It’s nice to be wanted.
At this time of the year, singletons particularly are prone to feeling a little self-pity. Indeed, wallowing in loneliness and eggnog hangovers, thousands sit in their darkened apartments, watching Sleepless in Seattle and sobbing themselves to sleep at night.
No more will DB Cooper be among them.
No, unlike Osama bin Laden, the mysterious hijacker known as DB Cooper is now officially a wanted man.
The FBI is resurrecting the mysterious case of D.B. Cooper, who 36 years ago hijacked a plane and parachuted near Portland with $200,000 in stolen loot…
The hijacker who identified himself as Cooper was never seen again. Some of the money was recovered in a mountain area.
Anyone with information on the unsolved mystery may contact the FBI at fbise@leo.gov.
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cool story. have you read the sebastian junger book about the boston strangler? it’s pretty damn interesting as well
happy new year to you rain x
Ahhh…..see, I’ll tie everything from the last few days back together here. See that picture of D.B. Cooper in the shades? That picture has always given me the heebie jeebies. I finally figured out why! Remember our Walken discussion a few posts back where I shared the clip of him being abducted by aliens in Communion?
Look at that D.B Cooper pic in the sunglasses again, and then click here:
God those things give me the willies!!!!
Singletons around the world can reassure themselves that, apparently, most marriage break-ups occur around xmas and some singletons, like myself, feel utterly content without some smelly 6ft 40-something adolescent turning us into a stereotype of ‘mummy’ when without him.. I AM THE LEAD CHILD!
It’s just one more person to share the chocolates with.
I have indeed read A Death in Belmont: I’m a huge Sebastian Junger fan (isn’t he gorgeous?)
kstaff, so that would explain why Walken is always so jumpy; he’s expecting DB Cooper to come back for him!
Philipa, you and I are far too fabulous to be categorized as “singletons.” We are simply free.
Belmont? Did someone say Belmont??? Don’t bet the favorite – that’s my only advice!
Cooper probably got tangled in his parachute and hung up in a tree somewhere, dying a slow death to become occasional snack food for a neighbouring nest of bald eagles.
They found some of the money, but not all of it, so I reserve judgement. They’d probably have found at least the skull by now, I’d have thought. It’s not THAT remote an area.
kstaff: are you saying that DiSalvo didn’t do it? OMG!
Several years ago, I read a book about D.B. Cooper but don’t remember the name. It wa written by a reporter who, according to him, got this story from the woman who found Cooper in a shed the day after the fateful hijacking. She was housesitting for a freind, heard a noise in the shed while in the backyard, investigated and found a man with a broken ankle hiding in the shed. Long story short, she eventually married him, and only called this reporter when her husband was dead. I don’t know if the story is true or not, but it offered some very plausible explanations about the money that was found, how he laundered the money he kept, what preceeded the hijacking, and his life afterward. If anyone else has read this book, I would love to know the title of it. I beleive it is now out of print.
My father was an avid skydiver during the time of this incident, and was approached by the FBI (as were most experienced skydivers in the northwest at the time) and after being cleared as a suspect, was offered a sum of money to recreate the jump so they could get an idea of where he landed. I don’t know what the amount they offered was, but I remember my father saying it wasn’t enough to attempt the recreation, because the weather conditions and the fact that only one of the ‘chutes he took with him would have opened (the reserve was a ‘dummy’ used for instruction only) were very dangerous and even an experienced skydiver would only have a 50/50 chance of making it. (For you current skydivers, keep in mind this was in the days of the round).
I thought the DB Cooper thing was made up by the good folks who bring us Prison Break each week.
Nope, it’s the real thing. A genuine mystery.
Ron paul is the real D.B. Cooper compare pics ad find out that 3 years of Ron pauls life was unaccounted for.
That would be funnier than I could ever hope for.