Continuing the discussion from Storyville - The Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery of DB Cooper (BBC):
Currently on:
- Take the Money and Jump
A criminal known only by the alias D.B. Cooper becomes a modern-day folk legend. Countless suspects emerge, but some stand out more than others.
- Innocent Men Don’t Hide in Storage Bins
Robert Rackstraw’s colorful history of run-ins with the law draws Tom Colbert and his team of sleuths toward a theory teeming with intrigue.
- Seeing Jesus in the Toast
A deluge of far-out speculations surface after the FBI closes the book on D.B. Cooper and releases its investigative files to the public.
- Cooperland
Parallels between D.B. Cooper and the fictional Canadian comic book hero who shares his name open up new possibilities.
Reading this thread, with its’ conspiracy theories:
Reminded me of the recent D.B. Cooper series on Netflix and the older Storyville documentary on BBC.
Both presentations contained many facts that are well-known but the NetFlix series, in particular, contained contributions from those who make money from keeping the story alive and those see themselves as internet “sleuths”.
Suspects
Between 1971 and 2016, the FBI processed more than a thousand “serious suspects”, including assorted publicity seekers and deathbed confessors
Much of that was made available in 2009.
The Public Debates You Should Know About Before Reading this Website
The D.B. Cooper case continues to be debated in forums and chat rooms around the world. Most of the conversation (and arguments) center around a few ideas outlined below. The ‘Debate Factor’ is the level of interest for that theory among Cooper followers.
As one commentator in the Netflix presentation pointed out, the conspiracy theorists use more opinion than evidence and what evidence is used tends to be only that which suits their theory.
It’s a great story, though and both presentations are worth watching … 