DB Cooper

[Nuje]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Add to the fact that eyewitnesses aren't very reliabile, and that people's ability to guess height/weight/age is ball-park at best (you'd have to be pretty damn sharp to get all these very close), I don't think any of these numbers are out of the realm of possibility.

Perhaps. However, if somebody just asked me if I saw someone, in a situation where I didn't know that a crime was going on, I'd probably be bad. However, if I was a flight attendant on that plane, I'd probably remember a ton of details.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Nuje

Perhaps. However, if somebody just asked me if I saw someone, in a situation where I didn't know that a crime was going on, I'd probably be bad. However, if I was a flight attendant on that plane, I'd probably remember a ton of details.

Think of your boss or your best friend, and try to give me their exact eye color, height, weight, and age. Obviously hard for us to test, but I'd be willing to bet that there's a good chance you'd be 10-15% off the real numbers. 15 pounds and 2" isn't that much.

[Flashpoint]

D.B. Cooper was one hygenic getaway artist. Aboard Northwest Orient 305, the flight he hijacked and jumped out of 40 years ago, Cooper was extremely cautious about, if not obsessed with avoiding, leaving his fingerprints on anything he touched.

He'd written his original ransom note in black, felt-tip pen. He demanded that the flight crew return it to him. He'd tossed a book of matches in the seat pouch in front of him. He retrieved it and stuffed it back in his pocket.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffr..._b_916521.html

Apparently he put a lot of thought into this thing. I imagine they would have eventually found a body if he'd planted in the woods. The fact they didn't even find the parachute says to me he got away with it.

[Bonded]

Yeah, people are very bad at the recall of details like that because there is a lot of retroactive interference when asked for details.

[ricosuave]

I think that sasquach got him.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Flashpoint

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffr..._b_916521.html

Apparently he put a lot of thought into this thing. I imagine they would have eventually found a body if he'd planted in the woods. The fact they didn't even find the parachute says to me he got away with it.

I dunno. Maybe this makes me a bad person, but in all honesty, if I was hiking through the wilderness and found a dead guy with $200,000, I might take the money and cover it up. Hard to say, but the temptation would be incredible.

[Azure]

No movie was ever made about this?

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Maybe this makes me a bad person

Not if he was already dead.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I dunno. Maybe this makes me a bad person, but in all honesty, if I was hiking through the wilderness and found a dead guy with $200,000, I might take the money and cover it up. Hard to say, but the temptation would be incredible.

Is there a statute of limitations where after a certain time, it'd be "finders keepers"?

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Is there a statute of limitations where after a certain time, it'd be "finders keepers"?

Nope. Stolen property does not change ownership at any time. Even if it is sold a dozen times in the interim, if it is recovered, it goes back to the original owner.

Also, according to the Wikipedia article, a Grand Jury indicted the guy, so a trial is simply pending his capture.

[J epworth]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I dunno. Maybe this makes me a bad person, but in all honesty, if I was hiking through the wilderness and found a dead guy with $200,000, I might take the money and cover it up. Hard to say, but the temptation would be incredible.

Ya, but then you'd be chased after by a guy with a captive bolt pistol and a creepy haircut....

[T@T]

Originally Posted by Azure

No movie was ever made about this?

1981- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082958/

1984- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364751/

[Cowperson]

The lady who prompted the latest investigation steps forward for an interview with ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/US/db-cooper-e...ry?id=14219052

Cowperson

[WilsonFourTwo]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Think of your boss or your best friend, and try to give me their exact eye color, height, weight, and age.

No problem.

Best Friend: 32, 5'11", 235lbs, brown eyes, light brown hair, surgery scar on left knee.

Boss: Weasel, covered in slime. Age appropriate for mid-life crisis.

[WilsonFourTwo]

Originally Posted by ricosuave

I think that sasquach got him.

If sasquatch got him, it would have $200,000.

If sasquatch had $200,000, it wouldn't have to steal all of it's Kokanee.

[Resolute 14]

Epic thread bump!

And no, he hasn't been found.

A really interesting look at how hijackings plagued the US (and world) in the 1970s, with a lot of focus on how the airlines resisted additional security:

http://blog.longreads.com/2014/07/29...-in-the-1970s/

It gives an overview on Cooper at the end, but mentions a story about how a Calgarian nearly pulled off the same thing 11 days earlier after hijacking an Air Canada flight from Calgary to Toronto. He failed in "world's dumbest criminal" fashion.

[psyang]

XKCD's answer:



The alt-text on this comic reads:
'Why on Earth would someone commit air piracy just to finance a terrible movie decades later?' 'People are very strange these days.'

[Timbo]

Never mind

[MarchHare]

Oh, hi Mark!

[TheyCallMeBruce]

I did not hit her! I did naht...