The parachute used by the hijacker known as D.B. Cooper to leap out of a Boeing plane with $200,000 in cash after taking the passengers and crew hostage more than 50 years ago may have been found.

The 50-year-old cold case of D.B. Cooper may have seen a new development after an amateur sleuth claims to have found the parachute used by the infamous, yet still unidentified plane hijacker. Gryder, ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 24, 1971, a hijacker calling himself “Dan Cooper” — but who soon became popularly known as “D.B. Cooper” — ...

Nov. 26 (UPI) --The mysterious identity of 1970s airline hijacker D.B. Cooper may have finally been solved by the children of the prime suspect, a podcaster, and a newly discovered parachute. Chante ...

Richard McCoy is a name that’s well known to aficionados of the 52-year-old D.B. Cooper case, the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history. The Vietnam War veteran was a suspect for a while – and he ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. - A simple black necktie may be the smoking gun tosolving a mystery that has fascinated the country for 50 years: who is D.B. Cooper and what happened to him? On the afternoon of Nov.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A woman claiming to be the niece of the mysterious skyjacker dubbed D.B. Cooper, who bailed out of a jetliner with $200,000 (121,661.90 pounds) in ransom, says she recalls ...

The FBI’s release of 472 new pages from its D.B. Cooper file gives insight into the frantic search for the “UNSUB” in the days, months, and years after the November 24, 1971, skyjacking of a ...

PHOENIX - A pair of siblings believe their late father is the elusive skyjacker D.B. Cooper; a shooting at a Tempe apartment complex left a man dead; and more – here's a look at some of our top ...

The FBI is looking at a promising new lead in the unsolved D.B. Cooper hijacking case from 1971. Now, a woman thinks her uncle was the legendary D.B. Cooper. It was 1971 and 8-year-old Marla Cooper ...

Richard McCoy is a name that’s well known to aficionados of the 52-year-old D.B. Cooper case, the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history. The Vietnam War veteran was a suspect for a while – and he ...