The jump has been recreated many times. What they don't tell you is that these are professional jumpers doing it in broad daylight with perfect weather conditions. Unlike the freezing, high winds, zero visibility, wearing loafers and a dress shirt/ don't forget the tie. Also 20 lbs. of weight roped around him. The man with no high jumping exp. with the alias Cooper broke every bone in his body on inpact. The $6,000 the boy found must of been carried by the water and or wind. Just an idea.
@joaquinmurrieta1850 That jump has already been imitated hundreds of times, all the way to the bad weather, and the skydivers dressed in business suits. They have proven that a jump like that could be made.
I think some of that cash fell out during the jump, probably from the shock of of the chute opening.
I also believe that he wasn't too far from some type of building, He may have even volunteered for a search party.
@GarthanSaal444 uhh...I'm an US Army ex paratrooper and if he landed in water..which in that area was about a 50/50 chance especially in the dark you will die tangled up in cord and chute....I've even seen a recreation and every time in the water the guy had to be rescued by divers on standby before he drowned...they found a good chunk of money from the high jack and there aint no way in hell he would un ass that money on purpose...notice how the money was found basically in water??
@TheArizonaMark I too was a paratrooper, who landed in the water at Ft. Benning Jump School. I didn't need to get rescued. In the wind, the chute won't drop on top of you.
I was in the 82nd for nearly 3 years.
Cooper's bag may not have been secured, and some of that cash fell out in the dark.
I think he made that flight a few times, noticed how long it took to reach the Columbia, and jumped where he would be close to the river, his point of reference.
@GarthanSaal444 Really??...were you wearing a business suit and loafers??...did you get dropped in below freezing temp water in PITCH Blackness maybe 300 feet from a shore with less than 5 minutes of certain hypothermia death...nope it was in a warm pool 10 feet from the edge..he chose a ww2 chute that was unsteerable instead of the sports chute...total rookie mistake...look man...he landed in 22 degree water in the middle of a lake and succumb to hypothermia within minutes
@GarthanSaal444 nobody is gonna try to land NEAR a river with a unmaneuverable chute in pitch blackness Dude....your begging to die.....I have personally seen several recreations in a warm pool where using that outdated chute the guy need help to untangle before he would of drown...let alone in sub freezing temps in complete darkness..and SOME of the money fell out??...not one of those twenties has EVER been found in circulation to this day...why??...cause it's in the water w/ cooper's body
@TheArizonaMark Here you go fellow readers: An expert testimony from an ex-paratrooper that the jump could indeed have been an impossible "live to tell about it" SAGA.
@joaquinmurrieta1850 I have been saying what you are saying for years, practically word for word.....yeah, A guy in a cheesy 1960s/70s rayon suit and dress shoes lived through a jump like that....no way. (just one correction to your posting....the FBI has coopers tie and tie tack....he did not jump with it...left it in the plane
@inkey2 Wow, I was never aware that the FBI did in fact have his tie. It is still a mistery that to this day nobody has identified this Cooper enigma. I'm going to say that DB Cooper was just a ficticious name he chose to evade authorities should he have completed his dramatic jump. Froze to death in the lake within minutes after the wind blew him there, I think.
@joaquinmurrieta1850 yeah, there is a video here on youtube where an FBI agent shows the cheap tie and tie tack.....very plain and nondescript. I wonder if they have the brief case he carried with the fake explosives or if he jumped with it.........also, I rember hearing that at one time they had his Raliegh cigarette butts but they were either disposed of or lost.....of course noboday back then could have invisioned DNA testing so they may have just thrown them out
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how could he not have survived? who buried the money if he didnt??? plus if he was dangling from a tree by a parachute for 35 years you would think someone would eventually find him
and besides I"m D B COOPER i will be giving 60mins an interview and writing a book shortly, so stay tuned
I was 27 years old and stationed in Wash. during that time. I remmeber being out there looking for Mr Cooper. this video brings back alot of memories. The FBI treated us real good. I'm 60 years old now and of course and no longer in the service. Hats off to all the personnal who were out there.
notice the same crook that 1.5 year later he had lots of land. hm. a connection..shouldn't he have another alibi for the previous hrs. before calling fbi.
I'd like to add that my dad said he tried to talk him out of it, but that he was not in a good place at that time in his life. His wife had left him, gambling problem, drinking problem, and wanted the money so he could start a new life in Canada-which is where they were headed. Oddly enough the FBI approached my dad soon after as a possible suspect. My dad (Dan/where he got the name) lived in the area at the time- his brother (cooper) didn't have a residence at the time.
OK- Here's the facts -The person calling themself "Dan" Cooper (not D.B.)was my uncle. My dad (his brother) was to pick him up at a set location, but he never made it. My dad told me he chose "Cooper" because that was the make of his car. He believed he got a bad shute. He did serve in Nam and had experience making jumps.
this is hard to believe, but i found out today that I am actually related to DB Cooper, through my grandma's side of family. I can't say how, but i can tell you for a fact he is dead, we are actually going to rewrite the history of DB Cooper sometime soon. HE IS DEAD.
i knew i would get comments like this in response :) haha well i have no solid proof, can only trust that you believe what you want to, fact is, he is related to my grandma's side, she really wont tell me much about him until more people in my family die, funny thing :/
i'm sure there are a thousand people in the US at least who know who their version of cooper is. my mom told me i was descended from andrew jackson. he has no descendants. maybe i don't exist then. ignore this.
FACT: Cooper jumped with a practice chute on his chest. Wow, an instructor risking his life to "throw off authorities"
FACT: Money found on Columbia river was deposited after 1974, found in 1980 at the water's edge just north of catepillar. Amazing gamble, burying $6,000 to "throw off authorities" when the money actually points to a surviving Cooper & made the case front page news once again.
many people turn assumptions into facts. we know things now that cooper didn't at the time. we now know that there was no need to throw anybody off, but he didn't.remember, cooper was the original there safecrack. he didn't have the benefit of our assumptions. maybe he didn't bury to throw off, maybe he burried it to not get caught and missed some when he went back. i don't assume that a geologist report telling the fbi what they want to hear that involves floating wet money is correct.
A faulty chute on his chest? That's not an assumption turned into fact. The money was there AFTER 1974. Your idea that perhaps some was left behind, plausible, except for WHERE it was found. Tell me WHY Mayfield is Cooper
listen, safecrack, i know you must be a supporter of jo, or some other preconceived notion, but you don't listen well to what is told, just rebutt. try reading and listening to the evidence again - and not with the filter of your bias.
Sorry. It was DARK when he jumped, though this probably wasn't part of the plan. Remember the take off was delayed. Also the pilot has admitted being east of the vector, this also wasn't planned. Finally, most of the speculation was that Cooper wanted to jump farther north than he did. Mayfield is innocent, the guy knows skydiving but he doesn't know the case because he had nothing to do with it.
Fact: Mayfield was on the phone in under 50 minutes after the jump "creating his alibi" as you'd say. This means he would have HAD to jump in a densely populated area & stolen a car to get away. The jump point does not support this possibility.
FACT: Cooper jumped with a practice chute on his chest. Wow, an instructor risking his life to "throw off authorities"
FACT: Money found on Columbia river was deposited after 1974, found in 1980 at the water's edge just north of catepillar. Amazing gamble, burying $6,000 to "throw off authorities" when the money actually points to a surviving Cooper & made the case front page news once again.
Didn't this skydiving expert, say on Inside Edition, that the FBI called him? Why is he changing his story? Planned to a "t". And just how does he know this? Most people think Cooper didn't have an exit strategy.
I was thinking the same thing. On this piece he tells the reporter that the FBI called him 3 times, which the lead investigator disputes. On the Inside Edition piece he tells them and he phoned the FBI the night of the heist. Hmmmmmm what's going on here?
The jump has been recreated many times. What they don't tell you is that these are professional jumpers doing it in broad daylight with perfect weather conditions. Unlike the freezing, high winds, zero visibility, wearing loafers and a dress shirt/ don't forget the tie. Also 20 lbs. of weight roped around him. The man with no high jumping exp. with the alias Cooper broke every bone in his body on inpact. The $6,000 the boy found must of been carried by the water and or wind. Just an idea.
joaquinmurrieta1850 7 months ago
@joaquinmurrieta1850 That jump has already been imitated hundreds of times, all the way to the bad weather, and the skydivers dressed in business suits. They have proven that a jump like that could be made.
I think some of that cash fell out during the jump, probably from the shock of of the chute opening.
I also believe that he wasn't too far from some type of building, He may have even volunteered for a search party.
GarthanSaal444 6 months ago
@GarthanSaal444 uhh...I'm an US Army ex paratrooper and if he landed in water..which in that area was about a 50/50 chance especially in the dark you will die tangled up in cord and chute....I've even seen a recreation and every time in the water the guy had to be rescued by divers on standby before he drowned...they found a good chunk of money from the high jack and there aint no way in hell he would un ass that money on purpose...notice how the money was found basically in water??
TheArizonaMark 6 months ago
@TheArizonaMark I too was a paratrooper, who landed in the water at Ft. Benning Jump School. I didn't need to get rescued. In the wind, the chute won't drop on top of you.
I was in the 82nd for nearly 3 years.
Cooper's bag may not have been secured, and some of that cash fell out in the dark.
I think he made that flight a few times, noticed how long it took to reach the Columbia, and jumped where he would be close to the river, his point of reference.
GarthanSaal444 6 months ago
@GarthanSaal444 Really??...were you wearing a business suit and loafers??...did you get dropped in below freezing temp water in PITCH Blackness maybe 300 feet from a shore with less than 5 minutes of certain hypothermia death...nope it was in a warm pool 10 feet from the edge..he chose a ww2 chute that was unsteerable instead of the sports chute...total rookie mistake...look man...he landed in 22 degree water in the middle of a lake and succumb to hypothermia within minutes
TheArizonaMark 6 months ago
@GarthanSaal444 nobody is gonna try to land NEAR a river with a unmaneuverable chute in pitch blackness Dude....your begging to die.....I have personally seen several recreations in a warm pool where using that outdated chute the guy need help to untangle before he would of drown...let alone in sub freezing temps in complete darkness..and SOME of the money fell out??...not one of those twenties has EVER been found in circulation to this day...why??...cause it's in the water w/ cooper's body
TheArizonaMark 6 months ago
@TheArizonaMark Here you go fellow readers: An expert testimony from an ex-paratrooper that the jump could indeed have been an impossible "live to tell about it" SAGA.
joaquinmurrieta1850 2 months ago
@joaquinmurrieta1850 I have been saying what you are saying for years, practically word for word.....yeah, A guy in a cheesy 1960s/70s rayon suit and dress shoes lived through a jump like that....no way. (just one correction to your posting....the FBI has coopers tie and tie tack....he did not jump with it...left it in the plane
inkey2 2 months ago
@inkey2 Wow, I was never aware that the FBI did in fact have his tie. It is still a mistery that to this day nobody has identified this Cooper enigma. I'm going to say that DB Cooper was just a ficticious name he chose to evade authorities should he have completed his dramatic jump. Froze to death in the lake within minutes after the wind blew him there, I think.
joaquinmurrieta1850 2 months ago
@joaquinmurrieta1850 yeah, there is a video here on youtube where an FBI agent shows the cheap tie and tie tack.....very plain and nondescript. I wonder if they have the brief case he carried with the fake explosives or if he jumped with it.........also, I rember hearing that at one time they had his Raliegh cigarette butts but they were either disposed of or lost.....of course noboday back then could have invisioned DNA testing so they may have just thrown them out
inkey2 2 months ago
@inkey2 Thanks for the info. I will check this video out.
joaquinmurrieta1850 2 months ago
@joaquinmurrieta1850 .....go to this video here on youtube,,,,,"D B cooper: the surviving evidence"
inkey2 2 months ago
I am EXTREMLY proud to say that Ted Mayfield is my Grandpa.
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dharmastipulate 1 year ago
DB Cooper mystery solved....he was the 2nd gunmen in Dealy Plaza w Oswald
1955porsche 1 year ago
DAN COOPER WHAT A LEGEND AN A ENIGMA
leedumett444 1 year ago
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DB Cooper survived the jump but probably died of exposure
theautodetailpro 1 year ago
These guys are very wrong. They are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. They just throw out everything they don't like.
findyourassistant 1 year ago
Interesting that Himmelsbach is Mayfield's alibi.
Also, interesting that Himmelsbach feels Cooper died but doesn't mind flying around the supposed drop site.
Something smells here.
MultiSmartass1 1 year ago
They could have caught that DB Cooper if they could have somehow lured him into Dealy Plaza.
mdpk1 3 years ago
you will never find me or how i got away.look all u want HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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DuKeAlLday3 3 years ago
how could he not have survived? who buried the money if he didnt??? plus if he was dangling from a tree by a parachute for 35 years you would think someone would eventually find him
and besides I"m D B COOPER i will be giving 60mins an interview and writing a book shortly, so stay tuned
mugwamp4 3 years ago
you will never find me or how i got away.look all u want .......
jimmycap2004 3 years ago
If Ted Mayfield is an fact DB Cooper, then maybe the FBI can try to get Mayfield to say what happened to the rest of the money.
INDLIS 4 years ago
You are so smart! Maybe you should join the FBI, since you are clearly outwitting them!
R4ND0M1337 3 years ago 2
Let's face it, it's not a difficult task to outwit the FBI task.
billybillyboab 2 years ago
haha now they found the parachute...still dead? =D
KJAl 4 years ago
he could have been injured and crawled to another location and THEN died.
PHENOMPHILMS 3 years ago
ill bet hes alive right now and hes probably watching the news and laughing
or maybe he blew it all in vegas?
whompo 4 years ago
I would be laughing too.
mozart475 4 years ago 2
My uncle Willis said that this guy was his skydiving boss and was amazed to see this video
skarygagen 4 years ago
I was 27 years old and stationed in Wash. during that time. I remmeber being out there looking for Mr Cooper. this video brings back alot of memories. The FBI treated us real good. I'm 60 years old now and of course and no longer in the service. Hats off to all the personnal who were out there.
2cryoman 4 years ago
a "cooper" is a barrelmaker according to the dictionary. planes are sometimes refered to as barrels, barrelroll?
toddradwick 4 years ago
notice the same crook that 1.5 year later he had lots of land. hm. a connection..shouldn't he have another alibi for the previous hrs. before calling fbi.
voodoochile6169 4 years ago
I'd like to add that my dad said he tried to talk him out of it, but that he was not in a good place at that time in his life. His wife had left him, gambling problem, drinking problem, and wanted the money so he could start a new life in Canada-which is where they were headed. Oddly enough the FBI approached my dad soon after as a possible suspect. My dad (Dan/where he got the name) lived in the area at the time- his brother (cooper) didn't have a residence at the time.
brewcitybroker 4 years ago
OK- Here's the facts -The person calling themself "Dan" Cooper (not D.B.)was my uncle. My dad (his brother) was to pick him up at a set location, but he never made it. My dad told me he chose "Cooper" because that was the make of his car. He believed he got a bad shute. He did serve in Nam and had experience making jumps.
brewcitybroker 4 years ago
Kenny Christionson was D.B.Cooper...
turbolightning69 4 years ago
no he wasn't. They checked his fingerprints. didn't match.
ott67 4 years ago
Zero evidence on Christenson, or about as much as there is on Weber. Just another claim.
mykallb 4 years ago
this is hard to believe, but i found out today that I am actually related to DB Cooper, through my grandma's side of family. I can't say how, but i can tell you for a fact he is dead, we are actually going to rewrite the history of DB Cooper sometime soon. HE IS DEAD.
AWESOMEFULLNE55 4 years ago
oh my! you know how many people claim something similar with a hugely crappy case?
rightcoastwest 4 years ago
i knew i would get comments like this in response :) haha well i have no solid proof, can only trust that you believe what you want to, fact is, he is related to my grandma's side, she really wont tell me much about him until more people in my family die, funny thing :/
AWESOMEFULLNE55 4 years ago
i'm sure there are a thousand people in the US at least who know who their version of cooper is. my mom told me i was descended from andrew jackson. he has no descendants. maybe i don't exist then. ignore this.
rightcoastwest 4 years ago
FACT: Cooper jumped with a practice chute on his chest. Wow, an instructor risking his life to "throw off authorities"
FACT: Money found on Columbia river was deposited after 1974, found in 1980 at the water's edge just north of catepillar. Amazing gamble, burying $6,000 to "throw off authorities" when the money actually points to a surviving Cooper & made the case front page news once again.
stackoutawinner 4 years ago
many people turn assumptions into facts. we know things now that cooper didn't at the time. we now know that there was no need to throw anybody off, but he didn't.remember, cooper was the original there safecrack. he didn't have the benefit of our assumptions. maybe he didn't bury to throw off, maybe he burried it to not get caught and missed some when he went back. i don't assume that a geologist report telling the fbi what they want to hear that involves floating wet money is correct.
rightcoastwest 4 years ago
also, you say cooper wouldn't gamble in certain areas? don't you think the whole damned thing was quite a gamble?
THINK!!!
rightcoastwest 4 years ago
A faulty chute on his chest? That's not an assumption turned into fact. The money was there AFTER 1974. Your idea that perhaps some was left behind, plausible, except for WHERE it was found. Tell me WHY Mayfield is Cooper
stackoutawinner 4 years ago
listen, safecrack, i know you must be a supporter of jo, or some other preconceived notion, but you don't listen well to what is told, just rebutt. try reading and listening to the evidence again - and not with the filter of your bias.
rightcoastwest 4 years ago
Wouldn't it have been impossible to plan it to a "t" if its possible the airplane drifted off course?
btingram 4 years ago
it was taking v23 low level route with the threat of a taller mt. St. Helens - so it wouldn't have 'drifted' much.
rightcoastwest 4 years ago
Sorry. It was DARK when he jumped, though this probably wasn't part of the plan. Remember the take off was delayed. Also the pilot has admitted being east of the vector, this also wasn't planned. Finally, most of the speculation was that Cooper wanted to jump farther north than he did. Mayfield is innocent, the guy knows skydiving but he doesn't know the case because he had nothing to do with it.
stackoutawinner 4 years ago
oh, all those 'facts' case closed then. good job.
thinking like yours and turning assumptions into facts is why this case did not get solved by the fbi.
rightcoastwest 4 years ago
Fact: Mayfield was on the phone in under 50 minutes after the jump "creating his alibi" as you'd say. This means he would have HAD to jump in a densely populated area & stolen a car to get away. The jump point does not support this possibility.
stackoutawinner 4 years ago
FACT: Cooper jumped with a practice chute on his chest. Wow, an instructor risking his life to "throw off authorities"
FACT: Money found on Columbia river was deposited after 1974, found in 1980 at the water's edge just north of catepillar. Amazing gamble, burying $6,000 to "throw off authorities" when the money actually points to a surviving Cooper & made the case front page news once again.
stackoutawinner 4 years ago
How do you figure the money points to a "surviving Cooper" ?
Pontiakc 4 years ago
It's too complicated for remarks on YouTube. I was wrong, we cannot rule out Mayfield yet. I'll let you know if I can.
stackoutawinner 4 years ago
Around 1980 may not have been by accident if it was a plant. It was a year of change on the Cooper case.
Pontiakc 4 years ago
So, on Inside Edition, he claims he called the FBI once.
In this piece, he claims the FBI called him 4 times, which the FBI guy disputes.
Why the change in his story? Did these two guys know each other before the crime?
teddyernest 4 years ago
It appears they did, although I'm not certain of the extent.
Pontiakc 4 years ago
i think they did. brilliant plans. he was probably the get away driver for Mayfield. It's only a "coincidence" that ted had prior burglary charges.
voodoochile6169 4 years ago
Didn't this skydiving expert, say on Inside Edition, that the FBI called him? Why is he changing his story? Planned to a "t". And just how does he know this? Most people think Cooper didn't have an exit strategy.
teddyernest 4 years ago
I was thinking the same thing. On this piece he tells the reporter that the FBI called him 3 times, which the lead investigator disputes. On the Inside Edition piece he tells them and he phoned the FBI the night of the heist. Hmmmmmm what's going on here?
mykallb 4 years ago