What’s your thoughts on this mystery? Some believe he may have been a WW2 era paratrooper.
Fascinating. I had never heard the name, but have just looked
It up. Thanks Worsham.
As vast and remote as the woods of the Pacific Northwest are I have to figure he would have been nabbed by the G-men at some point. I’m guessing he never survived the jump.
The 70s were a wild time, since DB’s brazen caper was followed by the Lufthansa Heist in 1978; while it was not as elaborate as the legendary Great Train Robbery in England (this was just a bunch of mobsters using a crooked airport security guard) it lives on in American lore (and is immortalized in the classic film Goodfellas). For the ringleader the hard part was not pulling off the robbery but tying up all the loose ends that emerged afterward.
In the 1989 TV movie “Murder by Moonlight” – essentially a mismatched cop buddy story set on a lunar outpost – there’s a scene in which the American investigator (Brigitte Nielsen) and the Russian investigator (Julian Sands), who are trying to catch a murderer, have just discovered that the killer’s first victim was (unbeknownst to anyone) a Israeli agent who was working undercover on the Moon to track down “someone unbelievable.” The two of them sit wondering out loud who this unbelievable person might be:
Him: Martin Bormann?
Her: Jimmy Hoffa?
Him: Amelia Earhart?
Her: D. B. Cooper?
Him: Who is this D. B. Cooper?
There was a show I just saw awhile back saying he was alive or at the time they did the interviews and they were trying to figure out if this old guy they kept asking if he was Cooper. He always denied it.
They kept comparing a picture to other family photos. Then there was the rumor domebody found a bundle or a just 1 stack of money. :?
Well, as the saying goes…
Only reason I had any idea what this topic was about:
