So what do you think, Did D.B. Cooper survive?

[C_stripes]

I know this is really random, But do you guys and gals think D.B. Cooper survived? 

For people that don't know who D.B. Cooper was.  Here is part of the story, http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/scams/DB_Cooper/index.html

[TruckDriver]

You must be referring to the story where they said they may have found his parachute. I think so.

[gordo1968charger]

yeah,hes probably driving round in a wing car

[hemihead]

I think he died .

[Blown70]

I just think that is a good story.  Left to the imagination,  I think he COULD have.

BTW they did find some of the $$ too did they not?

[Chad L. Magee]

Blown70- You are right they did find money, so it is very doubtful that he made it.  Recently, a guy had some currency notes (mostly $20s) "slabbed" by a grading service.  Seems he found a stack of them back around 1980 while camping with his folks.  According to CoinWorld magazine, he found over $5,800 in badly eroded notes.  They had been washed down from a river and had been exposed to the surface for along time (bugs, animals, etc took their toll on them).  He turned the remains of the cash over to the FBI soon after he found it and the serial numbers were used to trace it back to the D.B. Cooper heist.  Since the case was so old and the FBI could not get any more information from the bits of currency, they handed over most of it back to the guy who found it.  Someday they will be up for sale at an auction, but their only value is the tie in with D.B. ...........

http://www.pcgscurrency.com/dbcooperserials.html

http://www.pcgscurrency.com/dbcooper.html

[daytonalo]

THEY WENT BACK TO A 1971 COLD CASE , BIN L WAS TO HARD FOR THEM , AFTER ALL THEY KNOW WHAT COUNTRY HE IS IN . THEY FOUND D.B COOPER'S PARACHUTE IN A FIELD IN OREGON . WE CAN ALL BREATH A SIGN OF RELIEF AND SLEEP AT NIGHT !!!!!


LARRY

[Old Moparz]

 

[last426]

A long, long time ago I was at a close friend's house and left about 10 (I think it was ten but I am sure it was well after dark).  When I drove by the end of the runway at the Reno airfield, police were all around.  This is before the airport was fenced.  The 727 that D.B. jumped from had just landed and they thought he might still be on board.  He wasn't.  Kim

[TruckDriver]

 

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,41865.0.html

[TK73]

Does that mean they took down his picture in the Post Office too??

[TK73]

Dude was BigFoot food... before that he was driving a Mod Top Wing car...

[bull]

Dude was BigFoot food... before that he was driving a Mod Top Wing car...

Close. Bigfoot actually broke his fall and then a chupacabra nursed him back to health and they split the money before aliens abducted Cooper and took him to the Gamma Sector.

[2Gunz]

The whole f-ing thing is retarded.

We are going to spend 30 billion dollars to find a dead guy and $200,000 in moth eatin notes.


BRILLIANT!!

[Guns N Rotors]

DB Cooper was Richard Floyd McCoy.

From Wikpedia;

Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr., was born December 7, 1942, in the town of Kinston, North Carolina, and grew up in nearby Cove City.

McCoy moved to Provo, Utah in 1962 and enrolled at Brigham Young University before dropping out to serve a two-year tour of duty in the United States Army. He served in Vietnam as a demolition expert and pilot[1] and was awarded the Army's Purple Heart in 1964. He returned to BYU in 1965, where he met Karen Burns. Richard married Karen Burns in August 1965 in the Raleigh, North Carolina Temple, North Carolina and fathered two children, Chanti and Richard, with her by 1971.

He served another term in the Army on the condition he go to Vietnam, where he was awarded both the Army Commendation Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross. Back in Utah, he served as a warrant officer in the Utah National Guard and was an avid skydiver.[2] McCoy taught Mormon Sunday school and studied law enforcement at Brigham Young University. His purported dream was to become a United States FBI or CIA agent.


[edit] Criminal career

Same modus operandi as D. B. CooperOn April 7, 1972, four months after D. B. Cooper's hijacking, McCoy boarded United Airlines flight 855 during a stopover in Denver, Colorado. The aircraft was a Boeing 727 with aft stairs, the same equipment used in the Cooper incident, which McCoy used to escape after giving the crew similar instructions as Dan Cooper had. McCoy was carrying a novelty grenade and an empty pistol.


The Salt Lake Tribune's article about the 1972 capture of Richard McCoyPolice began investigating McCoy following a tip from a motorist who picked up a hitch-hiker (in a jumpsuit, carrying a duffel bag) at a fast-food restaurant where he had stopped to get a milkshake. McCoy also had described to a number of people how easy it would be to carry out such a hijacking.[3]

Following a fingerprint and handwriting match, McCoy was arrested two days after the hijacking. Ironically, McCoy was on National Guard duty flying one of the helicopters involved in the search for the hijacker. Inside his house, FBI agents found a jumpsuit and a duffel bag filled with cash totaling $499,970.[1]

McCoy claimed innocence, but was convicted of the hijacking[4] and received a 45-year sentence.[5] The Public Defender assigned to represent McCoy was David Winder, who was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to be a District Court judge in Salt Lake City and who continues to sit on the bench to this day. Thirty years after McCoy was sentenced, an attorney and talk-radio host in Salt Lake City named Rinehart proposed a detailed list of written questions to Judge Winder about the McCoy case and posted them online with Winder's response.[6] Rinehart also interviewed several officers and FBI agents involved with the case and posted those interviews online as well.[7]

Once incarcerated at the Federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, McCoy used his access to the prison's dental office in order to fashion a fake handgun out of dental paste. He and a crew of convicts escaped on August 10, 1974 by commandeering a garbage truck and crashing it through the prison's main gate.[8]

The FBI located McCoy in Virginia Beach, Virginia, three months later. News reports stated that on November 9, 1974, McCoy walked into his Virginia home and was met by FBI agents;[9] he fired at them, and an agent fired back with a shotgun, killing McCoy.[10] Other witnesses dispute this claim.


[edit] Death and afterward