A Staggering New Clue on D.B. Cooper's Tie Has Blown the 52-Year-Old Case Wide Open

Popular Mechanics ^ | JAN 10, 2024 3:25 PM EST | TIM NEWCOMB

[Red Badger]

Ping!.....................

[Red Badger]

Aviation Ping!.....................

[Jonty30]

Somebody traced DB’s movements to Tibet, where he spent the rest of his life having an easy life. It will be interesting to see if that is the same man.

[icclearly]

Good for 'ole DB.

He won!

[bigdaddy45]

Everybody needs a hobby I guess.

[Trump20162020]

Is this like the sporadic “Jack the Ripper has been identified” news articles, always with different culprit names?

[MTBobcat]

Hassle-free no identification commercial flying is now a thing only our esteemed illegal aliens get to enjoy on their flights we taxpayers provide for the .

[Red Badger]

They found some of the bills in a streambed years ago, so he may not.....................

[SteelPSUGOP]

There is no real reason for the FBI to not grant access to the tie clip for testing

[alancarp]

It's Clark Gregg/Agent Colson.

[1Old Pro]

The FBI still has that necktie, though,

The FBI has been screwing things up for decades

[Cowgirl of Justice]

I read a theory where the flight crew was suspected!

[llevrok]

If the FIB still has his neck tie, and there has been good chain of custody, there may be DNA on it that could lead forensic genealogists to some solid leads.

[Qwapisking]

the guy chasing DB down reminds me of “Billy Mack, he’s a detective down in Texas, you know he knows just exactly what the facts is, he ain’t gonna let those two escape justice, he makes his living in other people’s taxes”. yeah...that’s the guy alright.

[CatOwner]

If the FIB still has his neck tie, and there has been good chain of custody, there may be DNA on it that could lead forensic genealogists to some solid leads.

Sadly, the concept of DNA wasn't well-known at the time of the hijacking. If they had, they would have saved the remnants of the cigarettes that D.B. Cooper smoked on the plane.

[Jim W N]

No, things like the money and other things found on the river’s banks and surroundings evidence this guy’s parachuting adventure met with a tragic end on or near the Columbia River.

[ducttape45]

Click bait, hate to say it. This new clue is no clue at all.

[devane617]

glad he found a purpose in life

[RetiredArmy]

He won? No, he died. Go to the Forrest in the Northwest, I.E., Washington state. I lived there 14 years. Those Evergreen trees it is famous for are pointed and sharp as spears. They are packed together in those mountains. He would have had great difficulty even going through in the real tough terrain, they are so thick. But the money found along the river reveals evidence that he landed in the water, and everything went down and out to the Pacific. Cooper, Jones, whoever he was, died that night. He is no hero. I knew someone back in the 1970s that was in a hijacked plane to Cuba. He was traumatized for years. Hijackers, kidnappers, are not heroes. They are crooks that need be dealt with harshly.