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Wed, Jan 18, 2017

New Evidence Emerges In D.B. Cooper Case

Examination Of His Tie Finds Unique Particles Embedded In The Fabric

A tie left behind by D.B. Cooper on the Northwest Orient Boeing 727 he notoriously hijacked in 1971 has been examined by a team of citizen investigators led by selected federal officials who say they have new evidence in the case.

The Citizen Sleuths say they used an electron microscope to examine the JCPenney clip-on tie worn by the hijacker, and they have identified some 100,000 particles embedded in the fabric, including titanium, Cerium, Sulfide and Strontium.

Fox News reports that the evidence has led some to speculate that the man who called himself Dan "D.B." Cooper may have worked as a manager or engineer is a facility where high-tech manufacturing was taking place. One of those at the time was Boeing, which used those elements in the Supersonic Transport plane project, though they can also be found where items such as cathode-ray tubes are produced.

The FBI recently officially closed the case. The only hard evidence to be recovered has been some money with serial numbers matching those on bills given to Cooper. Those were found by a family on the banks of the Columbia River in 1980.

On a recent episode of the Travel Channel show "Expedition Unknown", host Josh Gates talked with others who speculate that Cooper did not jump over the Pacific Northwest, but rather spoofed the pilots into thinking he had. They posit that he waited on the stairs of the aircraft until it was much closer to Reno, where he would have had a much better chance of surviving the night time jump.

(Image from file)

FMI: www.citizensleuths.com

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