D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!

I watched it but wasn't too impressed. From what I can see the online community really into the case thought it was the worst thing possible.

I haven't read anything about the case but I thought the French Canadian comic book character is way too much of a coincidence. Has anyone compiled a list a of men discharged from the Canadian Air Force against their wishes from ~61-71?

They also mentioned a flare fired off and never really explained it. That would be an obvious thing to look into as well because I don't think he could have extracted himself without help.

I honestly think it was 3-4 former military guys who were fed up with the whole system. Saw a weakness in aviation that could be exploited. They split it and used it overseas while on vacation and crap. Not completely life changing money but some comfort money.

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hey split it and used it overseas while on vacation and crap.

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I think the money came from a ransom package kept at banks so all of the bills were marked and had their serial numbers logged. Apart from the bundle found at the river, none of those bills have ever been identified in circulation meaning it's unlikely they were ever spent. Pretty strong evidence he never survived the jump and wound up being composted into the Washington forest.

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I think the money came from a ransom package kept at banks so all of the bills were marked and had their serial numbers logged. Apart from the bundle found at the river, none of those bills have ever been identified in circulation meaning it's unlikely they were ever spent. Pretty strong evidence he never survived the jump and wound up being composted into the Washington forest.

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Hard to believe he died if they haven't found a body, a parachute, or the majority of the money (believe they only found 5,800 dollars washed down the river. If they found one of those things I would definitely say he died on the jump.

In the 70s and 80s if you went anywhere besides Canada and the US and paid for meals, drinks, etc. in cash I have a hard time believing that serial numbers on 20 dollar bills would be recorded and the information sent to the US Government. Maybe I'm wrong though.

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think the money came from a ransom package kept at banks so all of the bills were marked and had their serial numbers logged. Apart from the bundle found at the river, none of those bills have ever been identified in circulation meaning it's unlikely they were ever spent. Pretty strong evidence he never survived the jump and wound up being composted into the Washington forest.

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Even the FBI says that’s not a good reason for believing Cooper died. Only for the first few months did banks in PNW check serial numbers, so he could have stayed low and spent all the money on the east coast very easily.

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I mean after watching the doc it seems pretty obvious it’s rackstraw.

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it was pretty clear the documentary was made to make out Rackstraw as DB Cooper and even still, some of their arguments were stretching. A lot of their evidence could seemingly fit a lot of people, just depends on who you wanna fit it to

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I got a chuckle when they found a piece of fabric in that forest and were like "Oh it must be the parachute!"

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We found it!




A lot of that area is logged and they're looking in an open area. If he landed near the Woodland area it could've been cut and cleared 3 times by now and be nothing but young trees currently. Could be old trees. Who knows but the odds he's in an open area is low.

What a joke.

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How can you see the part about the Vietnam guy in his company deciphering the code he sent to police and not think so?

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Easy, it's called not falling victim to confirmation bias

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I mean after watching the doc it seems pretty obvious it’s rackstraw.

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Rackstraw is too young to be DB Cooper. The 'code' stuff was laughable and exposed as such in the documentary.

I watched the first episode, and it just seemed like one of those annoying History channel docs where the "experts" try to solve some really old mystery and you're continuously teased about some game-changing evidence which doesn't turn out to be anything.