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D.B. Cooper

40 years later, many still intrigued by D.B. Cooper mystery

Last updated Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 2:48pm

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The passenger aboard the Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 wore sunglasses, a suit and a polyester black clip-on tie. He politely asked for a bourbon and 7-Up. Then, he handed the flight attendant a note declaring he had a bomb and demanding a $200,000 ransom.

Was this the beginning of a deeply flawed hijacking plan that would end with a suicidal nighttime parachute jump from the Boeing 727 jet by the man who would become known to the world as D.B. Cooper?

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Marla Cooper speaks during an interview in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011. Cooper believes that her late uncle Lynn Doyle Cooper was the man who hijacked a plane in 1971 and parachuted away with $200,000 ransom into a rainy night over the Pacific Northwest. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

FBI has chased hundreds of D.B. Cooper ghosts

Mike Baker The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 2:38pm

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- One suspect made a deathbed confession that he was the never-captured skyjacker D.B. Cooper. Another was a fugitive at the time of the hijacking. Still another was an airline worker and former paratrooper.

Each had a face that closely resembled Cooper's. None were him.

For nearly 40 years, the FBI has chased the ghost of the man responsible for the nation's only unsolved hijacking, with each exhausted lead growing his stature in American folklore.

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(SUE OGROCKI/The Associated Press) Marla Cooper, seen Wednesday in Oklahoma City, believes her late uncle was the man who hijacked a plane in 1971 and parachuted away with $200,000.

D.B. Cooper a present-day mythological figure

Sean Murphy The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 1:21pm

OKLAHOMA CITY -- When an FBI agent pleaded several years ago for help finding notorious skyjacker D.B. Cooper, he wondered, off-handedly, if someone's "odd uncle" might be their guy.

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Woman says her uncle is D.B. Cooper

Mike Carter, Steve Miletich The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 1:22pm

SEATTLE -- The "credible suspect" the FBI is investigating in the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case is a man named Lynn Doyle Cooper, who reportedly died in 1999.

ABC News first revealed the name Wednesday in an interview with Cooper's niece, Marla Cooper, who said she is cooperating with the FBI.

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FILE--A 1971 artist's sketch released by the FBI shows the skyjacker known as 'Dan Cooper' and 'D.B. Cooper', was made from the recollections of passengers and crew of a Northwest Orient Airlines jet he hijacked between Portland and Seattle, Nov. 24, 1971, Thanksgiving eve. FBI spokeswoman Ayn Sandalo Dietrich tells The Seattle Times that a law enforcement member directed investigators to a person who might have helpful information on Cooper. (AP Photo/FBI/file)

Promising lead in D.B. Cooper case?

Steve Miletich The Seattle Times

Last updated Monday, August 1, 2011 - 9:06am

SEATTLE — The FBI is investigating a “credible” lead in the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case, nearly 40 years after a tall, dark-complexioned man hijacked a Seattle-bound Boeing 727 on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 and parachuted into history from the rear of the plane with $200,000 in cash.

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