DB Cooper Hijacking Programme

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Spiny Norman
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DB Cooper Hijacking Programme

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BBC Storyville series has a documentary on the infamous 'DB Cooper' hijacking in 1971 at 9pm tonight (Monday). One of the great aviation mysteries.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pqyw

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BBC4. Got it now!

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I never realised there were so many 'genuine' D B Cooper's! 😀

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Me neither. And there's a ton more on Wikipedia. McCoy looked the part but I wondered how secure his alibi was.

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Saw the the programme seemed somewhat disjointed, a lot of Walter Mittie's coming out the woodwork here! Whoever it was a competent parachutist but will will go down in folklore!!

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Thoroughly enjoyed this - beautifully shot and at the end the filmmaker basically told you what he thinks happened without telling you directly - ie there is a body out there in the Oregon wilderness with £200K next to it!

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TEXANTOMCAT wrote:
Wed 25 Nov 2020, 3:50 pm
Thoroughly enjoyed this - beautifully shot and at the end the filmmaker basically told you what he thinks happened without telling you directly - ie there is a body out there in the Oregon wilderness with £200K next to it!

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Some $5,800 of that $200,000 was found in 1980. It was unearthed on a riverbank in Washington State.

Scientist uncovers new, minuscule clues on DB Cooper ransom money found in Washington



https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/08/ ... som-money/

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TEXANTOMCAT wrote:
Wed 25 Nov 2020, 3:50 pm
...there is a body out there in the Oregon wilderness with £200K next to it!
So you're saying a bank teller did him in for making them change all those $ bills into pound notes?

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🤦‍♀️ oke doke $195k!!

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One mystery is why none of the money was found in circulation. That led to the claims that the hi-jacker never survived the parachute jump. If he survived he may have had seconds thoughts after realising that the serials were recorded?

One investigator in 2020 is offering a $25,000 Reward Offered for DB Cooper $20 Bills.
It is estimated that among the $20 bills in circulation during the time of the skyjacking, approximately 0.5% are still in circulation today. Therefore, it is assumed that if DB Cooper’s ransom was eventually spent, approximately 50 of the missing Cooper twenties are still in circulation.
https://themountainnewswa.net/2020/05/1 ... iculation/

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So if DB Cooper never survived, all the suspects highlighted aren't in the frame and we will never know.

Unless he was able to launder the money somehow...

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Did they mention the titular hijacker actually called himself Dan Cooper and it was a journalist that introduced DB after interviewing a suspect with those initials, or was it wall-to-wall DB?
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