A sketch artist created a depiction of DB Cooper based on a photo from the AP-Photo/File. Here is a summary of the key details:
In 1971, DB Cooper hijacked a plane, parachuted with $200,000, and vanished without a trace. The FBI recently released a 398-page case file, ruling out a suspect in a wheelchair.
DB Cooper used the alias “Dan Cooper” to board the flight in Portland on November 24, 1971. After threatening with a bomb, he demanded ransom and parachutes, eventually jumping from the plane somewhere over rural Washington.
The investigation delved into Cooper’s tie left on the plane, revealing rare metals linked to aerospace work. Despite numerous leads and suspects, including a wheelchair-bound individual and a fraudster falsely claiming to be Cooper, the case remains unsolved.
The newly disclosed FBI files shed more light on this infamous unsolved airline hijacking in U.S. history.
Jr., who had long been suspected by the public for his resemblance to a later hijacker, is not mentioned in the recently released information. Less than five months after the D.B. Cooper hijacking, McCoy carried out a similar hijacking of a United Airlines flight, complete with a ransom demand, a Boeing 727 with a rear air stairway, and a parachute escape. He was apprehended two days later, and investigators recovered most of the stolen money. The FBI excluded McCoy as a suspect in the 1971 hijacking, noting discrepancies between eyewitness accounts and his alibi placing him in Utah. The FBI officially closed the case in 2016 due to a lack of substantial new evidence. The latest documents do not pinpoint a definitive suspect, and the true identity of Cooper remains a mystery. (Source: People)
