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BIKE PATH KILLER MISSING HEIRESS ABDUCTED BOY ART HEIST BOY IN THE BOX FISHING MURDER TIJUANA DEATH LAGUARDIA CAPE COD MURDER

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FAMOUS COLD CASES: - Black Dahlia - Slain Showgirl - Zodiac Killer - Hall-Hills Murder - BTK Strangler - Tampered Tylenol - Anthrax Scare

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Called FBI 4/10/03 Thurs about 2:15 PM

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Fax Duty Officer 206-262-2543 Full name my addr DOB

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FAMOUS COLD CASES: Police nemeses, tabloid fodder

By Davina Willett Court TV

Whatever Happened to D.B. Cooper?

On the night before Thanksgiving 1971, a rather nondescript, middle-a skinned man boarded North West Airlines Flight 305 at around 4:15 p. Portland International Airport. He paid $20 cash for his ticket. En rout Seattle, the man, who has come to be known as D.B. Cooper, handed attendant Flo Schaffner a handwritten note.

About four hours later D.B. Cooper pulled off the only successful majo in U.S. history.

D.B. Cooper reclaimed the note he handed to Schaffner, so its exact w lost in history. But according to Max Gunther, author of D.B. Cooper: Happened, Schaffner, and the colleague to whom she showed/the lette remember it. It explained that the man had a bomb in his case and th wanted $200,000 in $20 bills; that he demanded four parachutes, alon money, delivered to him when the plane landed in Seattle; and he said demands were not met, he would detonate the bomb and blow up the

When the plane landed in Seattle, the airline had (serial numbers already recorded by the FBI) and parachutes waiting. D.B. Cooper released everyon one steward, Tina Mucklow Larson, and both pilot

He ordered the plane to be refueled and flown to no more than 10,000 feet, agreeing to another re stop in Reno, Nevada. He demanded the wing flap and the rear stairs lowered. All measures to keep at a safe speed and easy access for jumping out stairs.

The pilots reported that the plane's gauges record bump in pressure at 8:13 p.m., as they flew over Washington. This is when the pilots and the FBI figure Cooper jumped, presume that his jumping caused the stairwell to snap shut then open

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D.B. Cooper parachuted out of Northwest Airlines jet with a $200,000 ransom.

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