# FBI May have Found D.B. Cooper **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203 "2011-08-02T18:21:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/21 "2011-08-02T22:05:53Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > I’m confused, you did all those things and survived but you’re saying he couldn’t? I didn’t do them all on the same jump! And as others have already said, I wasn’t dressed like Cooper or jumping over rugged terrain in a storm. Plus, I had training and advice from other, more experienced jumpers for each of those jumps. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/22 "2011-08-02T22:13:06Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I agree the chances of him surviving that jump were a million to 1. But everyone knows million to 1 chances come up nine times out of ten! (Now I’m imagining DB in that scene in _Guards Guards!_…) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/23 "2011-08-02T22:37:44Z")
What, he’s been found _again_? Didn’t they find his skull a couple of years back? ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/24 "2011-08-02T22:55:10Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > What, he’s been found _again_? > > Didn’t they find his skull a couple of years back? A skull was found in the general area, but forensics determined that it belonged to a woman. [Cite](http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/cooper.htm). (3rd paragraph) ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/25 "2011-08-02T23:44:51Z")
_D.B. Cooper was actually a woman_😕:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/26 "2011-08-02T23:59:13Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > But everyone knows million to 1 chances come up nine times out of ten! > (Now I’m imagining DB in that scene in _Guards Guards!_…) _" ‘The chances of someone surviving the fall were a million to one,’ they said. ‘The chances of someone surviving the fall were a million to one - but still he did!’ "_ ---
**Author:** ![AndyLee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AndyLee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyLee)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/27 "2011-08-03T00:16:03Z")
How much of the money was recovered? I still don’t get how they trace serial numbers. Do they have people at banks who’s job it is is to check serial numbers? ---
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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/32 "2011-08-03T08:45:09Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > It would be great to finally put a real face to the name D.B. Cooper. [Here you go.](http://boldnative.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/cooper2x.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/33 "2011-08-03T11:05:19Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Osama bin Laden, Whitey Bulger, and now maybe D.B. Cooper. > > You have to figure somewhere out there, a 68-year-old Jim Morrison is starting to get worried. Nahhh… a 247 year-old Elvis is slipping him oxys from Dr. Feelgood. No worries! ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/34 "2011-08-03T11:57:33Z")
> [@AndyLee](#): > > How much of the money was recovered? I still don’t get how they trace serial numbers. Do they have people at banks who’s job it is is to check serial numbers? About $5,800 of the $200,000 was found along the Columbia River in 1980, deteriorated but still in the original bundles. I don’t know how they trace serial numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/35 "2011-08-03T12:05:39Z")
I always thought it was just Dan Cooper. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/36 "2011-08-03T12:08:40Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I always thought it was just Dan Cooper. You are correct. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/37 "2011-08-03T13:32:29Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > I get D.B. Cooper and D.B. Sweeney mixed up, and when I read either name I get a moment of “Isn’t that the guy who jumped out of a hijacked plane and then got kidnapped by aliens?” Funny, I always conflate D.B. Cooper and Treat Williams. Anywhich, they had the author of an upcoming book about Mr. Cooper (_Skyjack_) on GMA today. I’m starting the smell the ‘publicity stunt’ vibe about this whole thing. Didn’t stop me from preordering the guys book though. I’ve been fascinated by this story for as long as I can remember. ---
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If they discover Dan Cooper on a ranch with [Shergar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shergar) and [Lord Lucan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bingham,_7th_Earl_of_Lucan), I will believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/39 "2011-08-03T13:55:36Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Funny, I always conflate D.B. Cooper and Treat Williams. > > Anywhich, they had the author of an upcoming book about Mr. Cooper (_Skyjack_) on GMA today. I’m starting the smell the ‘publicity stunt’ vibe about this whole thing. Didn’t stop me from preordering the guys book though. I’ve been fascinated by this story for as long as I can remember. If you’re really interested, I can link you to a couple of very long threads about Cooper on a skydiving forum which have been going on for years. Among the posters are Jo Weber, widow of Duane Weber (the guy who made the deathbed confession years ago), Robert Blevins (co-author of a book on Cooper) and an FBI agent looking for info. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/40 "2011-08-03T14:00:23Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > If you’re really interested, I can link you to a couple of very long threads about Cooper on a skydiving forum which have been going on for years. Among the posters are Jo Weber, widow of Duane Weber (the guy who made the deathbed confession years ago), Robert Blevins (co-author of a book on Cooper) and an FBI agent looking for info. That’d be great. Thanks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203.md?page=3)