I know they continued to use the jet for flights but eventually it became outdated and replaced. What did they do with the jet? Sell it, scrap it, destroy it?
Hi all. So over the years people have speculated on the identity of D.B. Cooper and wherever you read about the case, there will usually be about a dozen or so "potential suspects". Surely photos of these potential suspects were all shown to Tina Mucklow over the years, and I cannot recall any comments from her identifying any of these people as the man she sat next to for all those hours. Why then, do suspects like Richard McCoy, Ted Braden etc. still seem to endure?
Just thought I’d throw this out there as a possibly intriguing line of thought.
A lot of little things point to him being Canadian and I find myself leaning somewhat in that direction. The FBI had some difficulty investigating suspects in Canada due to the obvious jurisdictional issues which would go some way to explaining why he was never pinned down. I also believe he was more likely a WWII paratrooper rather than special forces or a guy with zero jumping experience. Assuming these two things are true (big if I know) this would narrow down to the number of Canadian paratroopers in WWII.
A cursory search says there were approximately 2000 paratroopers across two battalions in the Canadian army. Not a small list, but if that number is accurate, it’s certainly workable for any sleuths out there with too much time on their hands.
I love myself some True-Crime, Unsolved Mysteries and Heists. The D.B Cooper story ticks all the boxes, and also shares an excellent community cross-over with numismatics and banknote collecting.
I'm not sure if something like this is already available, however I've put together an identifier and tracker/notifier for matched D.C Cooper notes, manually extracting the entire serial list via the FBI scanned records (fun fact the list contains 9,998 entries, not 10,000, this forced me to triple check the count, please correct me if I missed 2)
My thoughts around the ransom notes are, even if they made their way into circulation, would the average person even make the connection, it's unlikely they would scour FBI historic records to attempt to find a match.
The tool I've put together does the following:
- Checks 100% Ransom Note match
confirms a legitimate ransom note
also checks:
- Matching Serial on different series / denomination
- Newer series notes containing a D.B Cooper serial within
These are novelty collectables, not an official ransom note but would make for an interesting prop / novelty note in the numismatic / banknote collecting community
I've also setup wishlist alerts, that when a user checks their banknotes, if they we're to find a ransom note, they can register it publicly and anyone with the ransom note on their wishlist will be notified
This all works in conjunction with checking many other collectables features, where casual collectors might not even be aware of ransom notes at all, in which case they will be alerted immediately they have something extremely sought after.
if interested in checking it out:
D.B. Cooper Ransom Note Checker
Will we find a ransom note in circulation? historically the stats are against us, but this is 1 more tool to help solve the mystery. While my hobby lands greater within the collecting side of things, I'm all ears for feedback / corrections if I've missed or made a mistake.
June 6 - Columbia Tech Center Amphitheater - Free admission - 5:30