# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**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, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/41 "2011-08-03T14:23:42Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > That’d be great. Thanks. [Here](http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=2540834;page=1;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25;) is the original thread, started by Jo Weber ( **skyjack71** ) in 2006. It was eventually locked due to name-calling, posters ignoring Mod warnings and so on. [Here](http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=3110098;page=1;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25;) is another thread, started when the first one was locked. It’s not much better, honestly. Robert Blevins posts under his own name and joined the discussion fairly recently. Both threads are very long and contain lots of BS, arguing, personal attacks, etc. There is some interesting information in each, but you have to wade through a lot of crap to find it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/42 "2011-08-03T14:28:30Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > There is some interesting information in each, but you have to wade through a lot of crap to find it. One of the most concise descriptions of the interwebs I’ve read. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/43 "2011-08-03T15:19:03Z")
> [@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? They probably recorded them before they put the money in the bag. Then, when the money is found, it can be checked against the recorded numbers. At least that’s how I’d do it. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/44 "2011-08-03T17:39:21Z")
[Here’s](http://abcnews.go.com/US/db-cooper-exclusive-niece-provide-key-evidence/story?id=14219052) some more info about the newest fake Dan Cooper claim. Increases the BS-quotient on this by a large factor. It doesn’t help that the journalism is seriously lacking. Sisters, OR is not at all close to where Dan Cooper is believed to have jumped. Reads like it was written by a high school journalism student. C’mon, the guy only left behind one fuzzy Polaroid? Sure. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/45 "2011-08-03T17:44:32Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > They probably recorded them before they put the money in the bag. Then, when the money is found, it can be checked against the recorded numbers. At least that’s how I’d do it. Well, right. That’s what they did when the kid found $5800 in 1980. But another claim often made about Dan Cooper’s skyjacking is ‘none of the money has ever turned up in circulation.’ What is the method for watching for those bills in general circulation? What’s the likelihood that a $20 put into circulation is going to, at some point, be compared to the Cooper bills? What were the odds in 1972? It’s hard to believe that every bill before destruction gets inspected - even moreso that that was the case in the 1970’s. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/46 "2011-08-03T19:14:56Z")
Ok, this just confuses the heck out of me. How do you get a DNA sample from a clip-on tie? somebody int he Jon Benet Ramsay thread mentioned “Touch DNA” Aer we seriously leaving DNA prints everywhere we go? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/47 "2011-08-03T19:27:26Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Ok, this just confuses the heck out of me. How do you get a DNA sample from a clip-on tie? somebody int he Jon Benet Ramsay thread mentioned “Touch DNA” Aer we seriously leaving DNA prints everywhere we go? Skin cells and the like, sure. A clip-on tie might have a good number from your throat rubbing against it each time you looked down, or from you grabbing it, clipping it on, adjusting it, etc. Plus some guys don’t get their ties cleaned often, so there would probably be a good accumulation compared to some items. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/48 "2011-08-03T19:41:11Z")
Terrible reporting. No one bothered to get this guys work history? What was he doing in 1971? There’s no real research in that article at all. :dubious: All they have is fuzzy memories from a lady writing a book. Ridiculous. I’m not getting excited about this theory at all. > [@ftg](#): > > [Here’s](http://abcnews.go.com/US/db-cooper-exclusive-niece-provide-key-evidence/story?id=14219052) some more info about the newest fake Dan Cooper claim. > > Increases the BS-quotient on this by a large factor. It doesn’t help that the journalism is seriously lacking. Sisters, OR is not at all close to where Dan Cooper is believed to have jumped. Reads like it was written by a high school journalism student. > > C’mon, the guy only left behind one fuzzy Polaroid? Sure. ---
**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, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/49 "2011-08-03T21:42:06Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Skin cells and the like, sure. A clip-on tie might have a good number from your throat rubbing against it each time you looked down, or from you grabbing it, clipping it on, adjusting it, etc. Plus some guys don’t get their ties cleaned often, so there would probably be a good accumulation compared to some items. Was it treated carefully enough in 1972 so that DNA would still be present? Think of all the guys who handled Oswald’s rifle for example. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203/50 "2011-08-03T22:01:09Z")
I think a Sasquatch found a dead DB Cooper, ate him, and then buried the offal. (like they do to the dead Sasquatches, since no bones of a Sasquatch have never been discovered.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-may-have-found-d-b-cooper/591203.md?page=2)