The parachute used by the hijacker known as D.B. Cooper to leap out of a Boeing plane with $200,000 in cash after taking the passengers and crew hostage more than 50 years ago may have been found.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 24, 1971, a hijacker calling himself “Dan Cooper” — but who soon became popularly known as “D.B. Cooper” — ...

The 50-year-old cold case of D.B. Cooper may have seen a new development after an amateur sleuth claims to have found the parachute used by the infamous, yet still unidentified plane hijacker. Gryder, ...

Richard McCoy is a name that’s well known to aficionados of the 52-year-old D.B. Cooper case, the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history. The Vietnam War veteran was a suspect for a while – and he ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A woman claiming to be the niece of the mysterious skyjacker dubbed D.B. Cooper, who bailed out of a jetliner with $200,000 (121,661.90 pounds) in ransom, says she recalls ...

SEATTLE - A microscopic metal fragment found on the tie of infamous plane hijacker D. B. Cooper could help reveal his true identity. Private investigator and researcher Eric Ulis is ringing in the new ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. - A simple black necktie may be the smoking gun tosolving a mystery that has fascinated the country for 50 years: who is D.B. Cooper and what happened to him? On the afternoon of Nov.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Fifty-two years after a plane heading to Seattle was hijacked by a man known as D.B. Cooper, an amateur investigator is leading a new search for evidence — claiming more ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – During a new search effort last week, amateur investigators claim they found a flat sheet, which they believe was used by an escaped plane hijacker in 1971. The mystery of D.B.

Nov. 24 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published. In 1863, Union Gen. U.S. Grant launched the U.S. Civil War battle of Chattanooga in Tennessee ...

The FBI is looking at a promising new lead in the unsolved D.B. Cooper hijacking case from 1971. Now, a woman thinks her uncle was the legendary D.B. Cooper. It was 1971 and 8-year-old Marla Cooper ...