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D.B. Cooper's Cold Case Turns Comical

By Paul Bedard, Alex Kingsbury

April 7, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Alex Kingsbury, Washington Whispers

When Special Agent Larry Carr took charge of perhaps the most celebrated crime since the Great Train Robbery, one thing was certain: The FBI wouldn't give him any resources to investigate the cold case. Searching for D. B. Cooper, the legendary larcenist who leapt from a passenger jet in 1971, wasn't high priority. No problem, because Carr inherited an army of amateur sleuths and bloggers enthralled by the case in which a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded a plane bound from Portland, Ore., to Seattle. Claiming to have dynamite, he demanded parachutes and $200,000 and jumped out, never to be seen again. Now, 38 years later, a new clue: a series of 1950s and 1960s French graphic novels featuring Dan Cooper, a fictional Royal Canadian Air Force test pilot. One showed him jumping from a plane. Coincidence? Unlikely, suggests Carr, who thinks the real jumper stole the fictional ID. "Maybe Cooper was the kind of guy who collected these comics," Carr says.

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D.B. COOPER lived after his jump on NOV.24.1971 ,,,,HIS name was DAN COOPER he lived in TEXAS with his Wife INA COOPER. THAT is he lived for another 20 YEARS until he died in TEXAS. he died in 1990 or 1991 ,that is when DAN's wife ,,,INA had him creamated, and she moved to LOUISVILLE,KENTUCKY to be close to her two SONS ESTIL and RONNIE Jackson , ESTIL AKA JACK Jackson Lives at 820 Fairdale Road in LOUISVILLE KY. HE has D>B>COOPER ERIN on his fireplace Mantel .there was also a ..A.B.COOPER , ARTHER COOPER. ESTIL ,,,,,JACK JACKSON also has a PHOTO ALBUM of the COOPER Family that had pitchers of DAN COOPER . INA COOPER died in 2002 or 2003 ,,,,, Jack AKA ESTIL is married to DORIS OLLER, He had TWo Children With His EXWIFE Martha McGAYHEE she remarried BENNIE MCGAYHEE ,HER MAIDEN NAME WAS MARTHA HOOK, ESTIl and MATRHA had two CHILDREN PATRICA MICHELL JACKSON ....AKA PATTY DEBOAR She LIVES in E-TOWN ,AND ARTHER ERAL JACKSON,,,,,,THIS IS THE REAL DEAL on WHO D>B> COOPER was and were his FAMILY LIVE ,,,,,ESTIL is now in his 70's...

CLIFF DOWNS of KY 1:55PM March 31, 2011

Today March 18, 2010 - The State of WA and the FBI has to make a decision. In 1998 they told a woman she had to put her husband on the plane - even though she offered up all she had - it was not enough. The faulty DNA collect by the FBI in 1971 did not follow the guidelines - but they dismissed her husband based on this erroneous DNA sampling that had been contaminated.

Flyers recently sent to the State of WA depicted 2 items never before present to the public. Did she put her husband on that flight with those items? IF so why did the FBI not acknowledge this in 1997 - when she told them about the items.

Just Me of FL 4:32AM March 18, 2010

Good afternoon.

Enough, already! The mystery is no longer a mystery.

Please, please, please, will someone take a look at a book called "Alive, Alaska"?

Briefly, the book is a comical look at the story (fictional? Not so, I say) of a young African-American named Roland David Hunter. The man was hard-work, determined, the true definition of a "law-abiding citizen"....yet, he was lonely beyond lonely, sad, depressed and suicidal.

He was close to taking his own life when God intervened.

Roland saved the life of a man that "rewarded" him with an all-expenses paid vacation to a very remote area of Alaska.

This had long been a dream of Roland's and it picked his spirits up, to put it mildly.

The story, however, is about what Roland discovered while on his fishing trip.

Roland had everything at his disposal, including transportation to explore the many lakes and streams in Alaska. Well, one morning he took a wrong turn, happily riding along until he came to the end of a road. The road was blocked by a long, long, fence.

Roland's curiosity was peaked, as there was no reason for a fence to be there in the first place.

Bravely, he got out and walked the length of the fence, praying that he didn't run into any bears.

What he came across was a slew of beautiful mansions on this enclosed property, exclusive and very secluded from prying eyes.

There were (are) some very interesting people living in this area.

But, the owner of this wide expanse had been there since the early seventies. He bought the property dirt cheap, paid cash for it, had two homes built for himself, fenced the place in, then opened it up to others just as reclusive as himself.

The people that moved in are all stories by themself.

But the name of the owner of that area, aptly named "Alive, Alaska"?

Mr. D.B. Cooper.

That's right. Mr. D.B. Cooper.

That was in the mid to late nineties. Is he still alive? No telling. You'd have to ask a very happy Roland David Hunter, who moved up to "Alive, Alaska" at the request of the residents.

You see, these are some very famous people who "should" be dead. They've "died" young or suspiciously, then somehow relocated to "Alive, Alaska".

Roland discovered this little secret and he knew that he'd found the goldmine of all stories.

But, that's why you need to read the book

Please go to mountainmistproductions.com, or Google the book, "Alive, Alaska".

Trust me, it's not just another fantasy.

Thank you.

Lee of MO 8:11PM October 03, 2009

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