4-11 In Search Of... D. B. Cooper (Part 1 of 3)

[chatman48]

Maybe Bigfoot killed him.

[chatman48]

The bill were recorded, therefore so far none have been found to have been spent. Although, I

believe some of the money was recovered in the forest.

[farcry2isthebest]

hes might be in the forest still 

[Ihatethisugh1]

DB Cooper= Splat!!

[inbredagogo]

thanks for uploading, enjoy these in search of episodes

[MultiSmartass1]

This is a more detailed and better researched episode about the DB Cooper than the Unsolves Mysteries segment years later.

That UM segment notes that passengers were unaware of Cooper after they landed and deplaned but here we have a passenger who noted that he looked at him "intently" as he went to the bathroom and that the stewardess was nervous. Also noted he was "alert and aware" Seems like someone paid attention-however briefly-to Cooper.

[MultiSmartass1]

@MultiSmartass1 Also, The UM segment doesnt note that Jets were scrambled from McCord Air Force Base-very important point.

To sum up, this IN SEARCH OF episode is much detailed and accurate with the knowledge it had at the time then the UM segment about Cooper.

Who was Cooper? Likely, a non-criminal. No professional thief would go to this much trouble for $200,000. A Professional would rob a bank- this would take knowledge a little beyond your average bank robber.

This was a bright amateur

[ClutchLikeMeIo]

It's Charles Westmoreland!!

[chanctonbury63]

Probably got eaten by a bear!

[mpjgbx]

He's dead Jim. lol

[555paint]

I find it hard to believe that if he survived he would not have surfaced after all these years...he could make a zillion dollars off it...if he had lived. Probably could have worked out a plea deal for some kind of minimum sentence and then been very wealthy or he could have just gone off shore and collected on the publicity

[jobeLewOOH]

the money could have been buried and some of it got spread.

because some of it did turn up a few years ago when it washed up.

perhaps he died out in the woods and nobody has found his remains

WHO KNOWS. this story would make a great movie.

who could play DB? Topher Grace would be my first choice.

[JFizz4life]

New evidence is found FBI is not releasing a lot, but they say that it is very credible! search up db cooper new evidence to see article

[Dashnikian]

Know of any other documentaries about this?

[ad8369]

"political justice"?

[Midnightryder7]

DB Cooper is my Hero

[airplanebuilderman]

UNFORTUNATELY mCcORD DOESN'T HAVE FIGHTERS ANYMORE :-(

[malouin82]

for me db cooper doesn't exist, it's an invention of the crew, it's the crew who make the hijacking.

[MultiSmartass1]

@malouin82 That makes no logical sense.

A clerk who sold him a ticket indentified the man known as Cooper.

Unless the clerk was a part of it, this makes no sense.

Also, the ransom was for $200, 000. Split 4 or 5 ways, it doesn't amount to a huge take-certainly not enough to risk jail for.

Also, no motive. Why would the crew of airliner conspire to rip it off? For thrills.

The facts clearly indicate that there was a man who used the alias Cooper and he was on that flight.

[drpoxy]

@malouin82 You may be interested (if you are not already aware) of an episode of the UK TV Series "Tales of the unexpected" Series 4 Ep17 -"Hijacked". The plot is based around such a scenario.

[porcoroco]

smart guy

[gothatway09]

I keep expecting Spock to stop the D.B. Cooper story and turn to the camera and say, "but Captain, that would be illogical!"

[ScrimzHD]

The guy from prison break

[morrocyclon]

@bigpopparamma "Yah, Mr. Spock is so fucking radl!"

[pirocan1]

DB might have been an alien.

[skeaneable]

@pirocan1 correction D.B Cooper was abducted by aliens from a passing UFO while he was freefalling!

[IExposeMormonism]

Some of the money was found some years ago

[rojasn10]

kind of sad to hear him say at the beginning that its the most infamous skyjacking in American history......wish it still was.

[fasteddie847]

One person voted this video down. I think DB is alive and well!!!!!!!!!!

[jimbobfrank118]

I'VE SOLVED IT! - he was a russian spy testing american responses to a hijack situation! or a usa spy on a secret drill to test the flaws of the hijack response.

[MrManny7426]

COOPER ESCAPED TO MEXICO .

[beautystruck]

Kids... Don't forget that the teacher is IN THE ROOM. I won't tolerate flaming. Do it again and you will be blocked. Have a nice day :)

[allanro28]

@beautystruck sorry for the blank post.....great videos and a great channel

[ukrainianamerican]

he looks very eastern european...a soviet spy living in us perhaps? just a thought

[execc1976]

· If he did survive I feel this is why the rest of the money was not found. He stated at first he wanted to go to mexico. If he did go to mexico and changed the money into mexican currency and change it back into U.S. currency. and spent the cleaned money here it would have different serial numbers.The money would most likely never be found again by the FBI who photographed the serial numbers. Or he could of spent the money in Mexico. Did the FBI look for the money in Mexico.

[leedumett444]

I HOPE DAN COOPER MADE IT HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING BUT I CANT UNDERSTAND WHY THERE WAS 6 THOUSAND DOLLARS LEFT ON THE RIVERBANK THAT MONEY HAD TO OF COME FROM HIS BODY

[supersomebody101]

hahahhaha theyll never find me. im waiting for someone to make a movie about this. i am the man.

[jetpoweredgriffin]

@supersomebody101

Wow-

quite the disguise,hip-hop man....

[MultiSmartass1]

This is a well-done and fairly thorough episode-probably the most accurate I have seen on Cooper. In fact, a little more accurate than the Unsolved Mysteries segment.

That having been said. Nimoy 's ( actually the writer's) surmise that Cooper did it for the money is a an easy surface conclusion.

We don't really know why Cooper did what he did.

If he wanted money, why take such a risk to parachute out of airplane with the cash?

[luridplanet]

It's never been determined WHO he was, let alone what happened to him after the hijacking

[baseball756]

at least he let everyone go

[theautodetailpro]

DB Cooper survived the jump but probably died of exposure

[MultiSmartass1]

@theautodetailpro If he died of exposure, where is the body? Why was over $4,000 in cash eventually found but not a rotting body or a skeleton?

Unlikely that he died not long after landing.

[findyourassistant]

This is old but very informative

[saveeducation]

A man just posted a video on YouTube saying he just found DB Cooper's lost cash. It's called "More DB Cooper Cash Found"

[wazzuproductionz]

they shouldve put a small radar in the money or parachute :D

[muttilo]

@wazzuproductionz Not in 1971 .

[beezyb42011]

LMFAO they got his name wrong "a mistake that still happens to this day" FUCK THE GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY BULLSHIT MONEY=POWER=EVIDENCE

[beezyb42011]

@ralphwiggum08 it just shows that government=media

[PaulMcWalrus]

The greatest parachute thief the world has ever known.

[MrLediogjergjani81]

First of all the United states do not deal with terrorist. You know why the FBI thinks he is DEAD beacause unless he used his own parashute the ones that they gave him all 4 more defective. He might have known something about planes for sure, the rest of the money is still there. I hope somebody finds his body, I would really like to know the real story. Im sure his last there is a story about him, family something.

[druglover200]

@MrLediogjergjani81 this other documentary says that only one was defective.

[CLOVERCITYY15]

i really dont think richard mcoy is really cooper.. looks alot alike to my grandfather.., and hes the same age and looks identical

[jimpurdie]

hes a legend!

and he has a big pair of brass balls!

[TheCallumStarrShow]

it was nimoy! clever b****rd!!!!

[MultiSmartass1]

Without giving away too much, since I hope to write an article on the subject, don't think money was Cooper's main motivation.

Why ask for $200,000? A nice chunk but certainly not enough to live off of for years and years even in 1971. Also, why carry 21

pounds (the weight of the money) with during his jump and thus add more weight.

There's more to this case than meets the eye and the FBI knows it.

[KatieAnd5a5ah]

@MultiSmartass1 i heard the CIA owed him money for being tortured and for betrayal and he is now my hero.

DB DB DB

[thththtg]

what happend to tha bomb then??

[jetpoweredgriffin]

@thththtg

Road flares,play-dough and an alarm clock.

[CantStopWontStop818]

I've found DB Cooper. I went to the landing site and followed a trail of human poo to which lead me to a small log cabin. DB was very nice, invited me in for coffee, then we played a nice game of Scrabble. As I left he handed me a bottle of Bourbon as a parting gift.

[puddlejumper98]

I agree lol. Lots of places to be picked up. You know, the sketch looks alot like the stewardist.

[puddlejumper98]

The money found Im sure was just a deterant to think he was dead. He obviously had great military intelagence.

[straightofdahood]

@puddlejumper98 only 5,000 or so was found buried in the sand. I think that only proves he lived. If he had died, all of the money would be in the same place, or relatively same location. The fact that the rest of the money has never been found, and its been 40 years just proves he made it imo. either way, the dude had balls...

[IamtheBurceDickenson]

Some of the ransom money was found (I think in the 1990s) in a river bank near the path of the hijacked plane. So it would seem he was died either when or just after he hit the ground. Otherwise why would he leave so much money behind?

[muttilo]

The stewardess said he offered to gift them as many bundles as was found , and they refused .He put  them in his jacket pocket , unlike the rest in the bag , so if that's true could have blown out ..

[theredlibanese]

I dont know .....weight maybe?

[GaryHMan]

Thanks for posting! Dare I say this series was somewhat ahead of its time. Kind of like 'Unsolved Mysteries' which showed up some years later.

[boves99]

The crew took the money, cooper doesnt exist he never took the plane. Any ione could buy a ticket with a fake id and miss the plane on purpose.

[muttilo]

The FBI wouldv'e caught that I'm sure by now

[MultiSmartass1]

@boves99 First of all, a man calling himself Dan Cooper bought a ticket at Portland Airport. Even if this name used an alias or made up name, this individual existed.

If the crew took the money, why did nearly 6,000 dollars end up buried near the Colombia River and waterlogged? These crew members with exception of one of the stewardesses was one the plane. Did they just take the money, ditch the parachutes and later bury the money? Its possible but not probable.

[boves99]

So easy to solve, First a guy with a fake name of Dan Cooper buys a ticket to a flight wich he never took. Then the stewardess and the rest of the crew make up the note and all the demands, they land on seatle, they get the money they return up in the air, and later they open the rear door of the plane to make believe that Cooper jumped. I think the real Dan Cooper never took the plane, and the crew got the money and they would be the real criminals.

[torpeedo1]

But the all the passengers saw the guy too. They helped to create the drawing of him. So your teory is impossible.

I believe that he might have had someone waiting for him with a car. OK, the car-guy would have had to drive quite long to find Cooper, but if they had radiophones, it wouldnt have been that difficult.

[boves99]

As I know, only the stewardess and the guy suposedly sitting next to him helped with the drawing.

[Rodrigoandnietzsche]

"Your teory is impossible" :D

[MultiSmartass1]

@boves99 Actually, it is not so easy to solve. It was confirmed that the man who bought the ticket boarded the plane. Also, other passengers confirmed such a man was on the plane-though they didn't pay attention to him.

Keep in mind that the $200,000 in bills were all photographed. The money was never used or never turned up. Why would a pilot, co-pilot, stewardess want to hijack a plane for $200,000? Why not $500,000 or $1 million? Not worth it.

[jetpoweredgriffin]

@MultiSmartass1

The$200K weighed 21lbs.

$1M weighs 105lbs.

Try exiting a jet in no visibility in a manever you or nobody else has ever attempted with 105lbs to lug.

Savvy?

[Goldex13]

@jetpoweredgriffin Also, $200,000 in 1971 is almost $1,1 million in 2010. 

[jetpoweredgriffin]

@Goldex13

There are some things you can't even buy or do anymore.

You could buy land and build without restrictions or operate certain businesses with little or no insurance/paperwork restrictions in comparison with now.

Whatever happened,

it was an incredible heist.

Nobody ever even thought about it before him.

After that,

those doors were changed to no longer open in flight.

-g

[jetpoweredgriffin]

@boves99

An FAA man approached the plane and talked with him face to face through the rear door briefly but he broke off negotiations.

He had multiple conversations with various govt. personnel.

i hope you were only kidding.

[jamaicanification]

man its people like him that make the system look so ridiculous. Honeslty its been almost 40 years and they haven't got a clue where this guy went

[getoharmony23]

D.B Cooper did it for the money, the cars, and the hoes he is the man. What a pimp.

[larrylease2006]

it had to have been more than $2,000. Seriously all he asks for is 2,000 i dont think so.

[lewandoj]

Knew it all along....His name is Ted Nugent

[muttilo]

The parchute should have been found fairly soon unless he hit water and drowned

[qtips3]

if he made it good 4 him

[cdwordsworth26]

good to know maverick may just do that.

[oregonmaverick]

IF YOUR EVER IN SOUTH WASHINGTON STATE OR NEAR PORTLAND OREGON STOP BY THE TOWN OF ARIEL OFF 1-5 YOU WILL SEE DONNA (owner) AT THE STORE WITH LAKE MERLIN RIGHT BEHIND IT, COPPERS SO CALLED JUMP/LANDING ZONE.THEIRS A PARACHUTE ON THE CEILING. THE WALLS ARE COVERED WITH ARTIFACTS, AND NEWS PAPER CLIPINGS FROM THAT TIME. LICENCE PLATES FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY A GUEST BOOK WITH NAMES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD...THE INSIDE OF DONNAS STORE HAS NOT CHANGED MUCH SINCE THAT DAY IN 1971.

[rb7magnetico]

He must of had military eperience to do something like that...He had it planned..especially to ask for 4 chutes.

[FlashFizz]

Would Cooper have recognized a ground training chute?

[cdwordsworth26]

can you imagine if he'd got 4 chutes because he was going to jump with hostages and then when they found that body wearing the training chute that wouldn't open, the authorities would have caused the murder.

[PungiFungi]

In fact, that sketch gave me nightmares.

[softhand23]

voice of morgan freeman

[cdishmo]

D B Cooper trusted the people to give him good parachutes. The FBI did not put a tracking device in the parachutes.

[ReligiousZombie]

With a mustache, Spock looks like a redneck.

[Efrasnel]

Great stuff! If they want to keep people from posting it, give it a proper DVD release. My God, if there's a movie of that "book" Da Vinci code, at least give the world this...

[Stan1208]

This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

[LeChiffre3223]

when was this made

[beautystruck]

Original broadcast: 6 December 1979

[LeChiffre3223]

thanks

[3baxcb]

@beautystruck About 8 years after after the heist. 

[BaxterOhair]

@LeChiffre3223 hey man open your eyes look below the video it tells you when it was made

[6151RichmondStreet]

You are wonderful for posting this! I am from Vancouver, British Columbia and just recently learned about this elusive northwest mystery and now I'm hooked! Does anyone know what came of that young man who said that his father was D.B. Cooper and he had the money in a safety deposit here in Vancouver?

[RalphWiggum08]

Thanks for reposting these...I hate that YouTube has yanked so many users who posted ISO's and Unsolved Mysteries episodes...