther put this forward long before the Canadian Air Force pilot Dan Cooper comic connection was made by Agent Carr. I believe the comic was written in French. As mentioned above.

Poor Derek, such a failure. He even slacks at spamming.

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I searched the Social Security death database 1900 - 2011 for DB Cooper not expecting to find anything. (He went by Dan Cooper anyways) at least via his Plane Ticket. There is only one DB Cooper in 111 years of SSA information and he? happen to be about the same age of Cooper....born in 1928......43 in 1971. SS# Birth Death Surname Given Name 167249360 08051928 01001988 COOPER D B Really odd to see his death certification only give the initials DB for his first and middle name. This is very rare. As the First name is almost always spelled out. Maybe a DB Cooper fan? Born 1928 in Penn. and died 1988 in South Carolina. I wonder if he was investigated and that is how media got it wrong and DB Cooper stuck.

I forgot to mention nobody we know of filed a missing persons report or reported anyone missing afterwards that met Cooper's description. Maybe one person was listed missing....I forgot who he was. Another PRO for him surviving. On the other hand......If he was an American Citizen.... If the dead body has not been found yet and Cooper was about 45 in 1971. He would be about 95 now. If Cooper died (body never found) or disappeared..... The oldest man to ever live in the USA was 112 and the World is 115. So maybe we can start looking for very old males in a few years who are in Social Security databases listed as living. BUT they cannot be found upon further investigation. There are Social Security databases online. Seems like the FBI could get Social Security to do an audit like this. It would be a Win-Win for both government entities. BTW....per SSA....a qualified claimant must wait 7 years after the documented disappearance of a person to claim that person's benefits. https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/lnx/0200304050

Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. In this case the one that requires the smallest number of assumptions is usually correct. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation. I wonder if we can apply Occam's razor to the Cooper Case...I like to call it the path of least resistance to an outcome. Either Cooper died due to the fall or he survived and got away. Law Enforcement probably wants the case to go away and went with the Cooper died theory. Armchair detectives wanna think he got away with the caper and beat the system. He died due to the fall.... This makes much sense at first glance. It appears he was ill prepared when he jumped into a raging storm with temps at -60 degrees. It appears he was not prepared to survive the wilderness if he survived the jumped. If he landed in lake Merwin he could have taken everything down with him to the bottom and that is why nothing from Cooper has been found except for the Tina Bar money that might have dropped into the water during the sky dive or dislodged eventually from his dead body at the bottom of a lake or river. He survived and got away... This make more sense with more thought. How often does a body, parachute, briefcase or bag of money cannot be found in a pretty narrow area searched by thousands of LE? I guess it depends on the terrain. I remember the Green River killer was able to hide many bodies in the northwest but he was purposely doing so. Cooper body (if he died) was not hidden....it just went splat or he maybe died shortly after the skydive. Cooper not spending the money can be understood if he had any inkling the Serial Numbers were recorded. Using Occam's razor it appears the outcome was he died IMO. The path of least resistance is when he jumped, it was too cold after free falling for about 15 seconds? to pull the ripcord and he plummeted into Lake Merwin or another water source like a bullet. He plummeted to the bottom of the water source where his body got lodged to the bottom. Much like Mr. H thinks happens.

I say lock the thread to new users that can post and get rid of Derek the idiot. Open back to new posting users at a later date. BTW....I cannot see Derek the idiot posts....haha

This guy got 1600 dollars for his DB Cooper money fragment on pawn stars

Thanks, works great. I wonder if I can sue Derek for sexual harassment by exposing me continually to porn pictures. I am sure he has the time to show up for court..

Sluggo you are a pathetic person who has nothing better to do than spam at a DB Cooper board that virtually nobody reads. Good luck posting to yourself.

A doctor examines Coopers mental health and personality. To me it sounds accurate. About halfway he starts his analysis. He thinks Cooper was a loner, on a suicide mission and wanted to go out with a bang into history. Knowing he could not spend the money and being not equipped to survive the fall or make it out of wherever he landed.

Very interesting interview. Makes you wonder if Cooper was something like McNally. McNally seems dumb and smart at the same time. Maybe a wannabe wise guy type. I read at DB Cooper.com that McNally used a front parachute. Part of the reason he suffered the facial injuries.

I found a very interesting story (Well done article with several pictures) of cooper copycat Martin McNally on June 23 1972. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/history/june-23-1972-youre-not-going-to-believe-this-a-bizarre-hijacking-at-lambert/article_1aac5de6-6eb4-5245-a126-7adf324d5eb2.html McNally boarded a 727 with a sub machine gun in a trombone case. He showed it to the stewardess...wanted 5 parachutes and 500k. Before the plane could take off, the landing gear was rammed by a man in a car at 80 mph, the man had driven his Cadillac through the airport fence. The man saw the hijacking on a TV at the airport and got mad. The man later said he did not remember the incident and ran for President a few years later. McNally demanded another 727. He got it and walked the hostages to the other plane while hiding from FBI snipers amongst the hostages. The plane took off and he bailed over Peru Indiana at 8k feet. FBI found the gun and money in a open field but not McNally. FBI did get a fingerprint and traced the fingerprint to McNally who had been a Navy sailor where his fingerprints were on file. McNally was arrested walking on a street near his home in Detroit with 13 dollars in his pocket. Five tears later In 1978 McNally was involved in a failed helicopter prison escape. McNally was paroled in 2010 at age 67. Reality is stranger than fiction.

Going from bank straps as when the money is stored in a bank vault to rubber bands and mixing SN makes logical sense. I still wonder why any criminal would want that many bills probably knowing the SN is recorded from the bank it came from? 10,000 twenty dollar clues. Either Cooper died or he was smart enough not to spend or launder the money. I wonder if they did the same thing with McCoy. Seems like I saw a picture a few years ago that showed all the confiscated money in packets secured with bank straps laying on a desk.