History's Greatest Mysteries: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper Explained (Season 1) | History

Investigator Eric Ulis is on a mission to close the infamous unsolved case involving D.B. Cooper - digging through unseen evidence to finally find answers, in this clip from Season 1, "The Final Hunt for D. B, Cooper." #HistorysGreatestMysteries
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To think he only did the heist because he lost a bet to Thor XD

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I probably watched 40 different documentaries on this and it never gets old. I wish we had definitive proof of who he was.

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Loki

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Loki looking like him... Marvel inspired by him for that look..

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DB Coper must be so proud by watching his documentarys on KZbin laughing out loud 😅

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He would only be about 80 years old today, so it’s possible. 🤪🤪🤪

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@@sriramattavar He could have died already.

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@@sludge4125 you mean 90. They said he was 40 and this was over 50 years ago

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There was no DB Cooper; passengers and crew were all in on it - split the 200K. It obvious

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How did you know this if your comment is one year ago and the episode aired in June of last year?

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It's been 49 years and STILL no one has ever reported a missing person of that description. He probably took a green pen and changed the marked bills into unmarked bills by changing a 3 into an 8. Good for him!

[@anonymike8280]

The bills were not physically marked. Their serial numbers were recorded. Apparently, there was money prepared in advance for this kind of contingency.

[@DavidGoldZodiac]

Escaped convict

[@nigelbenn4642]

@@anonymike8280 No he meant changed the serial numbers

[@anonymike8280]

@@DavidGoldZodiac Probably not. I am sure the FBI looked into that angle. There probably were only a few escaped convicts whose appearance even possibly matched Cooper. Then that person would need to have had the necessary speaking ability and general intelligence. Also, some kind of military airborne or civilian skydiving experience. Or maybe a special ops background. A guy who could talk only in Brooklynese or street smack would not qualify as a Cooper suspect.

[@anonymike8280]

@@nigelbenn4642 Okay. But no one was checking any way, My estimate is that the Cooper ransom represented 1/100,000 of all of thje $20 bills then in circulation. Back then, far more transactions were in cash as compared to today.

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He lost a bet to Thor.

[@michaelcarron3418]

Made a water landing, exfilled by boat.Possible ex- military, airborne trained. Ranger or Special Forces.

[@ningen1980]

And the UFO picked him up mid freefall with a rubberband over Jacksonville, FL.

[@alabamamothman2986]

Good theory. Never thought of it.

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He made it. I’m 99% positive considering a bundle of cash was found at Tina-bar 10 years after the hijacking. We also know it’s the cash used as the ransom because the serial numbers were recorded in advance. This is an indication of human intervention. He’s probably dead now, but he easily could have been in his late 20’s and just looked older. Who knows. If he made it then he’s the greatest criminal in my book.

[@michaelcarron3418]

@@darwinsbestbuddies8055 Well, did any of the rest of money ever show up ??

[@ericlane3256]

I don’t think being airborne trained or any of that is going to help you in a low altitude free fall jump. He probably started spinning uncontrollably the moment he leapt off the air stairs.

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Here after watching Loki's first episode.

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After Loki series, D.B Cooper documentary makers be like : Paisa hi Paisa hoga 😂

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Glorious Purpose

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6 months later, it was Loki all along! Thanks to Heimdal

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Intetesting Db cooper was actually Mr Rogers he was on Tv the whole time.

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Lol.

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No it's Loki of Asgard

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I've searched for db Cooper and KZbin showed up with Loki's new trailer

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Glorious

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[@Aki-to]

Loving this piece of history. Thanks for rolling this topic out again. Please make it thorough and very elaborate.

[@cactaceous]

It's gonna be the same old, same old told by new people.

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Didn't they put him in prison break

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Yes they did

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Nice

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Many people have investigated this subject over the years, but this documentary showcases Eric Ullis as the ultimate authority.

[@anonymike8280]

Eric is someone who has done some investigation and come up with some theories. I have attended Cooper Con and have met him. I am pretty sure he is the kind of guy who if his theories turn out to be wrong is not going to have nervous breakdown over it. His tracing back the titanium particles on the Cooper necktie to the Rem-Cru firm in Pennsylvania and then identifying two men who worked there is a nice piece of forensic work. The problem is, no one knows where Cooper got the tie. I was there, meaning, I was a young adult already in 1971. A black clip-on tie was a low value item. If someone lost or misplaced one, they might go back and look for it. Someone might readily loan one to another person not really expecting to get it back, or just give a co-worker a spare tie. The DNA of three distinct men was found on the front of the Cooper tie. The likelihood is, the tie was in the possession of and worn by more than one man during its history. Add to that the possibility that Cooper bought all of the pieces of his outfit at thrift stores or garage sales and the Rem-Cru connection becomes more problematic. I am sure many forensic cases are vexed by leads which seem compelling but fail to pan out. Every Cooper lead has failed up to this point and no identified suspect has ever been deemed even a likely match.

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😂

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He looks more like Phil Coulson 😁

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Did any of the witnesses notice a bright flash of light outside the plain after he jumped off?

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It's Loki !?

[@gregkemp3161]

I think there is something that's not been considered. Research say the crew heard and felt Cooper jump from the plane and made a note of the time in order to guess where he may have landed. I believe once the flight crew thought Cooper had left the plane they would go and check as well as make a note. Would Cooper have known they would check. Surely. It doesn't add up and creates a whole new way of thinking about this case Greg

[@alabamamothman2986]

Best I can tell, they caught him with that bank robber arrest. He looks just like the sketch artist portrait.

[@ellybean5868]

Whenever the guy starts out in the beginning saying he can solve it.... You know you are going to waste 1/2 hr of your day watching this...

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Im surprised the FBI didnt tamper with the parachutes. They could've gave him parachutes that didn't deploy.

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They were scared that he would take a hostage with him so they didn’t want to risk the hostage taking a parachute that didn’t work. Obviously cooper never did take a hostage

[@anonymike8280]

@@jordannerbas7027 Thereafter, it became the policy of the authorities not to give skyjackers who demanded them faulty parachutes. What they started doing was attaching a tracking device to the parachute. Someone who has experience folding and rigging chute could remove that though. I do not believe that they would give any faulty equipment to anyone committing a crime who demanded it. You just never know who is going to be using it, driving it, riding in it, sailing it, whatever.

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They did

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What a Mad Lad

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Kevin Spacey watching this and smiling right now.

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KZbin recommend this after watching Loki..... Amazing....

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A dude with bourbon and black suit literally defeated best investigation agency

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Don't you know Loki us D.B Cooper! It's Loki All Along‼️

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Ancient Astronaut Theorists say he’s ALIEN 👽

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No he is an asgardian

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DB Cooper was Loki ...

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Totally military trained

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Who is here after watching Episode 1 of loki

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We all know that the real D.B was called Charles Westmoreland ;)

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And he died in a prison break with micheal skofield and Lincoln burrows and John abrutzi with a few others

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Well not completely sure it was Westmorland though.....

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We all don't know that

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Kenny christensen 🤷‍♀️

[@SuperJolly96]

I just heard that people in Portland knew who D.B. Cooper is!!!

[@joehalliday6081]

That could be true. There is a real D.B. Cooper, established by the FBI within hours of the hijacking. At the time of the hijacking, the FBI asked the state government for a list of all names Dan Cooper or similar. The state replied there was a D.B. Cooper living in Oregon, so they investigated him. While the FBI was investigating him, the name was leaked to the press and they printed it. The FBI found that particular D.B. Cooper had an alibi and no ability to pull off a parachute jump, and so was ruled out as a suspect. But it had already been published in the papers so the name stuck. Nevertheless, there is a real person with the name abbreviated D.B. Cooper and many people had met him. I read somewhere that he died recently.

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LEMMiNO did a great video on D.B Cooper I recommend watching it

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He was in seat 18C to be exact! Where did you get 18E from? He was on the aisle not in the middle seat.

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Cooper was the second gunman on the grassy knoll

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DB POOPER

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Nope, he was part of the massive conspiracy of hundreds of assassins, but he fired at the motorcade from above as he was parachuting to the ground.

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Him: i always have fascination with aviation then show him with a girl on top of a plane 😂

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Its Agent Coulson 🤣🤣🤣

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Its Loki. Close though!

[@Starch-Wreck]

If only they remembered they could have lifted fingerprints off his seat arm rest.... Or door handles he opened...

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It was 1971

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@@joehalliday6081 can u please explain this news. I am unaware.

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Mystery solved

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Richard McCoy Jr. Look it up. I'd link it, but links aren't allowed (thnks history channel :/)

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It was "LOKI" 😂

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May be right now DB cooper watching this and laughing also a chance that he is commenting on this Video... 🤣😂

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He ordered a dust filter for his Hoover max extract pressure pro model 60

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Loki was dB Cooper 😂

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Someone this cool shouldn't be hunted.

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Looks like they got a full DNA profile now. Maybe they can to the Family tree thing and find him.

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Loki bought me here

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[@VanishedPNW]

Ulis is correct with his flight path guesswork.

[@joehalliday6081]

He could be living in Canada, Mexico, or on a Native American reservation for sure. Initially, he asked for the stairs to be down during takeoff. The flight crew refused this request twice even though he was insisting and "had a bomb". He may have wanted to jump as soon as possible, even during ascent so he could be close to the border to escape into Canada. Also, he asked for "negotiable" bills or a similar term that may indicate he was going where the currency is convertible and accepted such as Canada or Mexico. He initially requested to be flown to Mexico City but the plane did not have the fuel range to do so, so Reno was settled on and the FBI swarmed the plane when it landed in Reno. Yep, lots of great suspects but nothing to pin it down for certain. Many of the main 5 suspects are dead and nobody has confessed. Recently a video made by Dan Gryder, made the case that Richard McCoy was the hijacker. He did a "copy" cat hijacking about 4 months after this one but was caught, and later shot dead in a shootout with the FBI. His children believe he did it. They were very young at the time but there are circumstantial events that have led them to believe he was the guy. Just about all the 5 main suspects have many characteristics that make them likely, yet something always is off, and doesn't fit just right.

[@VanishedPNW]

@@joehalliday6081 Oh I don't think he's alive, even if he survived. The guy smoked a lot, by all accounts, and was in his mid-40s in 1971. He also had the "hands of a laborer, like a construction worker or mechanic," which means he worked for a living, probably hard. This was according to Tina Mucklow. But anyway, Hello, fellow DB Cooper obsessive. I am, maybe you are? About Gryder and McCoy/McCoy's children--I believe every family member in every commonly debated suspect has said, "yes, they definitely would be capable of something like that." In fact, only if you dig into the FBI 302s do you find any (ID unknown) suspects where their friends/family don't believe they could do the hijacking. A family member claiming, "yeah they definitely did it or could possibly do it" draws very little water with me. Stand in line with other thousand family members who have claimed the same thing. To your point about when he wanted to jump--you're correct, at least in my estimation. I believe there is ample, albeit circumstancial, evidence which corroborates a desire to jump as soon as the plane got to altitude. That, or he simply didn't know how to lower the stairs in flight, or he did not want the cockpit to know when he was planning to jump, or a combination of things. Logic would dictate that when he lowers the stairs, probably gonna jump, so perhaps he wanted the cockpit to lower them straight away so he could jump right away, or simply obscure the precise time he wanted to jump. That said, I honestly don't believe he truly cared where he was jumping, really. He did not seem to be the meticulous planner that folks have portrayed him as being. Not to me, anyway. I think because he was mildly competent and was never identified, people assume mastery and brilliance, and that contention is flawed, I think. The man made many mistakes, one of which was an enormous tactical mistake. I believe it was more circumstances and luck that he did not get tackled and subsequently apprehended. He just so happened to get a compliant crew and docile passenger roster. He could not have known who the crew was, who the passengers were or how many of them there were, whether they would comply or not, etcetera. In fact, he got on last! What if someone else sat in the last row...what then? Circumstances and a bit of luck+ just the right amount of knowledge= mystery of the century.

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Bring back cryptic the swamp beast or aka the aroughou Rou series

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I really want to someone to bring back that series so of you can please please bring it back

[@karenchristensen535]

Any updates with the DNA search???

[@irregulargamer1352]

How? There's no super library of everyone's dna. Plus you had to have had his dna to begin with.

[@sludge4125]

A criminal is a criminal. CODIS.

[@SuperJolly96]

He passed away a couple of years ago!!!

[@dubsux]

Kinda looks like that Florida man, Clettus McFarland

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History's greatest mystery solved. Its Loki and he disappeared to asgard

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It was Loki 🔥🔥🔥

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I love 💕😍db Cooper

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Imagine finding out this is your grandpa

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Make the episode about 11S

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Who is hear after Loki❤️

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Hey Ghouls.. The boys are here!

[@elizabethlinsay9193]

Has anyone searched the trees Cooper might have landed on? If they have even an approximate idea of where he parachuted, drones might locate something.

[@irons6229]

Well we figured it out. It’s Loki

[@DogtownTradingCo]

It's John Cusack!