FD-350 clipping: "D. B. Cooper, dead or alive?" (part two), The Daily World, Aberdeen, 11/27/75
Document date 27 November 1975
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 54 pp. 166–167 (DB Cooper-23095–23096), News clipping, dated 27 Nov 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A166-167
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"Back TAXES OWED" "SkyJacker OWES IRS"
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D. B. Cooper, dead or alive?
By LARRY STEWARD World Staff Writer (Second of two articles)
"Are you all right?" the Northwest Airlines 727 pilot asked over the intercom on Thanksgiving Day four years ago. "Okay," was the skyjacker's reply from the rear of the plane's deserted passenger compartment.
That word from Dan Cooper, later mistakenly tagged with the initials D. B., was the last ever known to come from one of the state's most elusive criminals.
PERHAPS THE elusiveness can be attributed to the fact Cooper is 350 feet below the surface of Lake Merwin, near Woodland, anchored to his watery grave by 24.5 pounds of $20 bills.
Perhaps not. Cooper may have parachuted safely to earth and slipped back into the oblivion of anonymity which has left federal agents without a clue to his real identity.
If he isn't dead, the question is: "D. B. Cooper, where are you?" — a riddle which has been used as advertising slogans, on $2.50 T-shirts and as the subject of a song.
BUT ASKING that question in earnest (Continued on A-10)
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Page 1 "The Daily World" Aberdeen, Wa.
Date: 11/27/75 Edition: Author: Editor: Title: NORJAK
Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: [X] Being Investigated
164-81 — Sub B
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DB Cooper-23095
D. B. Cooper, dead or alive?
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and with renewed urgency are law enforcement officers who hope to find the answer before the five-year statute of limitations on the skyjacking expires on Nov. 24, 1976.
"He could be arrested after then for possessing stolen property, but unless we get a 'John Doe,' alias D. B. Cooper, warrant issued before the five years, the (skyjacking) statute of limitations will have expired," Special FBI Agent Thomas Manning said.
Speaking to the Grays Harbor Footprinters recently, Manning, the agent in charge of the Cooper investigation, detailed the sequence of events after Cooper received $200,000 in ransom and four parachutes at Sea-Tac airport and let the 36 passengers get off, the plane.
"Cooper told the stewardess to go up into the cabin with the pilot," Manning said.
Then, at 8:10 p.m., he opened the 727's rear door, which triggered an alarm light
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in the cabin.
WHEN HE SAW the light, the pilot asked Cooper if he was all right and heard the last known word from the skyjacker.
Cooper was wearing a light topcoat, brown loafers and a black suit when he leaped from the plane and into perhaps 20 below zero temperatures outside, Manning said.
The agent added that one expert told him the turbulence at that altitude and the speed of the plane may have torn the shoes from Cooper's feet and the cold may have rendered him at least temporarily unconscious.
But even those conditions may not have prevented him from pulling the ripcord on the parachute and floating to a safe landing.
SINCE IT WAS dark and the sky overcast, the two U.S. Air Force chase planes couldn't see when or where Cooper left the plane.
"When he left that plane, he was
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facing tremendous obstacles," the agent said.
Manning said he feels the answer to the D. B. Cooper case may be within the grasp of lawmen.
Somewhere, maybe in Aberdeen, Hoquiam or any other community in the country, there may be a missing persons report which matches D. B. Cooper's description, he said.
Such a report may be the missing link, he added.
"Or, as always in a case like this, spending the money is a problem," he said.
THE $200,000 in ransom Cooper collected is still missing and not one of the bills copied by the FBI to record the serial numbers has ever been reported found, he said.
But Manning supports his theory that Cooper drowned in Lake Merwin.
"Everybody has a theory," he said.
"Someday, someone is going to call me and say: 'Tom, there's a lot of money floating around on the surface of Lake Merwin,'" Manning said.
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DB Cooper-23096
Serials: 164-81 — Sub B, NORJAK