OT: Talking Unsolved Legends/Events Wednesday. D.B Cooper
Hi everyone, last week I had the Bigfoot thread and it seemed to draw a lot of interest and a couple users suggested something similar to talking cars Tuesday. So this will be my attempt at it. I was super busy at the office today so I couldn’t get time to do it earlier. Moderators if this is not ok please let me know, but it seems this time of year is fair game for these types of things.
For those that don’t know, the D.B Cooper mystery is the only unsolved Plane Highjacking in U.S History. He successfully Hijacked a Boeing 727 in November of 1971, collected ransom and parachutes and then jumped out of the Airplane while 10,000 feet above rural Washington in the dark during a rainstorm. He has never been identified and only a small portion of the ransom money has been found and no other physical evidence. Many suspects have surfaced over the years and new ones arise, but still no idea about who he was, his motive or what happened to him.
What do you guys think happened to him and what is behind this very interesting mystery?
Have a great evening everyone.
That was a good episode, but my favorite of all time is the Star Wars Christmas Special for sheer hilarity.
Came here to post the same thing. Love that podcast (great for road trips and the driving commute). Highly suggest that episode as well as the Dyatlov Pass and Somerton Man ones.
Now some people say that he died up there somewhere in the rain and the wind
Other people say that he got away but his girlfriend did him in
The law men say if he is out there someday they're gonna bring him in
As for me, I hope they never see
D.B. Cooper again
D.B Cooper was 43 when we first heard his name
47 miles away from where he fell down to his fame
But he told me that the hardest part wasn't really jumping out of the plane
It was spending the night watching those lights
Shine through the pouring rain
One of the neighbors on my block has a name that can be abbreviated as D.B. Cooper. He says he got a visit from the FBI a year or so after the highjacking.
Damn. That’s interesting. Are you sure it wasn’t him lol.
"Neighbor"
Right. Was his first name... Don, by chance?
No way am I jumping out of a plane in the dark into a forest filled with irritable and very smelly sasquatches.
That's just what the real D.B. Cooper would say.
I don’t know who he is, but I kind of admire him.
Can’t disagree with that.
DB Cooper is one of my favorite mysteries. Some of the other unsolved/ missing person cases of note that I am interested in are:
- Jonbenet Ramsey
- Jennifer Kesse
- Brian Shaffer
- Springfield 3
As far as DB, I’m convinced he survived the jump, though it is interesting the money was never in circulation.
Those cases where people just flat disappear --- it's morbid, but I always find them fascinating.
Paige Renkowski is one I remember from growing up in Detroit. Early 1990s - she was seen talking to some folk on the side of I-96 in Livingston County, in the middle of the day. And never seen again.
Tara Calico was a teen who went missing from small-town New Mexico in the late 1980s. EXCEPT. 1-2 years later a polaroid is found in a party store parking lot in Florida. 2 bound and gagged teenagers: one of whom Scotland Yard positively identified as Calico (the FBI was inconclusive on the ID). Such a bizarre find, 1500+ miles away - but after that, no further information, all these years.
The Centre County (PA) District Attorney - Ray Gricar - who declined to prosecute Sandusky in 1998 and then vanished one day in 2005. That one is baffling. DAs aren't the type to go missing. They ARE the type that may have enemies who would like revenge. The strangest "coincidence" is that Gricar was the consultant for a 2000 book (written by a PSU grad): his disapperance strongly mimics the purposeful disappearance and faked death of the main character from that book. Besides his laptop being found, damaged beyond repair, in the Susquehanna River a few months later, we don't know much more.
Have you looked at the unexplainable missing people cases chronicled in Missing 411 by David Paulides?
In cases where predation and suicide are eliminated strange disappearances of people in our national parks have been happening. Even if there’s nothing to these, the fact that the National Parks Services do Not keep a missing people registry is disturbing.
Paulides is no schmuck, he’s a former police detective and many things about these cases rub him the wrong way. Not just the lack of cooperation from the National Parks but the sometimes stonewalling of his ability to look into even closed cases is troubling.
This week on the ID channel...
I remember being struck by the cool debonair (sp) ballziness not lining up with some of the questionable decision making and lack of planning.
The Lindbergh kidnapping would be an excellent topic as well.