What Really Happened To D.B. Cooper? | The Final Evidence

Discover the true story of D.B. Cooper, the man who hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971, jumped into the night with $200,000 and was never found. On the 24th of November 1971, a quiet man in a dark suit boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305 in Portland as "Dan Cooper". Within minutes he handed a flight attendant a note saying he had a bomb. He demanded $200,000 and four parachutes, released the passengers in Seattle, then ordered the crew to fly south toward Reno. Somewhere over the forests of southwest Washington, he lowered the rear stairs and stepped into the rain. It remains America's only unsolved airliner hijacking. This documentary follows the case from the hijacking to the evidence that came after it: the $5,800 in ransom bills found on a Columbia River beach in 1980, the clip-on tie and its rare titanium particles, and the parachutes he left behind. We weigh the leading suspects, including Richard McCoy, Kenneth Christensen and Robert Rackstraw, and set out what the FBI file can and cannot prove. Whether you follow true crime, aviation history or unsolved mysteries, this is a clear account of what we know and what is still missing. Subscribe for weekly history and true crime breakdowns, and tell us in the comments who you think D.B. Cooper really was. Sources: FBI: D.B. Cooper Hijacking https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and... National Archives at Seattle: D.B. Cooper case file https://www.archives.gov/seattle/high... HistoryLink: Ransom money found near the Columbia River, February 10, 1980 https://www.historylink.org/file/23059 NBC News: Clip-on tie holds new clues about hijacker D.B. Cooper https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... Citizen Sleuths: Research conclusions https://www.citizensleuths.com/?p=2872 KTVU: Siblings say late father is D.B. Cooper after finding parachute https://www.ktvu.com/news/north-carol... Crew photograph: Marilyn Newton, Nevada State Journal (1971), public domain via Wikimedia Commons 0:00 The Man Who Vanished Mid-Air 1:29 The Hijacking of Flight 305 4:08 The Jump Over Washington 7:34 The Money, the Tie and the Parachutes 10:19 The Suspects 13:40 The Vault Stays Open