Could D.B. Cooper be Howard Hughes, the aviator?

Here is a nice list of other things that you can believe without any shred of evidence whatsoever:

The Straight Dope is about fighting ignorance, not spreading it. If you come here with some wild theory and absolutely nothing to back it up, you’re not going to find much support here. You might as well be talking about the existence of fairies and mermaids. Maybe the FBI covered those up, too.

Nothing that you wrote supports your conclusion.

How do I know you are not part of the government conspiracy trying to find evidence and believers to repress?

Well, Answer this question:

The grand jury voted to indict Jon Benet Ramsey’s parents for child endangerment.

However, the prosecutor overruled the grand jury’s vote, and did not indict the parents.

Do you know why?

And as far as witholding information, we know for a fact this is true!

A well known police detective, named Joe Kenda, retired from the Colorado Springs police department a few months before Jon Benet’s murder.

He was asked to consult on the case.

He said that there are facts about this case that no one knows about, and that have never been brought up or theorized about publicly by independent investigators.

Only law enforcement officials and members of that grand jury are privied to that information.

We can only speculate about this secret information!

Again, wild speculation that supports absolutely nothing. I have exactly as much proof that evil fairies killed Jon Benet Ramsey as you have proof of a government conspiracy.

It’s also completely off-topic for D.B. Cooper.

No it’s not.

Do you?

I await the explanation with bated breath.

Fair point. Let’s move this to MPSIMS.

From these facts it can be proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with geometric logic that the FBI knows that D. B. Cooper killed Jon Benet Ramsey.

Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa were in on the cover up as well. (Elvis was a government agent after all.)

The real identity of D.B. Cooper is criminal mastermind Chip Skipowski or maybe Skip Chipowski. One of those for sure.

I’m not a Cooper fanatic, but it is an interesting case. There are a LOT of people interviewed here who are dead sure they know who he was - with varying degrees of evidence:

Also, here’s a joke I wrote all by my lonesome…

Q: What is D.B. Cooper’s least favorite season?
A: Autumn - because he died in the fall.

I’ll be here all week, don’t forget to tip your waitress!

I just posted this in the Pit, so why not share it here, too:

Yes, that is Bill Nye.

I thought it was Jerry Seinfeld at first glance.

But the announcer didn’t sound like Pat Cashman, which surprises me.