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New Leads Sought in D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case

By David Lohr

The advent of new technologies and DNA testing has resulted in renewed efforts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to solve the 36-year-old mystery of the D.B. Cooper skyjacker case. "Who was Cooper?  Did he survive the jump?  And what happened to the loot, only a small part of which has ever surfaced," reads a recent press release by the FBI.  "Would we still like to get our man?  Absolutely.  And we have reignited the case?thanks to a Seattle case agent named Larry Carr." This case first began on November 24, 1971, when a man who identified himself on travel documents as Dan Cooper boarded Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, in route from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington.  Shortly after the flight took off Cooper handed a female flight attendant a note that read "I have a bomb in my briefcase...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).