While I should be focused on the enormous stock of used restaurant equipment in the One Fat Frog warehouse, the news that a new lead has surfaced in the 40-year-old case of plane hijacker D.B. Cooper has me a bit distracted. We share a last name, that’s my excuse for neglecting my duties for now.
On Nov. 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dave Cooper booked a one-way flight from Portland to Seattle. During flight, he handed a stewardess a note that read: “I have a bomb in my briefcase. I will use it if necessary. I want you to sit next to me. You are being hijacked.” The “bomb” was actually a parachute and when Cooper leapt from the plane, he had $200,000 of stolen money in his briefcase. That’s a great bank for a start-up restaurant.
Despite thousands of tips and leads and tremendous leaps in scientific investigation, the case has gone cold dozens of times since 1971. Now a new lead, first broken by the London Telegraph, has the FBI back on the case. No word of exactly what this lead entails has been released, but new evidence has been sent to a lab in VA.
The romanticism of D.B.’s story has drawn the public’s attention for decades. The fact that this one man has eluded the nation’s leading investigators since 1971 is incredible. There’s always the chance that he’s dead – possibly long dead – but even if he is, D.B.’s legendary status is cemented in the history of U.S. outlaws.
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