The F.B.I. has held a new conference about the DB Cooper case.
http://www.newsdaily.com/Quirks/UPI-1-20071231-14181400-bc-us-dbcooper.xml
:dubious: 
Something has excited a higher level of interest, perhaps?
I’m pretty sure the Statute of Limitations has run on this case, so even if they solve it, they can’t prosecute anyone.
Doesn’t a bit of the cash surface every once in a while? Maybe somebody just spent some.
What is the SoL on bank robberies, and on hijackings for that matter? Both are federal crimes and I didn’t think the FBI had a statute of limitations on those capital charges. . .
Tripler
Oh, and BTW: I’m D.B. Cooper.
I am Sparticus.
From the horse’s mouth: http://www.fbi.gov/page2/dec07/dbcooper123107.html
Note that it’s dated today.
If he’s been indicted, there’s apparently no Statute of Limitations on federal crimes.
From this link on a fugitive who was arrested in 1988 for a 1969 plane hijacking:
“Because Ms. Grinage had already been indicted by a Federal grand jury, there was no statute of limitations on her arrest, officials said. The statute of limitations - five years for Federal crimes - only applies when no suspect has been indicted, they said.”
Maybe he died already. This article in New York Magazine from October is very interesting.
I think this MPR story has the gist of WHY this is happening now – a new agent assigned to the case, with a new strategy to pursue it. Probably the agent who had the file either died or retired.
Nothing actually new, though apparently they have isolated some DNA that might exclude or convict a suspect should they find anyone to test.
And re indictment, and we really need a lawyer to answer this – how can they ignore the SoL when they essentially indicted a John Doe? It’s seems more like they indicted the crime rather than the suspect, since they don’t know who it is.
Anybody else think that picture looks like Lee Harvey Oswald?
I was thinking he looks a little like Nicholas Cage.
IANAL but I’m thinking that since he called himself D.B. Cooper, then that’s sufficient for an indictment. Otherwise, if you wanted to escape punishment for a federal crime, all you’d have to do is adopt a psuedonym (or perhaps wear a mask hiding your identity) and then hide for 5 years.
Is that why no one has seen him since then? 
I’m not one to believe in conspiracy theories or tell stories, but has anyone ever seen DB Cooper and Nicolas Cage together? I sure haven’t.
Robin
The hijacking was 36 years ago.
Nicholas Cage will be 44 on January 7.
Ahellofva makeup job I’d say.
Actually, he didn’t. From the article linked by garygnu:
As of december, "James “Whitey” Bulger has been missing for 13 years-he skipped down after being informed by a friendly FBI agent (John Connolly, now on trail for murder in Miami).
Bulger was spotted in Sicily, the FBI 9oddly enough) doesn’t seem overly interested in finding him).
Bulger has been implicated in 13 , and possibly as many as 23 murders :smack:
Am I the only one picturing Whitey skipping down the street?
Gee, Mrs. Cleaver, I didn’t mean to kill all those guys. The were saying bad things about the Beav. 