0:00 I wonder if he even thought that far like if this guy's smart enough for this Heist but the last moment he's like I'm just gonna weather dub and I'm like oh man [Music] so are you guys familiar with the DB Cooper case still unsolved right on November 24th 1971 a man calling himself Dan Cooper he goes to a Portland Airport he gets on an airplane back then you just get on a plane you can even pay to be on the plane while you're on the plane right it's ████ crazy um and he used cash to buy a one-way ticket on flight 305 down for Seattle shortly after the flight takes off he slips the stewardess a note saying that he has a bombers briefcase and he demands that she writes down what he
0:50 told her to the stewardess made her way to the captain's cabin with with a new note that that she had written which demanded four parachutes and two hundred thousand dollars in twenty dollar bills when the flight landed in Seattle he then exchanged the hostages all the flights 36 passengers for money and parachutes and then he kept the crew and the plane took off again and he's like yo take me to Mexico somewhere between Seattle and Reno Nevada a little after 8 pm he opens the back of the plane puts a parachute on jumps out with the ransom money and nobody ████ ever saw him again crazy that's the minute 30 summation of the case so there's been a lot of research about this case a lot of thoughts about who's behind it they they found cash over the years like in in
1:41 Lake beds like because where he the the the acreage of where he could have jumped out is like a lot of wetlands and a lot of people are like man he probably just died like like some investigators just determined that there's no way he could survive that night it was it was stormy it was cold as ████ there was so much rain he could have like just died like landing on a tree or something he could just be hanging up in a tree somewhere like where nobody's ever found them right but the mystery just took a turn oh did they find those dollars that in circulation that he stole I wish oh they found a necktie the black tie that belonged to him that he left on the plane they did some
2:31 analysis on and they found three what they call important particles that are significant and there is something that they can maybe amount to a DNA pattern that points to a specific company and a very specific division within the company at a specific time what company so he he analyzed these lab reports right and it shows like a bunch of different metal particles on the tie and he was able to match that up with a Pennsylvania Metal Manufacturing company that was operational at the same time and that had special patents on those specific metals and alleys that were found oh so that was the identifier exactly so they think that he worked there exactly so they he contacted the company and he looked into employees who worked there in the 60s and 70s and then went to Pittsburgh where the company was
3:21 based and then he narrowed it down to about eight researchers who were working on those specific metal projects at the time and then they disappeared which one disappeared um well that's that's kind of what they um you know it it you can't get an exact story of who the who at the time right because there's so many different people that were working at this place but what he determined is that talking with a retired company manager um he said that there was an employee named Vince Peterson that kind of fit the bill for what happened time that DB Cooper made his his jump and this was like a national news story at the time um and he was also somebody oddly enough who regularly traveled to the Pacific Northwest on business where D.B Cooper is was jumped out right
4:12 um but this guy died in 2002 and then they interviewed his family and then his son is like I don't think my dad's TV Cooper but who knows if his son's like sitting on cash but the cash has never been found to be used in circulation like they had those bills and they they marked the bills so they know if they were going to be used I've been obsessed with the story for years um so did so so he went back to work and he's still alive well no he this particular Trail went to this guy named Peterson who died in 2002. yeah but but this Peterson guy yeah if he was DB Cooper he just went back to work as usual so in this story if that was he didn't get lost in the forest he he went back to work as a researcher he has children all that stuff that's a really good question and they don't say that he went back to work they just said that he worked there oh okay yeah
5:02 because that would be the best mask I guess is like to just continue life as normal yeah for sure after you do your Heist chill out for a minute then maybe you watch the cash in other in other ways yeah how would he watch the cat yeah that's my question internationally okay really but I mean at the same time that's a lot of cash to watch especially I mean what 200 000 in 20s yeah 20 but at what was that the 60s uh what did I just say at the beginning 71. so that might be like a mill now it just depends because back then there's like it's all paper right so like it really depends on like how well their tracking was and if if it would flag anything because of the the cash came from where yeah yeah so they're wondering too because it was a it was like heavy like the briefcase thing I
5:54 was heavy so they're wondering too of when he jumped out like that night it was like um well it depends on exactly where because they they don't exactly know where he fell obviously because you know once he's out of the plane he could have positioned himself wherever with a parachute um but they believe that the elevation um they don't even know exactly what the elevation was where he landed but the weather was so rough and there was steady snowfall for the for four days afterwards so whatever his path out of this thing was it was brutal and then he's carrying a ████ on a cash he must have had a really strategic plan to keep himself safe yeah or to bury the cash and then yeah and then I wonder if he even and thought that far like if this guy is smart enough for this Heist but the last moment he's like jump and I'm like oh man it's snowing
6:47 it's snowing yeah you don't know so what do you think Steve um well okay so there's the part of my brain that just wants him to have made it out there and he's like it's gonna be somewhere he's like put that somewhere else put that somewhere else so I think that um because the cash never made in circulation ever like they found some in a lake bed a couple of times like there's a kid who's like playing one day like I want to say like 15 years later and they found some of the cash and they were able to identify it as the bills from some of the bills from the DB Cooper incident so that makes me think that you know maybe he died and the money was scattered around yeah um and maybe he's like in a tree somewhere and like just the money because because of where the Lakes were they were able to trace it like Okay so this probably came down this stream here and then like
7:38 found its way to this Lake to this to this side of this riverbed and after the kid found it so so maybe he died somewhere upstream and then you know the cash just fell and yeah scattered yeah I think he died I think he died after like jumping out odds are odds are highly in favor that he just died yeah especially if he has no survival skills yeah well it was his first time parachuting well there's a lot of there's a there's a lot of theories that he was ex-military because of the way that he talked and the way that he was dressed and the way that um he asked for the specific parachutes like he kind of knew what he was doing with that there was some kind of preparation that went into it then he must have known you know what I mean um well I guess how was like weather forecasting back then today but it's just such a weird thing that if
8:29 if he died then that means whatever life he left behind wasn't looking for him so that's kind of weird yeah well and the thought too is okay so if he ends up if he jumps out ends up in higher elevations he fell into a snowstorm if he landed lower elevations he's going through a rainstorm so like there's a huge difference in survivability right there um he was also just wearing regular shoes in a business suit when he jumped out he didn't have like a park on or survival gear like he's just ████ wearing isn't that the funniest curse though like you you get away with this money and then you die because you just didn't plan and you're in a s█████ weather condition I know dude and he jumped out it's cold as ████ he's ████ dripping there's no way he's not like Covered in Rain water right and then um um never seen again how do you get out of there with dress shoes on like I don't know dude and on top of that like
9:19 the first thing you probably do is just hide the cash to get it later yeah if it's heavy enough yeah figure out a way to find shelter but then you run the risk of someone calling the cops yeah did any of you guys see the documentary that's out right now on it I've seen a bunch of them I don't know if I've seen the most recently there's like a newest one that really has awesome real suspects that they were really like like some of the people at the lead of investigative reporting of it now that are like obsessed like they're crazy people over this case they've like determined who they really believe it is and sometimes it's like a living guy and yeah they found a guy that like fit all of the everything you could think of except for like a couple timeline things and that guy was declining on um admitting whether or not he was and then he died before they could finish the I know you're talking about yeah and then
10:10 uh the crazy thing is uh yeah they think he was like definitely military that he was prepared that um yeah the way that he spoke the things that he asked for it doesn't seem like a guy that would jump out and not have a plan yeah um especially where he jumped out exactly yeah or a guy that was so calculated to make people assume that he would die you know what I mean sure yeah and he didn't make mistakes leading up to when there was no Trace so it's not like he could have had a cabin or something ready or another team like that were waiting like an extraction yeah yeah it's it's likely that's what a lot of people think that was part of one of the documentaries because you think he knew where he was like coordinates wise and then he's like all right now this is around the area that I'm gonna jump well he knew where he was taking off right
11:00 and he knew where he wanted the plane pointed towards and heading towards before he made his jump and then he just randomly opens the door and jumps out so I don't think he just does that right he knew he's being tailed obviously yeah so I think he used the cover of the storm to like make sure that the tail didn't see him get out because they didn't see him get out there's just something like in terms of the timeline and the evidence of what he did once you can't see him anymore there's no telling what he did so that's why it's hard to find like so far it's like Flawless so it's like why would he start making mistakes once you can't see him the biggest mistake of all yeah exactly so it's sort of like odds are that he's dead of course those are the odds but then everything he did the odds were against him and he still won so it's like damn man what did he do the fact that they never found it like him like is wild to me and there's a
11:51 there's also a thing that you would probably like Joe is that they think he was connected to the feds in some way wow because there there was a guy that was a suspect who used to do uh he did government work for feds I think he was like trafficking certain things for Feds that couldn't do it themselves and they thought it was him because they were like oh the reason they don't want to pursue him is because he's too connected to something that like he knows something that he could kind of come out with so it's not that they can't find him it's that they won't find him there's that there's that and maybe they did and he killed him yeah because of course it's not an average guy so they're like oh he might have been somebody that was like in between the feds and something bad and they were like I just let him ████ go there's only 200 Grand to them yeah I've never seen a case like this where there's constantly little breaks in it like where it's like like me and Nikki did a podcast about this years ago and that was like the most uppermost information
12:42 and then today it's like holy ████ they found this tire with these particles on it it's like there there's such an interest in it still it's such an active investigation for being so old because there's just so much imagination behind it yeah that I think that would be the next odds like dead and then the next one is that he's too well connected that they're just not gonna find it it's just not a thing they want to know right damn could be that too that's cool it is really cool case of DB kuba [Music]
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