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[quote]The mystery of DB Cooper continues to deepen.
The FBI has released a letter said to have been written by the infamous US hijacker.
The letter was written 17 days after Cooper daringly jumped out the back of a plane in 1971 with US$200,000 in $20 bills, worth about $1.2 million today.
Copies were sent to The Seattle Times, The New York Times, The LA Times and The Washington Post.
But the existence of the letter has only now been acknowledged after pressure from a team of private investigators led by TV and film executive Thomas Colbert and his wife Dawna.
The letter starts with a confident claim - "I knew from the start that I wouldn't be caught".
He then outlines that he only had 14 months to live and that his life had been one of "hate, turmoil, hunger and more hate".
After the hijack, it was thought Cooper had died from exposure as he was never heard from again.
But in the letter, the author says "I've come and gone on several airline flights already and am not holed up in some obscure backwoods town".
He signs off by saying "Neither am I a psycho-pathic killer. As a matter of fact I've never even received a speeding ticket".[/quote]
Source: [url]https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/99082684/is-this-a-letter-from-the-infamous-us-plane-hijacker[/url]
That's honestly an awesome letter.
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After the hijack, it was thought Cooper had died from exposure as he was never heard from again.[/quote]
Exposure from what?
[QUOTE=GhillieBacca;52909762]Exposure from what?[/QUOTE]
Cold air, rainy weather, overall bad conditions I assume.
[QUOTE=GhillieBacca;52909762]Exposure from what?[/QUOTE]
Harsh weather conditions. Exposure is just an umbrella term for injuries or deaths related to very harsh weather, like sunburn or hypothermia.
That is the single most human letter I've ever seen from a mysterious figure in history, D.B. Cooper has way more character to him now than ever before.
I wonder how he exchanged the money, afaik all of the serial numbers of the bills were recorded and never turned up.
Of course the FBI could be withholding that too as well since it seems like an embarrassment if he got away.
Was this before or after he fought Big Foot?
"I'm not a boasting man", he says while taunting the FBI with what he claims is a perfect crime.
My money's on this being fake. It seems more like what a crime nerd would want to write than what a criminal would.
I like how sure yet down to earth he is on the letter.
It just struck me that nobody has yet monetized the idea of a film based on the events of the D.B. Cooper hijacking. The only thing that comes close is a movie that takes place after the fact, and it's mostly a comedy.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52909871]"I'm not a boasting man", he says while taunting the FBI with what he claims is a perfect crime.
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That's if you disregard the tone the letter is written in.
That has to be the most humble boasting I've ever seen.
[QUOTE=despo;52909915]That's if you disregard the tone the letter is written in.
That has to be the most humble boasting I've ever seen.[/QUOTE]
Tone doesn't matter. The reason "not boasting" is a reason why he won't get caught is that it provides evidence of a link. The act of mailing in a letter saying "you'll never catch me" is itself evidence - and it provides no benefit. It's not going to demoralize the FBI - if anything, it'll spur them on, to redress the insult.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52909871]My money's on this being fake. It seems more like what a crime nerd would want to write than what a criminal would.[/QUOTE]
It's not like he was a prolific bank robber. He's a guy who robbed a plane once, that [i]would[/i] make him a crime nerd, whatever that is/would sound like. The investigator seems to think it's real.
[quote]"We have no doubt it's from Cooper and the reason is that he cites he left no fingerprints on the plane. The reason that's critical is because it's absolutely true," Colbert told Fox News.
"There were no prints found in the back of the plane. They found 11 partial prints that's all, sides, fingers, tips and palm. But no prints of value were found."[/quote]
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;52909896]It just struck me that nobody has yet monetized the idea of a film based on the events of the D.B. Cooper hijacking. The only thing that comes close is a movie that takes place after the fact, and it's mostly a comedy.[/QUOTE]
Um... read it again?
[img]https://i.imgur.com/kbZBfqH.png[/img]
Why does he sign off as "D.B. Cooper" in the letter if he identified himself as Dan Cooper when buying his ticket? DB Cooper was a mistake by a journalist.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;52910079]Why does he sign off as "D.B. Cooper" in the letter if he identified himself as Dan Cooper when buying his ticket? DB Cooper was a mistake by a journalist.[/QUOTE]
If it was written 17 days after his hijacking then maybe he was aware of the name that the media had given him.
How would he know he would only have 14 months to live? Why precisely 14 months?
[QUOTE=*Freezorg*;52910129]How would he know he would only have 14 months to live? Why precisely 14 months?[/QUOTE]
could've been a prognosis from a doctor for something like cancer
or more likely the letter was sent by someone else
[QUOTE=usaokay;52909764]Like Point Break, but if Walter White took up cash robbing instead.
I wonder if DB Cooper is a pseudonym.[/QUOTE]
doubt it, if I was trying to get away with it i'd do an Ian Flemming and rip off a plane sounding name, also he wasn't identified as DB Cooper, but Dan Cooper. DB became what the press ran with.
It's a forgery. The real DB Cooper is at Fox River State Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52909871]"I'm not a boasting man", he says while taunting the FBI with what he claims is a perfect crime.
My money's on this being fake. It seems more like what a crime nerd would want to write than what a criminal would.[/QUOTE]
"I am not a boasting man" is clearly an expression about his ability to remain anonymous despite possible temptation to give himself up and go down as "the man who pulled this off" under his real name
Well there goes the Tommy Wiseau theory :frown:
[QUOTE=Spleet;52910180]It's a forgery. The real DB Cooper is at Fox River State Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois.[/QUOTE]
Can you elaborate on this? I've literally never heard this before.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;52910211]Can you elaborate on this? I've literally never heard this before.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://prisonbreak.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_Westmoreland]It's a reference to a TV show.[/url]
[QUOTE=Alice3173;52910211]Can you elaborate on this? I've literally never heard this before.[/QUOTE]
I'm really really, sorry to do this, but [sp]he's a character in the Fox TV program Prison Break, in which his hidden fortune is used to assist in the group's escape and subsequent disappearance.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Alice3173;52910211]Can you elaborate on this? I've literally never heard this before.[/QUOTE]
D.B. Cooper shows up in Prison Break.
[editline]Dang.[/editline]
Dang.
Dammit Steel & Iron.
And my auto merge.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;52910211]Can you elaborate on this? I've literally never heard this before.[/QUOTE]
[sp]Prison Break[/sp]
[editline]20th November 2017[/editline]
shit
[QUOTE=GhillieBacca;52909762]Exposure from what?[/QUOTE]
The elements. It's a catch-all term that people use to describe someone who gets lost in nature and dies, but we don't know exactly what killed them.
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