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S3 Ep135: D.B. Cooper: Mystery Money (Part 2)

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

It was November 24th, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving and historically the busiest day for travel in the United States. A tall man dressed in a business suit and a thin black tie approached the flight counter of Northwest Orient Airlines at the Portland International Airport and requested a one way ticket to Seattle. This man gave his name as Dan Cooper and he paid twenty dollars in cash for his ticket on Flight 305, which he boarded with 35 other passengers. Cooper took his seat all the way at the back of the plane, he ordered a bourbon and 7-UP, and then he settled in for the short 30 minute flight which was scheduled to take off from Portland, Oregon on time at 2:50 PM, Pacific Standard Time. None of the other passengers, or the six members of the flight crew, noticed anything suspicious about this nondescript business man, traveling with a briefcase and paper bag, sitting quietly by himself in seat 18-E, but that would change shortly after takeoff, when this quiet and polite man notified flight attendant Florence Schaffner that he had a bomb, and he was hijacking the plane. Cooper wanted 200 thousand dollars and four parachutes, and somewhere between Seattle Washington and Reno Nevada, this man dressed in a suit and loafers leaped from a Boeing 727 into a dark and stormy night and was never seen again.

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek

0:16.2

Lavasser. So today we are continuing and finishing up with the DB Cooper case. Honestly, like

0:24.4

if if I would have entertained this and gone as deep as so many people who devoted their

0:30.9

life to DB Cooper have gone, this would be a 20 part series. And everybody would be sick

0:36.8

of us and hate us by the end of it. And we would be sick of ourselves and hate ourselves

0:41.9

by the end of it. I mean, I was going to do an episode of Suspaks. There's a lit well

0:45.9

first of all, the FBI had something like a thousand suspects initially. And I mean,

0:51.3

there's as far as like suspects that are popular and people talk about, there's got to be

0:54.9

like 15 to 20 of them. And honestly, I don't think any of them pan out even though everyone

1:01.9

who like I said is obsessed with this case has a suspect that they will die on the hill

1:06.7

of even though there's been plenty of evidence and things that have come out and been like,

1:12.6

oh, this isn't the right person. And they just ignore that stuff. So honestly, it would

1:16.6

have been modeled. So we're we're pretty much just going to go over like the evidence,

1:22.2

the speculations, things like that, a couple of suspects. But like I said, none of them pan

1:27.9

out. And what I find to be the most interesting, which we're going to focus on today is like

1:31.8

the forensic evidence, the evidence that was left behind. And what kind of stuff like

1:39.6

forensically, like DNA and particles and stuff was found in that evidence because I find

1:45.6

that to be the most interesting. And I think if this case gets solved, that's what's

1:49.0

going to solve it, not like looking at a bunch of random people and being like, that guy

1:52.8

was in the military, that guy knew how to parachute. So like one of these suspects, if you

1:59.8

watch the DB Cooper, where are you Netflix series, which I couldn't finish, honestly,

2:04.9

because there was so much speculation, the the specific team of people believe that DB

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