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D.B. Cooper Evidence Unearthed

koin.com — An old parachute was recently uncovered in Clark County - right in the middle of where D.B. Cooper is thought to have landed. It's the same type of chute he...

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  • GabeMorgan, on 03/27/2008, -3/+16I like to believe he survived. It looks like this new evidence creates more questions than answers.
    • rspeed, on 03/27/2008, -2/+4It pretty well proves he survived.
    • evanfp, on 03/27/2008, -5/+1Sounds like an episode of Lost.
    • fkr3, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3Didn't you see the movie? He landed in a mine shaft and died, but he didn't burn his friend's share of the money.

      There's a refreshingly funny documentary about it here:
      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364751/
    • haikuFU, on 03/28/2008, -4/+0punq yrr'f (56586) hapyr yvivat va jnfuvatgba be bertba
      • DopeWeasel, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3Please don't type with your fingers full...
  • Aidenag, on 03/27/2008, -4/+24If the parachute was buried as deep as it sounds like it was, odds are here did it after landing. Meaning he survived the jump..
    • antonio97b, on 03/27/2008, -1/+30You also have to factor in that it was 1971. Mount St. Helens blew up in 1980. When it blew up it sent a flood of mud down the river. That is what probably buried it.
    • Exekutor, on 03/27/2008, -2/+3Or somebody else found the body, the parachute and the money and buried the parachute there, the body elsewhere and kept the money for himself.
    • johnpaul191, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2It's also possible he's attached to the end of the parachute they didn't dig up yet. I do have to admit i kind of hope the mystery is never solved.......
  • PropCulture, on 03/27/2008, -3/+109He died on Prison Break. End of season one.
    • geek22, on 03/27/2008, -8/+2haha!
    • machocheese34, on 03/27/2008, -4/+2But most of the money ended up at the bottom of a river in a backpack somewhere in panama
    • UltimateCrouton, on 03/27/2008, -4/+1All of his money is currently in a lagoon somewhere in Panama too.
    • hater2win, on 03/27/2008, -4/+2No wonder the company is after Michael, they think he knows where the rest of the money is.
      • L4WL3RS34L, on 03/27/2008, -4/+1Wrong show.
        • SuperSunny, on 03/27/2008, -3/+1Nope, right show. The company takes possession of LJ and Sarah, and then kill Sarah.
        • waffster, on 03/27/2008, -3/+0How so? Do you even watch Prison Break?
    • pastasauce, on 03/27/2008, -0/+16He fell into a mine shaft and broke his legs. He burned his share of the loot to stay warm but didn't burn his never-mentioned partner's. He was found by Seth Green.
      Without a Paddle
    • Nothlit, on 03/27/2008, -0/+12Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea that character was actually based on a real person...
      • Kerrigore, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2That's OK, until this article I had no idea that character was actually based on a real person...
        • everett3, on 03/28/2008, -0/+0kids these days...
        • qwertycopter, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Until this article I had no idea that two people didn't know that character was actually based on a real person.
    • Infowarmachine, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3no way, he got away with it with the help of a time traveling reporter so he could rescue his Vietnamese benefactors son (journeyman)
    • Acglaphotis, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2You beat me to it!
  • razorsharpwit, on 03/27/2008, -10/+5Damn you D.B.! Why did you have to move to L.A. and become such a phony? Didn't you know that you were the only male role model in my life? Now everyone thinks I'm crazy.
  • maretten, on 03/27/2008, -16/+2Silly Penis!!!
  • briansalo, on 03/27/2008, -15/+7I personally didn't know that the whole D.B. Cooper thing was anything more than a storyline on Prison Break... That's pretty interesting.
    • Lukesed, on 03/27/2008, -0/+8Really, that is the only time you ever heard of him? I guess that makes Prison Break educational programming.
  • noahhoward, on 03/27/2008, -5/+24"Part of the chute remains buried in the field and will need to be dug out with heavy equipment."
    Christ, grab a shovel, do you really need heavy equipment to dig up the rest of something that kids pulled out with their bare hands?
    • MasterGrief, on 03/27/2008, -1/+4While I see where you're coming from, they probably want to use big equipment so they can get more of it out at once and not risk tearing it (also, they can scoop huge mounds of dirt and sift through it for possible clues)
      But heavy equipment might actually make it more easily accidentally torn... Oh well.
    • santiago1, on 03/27/2008, -4/+4 Heh, dugg for pointing out the blatant sensationalism!
    • MrSalty, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2The part that the children "pulled out with their bare hands" had first been dug up by a plow blade.
    • kipmartin, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4good idea! im sure NO ONE thought of that!!! it couldnt be that the lame reporting was just not mentioning how deeply it was buried or that it was disintigrating or under a rock or anything.

      you should be in forensics, sir!
  • MAGZine, on 04/22/2008, -1/+5I saw this on the news yesterday. I especially like to note how they said that hijackings weren't uncommon back then, it was a more 'please co-operate' thing.
    Basically 'don't hijacks us, but if you must, go right ahead'. I don't want to be on the plane with the hijacker that can't fly.
    • ncc74656m, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3I'm more worried about the ones that can only fly. As in, get the plane to go where they want it. Thanks. Already happened.
  • shortyjacobs, on 03/27/2008, -11/+2This is BS. Read the CNN story, and you see all they have is white parachute material, so they can't tell if it's the same as DB's parachute.
    • shortyjacobs, on 03/27/2008, -1/+1http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/26/cooper.chute.a ...
    • vornan19, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Key word missing from your post is 'yet'. TFA said they were going to clean it and compare possible labels. If the found chute has no label they could test the material to see it's relative age (may not be able to date something so relatively young).
    • willynilly, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1*****. The day this story broke (which was several days ago), they had pictures of the chute clearly showing A DATE AND SERIAL NUMBER.
  • LtCarter47, on 03/27/2008, -4/+6I wouldn't even know who this guy was if it wasn't for Journeyman.
    • humperdinck, on 03/27/2008, -3/+4You need to watch more Prison Break.
    • willynilly, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Scratch that, maybe read some books instead: ...if it WEREN'T for Journeyman.
    • 4LeggedtriPod, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Pathetic.
  • maronnax, on 03/27/2008, -1/+6DB Cooper lives!
  • thesoze, on 03/27/2008, -3/+8this wasnt the one...

    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/356529_cooper2 ...
    • elhaf, on 03/27/2008, -2/+4Well it's a good thing you posted it three times then. However, the guy says, "They didn't find the harness with it? Then it's not likely to be the one I packed." So he didn't even know the story, namely that the kids cut the lines away from whatever they are connected to in the field, and the harness will be forthcoming. And you didn't even read the story that you posted three times.
  • thesoze, on 03/27/2008, -14/+2nope....

    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/356529_cooper2 ...
  • thesoze, on 03/27/2008, -15/+2nope....check the new theory

    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/356529_cooper2 ...
  • ironicsans, on 03/27/2008, -1/+15I thought Adam West was DB Cooper. Or was it Jimmy James after all?
  • shredswithpiks, on 03/27/2008, -1/+10Wouldn't have known who this guy was if it wasn't for the movie Without a Paddle.

    you know... since we're all sharing how we learned of DB Cooper
    • Petrarch1603, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2the hills have gone gay
    • willynilly, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1if it WEREN'T for the movie Without a Paddle.
  • dupswapdrop, on 03/27/2008, -7/+2No one has ever spent any of the money from the DB Cooper hijacking. Most of the money was marked and none of it has turned up. I think he's dead.
    • junkwheel, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1Some did turn up. I think he's a Digg user myself.
    • willynilly, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Not true. $6K of it was found in 1980, although not "spent."
    • dupswapdrop, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Yes I know some was found by a river. IF you had 200,000 dollars I think you would spend some of it over that amount of time.
  • darkciti2, on 03/27/2008, -2/+2I saw this on Anderson Cooper last night. They were speculating that they were related, heh.
  • elhaf, on 03/27/2008, -0/+18Maybe he himself is at the end of those lines.
    • coolian, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1Hahaha...not a funny story but you still made me laugh.
  • Kaervek, on 03/27/2008, -2/+7Grew up in the area.

    *****, finally on the map.
  • mrgeekguy, on 03/27/2008, -2/+11Totally false story, I took the chute with me.
  • everslim101, on 03/27/2008, -10/+1Who the hell is D.B. Cooper???
  • theundone, on 03/27/2008, -2/+7Well obviously I'm an idiot. I had no idea D.B. Cooper was even a real person. I had never heard of him till Prison Break.
    • hairyblue, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3i knew he was real, the film 'without a paddle' was all about him, and that was totally believable :P
    • johnpaul191, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1There is some show like Americas Most Wanted/Manhunt that did an hour long special on him. It's pretty old, but considering the clues don't come in so often it's still worth watching. I'm sure it'll be rerun again now. I know i saw it before the New Radio episode about Jimmy James being DB Cooper.
    • 4LeggedtriPod, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Obviously you are. But @ least you know it.
  • Whackly, on 03/27/2008, -1/+3Jimmy James!
  • AManWithNoName, on 03/27/2008, -0/+21Am I the only one who actually knows who DB Cooper is simply for him being DB Cooper, and not some obscure pop culture reference to him? Hm.
    That aside, this looks interesting, but it's not like it would blow the case wide open or anything. Even if he DID land there and DID bury the parachute afterwards, I doubt he'd still be in the area. It's been over 35 years, we need to give up on the case.
    • willskillz, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1That's what I'm wondering. I remember reading about him at the library in middle school.
    • xerigen, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4I watched some hour long program about him on some discovery branded channel. Apparently some dude said he was D.B. Cooper on his deathbed and they were relatively sure it was him. I guess not.
    • johnpaul191, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Considering he pulled his stunt in 1971, most digg users were probably not born yet. Not a diss, just a fact. I stumbled onto that show on one of the Discovery channels before i heard any of the pop-culture references, but before that i didn't really know that much about it.
    • junkwheel, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1He caused the largest police man hunt in history, at least a few people know about him.
    • Lunarbunny, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1I'm 20 and I heard about it through a more scholarly source...although being a Washingtonian might have something to do with that.
    • girlpirate, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1I couldn't tell you how I learned about D.B but its one of those things I seem to have always known. its probably knowledge I did gain from a pop culture reference seeing as how I was born 14 years after it happened. Thats what surprises me. There have been SO MANY references to D.B Cooper in comics, tv and movies that it seems impossible for anyone in North America at least to not know about him. It's like knowing who Macguyver is...Everyone knows Macguyver right? well everyone except my buddies girlfriend but she doesnt count as people.
  • Bonzodog, on 03/27/2008, -1/+8http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Db_cooper
  • iskub, on 03/27/2008, -1/+7my parents actually own the snowcat that the FBI used to look for him... pretty damn cool...
  • mrgeekguy, on 03/27/2008, -0/+8Looking on Google Maps, there is an Air National Guard base in Oregon, not far from Clark County Washington, so D.B. Cooper may not be the only source of a parachute.
  • louley, on 03/27/2008, -8/+2Inaccurate Story.

    Please Bury.
  • kokopelli2001, on 03/27/2008, -2/+4As usual KOIN TV in Portland screws up. The parachute dug up is *alleged* to have come from DB Cooper. It is being tested to confirm or deny the allegation. Never trust any Portland, Oregon, news source to get the story correct. Perhaps that's why the story broke out of Seattle and not Portland.

    And the actual name is D Cooper. Another corporate media screwup.
    • Petrarch1603, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1the oregonian is a bastion of journalism....at least as far as reprinting stories from the wires. Original reporting, not so much.
    • WilliamDavis, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1It is DB Cooper. You must be thinking of D Snyder or D West.
      • cha5e, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1No, it's Dan Cooper. The media inserted the B by mistake, but it stuck.
  • skews13, on 03/27/2008, -2/+1boy,wouldn't the fbi like to beleive cooper died or didn't get a chance to spend the money,to keep the myth alive of their invincability of being able to solve crimes such as this. i hope he got away with it personally,so there will always be a shadow of doubt,that if you do something like this,you can get away with it. taking away the fear factor that you will get caught. happy hunting assholes.
    • cha5e, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1It is well-known that he didn't spend the money, as the serial numbers were recorded before it was given to him, and none of the bills have been found in circulation.
  • mrshickadance9, on 03/27/2008, -4/+7my friend's uncle thinks his brother is DB cooper.
    • Buelldozer, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3Well, if D.B. stands for "Douche Bag" he might be right!
    • truk, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Is your friend's uncle Lyle Christiansen?
    • 4LeggedtriPod, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Has your friend's uncle talked to Elvis lately as well?
  • kipmartin, on 03/27/2008, -2/+1this item sure took its time climbing up the Digg ladder. theres nothing new her and the wikipedia entry on DB Cooper had more info about the latest developments yesterday morning.

    fix this little quirk in Digg and it will be a better tool.
  • Otto, on 03/27/2008, -1/+17Why does nobody know about D. B. Cooper? The man is famous for doing what he did, not for being a plot point on some crap show somewhere.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

    Seriously folks, the only man to ever get away with a random and hijacking? Come on!
    • Mossman85, on 03/28/2008, -1/+3Prison Break is a great show man.
    • Kerrigore, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Obviously, the Canadian educational system has failed me greatly.
  • killq, on 03/27/2008, -5/+0His name was never DB. The FBI ***** up and labeled him with that nickname. Anyone that refers to him as DB or links to an article that calls him DB is a ***** ignorant moron. Get a ***** clue before you submit ***** fag.
    • Choop, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1Actually you are "a ***** ignorant moron". No one knows what his name is and when he bought his ticket he gave the name Dan Cooper. The FBI interviewed a guy named D.B. and it stuck. By your logic anyone calling the Zodiac Killer "The Zodiac Killer" is a "***** ignorant moron" since we don't know who he was either.
  • tehjarvis, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1from wikipedia:
    On March 24, 2008, the FBI announced that it was in possession of a parachute recovered from a field in northern Clark County, Washington, near the town of Amboy. A private property owner was in the process of making a road on the property with a bulldozer when the blade caught some cloth, and his children pulled the cloth until the canopy lines appeared. A comparison to the backup chute given to the hijacker (but never used) is planned.[47][48] According to lead investigator Larry Carr, the discovered parachute is the right color (white), right size (26-foot canopy), and was found in the right location, but the FBI has yet to determine whether it is a Navy Backpack 6 — the exact kind used by Cooper. The FBI is seeking the assistance of parachute experts who might be able to confirm the plausibility that the chute belonged to Cooper.[49] In a March 26, 2008 interview on The Roe Conn Show on WLS (AM) in Chicago, Larry Carr, the former lead investigator for the case, stated that one of the two missing parachutes (ones that Cooper allegedly used) was actually a deactivated training chute that was accidentally given to Cooper.
  • soupnrc, on 03/27/2008, -1/+1SWEET, DB Cooper is one of my favorite random heist-type stories. Cool stuff. Not to mention that I totally live in Washington, it's a piece of my home state history.
  • thedevice, on 03/27/2008, -1/+2Everyone keeps saying the same thing "if it weren't for prisonbreak..."
    Are there no more News Radio fans left in the world?
    Jimmy James was the real DB cooper
  • turnesol, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2C'mon guys. Even CNN beat Digg to this.
  • earlycj5, on 03/27/2008, -1/+2Prison Break?

    I thought everyone learned about DB Cooper from Todd Snider.
  • punisher18, on 03/28/2008, -2/+1haha i just moved there :D
    • junkwheel, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1You're lucky he didn't land on you. :D
  • antipasta, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Mr. James, I think the question on everyone's mind is, are you Doobie Keebler?
    • schoepsMS, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Doobie Keebler I just like saying it. Doobie Keeble. Best Show Ever
  • peterinjapan, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1No Twin Peaks comments? Dale Cooper? I've always thought there was something to that.
  • robthom, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1D.B. Cooper is my hero.
  • d03boy, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1I literally just watched the movie "Up a creek" less than 20 minutes ago... creepy
  • Morality, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2Who gives a *****? Honestly. Digg me up for every person that actually cares.
    • Nishkid64, on 03/30/2008, -0/+0Well, you're at -2 diggs, so I'm guessing people do actually care.

      It was the most daring aircraft hijacking in history, IMO. Then, Cooper disappeared. That's what makes it so interesting.
  • 4LeggedtriPod, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2So a kid found $5,800 in Cooper's cash in 1980. And now in 2008 some kids found his chute. I'd like to know the competence level of the people working this case for almost 40 years.
    • thatashguy, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1the kids are the people working on this case, duh.
      /without a paddle~
      • redcatalina, on 03/28/2008, -0/+0Well, the meddling kids and there dog anyway.
  • cnorris1, on 03/28/2008, -0/+0He survived and used the money to open a bar in KC near the medical center:
    http://www.pitch.com/search/locations.php?oid=2352 ...
  • tjlsmith, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1The reason they can't find Db Cooper is because he is occupying a very deep, narrow crater in the woods somewhere.

    That jump would have been a difficult one for a professional Special Forces man and Cooper had never jumped before.

    If his chute deployed at all, it was on impact.
  • Nishkid64, on 03/30/2008, -0/+0This was annoying...

    I nominated the article for FA and it was promoted on Monday. A day later, we hear of a big break in the case...vandalism and unverified edits galore!
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