The Mystery of D.B. Cooper | Mossback's Northwest
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- Fifty years ago, a skyjacker parachute from a jet with a briefcase full of ransom money and disappeared into the Northwest wilds. And that isn’t the weirdest thing about a man we call D.B. Cooper.
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Just leave me alone! The money is gone! Move along.😎
It's gone alright, you couldn't hold onto the 200,000 in cash, lost it in a river. ending your little caper in total, abject failure.
What I want to know is, how was that long as walk home through the forest in the icy cold weather and in the rain with all that money gone 😂🤣😅
Too bad you didn’t want to work for a living. You wouldn’t have felt the need to thieve what other people had to work for, and threaten the lives of innocent people.
Cooper was a lowlife and a deadbeat.
Do ya think yacan keep the game rolling...but yea the money is gone thanks💋 to many other idiots and fools including me..
@@markdelgado8963 facts !
$20 (price of his plane ticket) in 1971 is ~ $150 in 2023, and $200,000 (the ransom) is ~ $1.5M today.
If they only had his drink glass, with his fingerprints, case closed!
Fun(ish) Fact: After this incident, and the numerous copycat attempts, aircraft with skystairs were modified. They added a little spring loaded fin. When in flight the air stream rotated the fin against the spring and blocked the stairs from being lowered.
Krav , it became known as the Cooper lock. Above 60 knots, it would rotate and position itself along with the locking plate over the edge of the air stairs. It's not very big but enough to keep the air stairs from lowering.
he still has a great deal of public sympathy
what if he lost control of the bag and lost the money but survived the jump.
I think he survived the jump but they probably would've found it by now. More than just 6000 of it. Just my gut feeling.
@@Nathan-se3fr the money could have drifted into the ocean or in a bank somewhere covered in mud. it would be almost impossible to find
No, the name of kenny Christianson was proven by the brother and Coopers good friend. Brad Melchers 3 professionals interviewed the brother and friend who both said Kenny Christianson was DB Cooper. The brother had photos of Kenny in a U.S. Army Corporal's uniform. He was the only Paratrooper and trained at the end of WW2. All the other suspects were too young to have been Cooper as he was 44 in 1971. The famous photo of him looks just like Cooper and the flight attendants said so also.
Keep listening to sleuths making CZcams videos lol. They guessing its never bn proven by the FBI .
Richard McCoy was DB Cooper. Because he had a receding hairline he looked 40 when he was around 29 years old........
@@joeblow7407 never was proven and he was too young . Stop listening to sleuths they only have opinions
You have NO idea who I am or what my background is! Don't tell me who to listen to!
@@valeriegriner5644 agreed. I like mccoy, the guy who did the exact same thing 6 months later and who happens to look just like the sketch and who's kids say they knew about it.
It was a conspiracy between him and some of the flight crew. They split the cash and went their separate ways 💸
Hey I still remember when this happened like it was yesterday! This was the modern day bandits of the past cowboy days! It was viewed by many as hey this dude got away with the money & no-one will ever know who he was how cool was that! Something movies & dreams were made of while watching wild west shows! .overnight day Robyn Hood only he kept the money!
Definitely a white daredevil. Probably a Canadian paratrooper. The Canadian comic book character and then jumping near Canada is a clue for me.
The fact the money was found tells me he didn't survive the jump. Why do all of this to intentionally leave money behind?
It’s a red herring
His money could have just flown out
Sir thank you for using the word. Stewardess 😊 This is the correct word to describe all of the cabin personnel 😊
Odd I remember that nigh quite well! Big family get together, uncle from Seattle. Thanksgiving in Forest Grove Oregon. 6 pm news on the TV. Cold raining evening, jests at sunset. Braking NEWS channel 2. plane hijacked Portland, bound to Seattle. In those day we eat as a family, around a big table, with the TV. still on. DB Copper was the total topic, that hole weekend! I don't care, one way or another, but I don't think he made it. I suspect he bounced when he hit the ground, his balls were so big, he ended up on the moon thank you stay safe
DB Cooper did survived, he died at 2017 his real name is Joe Lakich, go look it up on youtube.
Back in the day a friend of mine talked about doing this kind of stunt ( before Copper did his ),he did have two jumps to his credit so he was somewhat familiar with parachutes .
Trust me, I have logged over 1500 jumps, no one with only two jumps is " somewhat familiar"with parachutes.
@@billsanders5067 Familiar enough to do a jump. People jump all the time without being a jump instructor.
@dannygjk I never had any instructors rating. I agree that it possible but highly unlikely that someone with only two jumps could pull it off.
@@billsanders5067 Parachuting doesn't take a zillion jumps to be competent. I knew a guy who loved it and he informed me that you don't need supreme technical skill to do safe jumps.
@dannygjk Jumping out of a Cessna in daylight at a drop zone with a large landing area and light windsis one thing, doing at night with with a main canopy you have never used out a 272 in bad weather and with no ground reference is a whole different ball game. From your comments I am guessing that you know very little if anything about free fall parachuting.
At about 3:18 in, I don’t think the editors understand just how large, wide and deep the Columbia river is in SW Washington. This is definitely * not * the Columbia. 😂
His name was McCoy, got caught when he did it again a few months later. There is plenty of info if you look. He was ex military, combat vet.
Green Beret, demolition expert, jump qualified (all special forces had jump wings), Huey helicopter pilot, two combat tours in Nam. would have gone back for a third except my wife would have divorced me. DSC, purple heart, combat ribbons, Air medal etc. etc.
@@richardmccoy9814 But he was a Joe Biden loving gun banning clown....
No, too young
@@michaelgmoore5708 How about Joe Lakich?
@@michaelgmoore5708 No, too old.
He was the cool dude with big balls and america fell in love with the story of how easy it was to skydive out of the 727 from the rear of the plane. It was so easy he did it again over the city in Utah.
Anyone familiar with chutes probably wouldn't have taken the sewn shut one as a backup.
There was no trace of the briefcase or parachute the search was done in the wrong place... remnant of the stolen money was found 20 miles away... from the initial drop site... did the money float in the river for 10 years and then washed ashore?
The parachute was found on Richard Mcoy's mother's property. It was highly modified in an unusual way and the man who packed the Cooper parachute has identified it as the same parachute.
The only way we will really know for sure is if someone finds one of the bills in a safety deposit box or even a hole in the ground.
In any case, There is no evidence that the man ever jumped out of that plane. How he avoided getting caught is anyone's guess
There is a great deal of evidence that he jumped. I can't go through it here and now. Look it up.
There's a lot of places to hide on a 727. I've often suspected this as well. A change of clothes is sometimes enough, especially if you alter your mannerisms and way of walking after you change. I've pulled this off, and I'm no master spy.
3:30
@@IvanLendl87 A little different, Let's rephrase, If anyone can produce a full bill then trace it back to a person
Shoot...??? No, not shoot. Parachute is always abbreviated...chute, not shoot. How are we to believe these theories in the video if the author can't even get the basic fact correct?
Love it. Id love to know how he lived his life. But --a thought!! - DNA on the tie he left behind ???? Dint tell me -- they lost the tie
I very much doubt if special forces are trained to jump in those conditions. I believe that with the aid of an assistant he walked off the plane when it landed.
Did any friends, relatives, acquaintances notice the person suddenly now missing from their lives?
I have heard so many variations of the money found story. Did the bills actually match the bills by serial number or were they similar?
They are a positive match. But only a small portion of the total. None of the other bills have ever been spent. Banks record the serial numbers of bills when they are sent for disposal, and by now all would have been disposed of if they were in circulation. The only reasonable theory is that he died and the money remains in the woods.
@@SalisburySnake As luck would have it, the bank chosen had a stash of non sequential bills, but with their serial numbers recorded, just for this sort of situation. But apart from the fire pit ones, no others ever seem to have come to light.
@@KravKernow Had a feller make off with seabag full of cash from a destroyer tender. Never found him either.
That also was back in the day before ATMs and direct deposit and sailors got paid in cash. Theory was he ended up in Costa Rica.
@@warrenpuckett4203 Had a court martial once where my chap accused of embezzling when converting sterling to Falkland Island pounds. Evidence was the accounts that seemed to show discrepancy. Case collapsed when person in charge of record keeping stated that he didn't know FI had its own currency.
@@SalisburySnake It would have been easy to launder that cash back then.
So what was the odd thing about him?
@KTZS 9 my grandfather and I buried the cash at Tena bar. I dug the hole and then pushed sand over the top of the bundles of cash. I remember trying not to push sand under the layers of plastic wrap.
My father, Michael Robert Barker, used to work at Tektronix. Apparently he went to New York for work and came home early and unannounced only to walk in on his wife and best friend. Michael is still alive and hiding out with the polygamists in Motoqua Utah.
You should report that to the authorites
Club Fed? What about the statuet of limitations?
Excellent presentation; nothing new.
Since no parachutes have been found I would say he landed in the river drowned and all but that one part of the money washed out to sea.
Maybe. If he died, it seems like landing in the river would increase his chance of being found. I think his bones are stuck in the fork of a tree and may eventually be found and identified. It's still a very remote area.
I dare someone to go back to the past and put cameras in his eyes and make a Netflix movie! Want to make some real betting money? Lol
Dan made it and lived a comfortable life🌴😎🌴on the beach somewhere.
Please give me a break!I gave it ALL to Boys Town. NICE FLIGHT.
D.B. Cooper was Elwood Blues. he's your soul man!
Here's the thing. He didn't jump out . The stewardess was in on it with him. He stayed on board, hidden in a cargo crate. They put the money in her luggage as it wouldn't be searched. She sealed the crate up , let the stairs down , chucked the parachutes out, went back to join the crew.
Everyone was busy searching for a parachuter who never left the plane so they never really thought about any other possibilities.
Cargo box got delivered, they either split the money or lived happily together.
I agree.
There was a cabin pressure change when he jumped and oscillations from the stair door closing when he jumped. There may be a lot of unknowns with this case, but we absolutely know with 100% certainty that he jumped.
@@parrotheadvol6842 With %100 certainty we know the cabin wasn't pressurized . Also how could he close the door? He could only have closed the door from inside.
@@redwater4778 The aft stair door was opened, as he walked down the stairs the door opened more. When he jumped, the door slammed closed that created the oscillations. That's when the flight crew said, "Our friend just left". They did testing later, dropping a weighted sled from the same plane in the same manner. The oscillations were the same. Cooper jumped. It's ridiculous to think otherwise.
@@parrotheadvol6842 Yes of course the aft door was opened as he walked done the stairs. How else could he walk down the stairs?
.There was no oscillations, get this oscillation thing out of your head. There was a cabin pressure drop. The open door caused a vacuum.
The plane landed with the door still open.
They did a hasty search of the plane as they wanted to search on the assumption that he bailed .
Rubber bands rot after a couple years, especially outside. Hard to believe they were still intact on the money.
Would have been one helluva return on investment if they didn’t have the serial numbers and if he didn’t possibly perish
Am i the only one to notice this guy is the remote submersible operator from the movie Titanic?
My dad is Db Cooper
Excellent video! For me, the "odd thing about DB Cooper" is that people decided to keep using that name even though it was realized early on that the hijacker actually used the name "Dan Cooper". Why did "DB Cooper" stick? It's not more mysterious or interesting than "Dan Cooper". In fact, I believe the hijacker purposely chose the name "Dan Cooper" as a tribute to a comic book character, a Canadian pilot/action hero. "DB Cooper" is meaningless and the name should have been forgotten as soon as it was realized to be an error.
This reminds me of Native Americans being called "Indians". Even in 3rd grade, I was like "yeah, they made a mistake, but they *immediately* realized the mistake. How on earth did the name stick?"
@@SalisburySnake Yes, exactly!
As if it really matters......
I think DB Cooper stuck because it sounds better and more mysterious. I also like the term Indians for native Americans and many other traditional nomenclature like Injacks. Don't get too worked up about it (or should I say "woked up about it"), because they're only words. CZcams JUST MADE ME EDIT MY COMMENTS, HOW MARXIST.
@@joetanaka6446 I repeat, "DB Cooper" does not sound any more interesting or mysterious than "Dan Cooper". Sorry to inform you, but words have meaning and they ARE important!
it was Rackstraw
There was no trace of the recorded serial numbers the money was never spent... the only conclusion is he never survived the jump!
banks stopped looking for those serial #'s 6 months later...
Thumbnail looked like Seth Rogen after a bender.
Walter Reca was D B Cooper. He was or soon became Black Ops. The FBI did not want to reveal him. His skill set was just that good. They used him for years as an assassin.
Right, and he also shot JFK.
@@markdelgado8963 No .. James Files did that.
@@markdelgado8963 No he was JFK.
@@danholtbk7008 Koenig investigated both cases....
No way. Recca’s story puts him way east of Seattle. Not near the suspected jump zone.
Well they make me weird, I told you I don't do anything but watch tv tho...
Let the bad guy win every once in a while
The correct word for “stewardess “
There are people who reinact the jump.
Initially DB Cooper offered the stewardess several bundles of money the stewardess declined... that must have been the bundles of money that were found 10 years later!
He's dead! 50 or so years old in '71, that's 52 years ago. By now if he's still alive would be lucky to remember his name.
the real crime is $20.00 airline ticket
I wonder if the FBI still has the clip on tie. If so, they might be able to do a genealogy search against any remaining DNA on it?
They do have the tie. But nobody knew about DNA at the time and it so badly cross contained and handled is no good
Oh God he's got a buuh. No not a buuh a bomb
Seth Rogan aged fast
I want to know if the pilot, copilot, sturdiest, etc. Checked to see if Cooper had jumped while in flight or did nothing until they landed?
Why?
Because Cooper could have jumped long after they thought he did, at a lower altitude, as the plane was descending to land, or at a ground marked drop zone... Their is a lot of possibilities... Cooper could have very well have had a accomplice on the ground marking a drop zone and then getting him out of the area.
It's Stewardess.
1:01
"People have fingered their relatives"
Yes, I've seen the videos.
I told you, there has got to be a way to make some money off of these weirdos! Eric from the Hollywood
I told you, all you accomplished when it comes to me is ruining my normal life.... Eric
Typical: The Press makes a big error, and no corrections.
It could have been Rackstrom
Walter Reca was Dan Cooper.
Cooper never jumped from that plane
I thought to myself he might have hidden on the plane and walked off later. But why throw at least 6k USD out into nowhere? It wasn't found for quite some time after.
Obviously his real name is Agent Smith.
His name was Dan Cooper not DB
Thunderstorms?? Where it’s was 47degrees F out
Cant catch all of our hero’s
1:02
Vince peterson
Dream of being D.B Cooper?
That was what D.B Cooper was all about.......
Richard McCoy was DB Cooper!!!!
He jumped over Nevada....NOT Washington. Much softer turf to land on!!!!
Did they check for DNA n fingerprints from his drink
Just one odd thing huh? Lol
CHAEL SONNEN KNOWS DB.
Is it just me, or does that kids dad look like D B Cooper. Maybe he gave the kid the money to keep the story going.
He never existed?
So what is the ODD thing? Weve heard all this before. We all know about copy cats crime.
I'm pretty sure he was Richard McCoy.
Ye sir.
I am pretty sure he died, either landed in trees or in the river.
There was no DB Cooper, conspiracy theory.
It was one of the first theories from law enforcement. The crew made him up and dumped a bag out the back attached to a parachute to throw people off which would explain the money in the dirt. They even checked the plane to make sure he wasn't hiding on the plane still.
@@TGBurgerGaming think there’s a chance it was an inside job by government or someone else?
@@DamianRobb flight crew imo. The moment a story starts to make no sense is the moment BS was introduced to the story. It stops making sense the second this guy orders a bourbon. Reads like the origin story of a mid level Marvel Super Hero.
That's a lie
90 years old what fake news I always looked older and to the second point statue of limitations my friends
They tore down the statue of limitations during the riots. I mean peaceful protests.
The only problem with this is that the rubber bands would never be there for very long after they used rubber bands disintegrate after a short period of time and they snap and go away somebody had to have planted that cash way after the jump and put new rubber bands on because the rubber bands would never stay intact for that long I keep rubber bands in my desk and when I go to stretch them out after a year they just snap so I know that rubber bands don't last that long
So, what you're saying, is that rubber bands don't last that long? Interesting.
He died, if he landed in freezing water he would be dead in 1 minute
This case has been solved, his name was Richard Floyd McCoy.
Yeah except that makes no sense.
@@Lleanlleawrg Explain?
No it has not .stop listening to sleuths lol
@@warrenborman2990 Joe Lakich
Yes. It was on DB Cooper family secrets Pt. 1 video. McCoy did both. The reason he did it again was because he lost the money on the way down the first time.
What if… he never jumped from the plane. What if he hid in a hidey hole until after the plane had landed? Everyone was diverted searching the ground. Is it possible he snuck off the plane when no one was looking?
Sure, but explain why he never spent the money? Every serial number was recorded and none have ever been found except those few in the woods.
@@SalisburySnake very good point. But then how did that money end up buried?
@@GhostofCTC it was found in a bend in the river, the burial was natural. But if I recall it was upstream from the alleged drop zone, not downstream. So there's still some debate about it.
@@SalisburySnake interesting!
@@SalisburySnake I wonder what the wind patterns were at the time of the jump. People have tested how hard it would be to hold onto the loot whilst parachuting. Turns out it's very hard apparently. So if he lost the money at around 10,000 feet it may well have traveled a long way before reaching the ground.
It wuz G.Bush
Joe lakich
Look, this has been solved, DB Cooper was Robert Rackstraw. The only people who wont let it go are True Crime Fans and ppl from Cooper Con... It was Robert Rackstraw get over it.
I am not DB Cooper, not
Like Elvis he is still out there somewhere.
Has anyone really considered and investigated if this never really happened and was all just an inside job?
There would have to be too many people for it to be an inside job. Seems more likely he acted alone and died probably landed in a tree or the river
a complete waste of time
Did you know the name Dan means (God is my judge)
Clip on tie,so tacky lol
Very common when you might be working around machinery, or at risk of getting caught in something
@@kennethscottwagner5981 Also common as part of a uniform, police wear them
It was my dad why can't you all believe it?!
Nothing but BS!!
LIES ALL LIES. MY UNCLE DID IT BUT NOBODY SAW HIM AFTER HE JUMPED. MY DAD & BROTHER HAD TO PICK HIM UP. THEY DID SO. HE MOVED TO ANOTHER STATE. HE WAS MARRIED. HAD 2 KIDS. HE DIED A FEW YEARS AGO.
DB Cooper became an IRS agent and lived out his working days auditing citizens on behalf of the US treasury