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posted by takyon on Saturday November 25 2017, @03:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the mysterious! dept.

FBI releases 1971 letter that D.B. Cooper sleuth says could be from notorious hijacker

Newly released FBI documents pertaining to the D.B. Cooper hijacking case include a letter that may only deepen the mystery surrounding the notorious unsolved crime which marks its 46th anniversary this week. "I knew from the start that I wouldn't be caught," says the undated, typewritten letter from a person claiming to be the man who said he had a bomb and commandeered a Northwest Airlines flight from Portland to Seattle on Nov. 24, 1971. After releasing passengers and crew members, the man then ordered the pilots to fly to Mexico, only to parachute out the back door somewhere over Washington's rugged wooded terrain with $200,000.

"I didn't rob Northwest Orient because I thought it would be romantic, heroic or any of the other euphemisms that seem to attach themselves to situations of high risk," he said. "I'm no modern-day Robin Hood. Unfortunately (I) do have only 14 months to live."

The carbon-copy letter was turned over to the FBI three weeks after the hijacking by The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and the Seattle Times, which were each mailed a copy and published stories about its contents. The letter was in an envelope with a greater Seattle area postmark.

Last month, the FBI released a copy of the letter that was sent to The Post in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by acclaimed D.B. Cooper sleuth Tom Colbert, a Los Angeles TV and film producer. He believes the letter is real. "We have no doubt it's from Cooper and the reason is that he cites he left no fingerprints on the plane," he said. "The reason that's critical is because it's absolutely true. There were no prints found in the back of plane," Colbert said. "They found 11 partial prints that's all, sides, fingers, tips and palm. But no prints of value were found."

More about D.B. Cooper. Also at Newsweek and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Previously: D.B. Cooper: Case Closed


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 25 2017, @04:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 25 2017, @04:34PM (#601423)

    "He also failed to bring or request a helmet, chose to jump {animation] [blogspot.com] with the older and technically inferior of the two primary parachutes supplied to him, and jumped into a -70 °F (-57 °C) wind chill without proper protection against the extreme cold."

    maybe he was just an OG?