For non-CT types, the tie is suspected of being bought second hand at a thrift store in the NW, possibly Seattle. (As are DC’s other clothing.) Where Boeing is. Where people who machine rare alloys work.
Odd stuff found in a 2nd hand tie proves little about the 2nd owner.
The fact that none of the cash was ever spent is quite telling. Dan Cooper didn’t survive the jump and certainly didn’t live happily in plain sight for decades after.
Bumping this thread because of a new story in Popular Mechanics. Chanté and Rick McCoy, the children of Richard McCoy II (who was convicted of a similar hijacking a few months after the DB Cooper incident) gave the FBI a parachute they found on their family’s property that matches what was believed to have been used.
I looked at the front page of Popular Mechanics, and I’m afraid I will have to see this story elsewhere before I take it seriously.
I thought that Popular Mechanics was a respectable publication?
Maybe back when it was an actual publication, but now it is just a collection of sensationalist clickbait nonsense.
Take a look: https://www.popularmechanics.com/
I read that, and the sole source of info is the kids. No confirmation from the FBI or anything.
Maybe there’s something, or maybe they’re just looking for attention. I lean strongly to the latter until the FBI actually says something.
Yeah, it looks like National Enquirer and Omni had a very unfortunate baby.
A bit more info. I make no judgment about the reliability of the Daily Mail 
If they can connect the DNA dots … this’ll be pretty phenomenal.
I didn’t realize there was a 2nd passenger plane hijacking. Richard McCoy was convicted for the April 7, 1972 hijacking. He was killed November 9, 1974 after escaping prison.
There’s a youtube guy trying to claim McCoy was DB Cooper. They found a parachute in storage. Well, so? It’s already known McCoy got military training and hijacked one plane. The parachute that was found could be for the heist got him arrested and convicted.
The cops have always felt McCoy was a copycat. I tend to agree.
While there are some questions about why would McCoy do a 2nd hijacking so soon after the first and what did he do with the first hijacking’s money, etc., I’m sure certain people would have no problem handwaving away.
But other questions are not so easily dismissed. For example, McCoy’s hijacking was just 4 months after Cooper’s. The FBI would have at least done photo lineups with witnesses to the first, if not actual in-person ones. If he had at all looked like Cooper that would have raised serious questions at the time. Any questions about whether he looked like the sketch made of Cooper would be pointless in this case. You had multiple actual witnesses from a short time before.
Then there’s the parachute. Why would “Cooper” keep the parachute, drag it from the landing site in the woods, keep it on his property, etc.? It’s evidence. Just leave it. Sheesh.
The chutes given Cooper had been “modified” in some way and the type was well known. Enough information about this would be available for someone to gin up something similar.
I’m not believing a bit of this at all.
I was always intrigued by the Duane L. Weber suspect. Although there were problems connecting him to the case, his wife’s story of a trip to Washington state provides an explanation of how the recovered ransom money was found on Tina Bar.
There’s a youtube somewhere with the wife’s interview. (I must say she doesn’t seem all that credible but how knows?)
Well, not even “certain people” Copper (it is Dan Cooper, not DB, incidentally)- could have dropped the bag of $$.
But yes, your other points are solid.
Why throw away the $$?
I have mentioned this before The US Treasury knows that no significant amount of those bills were ever spent.
Presumably he mis-handled a couple of packets.
I question the Treasury Dept. assertion that no money was ever spent. I have no facts to back that up, just dubious. Is the Dept. 100% thorough in screening currency??
And were they 50 years ago; coud they optically scan serial numbers back then and compare them to a database of the bills given to Cooper? Come to think of it, weren’t there only a few hours from when Cooper made his demand until the bills were delivered? Could someone record all the serial numbers in such a short time?
Or did they use some other method of marking the money that was easier to detect as bills are returned to the Treasury?
They could just have laid out the bills and then photographed them. And then later they could transcribe the serial numbers.
That’s a thought. The ransom was $200,000. In hundreds, that would be 2,000 bills. I suppose those could be laid out and photographed in an hour or so, if you had the equipment to do so.
Perhaps the FBI had bills for which they had already recorded the serial numbers?
Today of course it would be trivial to record the serial numbers.
Or perhaps the bills were new and still in sequence, so all they’d have to do is record the first and last serial numbers.
That’s possible also.
Nobody knew in advance that a ransom was going to be needed in Seattle. If the Feds recorded the numbers in advance, they’d have had to do it in dozens of cities around the country just in case.