{"id":156992,"date":"2023-04-09T21:35:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/was-d-b-cooper-terminally-ill-hijacker-said-he-had-14-months-to-live\/"},"modified":"2023-04-09T21:36:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:06:33","slug":"d-b-cooper-a-terminally-ill-cooper-said-he-only-had-14-more-months-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/d-b-cooper-a-terminally-ill-cooper-said-he-only-had-14-more-months-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"D.B. Cooper a terminally ill? Cooper Said He Only Had 14 More Months of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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D.B. claimed to be the hijacker. Cooper stated that he only had 14 months left to live, in a manifesto sent out to several news agencies just weeks after the hijacker took control of a commercial flight.<\/p>\n

The Federal Bureau of Investigation released two\u00a0letters that were purportedly written and sent by Cooper\u00a0as part of its latest unsealing of memos, tips\u00a0and research\u00a0from the agency\u2019s 45-year investigation of the infamous hijacker.<\/p>\n

Digital obtained copies of\u00a0these letters, including the manifesto\u00a0received by the Los Angeles Times on Dec. 11, 1971.\u00a0In that letter, a man purporting to be Cooper lists the reasons why\u00a0police will never be able to identify him, writing, “I’m not a boasting man,” “I left no fingerprints,” “I wore a toupee,” and “I wore putty make-up.”<\/p>\n

The letter also opens with\u00a0Cooper writing: “I didn’t rob Northwest Orient\u00a0because I thought it would be romantic, heroic or any of the other euphemisms that seem to attach themselves to situations of high risk.”<\/p>\n

It goes\u00a0on to read: “I’m no modern-day Robin Hood. Unfortunately,<\/span>\u00a0You have just 14 months left to live.<\/p>\n

The other letter, sent around the same time, was addressed\u00a0\u201cMr. Airport Manager\u201d at the \u201cPortland Airport.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter reads: \u201cDear Mannager [sic<\/em>]You have a lot to thank for my success.\u00a0Thanks. I will be flying to foreign land very soon. Thank you again.<\/p>\n

That letter\u00a0contained an actual signature, but it is\u00a0redacted in\u00a0the FBI document.<\/p>\n

D.B. COOPER MANIFESTO<\/p>\n

It was on Nov. 24, 1971,\u00a0just a few weeks before that\u00a0letter arrived at the Times,\u00a0when\u00a0a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper boarded a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in Portland bound for Seattle.<\/p>\n

Cooper stood approximately 6-feet\u00a0tall and was\u00a0wearing a dark suit and black necktie with loafers and a raincoat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He asked for a glass of bourbon and smoked a pipe before giving Florence Schaffner, the flight attendant, a handwritten note.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Later, Schaffner said in an interview to the FBI that Cooper called her when she had forgotten to read the note and said: “Miss. You’d better take a look at that note.” “I have a bomb.”<\/p>\n

Cooper threatened to blow up the plane and kill all 36 passengers if his demands were not met, and the aircraft spent two hours circling the airport while efforts were\u00a0underway to meet his demands.<\/p>\n

An employee of Northwest eventually\u00a0brought Cooper 10,000 unmarked $20\u00a0bills and four parachutes in a knapsack, at which point he released the 36 passengers and Schaffner from the plane.<\/p>\n

The aircraft then refueled while Cooper instructed the rest of the crew that they were to fly from Seattle to\u00a0Reno at an altitude of no more than 10,000 feet. Cooper also asked that the aircraft travel slowly.<\/p>\n

D.B. COOPER THANKS NOTE<\/p>\n

Cooper and the crew were up again two hours later after their landing in Seattle. Cooper ordered the crew members to remain in the cockpit and not let Cooper go.<\/p>\n

Soon after the Northwest Orient hijacked flight, three planes flew off but did not catch Cooper’s aircraft. Cooper escaped the airplane with parachutes and his money.<\/p>\n

The FBI dusted the plane for fingerprints, followed up on hundreds of leads and even released the\u00a0serial numbers on the bills given to Cooper, but there were never any major breaks in the case.<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u00a0was almost nine years before any evidence linked to\u00a0the case was discovered at all. In February 1980,\u00a08-year-old Brian Abrams found some of the money that had been given to Cooper.<\/p>\n

The young boy was on vacation in Washington with his family when he discovered three cash bundles while looking for firewood to make a campfire.<\/p>\n

It is not known how the money reached its destination.\u00a0It is unknown what happened to the other 9,710 bills or parachutes.<\/p>\n

D.B. D.B.<\/p>\n

Many in the FBI believe that Cooper would have been unable to survive his jump, which would explain the fact that he has never been apprehended and none of\u00a0that money was ever found in circulation. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The FBI closed its investigation into D.B. in 2016. Cooper case.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have arrived at our conclusion today that it was just time to close the case because there isn\u2019t anything new out there,\u201d\u00a0Special Agent in Charge Frank Montoya, Jr. said at the time. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot that goes into that decision but really it was just time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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D.B. claimed to be the hijacker. Cooper stated that he only had 14 months left to live, in a manifesto sent out to several news agencies just weeks after the hijacker took control of a commercial flight. The Federal Bureau of Investigation released two\u00a0letters that were purportedly written and sent by Cooper\u00a0as part of its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":156993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Was-DB-Cooper-Terminally-Ill-Hijacker-Said-He-Had-14.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156994,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156992\/revisions\/156994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}