The trailer for the docu "Where are you DB Cooper?"/Netflix
More than 52 years have passed since Dan "D.B."
Cooper hijacked a plane and disappeared into Alta with a loot of 200 thousand dollars.
This case has never been solved, but it is very possible that we will finally find the end of the thread that will lead to its decoding - this year.
The background: On November 24, 1971, a man carrying the identity "Dan Cooper" purchased a plane ticket from Portland to Seattle.
While paying $20, he asked the ground attendant "The plane is a Boeing 727, right?".
He wasn't just curious: Cooper had planned in advance to board a Model 727 that suited his escape plan.
While sitting on a Northwest Airlines plane, he handed a note to flight attendant Florence Schaffner and told her: "Ma'am, you should read the note, I have a bomb in my suitcase. You should sit next to me, the plane has been hijacked."
Cooper demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes.
The plane circled in the sky until the control tower cleared the pilot to land.
After landing at the Seattle-Tacoma airport, the 36 passengers who apparently did not even know they had been kidnapped were released - and four crew members remained on the plane at Dee's request.
B. Cooper.
He took off again and while in the air, he opened his back door, went out to the hydraulic staircase and in impossible weather conditions jumped with the bag full of cash into the darkness.
Cooper has never been found since, with both his identity and fate remaining unknown to this day.
Evidence that led to a dead end and a collection of suspects not verified as the same mysterious kidnapper led the FBI to close the case in 2016.
Despite the closure of the case, many continued to deal with it in an attempt to find new evidence that would help solve it.
One of them is crime historian Eric Ulis, who has taken it upon himself as a project to find out who Dan Cooper is and where he's gone.
The cluster of Dan "DB."
Cooper/AP
The fact that Cooper didn't hurt anyone made him the ultimate anti-hero - a man who screwed the system, committed the perfect crime and walked away with $200,000.
For over 15 years, Yulis has been investigating the case and trying to uncover new findings.
In an interview with Walla!
News he told just 3 years ago: "I want to know who DB Cooper really is, not the fantasy, but the man himself. I think we will finally know who DB Cooper was. I believe it will happen within the next ten years."
Indeed, Ulysses now claims to have come up with a new direction in his investigation that may finally find a solution to the mystery.
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Ulis revealed last month that he was able to obtain a DNA sample from the Shadi tie.
Me.
Cooper left at the scene.
The tie has always been in the hands of the authorities, but advances in forensic technology allow investigators today to learn a lot from microscopic evidence found in DNA.
Ulis says he detected traces of stainless steel and titanium in the samples and those pointed him toward a now-defunct Pennsylvania steel company that supplied many of the materials used by airplane manufacturer Boeing to build their planes.
That information provided Ulis with a key suspect: an engineer who worked at the Crucible steel plant, Vince Petersen, who died in 2002 and was 52 at the time of the hijacking. If it's not him, Ulis says Petersen "probably rubbed shoulders" with the real Cooper.
Northwest plane hijacked by Dee.
B. Cooper/AP
The tie that may lead to deciphering the case/screenshot, screenshot
Speaking to Fox News, he said that Petersen's work gave him knowledge of how the plane worked and that Boeing had a "significant drop in revenue" in 1971, which may have affected the man's livelihood and encouraged him to commit such a crime.
Workers at the Crucible steel plant also frequently flew to Seattle - and the flight hijacked by DB Cooper made its way there.
During his investigation, Ulysses contacted a former supervisor at the Crucible steel plant, who directed him to Petersen, who he claimed was the only one who might fit the suspicion.
Ulis claims that there were only eight engineers employed at Crookable in the years when the kidnapping took place and "they all used to wear a tie".
"The particles found on the tie were very rare and when you take into account Cooper's age, height and other things, things clear up pretty quickly," he added.
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Speaking to LADbible, Ulis said he was able to speak with Petersen's family.
Although they adamantly claimed that their father was not Cooper, they shared with him an envelope sent by Petersen in 1961, a decade before the incident. The item is replete with his DNA, which combined with the modern DNA sampling technique of metagenomics may result in Petersen being identified as Cooper until the end of the year.
Of course, it must be taken into account that he will not find a connection between Petersen and Cooper, but the DNA of the envelope will allow Julius to rule him out as a suspect and continue the investigation.
Ulis told LADbible: "I'm sure if he's not DB Cooper, he rubbed shoulders with DB Cooper. He may have known the guy without even knowing it. Luckily his daughter gave me an envelope with a letter he sent to his mother in 1961. The stamp is still in place and the envelope is actually still closed at the back and torn at the edge to get the letter out. This was before the days of self-adhesive stamps and envelopes, so his DNA is there and allows me to sequence Vince Petersen's DNA and make a direct comparison to what we can get out of the tie ".
He added: "The nice thing about this is that we will know one way or another. I think Vince Petersen is helping to solve this case in any case. He was talked about as a person who is interesting to investigate because he happened to come from the laboratory where all our attention is focused. The evidence seems to point in his direction."
Due to advanced DNA sequencing technology, Ulysses believes that discovering his identity is now only a matter of time.
He also believes that this is the last piece of the puzzle that will attach a name and a face to the mysterious criminal.
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