After 45 years, the FBI has finally closed the case on DB Cooper.
They have thrown in the towel.
The man who hijacked a plane in 1971 and parachuted from it with $200,000 in ransom money has gotten away with it.
The FBI has spent too much money on the case over the years and now wants to allocate the money on more pressing needs and cases that are more solvable.
The case of DB Cooper is one of the most baffling cases in history.
A man in his mid-40s bought a one-way ticket using the name Dan Cooper, for a flight from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington.
After the plane took off, Cooper passed a note to a stewardess that he had a bomb and wanted ransom money and four parachutes.
The plane landed and Cooper released the passengers, but kept the crew to make sure his demands were met.
They were and he wanted the plane to now go to Mexico.
It did, but shorty afterward and at an altitude he wanted, Cooper went to the back of the plane and with the money strapped to him and at least one parachute, DB Cooper jumped from the plane, never to be seen again.
Lead after lead produced nothing.
Years of searching and clues led to dead ends.
Some of the ransom money was found in 1980 along with pieces of a parachute, but no DB Cooper.
Did he survive?
Did he die?
No body was ever found.
No one knew what happened to DB Cooper.
It will now be a case for history, but it will only add to the lore of the man no one knows anything about.
George Vreeland Hill
