1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from how 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: I'm editor Candice S. Gibson, Joints Day by my very 4 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: favorite staff writer, Joshua M. Clark's going, it's going well. 5 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, Candice, You're so welcome. So, Candice, 6 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: I know you're kind of into true crime, right, So 7 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: have you heard much about dB Cooper. I've heard a 8 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: whole lot, but I'm not going to steal your thunder fantasy. 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. So I think dB Cooper is 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: well perpetrated the greatest tist of all time. Um, let 11 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: me tell you about Okay nine Thanksgiving Eve. I think 12 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: it was November. This guy named dB Cooper. Well that's 13 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: what it said on his ticket um boards his flight 14 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. It's a pretty short flight, um, 15 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: but he has time to settle back, order a bourbon 16 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: and soda chain smoke back when you could smoke on 17 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: the plane. Um. And also he had time to pass 18 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: a ransom note to one of the stewardesses. Um and 19 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: it said that he was going to blow up the 20 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: plane if they didn't give him two hundred thousand dollars 21 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: and four parachutes. Well he took it pretty seriously. UM, 22 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,839 Speaker 1: hijackings weren't, you know, really a widespread thing at the time. 23 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: So they land the plane in Seattle, Tacoma. Um, he 24 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: lets the passengers go, keeps the crew on board, and 25 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: then has them bring the money on board and the parachutes. 26 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: And I think he let the crew go but kept 27 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: the pilot on and told the pilot to go to Mexico. 28 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: But the plane never made it to Mexico. It made 29 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: it to Reno, and when it did, D B. Cooper 30 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: wasn't on board. At about ten thousand feet over Washington. 31 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: He had jumped out on this cold, rainy, cloudy night 32 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: over the Cascade Mountains in that state, never to be 33 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: heard from again. The FBI thinks he's dead. Is that 34 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,559 Speaker 1: fact or fiction? From what you know, Well, it's really 35 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: tough to day whether it's a fact or fiction that 36 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: DBI Cooper is still alive. And you know, the FBI 37 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: has actually profiled about eight hundred people whom they believe 38 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: could possibly be DBI Cooper. UM. One man, Dwayne Weber, 39 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: actually confessed on his deathbed to his wife that he 40 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: was dB Cooper, but DNA evidence later ruled him out, 41 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: so we're not quite sure why he made that confession. 42 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: He was a little bit blacky. Maybe he liked the 43 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 1: tale just like us. Then Richard McCoy, who was a 44 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: Vietnam veteran and a Sunday school teacher, he pulled a 45 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: pretty similar sort of highest hijacking a plane, making all 46 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: of some cash, but he was ruled out too. And 47 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: there have been all sorts of suspects in this case, 48 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 1: and as far as any hard evidence, it's been pretty 49 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: few and far between. Back in ninety a boy playing 50 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: by the Columbia River found a couple of wads of 51 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: twenty dollar bills, which is the denomination DBI. Cooper demanded 52 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: his two thousand dollar ransom in and on these bills 53 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: the serial number actually matched the numbers of the bills 54 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: have been given to Deep It was money, but he 55 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: wasn't around nobody nothing. And then in two thousand and eight, uh, 56 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: some other boys found part of a parachute and they 57 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: thought maybe it's DBS. But these parachutes were made of 58 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: silk and not made of nylon, which his wise. So 59 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: the case is still ad opens, so we don't know 60 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: if it's factor fiction, we don't, and we've fairly scratched 61 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: the surface. So to learn more, Bread is dB Cooper 62 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 1: still alive On how stuff works dot com. We're more 63 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: on this than thousands of other topics because at how 64 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. Let us know what you think. 65 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: Send an email to podcast at how stuff works dot com.