It's a shame they're throwing that out. I would have visited just for that.
Hmm, well, you know, I only got interested in the case in the last couple of years, I think the first trigger being a re-run of Unsolved Mysteries. Prison Break also had a DB Cooper, Charles Westmoreland, who was never captured as Cooper because he got picked up on vehicular manslaughter. Don Draper as DB Cooper would have made perfect sense (though I'm fairly sure Don would have cratered). Don't know why they didn't do it - just given the time of the show's finale, and Don ditching the necktie would have made for some nice symbolism.
But people who like mysteries do discover the case- there's a guy at my work who knows a lot about it, and a former HS friend is fascinated by it as well. They're both around my age, so not old enough to remember the original news item. Plus there are a few history sites on Facebook and elsewhere that run the story intermittently. But it probably doesn't help that every year or two news articles basing their stories on one promoter or another announcing it's "solved" come out, or that the feds went several years pretty much sticking to the party line that he died.
There are, of course, people who need blood or insanity to enjoy a true crime story. But I think the Internet might keep Cooper alive longer than expected. A movie would be great, but the ending is the problem. Everyone knows he jumped, but before the ticket purchase and after the jump, everything's blank.
Still, I'd like to see one recreation that didn't get something wrong. What was the awful one that had Cooper shouting at Tina to take her Bible back to the cockpit? That was weird. Can't remember which one it was.
