Elleda Wilson: Is he D.B. Cooper?
Nov. 17—The D.B. Cooper mystery continues, according to a KATU news story. In 1971, on Thanksgiving Day, D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane in Seattle, then jumped out of the plane somewhere over southwest Washington with $200,000 in ransom money. In 1980, $5,600 of the ransom was found. But D.B. Cooper and the rest of the money have never turned up.
The FBI closed the case in 2016, but Eric Ulis is dedicated to unraveling the mystery of D.B. Cooper's real identity. He thinks it's Vince Petersen, who died about 20 years ago.
Cooper left a necktie behind after the hijacking. Eulis had it tested, and a rare metal was found on it that was only used at Rem-Cru Titanium, where Petersen worked in 1971. Only eight men worked there at the time, and they wore ties.
A description of Petersen, provided by a supervisor at the lab, matched D.B. Cooper. Now Ulis has gotten permission from the owner of Petersen's old house to investigate further.
Ulis asked Petersen's son if he thought his father could have been D.B. Cooper. "And he said he just can't see it," Ulis recalled. "He can't see his father being D.B. Cooper. To the best of his knowledge his father was always an honest person." And the mystery continues ... (Photo: Eric Ulis)
