Category Archives: DB Cooper

DB Cooper – 40th Anniversary celebrations include first-ever professional symposium on America’s only unsolved skyjacking

  Editor’s Note:  The following press release from author Geoffrey Gray heralds the first-ever professional gathering that will examine the DB Cooper case – the only unsolved skyjacking in the history of the United States.

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DB Cooper: Build-up to the 40th Anniversary

~                                               As the 40th Anniversary of the DB Cooper skyjacking approaches, both celebratory plans and investigatory efforts are intensifying.

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DB Cooper – Interview with Boeing scientist sheds more light on case

~ A recent interview with Boeing physicist and software designer Alan MacArthur has cast more light on the DB Cooper case.

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DB Cooper case heats up again with controversy over parachutes

By Bruce A. Smith  The investigation of DB Cooper, the famed skyjacker who disappeared into the night skies of November 24, 1971 by parachuting from his Northwest Orient flight with two-hundred grand strapped to his body, has a new mystery – … Continue reading

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The Hunt for DB Cooper – The Resurgent Investigation into America’s only Unsolved Skyjacking; an overview, revised

by Bruce A. Smith On the day before Thanksgiving in 1971, the famed skyjacker DB Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Orient jetliner with $200,000 in twenties tethered to his waist.  Not only has he never been seen since, his identity … Continue reading

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DB Cooper report: Interview with Ayn Dietrich, Seattle FBI spokesperson

by Bruce A. Smith Ayn Sandalo Dietrich, the FBI’s public information officer in their Seattle office tasked with handling DB Cooper inquiries, has been a focal point of controversy in the past few weeks.

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How did the LD-as-DB Cooper story get so big, so fast?

by Bruce A. Smith Seemingly from out of nowhere, the possibility that an Oregon man named LD Cooper could be the infamous skyjacker DB Cooper has become an international sensation.  But how, and why?

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Pictures of Tina Mucklow, the primary witness to the DB Cooper skyjacking

The following pictures are images of Tina Mucklow, one of the three flight attendants aboard Northwest Orient Flight 305, the airliner that DB Cooper skyjacked in 1971.

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The resurgent investigation of DB Cooper – An interview with chief witness Tina Mucklow

After thirty years in hiding, Tina Mucklow, the primary witness to the DB Cooper skyjacking, had a face-to-face interview with me, which is the first time she has spoken in person with a working journalist since 1982.

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The DB Cooper case heats up: Looking for Tina – preparing for contact

  Tina Mucklow is the primary witness to the DB Cooper skyjacking, but for the past thirty years she has been hidden from public view. 

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