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UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: Newly discovered parachute is NOT Cooper’s. Mystery deepens. March 26: Just a couple of months ago, I reported that the FBI was dusting off some of their files in the case of hijacker D.B. Cooper, who gained lasting fame back in 1971 by parachuting out of a plane with $200,000. Cooper became a sort of mythical figure, mainly because no one has seen him since. Well, now they have what appears to be a new clue in his disappearance. Or is it? Keep reading, because mysteries just don’t come any better than this… |
It seems a Washington man was recently plowing up some of his property in rural Clark County, when he found an old parachute. Is it Cooper’s parachute? Maybe. The FBI says, it is old, and it is similar to Cooper’s, and they are taking this seriously.
They are also still wondering about the identity of Cooper; they know D. B. Cooper was a fake name. But no one’s ever stepped forward with definitive evidence as to who he really was.
By the way, officials strongly doubt Cooper could have survived. For one thing, none of that $200,000 he demanded ever made it into circulation, although some kids found nearly $6,000 back in 1980, along the banks of the Columbia River.
Which creates another mystery for the FBI, according to an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; if Cooper “landed where the parachute was found, it would be impossible for the ransom money to end up where it did by natural means.”
The mystery, it seems, continues.
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