When A Cold Case Becomes Hot Again: The Story of D.B. Cooper aka “The Skyjacker”

Remember the case of D.B. Cooper? The man who hijacked a commercial plane in 1971 going from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, and later parachuted out of it with the ransom money? Yeah, well that unsolved mystery went cold after never being able to find him. There was a full-blown manhunt, but the hijacker was never found, leaving us with one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in U.S history.

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Source: Rolling Stone

The “skyjacker” used the alias Dan Cooper, but with all the news coverage that ensued, a reporter misheard the name as D.B. Cooper. And that’s the name we all became familiar with. America became obsessed, and D.B. Cooper became something of a folk hero, inspiring a number of songs, books, and movies.

But this cold case just got hot again, with some new evidence about his true identity…

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