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General Questions About The Case
DBfan57:
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Register or LoginI just wonder how much has the real DB Cooper taken from all of you? You know, money, time spent chasing a ghost? Its the case that keeps on giving and keeps on taking away at the same time.
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Great question. I'm totally going to steal that one!
Personally I'd say DB Cooper has taken about $3500 from me, and countless hours. That includes hosting fees, travel for interviews/CooperCon, and over 40 books. For most I imagine its quite a bit less. In the positive column, I've made $100, got a few free books, a few free trips, and made a lot of friends.
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I'd say the friends part is priceless. But you also had fun doing it. It sure looks like this one is going to go down with some of the other great unsolved mysteries and the exception is there is nobody that winds up dead in this one. Of course there is a good part of me that still believes that Richard McCoy was DB Cooper but I certainly cant prove it and there is no real proof out there. Now I saw another theory, another dead guy that EU thinks was Cooper. He is still investigating it. The guy does not look like him IMO. If he was one of the known suspects my money is on McCoy. But of course he could be someone they have never found. I highly doubt the real Cooper is alive
Jack:
I know that DB Cooper has become somewhat of an iconic personality but we seem to be losing sight of the fact that this man was in fact a criminal. If you hijacked a plane today you would most likely be considered a terrorist.
And to those who believe this was a victimless crime, please wake up. The people who endured those hours with Cooper were to become emotionally traumatized individuals.
The thoughts of a man holding a bomb that could blow up the plane your on in mid flight and kill you would become nightmares for these people for years if not a lifetime.
I watched the clip of Bill Mitchell from this year's CooperCon, when he was describing his time on the plane and when he got to the part where he had to mention the word bomb, you could clearly see he had emotional struggles with reliving those moments.
He and the others, like Flo and Tina and the pilot crew did not know if they would live or die that night. That is something one doesn't really ever get over especially in an era where seeing a therapist was more or less a taboo subject.
It's true that Bill didn't know about the bomb till afterwards, but the emotional results are the same when he did find out because he was right there watching the guy.
Yes this is an interesting case because Cooper has never been publicly identified but I think that all the hoopla people are giving Cooper, (mostly on the other site) like it's DB Cooper day, is a disservice to the emotional trauma his victims endured that night and for every night and year after that.
This is all just my own opinion.
andrade1812:
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Register or LoginI know that DB Cooper has become somewhat of an iconic personality but we seem to be losing sight of the fact that this man was in fact a criminal. If you hijacked a plane today you would most likely be considered a terrorist.
And to those who believe this was a victimless crime, please wake up. The people who endured those hours with Cooper were to become emotionally traumatized individuals.
The thoughts of a man holding a bomb that could blow up the plane your on in mid flight and kill you would become nightmares for these people for years if not a lifetime.
I watched the clip of Bill Mitchell from this year's CooperCon, when he was describing his time on the plane and when he got to the part where he had to mention the word bomb, you could clearly see he had emotional struggles with reliving those moments.
He and the others, like Flo and Tina and the pilot crew did not know if they would live or die that night. That is something one doesn't really ever get over especially in an era where seeing a therapist was more or less a taboo subject.
It's true that Bill didn't know about the bomb till afterwards, but the emotional results are the same when he did find out because he was right there watching the guy.
Yes this is an interesting case because Cooper has never been publicly identified but I think that all the hoopla people are giving Cooper, (mostly on the other site) like it's DB Cooper day, is a disservice to the emotional trauma his victims endured that night and for every night and year after that.
This is all just my own opinion.
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A lot of us agree with you, Cooper was first and foremost a criminal.
haggarknew:
Cossey stated that there was a skydiver staying in the loft the night of the skyjacking. This was supposedly the person who handed the front reserve chutes (one of these being the training chute) to law enforcement ? Does anyone have any idea who this might have been? Did Cossey or law enforcement ever mention a name? Would this person have been a student? Was it a common practice for people to stay overnight there? Was this person ever interviewed by authorities?
Parrotheadvol:
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Register or Login Cossey stated that there was a skydiver staying in the loft the night of the skyjacking. This was supposedly the person who handed the front reserve chutes (one of these being the training chute) to law enforcement ? Does anyone have any idea who this might have been? Did Cossey or law enforcement ever mention a name? Would this person have been a student? Was it a common practice for people to stay overnight there? Was this person ever interviewed by authorities?
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If Cossey is the only source for that, I would question it's validity.
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