Db Cooper Research Paper

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Johnny Rodriguez

English IV

1st period

2/2/2017

Detective and Mystery Genre Final Assessment:

D. B. Cooper

The Crime
Dan Cooper, the alias of an unknown suspect responsible for the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the history of the F.B.I; most popularly know as D. B. Cooper. On November 24th, 1971, “D. B. Cooper” held an entire plane ransom for 200,000 U.S. dollars and four parachutes, one of which he used to escape the plane to an undecided fate. Cooper's case is still unsolved, its infamy inspiring a media fascination and several books, movies, and songs. In Ariel, Washington, there is even a holiday dubbed “Cooper Day”.
On the morning of November 24th, an “average looking” (as described by eyewitnesses) man dressed in a suit, complete with a briefcase, bought a ticket from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington under the fake …show more content…
In February of 1980, a young boy on vacation discovered 5,800 dollars on the bank of a river in that general area. Although the bills had partially disintegrated, the F.B.I. confirmed that they had the same serial numbers and dates as the ones given to Cooper. They were also arranged in the same order (information that was never given to the general public) and the investigators confirmed that the money was indeed part of the ransom. A hydrologist studied the bills and concluded that because they had decayed in a “rounded fashion”, the bills were worn thin by river currents and not purposefully buried. This finding, however, made the mystery even more intriguing. The hydrologist's findings didn't explain why there were ten bills missing from one of the secured packets of money. Further research also revealed that because of the layers of sand and sediment on the bills, they must have been placed on the shore after the F.B.I. did an entire, and entirely unyielding, sweep of the

Db Cooper Research Paper

remains the same.” D.B. Cooper, one of the first airline hijackers to change aviation forever. The day before Thanksgiving 1971, Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727. His flight took him from Portland to Seattle. The curiosity behind D.B. Cooper can be boiled down to 2 theories: Escaping unfound and working for Boeing. While we know Cooper escaped, the conundrum behind his decampment or his job at Boeing are the most prominent theories. The man named Dan Cooper and not D.B. Cooper, held a plane ticket to…

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