The Mystery of DB Cooper: The Parachute that Doesn't Hold Air
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
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You may have seen the stories over the holiday weekend claiming that the mystery of DB Cooper had been solved, that the man's family had found the parachute the skyjacker used when he jumped out of the plane and into history. How much credence can we give to those claims? To find out, we went to DB Cooper expert Eric Ulis.
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| 0:00.0 | Back in 1971, a man now known as D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane, demanded ransom money, and then parachuted into darkness, never to be seen or heard from again. Even now, no one is sure who he was or why he did what he did. But there have been many, many theories. And lately, there's been a new one. Perhaps you saw media coverage of it over the |
| 0:22.5 | holiday weekend. A YouTuber named Dan Greider has publicized some claims made by the family of |
| 0:28.9 | the late Richard Floyd McCoy. The family claims that McCoy was D.B. Cooper, and they actually |
| 0:36.3 | have the parachute he used when he jumped into history. |
| 0:40.1 | Some people think that story makes sense. They point out the McCoy resembles the sketch |
| 0:45.3 | made of Cooper and that he later actually hijacked another plane. But there's a problem. The theory |
| 0:51.6 | that McCoy is Cooper is not new. The Federal Bureau of Investigation looked |
| 0:56.4 | into it decades ago and ruled McCoy out. So what's going on here? To find out, we went to Eric |
| 1:03.1 | Eulis. Eric is an expert on the case and has talked us through the details of it before. We knew |
| 1:09.8 | he was just the person to explain this newest |
| 1:12.2 | wrinkle to us. My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist. And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm an attorney. |
| 1:19.6 | And this is The Murder Sheet. We're a true crime podcast focused on original reporting, |
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| 1:35.0 | And this is The Mystery of D.B. Cooper, the parachute that doesn't hold air. Music. The So I guess to start off with Eric, our listeners remember you from your previous, you know, coming on our show to talk about JFK and D.B. Cooper. But, you know, can you just give us a little bit of a recap of some of the work that you've done on the D.B. Cooper case in particular. |
| 2:36.9 | I've done quite a bit of work on a few different areas in the case. |
| 2:41.2 | The primary area that I've spent my efforts in the case have revolved around the tie |
| 2:47.3 | and evidence that has been procured from the tie. |
| 2:51.0 | D.B. Cooper left on board the jet, a skinny black clip on tie that was recovered by the |
| 2:56.2 | FBI in Reno, Nevada. |
| 2:59.2 | And at the time, the tie was recovered, it was a very little evidentiary value. |
| 3:05.8 | But in recent years, with the advent of scanning electron |
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