FBI closes D.B. Cooper case for lack of 'credible leads', The FBI has bankrupt the book on one of the greatest riddles of all time.
The abandoned abettor assigned to the D.B. Cooper manhunt was assigned to added mysteries aural the federal bureau on Friday, finer shuttering the 45-year-old case afterwards the FBI — and troves of tipsters — bootless to character the abominable hijacker, the FBI announced.
“Unfortunately, none of the well-meaning tips or applications of new analytic technology accept yielded the all-important proof,” FBI backer Ayn Dietrich-Williams said in a account backward Monday.
The bureau has caked over the allegorical annexation anytime back a frigid night on Nov. 24, 1971, if commuter Dan Cooper flashed what appeared to be a bomb, donned a parachute and leaped from the Northwest Orient Airlines even to Seattle with a bag with $200,000 in baseborn cash.
Four decades later, Cooper about got abroad with the about absolute crime, but the blocked analysis has alone ballooned with new and adverse questions.
Former case abettor Larry Carr questioned whether the sky charlatan in fact survived the attempt into southwest Washington abreast the accompaniment bound with Oregon.
He aswell leaned on internet sleuthers who acicular Carr to a French-language banana book alternation based on a fabulous paratrooper called “Dan Cooper” that may accept aggressive a affected identity.
The accepted Cooper investigator with the FBI’s agitated crimes band had no luck pinning down a aboveboard advance afterwards demography over for Carr.
The case aggressive decades of abecedarian investigations, but none, behindhand of their credibly, “resulted in a absolute identification of the hijacker,” Dietrich-Williams said.
“The FBI absolutely advised all aboveboard leads,” she added.
Some of the zaniest of theories nixed by federal authorities was a man on his deathbed aloof that he was the acclaimed brigand while several ancestors claimed their admired one was Cooper. A man believed his asleep World War II adept brother — a above paratrooper called Kenneth Christensen — may accept died denial his abstruse Cooper accomplished while a woman doubtable her uncle, Lynn Doyle Cooper, may accept been Cooper.
He was disqualified out afterwards board accomplished his DNA did not bout what was begin on a atramentous tie.
As for the crumbling affirmation calm over the years — including the snippets of acclimate $20 bills an 8-year-old boy begin forth the Columbia River in 1980 — the FBI will accumulate it filed abroad at its address in Washington D.C.
A pink-hued parachute and atramentous tie are aswell a part of the concrete clues calm by investigators.
Although the FBI will no best actively investigate the case, Dietrich-Williams said the bureau will abide to acreage tips accompanying to the parachute and baseborn cash.
The abandoned abettor assigned to the D.B. Cooper manhunt was assigned to added mysteries aural the federal bureau on Friday, finer shuttering the 45-year-old case afterwards the FBI — and troves of tipsters — bootless to character the abominable hijacker, the FBI announced.
“Unfortunately, none of the well-meaning tips or applications of new analytic technology accept yielded the all-important proof,” FBI backer Ayn Dietrich-Williams said in a account backward Monday.
The bureau has caked over the allegorical annexation anytime back a frigid night on Nov. 24, 1971, if commuter Dan Cooper flashed what appeared to be a bomb, donned a parachute and leaped from the Northwest Orient Airlines even to Seattle with a bag with $200,000 in baseborn cash.
Four decades later, Cooper about got abroad with the about absolute crime, but the blocked analysis has alone ballooned with new and adverse questions.
Former case abettor Larry Carr questioned whether the sky charlatan in fact survived the attempt into southwest Washington abreast the accompaniment bound with Oregon.
He aswell leaned on internet sleuthers who acicular Carr to a French-language banana book alternation based on a fabulous paratrooper called “Dan Cooper” that may accept aggressive a affected identity.
The accepted Cooper investigator with the FBI’s agitated crimes band had no luck pinning down a aboveboard advance afterwards demography over for Carr.
The case aggressive decades of abecedarian investigations, but none, behindhand of their credibly, “resulted in a absolute identification of the hijacker,” Dietrich-Williams said.
“The FBI absolutely advised all aboveboard leads,” she added.
Some of the zaniest of theories nixed by federal authorities was a man on his deathbed aloof that he was the acclaimed brigand while several ancestors claimed their admired one was Cooper. A man believed his asleep World War II adept brother — a above paratrooper called Kenneth Christensen — may accept died denial his abstruse Cooper accomplished while a woman doubtable her uncle, Lynn Doyle Cooper, may accept been Cooper.
He was disqualified out afterwards board accomplished his DNA did not bout what was begin on a atramentous tie.
As for the crumbling affirmation calm over the years — including the snippets of acclimate $20 bills an 8-year-old boy begin forth the Columbia River in 1980 — the FBI will accumulate it filed abroad at its address in Washington D.C.
A pink-hued parachute and atramentous tie are aswell a part of the concrete clues calm by investigators.
Although the FBI will no best actively investigate the case, Dietrich-Williams said the bureau will abide to acreage tips accompanying to the parachute and baseborn cash.
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