May 29, 2023 - MyronGainesX
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| And we are live. | |
| What's up, guys? | |
| Welcome to Fed Reacts. | |
| Today we're gonna be covering DB Cooper, man. | |
| This was gonna be lit. | |
| Let's get into it. | |
| I'm special agent with Homeland Investigations. | |
| Okay, guys, HSI. | |
| Frader Jeffrey Williams, an associate of YSL did commit the felony of here's what 6ix9ine actually got. | |
| I can take a conspiracy. | |
| This attack shifted the whole U.S. government. | |
| This guy got arrested. | |
| Espionage, okay. | |
| Trading secrets with the Russian. | |
| Zilliak Killer is a pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who operated Northern California. | |
| Serial killers guy. | |
| Samuel Little, etc. | |
| They really get off on getting attention from the new. | |
| Jeffrey Epstein sexually exploited and a few dozens of minor girls. | |
| It was OJ working together to get Nicole killed. | |
| We're gonna go over his pass, the gang time so that this all makes that. | |
| Yep. | |
| And we are back. | |
| What's up, guys? | |
| Welcome uh to Fed It. | |
| Um actually, sorry, Fed Reacts. | |
| Um I got uh Angie in the house with me Angie. | |
| You want to um introduce yourself real quick and give some quick updates? | |
| Hi guys. | |
| Um updates. | |
| Well, uh still have like a long list of cases that you have been requested. | |
| Uh I'm gonna pay more attention to the super chats. | |
| So if you guys like requests on the super chat, I'll be writing down your your cases, your request. | |
| Uh, if not, you can go to at FedReacts on Instagram. | |
| Uh, we're posting more more stuff there, and we're being active there, so you guys can like request on my on the DMs. | |
| I'll be reading you all. | |
| And yeah, that's it. | |
| Boom. | |
| All right. | |
| And uh, I know some of you guys are probably wondering where's Kim. | |
| Uh, she's uh she's out of the country right now with her mom. | |
| She went out, she went with her mom. | |
| Uh traveled. | |
| So um, she'll be back, I think tomorrow. | |
| So you guys will see her on Fresh and Fit. | |
| Uh, but I got Angie here helping me. | |
| Um, shout out to her. | |
| She came just came from work and she's helping out. | |
| Um, what else? | |
| New intro, as you guys could see here. | |
| Uh, I'm gonna still tweak it a little bit. | |
| Um, we should I want to make it a little bit maybe a tad bit longer and add a few more things. | |
| But other than that, it's not gonna be you know, like two minutes like the last one, so don't worry. | |
| Um, what else? | |
| Uh we got a couple cases in the in the list that we still gotta hit. | |
| Um, I'm probably gonna do an episode for you guys on the mafia that covers all the families all across the United States because I know we covered the five grand families in New York, then we covered the outfit out of Chicago, Al Capone, and then we're gonna go ahead and cover uh the Traff Contes down in um Florida, a couple of the guys out of California, Vegas, um, I think there was a uh one out of the Cincinnati, etc. | |
| So we're gonna cover all those ones that we didn't miss originally, and then I'm probably gonna do one more episode with Ryan Dawson where we're gonna cover how the mafia was intimately tied with intelligence agencies such as the CIA, etc. | |
| Um, and that will eventually tie into John F. Kennedy later on when we do the GFK show. | |
| Um, and then also uh serial killers that we got on the list. | |
| Uh I got the torso killer on uh Angie. | |
| Can you think of any other ones that they asked for? | |
| Ed Gain. | |
| Oh, we already did him though. | |
| Oh, sorry, M. Lou Kemper. | |
| Yeah, confused. | |
| Ed Kemper, okay, yeah. | |
| All right. | |
| Ed Kemper. | |
| Um who else? | |
| Uh the brothers, those Melinda. | |
| Uh yeah, the Menendez brothers. | |
| Um I want to do Aileen Werners. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Alien Werners, yes, we still have to do her too. | |
| The only female serial killer, and then anything else? | |
| Uh, there are plenty. | |
| There are plenty. | |
| I can name like a bunch right now, but I don't know if you want me to name them all because it's a bunch of people asking, you know. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Um loads of cases. | |
| Yeah, so we'll we'll make sure we get those for you guys. | |
| Um, but I think we got probably two more episodes of the mafia, and then the mafia will be done, and then we will go ahead and also do uh the Columbia cartel and the Miami uh, you know, connection from the 1980s with Pablo Escobar, etc. | |
| Um, it's kind of funny. | |
| Um, Kim has quite a bit of knowledge on that because I think it was her mom's friend dated one of Pablo Escobar's workers or something like that. | |
| So she has quite a bit of knowledge. | |
| She's been to the mansion before, the old mansion. | |
| It's run down now. | |
| Um, but she's from Medellin as well, so she has a lot of insider knowledge on that organization and a lot of um I guess uh links. | |
| Yeah, she's probably the drug traffic herself, who knows. | |
| But anyway, but yeah, she'll be helping with the Pablo Escobar stuff uh quite a bit because she is Colombian and she's from that part of Colombia. | |
| So uh definitely we will cover that. | |
| You guys have been asking me for Pablo Escobar forever. | |
| Uh, and I'll also be covering um Chapo probably after that, right? | |
| We're gonna try to do it in chronological order. | |
| We're gonna Hit the 80s first with the Colombians and the cocaine in Miami, you know, Griselda Blanco, all that stuff. | |
| We'll probably cover all that because it's all tied in together. | |
| And then we're gonna go into the Mexican side with uh Chapo Guzmán, then we'll go into the Zetas, etc. | |
| So don't worry, we'll cover all that. | |
| Um what else here? | |
| Uh I guess we can hit some of these chats before we get into it. | |
| Um, can we pop them up? | |
| Yeah, um guys so much for the for the support. | |
| I really appreciate it. | |
| Uh, we got here Mitchaka goes, Byron life hack when buying a property first identifies them boys, and you'll automatically get accepted. | |
| Chris is a bum with Mo with four wives, W Ryan. | |
| Yeah, I uh that's a fact, but I've I've lost a bunch of properties to them boys. | |
| If you guys know what I'm saying, the uh who else? | |
| Uh we got here, Michael Mistro, one dollar. | |
| Appreciate that greatly, sir. | |
| Uh Jose Rubio going when we get into Stephen Avery case. | |
| Stephen Avery, that name's I don't, I don't I don't have that one. | |
| Let me just write it down. | |
| I should write it down. | |
| Actually, I have it right here. | |
| Oh, she did. | |
| I'm trying to remember who that is. | |
| That name sounds very familiar. | |
| Uh you can look it up, right? | |
| Okay, thank you. | |
| We're here, yeah. | |
| Pull it up on your side, Angie. | |
| Uh, we got here, sexy Tom goes. | |
| Will you ever do Shoko Asahara, a founder of Um Shin Ricoyo Colt? | |
| He was convicted of mastermining the deadly 1995 Saren gas attack on a Tokyo subway. | |
| I try to stay away from foreign criminals, guys. | |
| Uh uh, you know, you guys being asking a lot of like the jacusa, yeah, mob and stuff. | |
| And when I say foreign criminals, I mean operating in foreign countries. | |
| I don't like if it's American, like if it's triads and the couples that are operating in the United States, that's one thing. | |
| But foreign criminals, I try to stay away from because I'm not too well versed in their laws. | |
| Um, but I will cover it if like you know there's enough asked for, but that's the first time I've had asked for uh gotten that request. | |
| Um, the Steven Avery is uh baseball player, but I don't know what happened to him. | |
| Baseball player? | |
| Yeah, it's he's from the C Cinatic Reds. | |
| He worked for Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, and the Detroit. | |
| Are you sure that's the same Steven Avery they're asking for? | |
| I guess he is because yeah, he's probably a killer or criminal of some kind of asking for that. | |
| I don't know. | |
| All right, I'll keep going here. | |
| Uh while she does that. | |
| Um, we got here three diglits goes, it's Sunday. | |
| You know what that means. | |
| Fed of Sundays now, Fed React Sundays, 200k on the way. | |
| Let's go. | |
| Appreciate that, my friend. | |
| Harper Thompson goes, Will you ever do Jesse Smollett? | |
| He was convicted. | |
| Uh what the guy that lied about racism? | |
| Uh, maybe. | |
| Myron, will they ever do the Cinelo's cartel highest ranking hitman, El Chino, Anthrax, and Tracks. | |
| By the way, we need Wes Watson on FNF. | |
| Don't worry, Wes Watson is coming uh in June, guys. | |
| We got him locked in uh for one of the money Mondays, and then as far as uh Cinelo's, I will do that. | |
| Don't worry, remember to announce the live show and Michael Franchise and everything. | |
| Uh oh, yeah, we did that last last week, last Thursday. | |
| Oh no, but that he's gonna come back um in July. | |
| He's gonna come back in. | |
| He's got an event with well, Mike Tyson. | |
| Yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes. | |
| Uh uh, and I will be there too, guys, July 22nd. | |
| 22-year-old trucker from Hartford, uh, Connecticut, 700 crime score. | |
| Blessed to know we are from the same state. | |
| Yeah, shout out to Harvard, man. | |
| 10 miles up the road uh from New Britain. | |
| Uh, please do Warz Cartel with uh uh El Senor de los Cielos. | |
| Okay, we will definitely will be doing that. | |
| We're gonna be covering Mexican drug trafficking quite a bit. | |
| Uh, you don't understand how clutch you and Angie been for me. | |
| There's been several nights where I stayed up till 4 a.m. just watching the videos. | |
| Jody Aries, DC Snipers, Casey Anthony, and many more fuck with y'all. | |
| Thank you, America. | |
| I appreciate that greatly, man. | |
| We uh try to give you all this sauce, man. | |
| Uh it's not just debating women all the time. | |
| We're trying to give you guys some true crime knowledge as well. | |
| Uh, when is the next call on the show? | |
| I want a peaceful debate, Myron. | |
| Uh, and that's from I don't play games. | |
| Uh, if we got time, my friend. | |
| Uh, and then this was the Japanese one. | |
| Uh let me think we're caught up. | |
| I think we're caught up. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And did we have the right Stephen Avery on that one? | |
| No, and the only thing that I'm gonna do. | |
| Oh, there we go. | |
| Making a murderer, the Netflix special. | |
| That's what it was. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| The dude out of the midwest. | |
| I knew it. | |
| That name sounded familiar. | |
| Okay. | |
| Okay. | |
| Making a murderer. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Yeah, there we go. | |
| Um, let me tire that. | |
| So, yeah, guys, do me a quick favor. | |
| Like the video, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. | |
| We're definitely the most uh um W Myer flexible content. | |
| We got y'all, baby. | |
| We guys we cover true crime, we cover serial killers, uh terrorists, bank robberies. | |
| We've covered pretty much man, everything financial crimes. | |
| Yes, we have her. | |
| Don't worry, she's gonna come in when we do the Colombians, guys. | |
| Uh with Pablo Escobar and stuff like that, which uh Kim will be heavily involved in that. | |
| So we're gonna cover the the Colombians and we're gonna cover Miami in the 1980s as well. | |
| Um, but yeah, guys, we're we're flexible over here, man. | |
| We don't just give you guys self-improvement content, we also give you guys true crime stuff on all different types of crime, right? | |
| So uh make sure to subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. | |
| Uh bro, you should do something on the shower posse, Jamaican gang 1400 murders in the 80s. | |
| Uh okay, I can. | |
| I we still need to do um speaking of Jamaican. | |
| I might bring Dolph Face back for the for that one with you guys. | |
| Um, the guy that was a drug trafficker that got arrested by the DEA. | |
| I can't remember his name right now. | |
| God damn it. | |
| Someone in the chat's gonna put it for me, but it was a big drug trafficker out of Jamaica. | |
| Um, that the DA went after uh like 10 years ago. | |
| Uh anything else here? | |
| Uh Hey Mayor Kiki Camarena next, or you go into tie that with the Mexican series. | |
| I will tie that with the Mexican series. | |
| I actually met his family when I was an agent on Laredo, guys. | |
| Uh, they came um to Laredo to give uh a speech. | |
| So yeah, rest in peace to him. | |
| Uh I work at the gym and was watching you, and a client said, I see you're watching FNF, you're a brother, huh? | |
| I love seeing Jim Bros Unite. | |
| Absolutely, man. | |
| That's what it's about, bro. | |
| Um, and I think that's that's it. | |
| We're caught up. | |
| Cool. | |
| All right, guys. | |
| So we're going to be covering um, no, it wasn't Vibes Cartel. | |
| I did Vibes Cartel already. | |
| There we go. | |
| Christopher Dudis Coke. | |
| That's who we're gonna be covering um for the drug trafficking as well. | |
| I have him on the list. | |
| I've had him on the list for a very long time. | |
| So that's gonna come very soon. | |
| Um, guys, we're gonna be covering DB Cooper today. | |
| DB Cooper, uh fucking legend, uh, by the way. | |
| Um, DB Cooper is a media uh epithet for an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines flight 305 of Boeing 727 aircraft in the United States airspace on November 24th, 1971, basically the day before Thanksgiving. | |
| Uh, during a flight from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington, the hijacker told a flight attendant he was armed with a bomb, demanded 200,000 in ransom, equivalent to 1.4 million in 2022. | |
| Uh, which today nowadays, guys, I did the math, it's worth about uh one almost 1.5 nowadays. | |
| Yeah, it's it's it's one million and a half million. | |
| 1.5 million. | |
| 1.5, yeah, exactly. | |
| And requested four parachutes upon landing in Seattle. | |
| And you guys are gonna see here why he asked for the four parachutes here in a second. | |
| After releasing the passengers in Seattle, the hijacker instructed the flight crew to refuel the aircraft and begin a second flight to Mexico City with a refueling stop in Reno Nevada. | |
| About 30 minutes after taking off from Seattle, the hijacker opened the aircraft's uh aft door, deployed the staircase, and parachuted into the night over southwestern Washington. | |
| The hijacker has never been found or conclusively identified. | |
| Okay. | |
| So I got this documentary here, guys, from uh Lamino. | |
| Shout out to Angie for finding this one. | |
| Um, we went through a bunch of documentaries, guys. | |
| I'd probably watch like three or four. | |
| Um, Angie and Kim watched a few more. | |
| I watched like four. | |
| Uh to try to get you guys the best one that also wouldn't get us hit with a copyright. | |
| But we it's okay, don't worry. | |
| We're gonna go ahead and play portions of other documentaries as well. | |
| We're just gonna be stopping them uh frequently for uh you know commentary, and I think we should be safe. | |
| But uh, this one I think is gonna be the main one that we use, it's pretty informative. | |
| And I'm gonna be stopping it and giving you a commentary. | |
| And this comes from Lamino, so shout out to him. | |
| Uh like the his video, subscribe to the channel as well. | |
| I think he did a pretty good one on Jack the Ripper, if I'm not mistaken, this guy. | |
| Um, because you guys have been asking for Jack the Ripper as well for a while. | |
| So uh let's go ahead and play this thing and uh we'll pause it as needed. | |
| Uh don't forget to like the video, by the way. | |
| We got 875 of y'all watching right now. | |
| Like the video. | |
| Just let me know. | |
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| *Squeak* | |
| During parachute escape from applying 7187 somewhere between the weeks. | |
| We don't know who he was, where he came from, or where he went. | |
| I expect it. | |
| We will keep looking until we find him or find out what happened. | |
| We will keep looking until we find out what happened. | |
| And you guys are gonna see that there's multiple theories on what might have happened to DB Cooper. | |
| We're gonna go ahead and explore all of them, then you guys can go ahead and pick. | |
| And if there's anyone in the chat that's a parachuter, that's a train parachuter, whether you're a paratrooper in the military or you do it just for fun or whatever. | |
| Um, make sure to be active in the comments. | |
| I want to get your guys'perspective as well. | |
| So In the afternoon of November the 24th, 1971, a middle-aged man carrying a briefcase walked into Portland International Airport and purchased a one-way ticket to Seattle, Washington. | |
| The man identified himself as Dan Cooper. | |
| And this is the actual original ticket right here, guys. | |
| You can see, and this is really the only handwriting that they have that belongs to him was when he wrote his name right here. | |
| And along with 36 other passengers and a crew of six, he soon boarded Northwest Airlines flight 305. | |
| Once aboard, Cooper made himself comfortable in the middle of the last row of seats on the right side of the cabin. | |
| He ordered a drink and had a smoke because this was the 70s. | |
| And here you go, guys, real fast. | |
| Here is a copy of the actual ticket from the official FBI website. | |
| And they pretty much closed the case, guys, back in uh 2016. | |
| Uh and now this is in the museum, the FBI Museum. | |
| You can see here, Northwest Orient, Dan Cooper, uh Seattle, pretty much he paid 20 bucks for the ticket. | |
| Which um, real quick, Angie, can you see what 20 was in 1971 compared to today? | |
| Sure. | |
| Uh, and you can see here he was uh where he was trying to go, etc. | |
| November 24th, 1971. | |
| So the really interesting stuff. | |
| It's a piece of American history nowadays. | |
| And just so y'all know, um he was it was 149 dollars. | |
| 149 dollars today. | |
| Yeah, okay. | |
| So um just so y'all know, this was the only successful plane hijacking in American history, was yeah, the DB Cooper. | |
| This is the only one that hasn't been found just yet. | |
| Yes. | |
| Once the flight was cleared for departure, Cooper turned around and handed an envelope to flight attendant Florence Shaffner. | |
| Inside the envelope was a note featuring a handwritten message stating he had a bomb. | |
| Shaffner reluctantly sat down beside him and glimpsed what appeared to be eight sticks of dynamite inside his briefcase. | |
| All right, so let's go ahead and give this a little bit more illustrative for you guys. | |
| I actually have the interview of Miss Shaffner right here for y'all, man. | |
| Shout out to Monk. | |
| I was able to pull up this old ass uh unsolved mysteries episode where they actually have her and ask her some questions. | |
| So let's go ahead and pull that up real quick and play. | |
| You'll need to put this under your front seat, please. | |
| He handed me a note and he kept looking at me. | |
| And there she is, right there. | |
| And just so you guys know, uh, she didn't immediately open it up because back then, right? | |
| Uh you know, they were out there, you know, pretty much thinking women deserve less, right? | |
| And that's the way people will flirt back then. | |
| That's how they flirted back then, and then also like flight attendants were very sex. | |
| Um they were sexualized quite a bit in mainstream media, etc. | |
| So it was very common for flight attendants to get notes from you know businessmen, traveling lonely guys, whatever it may be. | |
| So she ignored it for a bit. | |
| She just stood down and was like, okay, whatever. | |
| But then he's like, no, no, no, you better look at that fucking note lady. | |
| Um yeah, he didn't say that, but you guys get the point. | |
| But he told he was very um persistent that you need to look at this note, and that's when she saw what was going on. | |
| But this is the actual flight attendant that received the original note from him. | |
| I just ignored him the first time he looked at me. | |
| And then he said, I want you to read the note. | |
| It was printed, Miss... | |
| I have a bomb in my briefcase. | |
| I want you to sit beside me. | |
| This is no joke. | |
| There's a bomb in here. | |
| I saw a big battery with six... | |
| Holy and just so you guys know, because some of you guys are probably wondering, like, what the hell? | |
| How did this guy get a bomb on the plane? | |
| Guys, back in 1971, there was zero security at airports, okay. | |
| You walk in, you put you know, take 20 bucks. | |
| Hey, I want to fly to XYZ. | |
| Cool, boom, and then you walk on, no security, no nothing, okay. | |
| And uh, it was just a different time. | |
| They didn't get it. | |
| In fact, uh, it's because of this case that the uh airlines started taking like consideration into security, like they started like adding more protocols uh of security protocols into you know the process of taking a plane. | |
| Yeah, everyone wants to blame you know Muhammad and them, right? | |
| But the reality Is this guy's do DB Cooper's fault? | |
| Because that's when they started taking security really seriously after this. | |
| And they actually um stopped flying planes that had the uh you guys are gonna see here the stairway that comes out the back on 727 after this situation as well. | |
| Another thing is that they used those planes uh because uh those kind of planes were used a lot in the Vietnam War. | |
| So of the pirate shooting. | |
| The CIA was using it to drop off supplies and soldiers. | |
| And then because of the because of the war ended, they started using as commercial um planes. | |
| So then they started, like, you know, like one one just said that they stopped using those kind of planes because people started hijacking even more after DB Cooper. | |
| So you'll see like DV Cooper was like a you know, like the first copycats, yeah, came out after him. | |
| Yeah, and I saw some of you guys were saying McCoy, etc. | |
| You guys are gonna see here why it probably wasn't McCoy here in a bit. | |
| But uh, but yeah, so uh for some of you younger guys out there that are like, how the hell did this guy get a bomb on a plane? | |
| In the 1970s, things were different. | |
| You just put 20 bucks down and you go wherever the hell you want. | |
| It's not like nowadays where you gotta reserve it, go through security, all that other stuff, none of that back then. | |
| He said to me, all I have to do is attach this wire to this gadget here, and we all be dead. | |
| And so began one of the most infamous crimes in US history. | |
| Cool. | |
| So yeah, back then you can also like you someone just said in the chat, you can also smoke, which is crazy to me when I was watching this this documentaries. | |
| Like this guy is smoked like eight cigarettes in the whole flight. | |
| Yeah, and it was a 30-minute flight, like to Seattle, at least, because you'll see later that he changed the whole thing. | |
| Yeah, he smoked eight cigarettes in a in a plane. | |
| I mean, how could people be there? | |
| Like, even smell this smoke coming up the cigarettes. | |
| It's just crazy to me. | |
| Yeah, yeah, definitely. | |
| Uh, I mean, and and you go to other parts of the world, they change smoke like that. | |
| But yeah, in the United States, that's that's not a thing anymore. | |
| But yeah, back in the 70s, they didn't give a shit, man. | |
| Cooper's demands were quite simple. | |
| He wanted 200,000 dollars in cash and four parachutes. | |
| He also demanded a fuel truck to stand ready to refuel the aircraft once. | |
| Pay attention to that, guys. | |
| He wanted four parachutes, okay. | |
| They landed in Seattle. | |
| Should they fail to comply with his demands? | |
| He threatened to quote, do the job. | |
| Once the flight was airborne, Shaffner went to inform the call. | |
| Let me read that note for y'all one more time back. | |
| I want 200,000 by 5 p.m. in cash, put it in a knapsack. | |
| I want two black parachutes. | |
| No, excuse me. | |
| I want two back parachutes and two front parachutes. | |
| When we land, I want a fuel truck ready to refuel. | |
| No funny stuff, or I'll do the job. | |
| Actually, this is not the original note. | |
| The original the original note will say uh I want 200,000 in American currency, negotiable American currency. | |
| He used that word that's specifically like well, they don't know because they never got the original note. | |
| Yeah, I know I know, but it what the pilot, yeah. | |
| The pilot said back, um what yeah, the yeah, because when the pilot was communicating and they were able to get the transcripts, yeah. | |
| He was saying we need 200,000 hours of negotiable currency. | |
| Yeah, and but they don't know if that's what he said on the note, but they're like, okay, maybe he inferred that. | |
| That's a main that's the main thing. | |
| Like it's very important, like thing to say, because people will also create like uh conspiracy theory that this guy was Canadian because of those game of words. | |
| Yes, because he said American negotiable currency. | |
| Yes, yeah, in the notes. | |
| Um, so yeah, this it there is speculation for sure that he could have been a dual citizen, uh, or been Canadian. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Once the flight was airborne, Shaffner went to inform the cockpit crew, while another flight attendant by the name of Tina Mucklow remained by Cooper's side. | |
| But using a telephone in the rear of the cabin, Maklow acted as an intermediary between Cooper and the rest of the flight crew for the remainder of the hijacking. | |
| For the next hour and a half flight three of real quick, Tina Mucklow, who was she, guys? | |
| She was the one that pretty much was with him the whole time. | |
| Uh and here she is, right here. | |
| Actually, you know what? | |
| Let me go back. | |
| We'll play this for a bit and then I'll show you the Tina McClo angle. | |
| By maintained a holding pattern near Seattle, while local and federal authorities scrambled to procure the ransom as well as the four parachutes. | |
| Now, mind you guys, this is a 30 minute flight, but they ended up staying on the air much longer just so they can go ahead and gather the parachutes and the money. | |
| 10,000 twenty dollar bills were collected from a local bank, while the owner of a nearby skydiving school supplied the chutes. | |
| At 5 45 p.m., more than two hours past its scheduled arrival, flight 305 finally touched down in Seattle. | |
| By this point, it was well after sunset, and the aircraft was brought to remote section of the tarmac. | |
| I just went to the city. | |
| I don't remember if they say in it in this documentary, but back then, 2002,000 uh weighted like 23 pounds and 20 dollar bills. | |
| Yes. | |
| Which is like a lot. | |
| Yeah, he he didn't specify the denominations of currency he wanted. | |
| Uh so they ended up just giving it to him in 20 bills, and it cost yeah, about 23 pounds. | |
| 21 to 23 pounds. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Uh which is a lot. | |
| Yeah. | |
| To you know, to jump out of a plane with the stop. | |
| Both the ransom and the parachutes were handed over to Muklo, who then brought them back aboard. | |
| In exchange, Cooper permitted two of the flight attendants as well as all the passengers to disembark. | |
| Many of whom had not yet realized the flight had been hijacked. | |
| None of them knew. | |
| It wasn't until they actually landed, guys, and there was FBI agents trying to question them that they found out that they had been um held, uh, they had kind of been hijacked. | |
| And um Cooper was smart. | |
| He did this on purpose so there wouldn't be panic and people wouldn't come and attack him. | |
| Yeah. | |
| With the ransom paid and only four crew members remaining on board, Cooper told Muklow to inform the captain that he wanted to fly to Mexico City. | |
| They were to fly with the landing gear down, the flaps at 15 degrees and below 10,000 feet. | |
| The lights and okay, so as y'all can see already, extremely detailed instructions. | |
| Okay, this is stuff that typically someone that is very familiar with planes, maybe even a pilot would ask. | |
| Because the average Joe ain't gonna know that you can even do all this stuff and no proper altitudes to be flying at with flaps and all this other stuff out. | |
| So this tells you quite a bit about the individual being very familiar with planes and parachuting to a degree. | |
| Now there's a little bit of contention here in the DB Cooper world, which you know, I found this out from doing the research. | |
| But off of this alone, you guys can already tell he's more aware than 99% of people. | |
| The cabin were to be switched off, and the aft stairway, which opens from the underbelly of the fuselage, was to remain extended. | |
| And again, this is something exclusive to only 727 planes back in that era, guys. | |
| Okay, as Angie was saying before. | |
| Um back then, the CIA was using 727s to allow um people to basically secretly jump out of the back of the plane to supply soldiers and um supplies uh during the Vietnam War. | |
| Two of Cooper's demands could not be satisfied. | |
| First of all, the flight configuration he'd requested would not allow for a non-stop flight to Mexico City. | |
| As such, Cooper proposed a refueling stop in Phoenix, Yuma, or Sacramento before they all agreed on Reno Nevada. | |
| Second of all, it was not possible to depart with a ventral staircase extended. | |
| Cooper agreed to retract the stairs on the condition that Mucklow remained by his side and taught him how to extend and he wasn't happy about that, guys. | |
| He wanted to take off with the stairway open, but obviously that would have been impossible to do for the pilot, you know, because of cabin pressure and all this other stuff. | |
| ...and then once the plane was airborne. | |
| Parked for nearly two hours due to complications with refueling, Flight 305 was back in the air by 7.36 p.m. | |
| Less than five minutes after takeoff, Cooper told Maklow to head for the cockpit, and that from this point onwards he was not to be disturbed. | |
| The last time she saw Cooper, he was standing in the middle of the aisle as if though he was preparing to jump. | |
| Um, that's pretty G, though. | |
| I ain't gonna lie. | |
| Yeah, uh before that time, because he was two hours. | |
| This guy waiting for the plane to took to take off. | |
| He grew very impatient with like the crew and everything because the pilot was just like to trying to figure out how to get to Mexico City or to Reno, Rue Nevada, and like he was trying to seek like routes to take those, you know, to to take the plane there. | |
| Yeah, and he used to grow so impatient that he just told the pilot to, you know, to get the show going. | |
| Yeah, he said, let's get the show on the road was his exact wording. | |
| Um, because yeah, he was starting because basically he didn't even tell the pilot to take a certain route because he just wanted to get the hell off uh off there because at this point, guys, the plane is surrounded as they're on the floor, right? | |
| On the down the on the tarmac, the plane was surrounded by FBI agents with rifles. | |
| So um he told the flight attendants to close all the blinds so they wouldn't shoot him. | |
| And uh he asked for four parachutes, and you guys are gonna see here in a little bit why he asked for four parachutes was actually an ingenious idea. | |
| But uh the 1970s were a different time, okay, guys. | |
| I'll tell y'all that when it comes to law enforcement and what they would do with criminals. | |
| But um, that's why he wanted the blinds covered, and uh he needed that woman there with him as an insurance, especially since they didn't want to lower the uh the stairway for him. | |
| And also from this point on, they they had like two jets to score the flight, of course. | |
| Uh yes, the Air Force Air Force had two had two uh two fighter jets following the plane as well. | |
| But it was dark as hell, so they couldn't see anything in Windy and Wendy as well. | |
| Mucklow joined the rest of the crew, locked the cockpit door behind her, and some three hours later, Flight 305 safely landed in Reno. | |
| Once the flight came to a stop, the crew carefully ventured into the rear of the cabin, but there was no sign. | |
| That's an actual photo from the plane and of Cooper nor the bomb. | |
| The aft stairway had been extended mid-flight, and was slightly damaged upon landing. | |
| It seemed there was only one explanation for the hijackers' absence. | |
| At some point between Seattle and Reno, Cooper had strapped on a parachute, walked down the stairs and leaped into the dark of night. | |
| Crazy. | |
| So here I'm gonna show you guys a little clip here from the um DB Cooper Netflix series, okay. | |
| Um, of kind of this situation. | |
| And four parachutes aboard the plane headed for Reno. | |
| Cooper looks into the money bag, he's happy, and he has instructions. | |
| He's asking to fly at 250 miles an hour, which is slow for a jet, with the flaps down at minimum height. | |
| Even the pilots didn't know the aircraft was capable of flying that slow and that low. | |
| And he said it can be done. | |
| Do it. | |
| They head south over this area called the Dark Divide. | |
| Tina Muklau was alone with him, sitting in the last road. | |
| And here she is, along with uh Shaffner. | |
| Florence, yeah. | |
| He was not nervous, he seemed rather nice, other than he wanted certain things to be done. | |
| When he asked for his uh, just so y'all know, fun little fact. | |
| When he asked for his uh burp, he asked for uh bourbon up and seven up, uh he actually paid for it. | |
| Which is kind of funny because it's like, oh yeah, here you go, by the way. | |
| It's like, what the hell, bro? | |
| You got the plane hijacked, you're gonna actually pay for your drinks. | |
| Okay, fair enough. | |
| Um, but he was cordial to the to the staff, he wasn't too rude. | |
| Um, he was very authoritative, like, hey, I need you guys to do this, XYZ, etc. | |
| But um his intention was never really to hurt anybody in the staff, and they don't even know if the bot if the dynamite or anything like that was real. | |
| So um, no, no, no, guys, he didn't use a stolen money to pay for it. | |
| This was before he got the money from uh the ransom money. | |
| He paid for the drink prior. | |
| He had drank the the bourbon and was he was smoking cigarettes. | |
| Yeah, that was kind of like one of the things the first things he did. | |
| Like he just asked for a bourbon in a soda, and then he started smoking cigarettes. | |
| Yeah, and he paid for the for the ring, you know. | |
| Yeah, this is kind of and then he slipped the note to the to the and then he asked for another one after, even after he had the plane under his command. | |
| It's crazy to me that he he gave the notes, and then he was like, Yeah, I need those snooks back. | |
| You know, that he was like, I need those snooks back. | |
| Yeah, just so you guys know, actually, another really smart thing that he did was uh he when after um before he jumped out the plane, he told the the lady to give him back all the notes that he had written, all the handwritten notes. | |
| So the only handwriting sample they have of him, guys is a plane ticket right here where he writes his name in. | |
| Once again. | |
| Boom. | |
| You're not showing it. | |
| My bad. | |
| Sorry. | |
| Thank you, Angie. | |
| Here it is, right here, guys. | |
| And let me go ahead and enlarge it for y'all real fast so we can really get a good look at this thing. | |
| You can see right here, Dan Cooper. | |
| Okay, and then they're finding out, guys, that the name Dan Cooper came from a comic book series out of Canada that was written in French, and the main character in it was uh was a military individual, I think, who would be jumping out of planes and going on missions. | |
| It was basically a a French comic book series based out of Canada. | |
| And that is what led people to believe that there was a high likelihood that DB Cooper was at least Canadian or familiar with Canadian culture andor familiar with this comic book series. | |
| And then also what Angie said, what the uh negotiable US currency. | |
| I mean, come on, let's be honest here. | |
| No Americans gonna, oh bro, I need a 200,000 negotiable US currency. | |
| Nah, you're gonna say, give me 200k, motherfucker. | |
| That's what an American's gonna say. | |
| But for you to say 200k of a negotiable currency, even though they don't have it in print. | |
| That when they listen to it. | |
| He never used the word dollars. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yes. | |
| When when when the uh when the pilot was relaying the information and they were listening back to the black box or whatever it may be, they saw that the pilot was using that terminology, which is strange. | |
| So that's what led people to think that it's possible that the hijacker was Canadian andor potentially dual citizen. | |
| And also, guys, they didn't know his they could his accent was unrecognizable, which uh which is very common with with uh you know Americans and Canadians, like unless you like really pay attention. | |
| Um, there's only a few words that will distinguish a Canadian from an American, right? | |
| A boot, right? | |
| That's one of them I would say that it gives away a Canadian all the time. | |
| I can I cannot tell the difference between the accents, yeah. | |
| Like and there'd be foreigners like Angie that could barely speak English before they're not gonna be able to know. | |
| But yeah, there's certain words that Canadians say that Americans say that you can tell. | |
| So, like my big one that I could tell it's a Canadian is they say uh a boot. | |
| Um, what else? | |
| Um they say a a lot when they finish their sentences. | |
| Uh what else? | |
| What do you mean? | |
| What is what eight? | |
| Yeah, like they'll when so when they finish, they'll be like, hey, what are your thoughts on that? | |
| A oh, okay, okay. | |
| Yeah, and then they'll that's a common term that a lot of them well, Eastern Canadians. | |
| I don't even, I'm not even sure what uh what um like Canadians from the West Coast, they uh what some of their terminology is, but um but yeah, see, yeah, everyone in the chat. | |
| I thought Canadians will speak like with a strong French accent. | |
| Some of them do if they're from Montreal. | |
| Uh from Montreal, Montreal, which is eastern Canadian eastern Canada. | |
| Isn't a cuic or cubic? | |
| Is it that house? | |
| Quebec. | |
| Quebec. | |
| Okay, that this this the like the main Canadian part of that speaks like most French. | |
| Um yeah, Quebec speaks French, and then so does uh Montreal. | |
| Okay, yeah, and then Alberta too, I guess. | |
| Okay, so we got some Canadians in the house that might be able to quit, yeah. | |
| So I'm sorry, I can't pronounce it. | |
| Yeah, all right, cool. | |
| Uh let's get back to the to the dock here. | |
| But yeah, guys, this is what the the ticket looked like. | |
| So that's really the only handwriting they have. | |
| So he was smart enough to know that they were gonna want this. | |
| Um at that point, Cooper sent Tina Mukloe to the cockpit and told her not to come out. | |
| He was in the back uh all by himself around 812. | |
| There was sort of a popping sensation in the ears of the pilots. | |
| Okay, that's when they knew that he had lowered the stairway, guys, when they heard that popping sound because obviously the pressure in the cabin changed. | |
| The pressure in the cabin has changed. | |
| The afstairs have gone down. | |
| I told the air traffic controllers that I think our friend just took leave of us. | |
| Truly appreciates what Cooper did. | |
| Close your eyes and take a step and imagine walking down those aft stairs. | |
| It's late at night. | |
| There's a lot of rain. | |
| Guys, the conditions that night, real quick, yeah, were fucking horrible. | |
| That's that was what I was about to say. | |
| He was wearing a suit. | |
| Okay, I even throw it here. | |
| He was wearing a suit. | |
| Show those notes again. | |
| What the hell? | |
| Okay, all right. | |
| He was wearing like a Angie came prepared. | |
| Yeah, I was like, I was reading it out because he was wearing a suit and um how do you call this like long trench coat? | |
| Yes, yeah. | |
| He also was wearing that, and that was it. | |
| He was not wearing boots, he wasn't wearing like warm, like warm clothes, anything. | |
| He was just wearing like a suit and this like coat. | |
| Yeah, and that's it. | |
| He just flew into the going and and uh and a clip on tie. | |
| Yeah, that he just looked took it off and threw it away on the plane before throwing himself to nothing. | |
| Yeah, so yeah, he's gonna describe the conditions that night, guys. | |
| It's yeah, yeah, it's it's wild. | |
| Let's let's see here. | |
| Shout out to Angie W notes. | |
| You're hearing the engines of this jet in your ear. | |
| Imagine looking out in the middle of the darkness. | |
| And then walking down another step. | |
| And another step. | |
| And just looking out, asking yourself the question. | |
| Probably was fully torqued at this point. | |
| Like, yes, I'm about to pull off the greatest hijacking ever. | |
| When's the time to jump? | |
| The End Crazy. | |
| Alright, let's go back to the other one because I already know uh Netflix behavior, so this guy is like a Joan Wick. | |
| Yeah, facts. | |
| The John Wick suit, too. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Alright. | |
| So now the manhunt begins, guys. | |
| As soon as it became clear that Cooper was no longer on board, Dustin's the FBA. | |
| That's the actual plan you guys can see here, huge. | |
| 727 Northwest Airlines. | |
| The I agents converged upon the aircraft, only to discover a disappointing amount of physical evidence. | |
| A black clip on Thai. | |
| And two of the four parachutes were all that Cooper left behind. | |
| Evidently he'd brought the ransom and briefcase along with him. | |
| In interviews conducted on the night of the hijacking, Cooper was described by the crew and passengers as a white male with brown eyes and dark hair. | |
| He appeared to be in his mid-40s and wore a dark trench coat, a dark suit, a white shirt, a black tie, and dark shoes. | |
| Soon after boarding, he'd also donned a pair of sunglasses. | |
| Based on this description, the FBI produced the first of several composite sketches. | |
| Before they could mount a search, however, the FBI had to figure out when Cooper abandoned the ship. | |
| But that was easier said than done. | |
| None of the four crew members witnessed Cooper jumping from the plane, nor did the pilots of two fighter jets which escorted the flight between Seattle and Reno, which is not all. | |
| And keep in mind, guys, the fighter jets couldn't go that slow at about 200 miles per hour, so it was very difficult for them to keep up with the uh with the plane. | |
| Yeah, so that was because they would have to circle it around. | |
| That's yeah, exactly. | |
| Which Cooper probably did that on purpose, so that because he knew that they were probably gonna go ahead and scramble jets around him, so he did that on purpose to make the plane uh fly low and slow, so it would be difficult for the fighter jets to actually witness when he when he jumped out the plane. | |
| Lost the middle or see him jump out the plane. | |
| Love the night. | |
| Although the flight crew did report something odd. | |
| The last communication with a hijacker occurred at approximately 8 to 5 p.m. when the crew used the intercom to offer assistance, which Cooper declined. | |
| Within the next 10 minutes, the crew experienced what they described as an oscillation or vibration of the aircraft. | |
| Um, so we know that he jumped out the plane around 8-10 p.m. guys. | |
| At the time, the crew suspected it might have been produced by Cooper's jump, and a subsequent recreation of the hijacking supported that conclusion. | |
| Okay, so that took care of the when. | |
| But what about the where? | |
| While Cooper was very explicit about the flight's configuration and destination, he never specified any kind of route. | |
| In fact, Cooper grew so impatient with a slow refueling in Seattle that he dismissed the captain's request to file a flight plan and simply told him to quote get the show on the road. | |
| As such, the captain chose to fly along an airway known as Victor 23 without any input from Cooper. | |
| By using Victor 23 as a guide, authorities estimated the most probable location of the flight at the approximate time of the jump was about 40 kilometers north of Portland. | |
| And so at the break of dawn, the FBI mounted an impressive search operation using helicopters, airplanes, and ground troops. | |
| So this is the area, guys that they courted off that they think he could have landed in. | |
| Um, which you know, obviously they're using the time approximately when he jumped, how fast they were going, etc. | |
| If I'm not mistaken, the plane was flying at like 170 knots. | |
| Uh the temperature at the time was going to the wind was going west, if I'm not mistaken, and they believe that uh the temperature was uh it was below zero. | |
| I just can't remember how many degrees below zero. | |
| But uh, but it was cold, guys. | |
| I mean, it's November 24th, the day before Thanksgiving, uh, and the Pacific Northwest, so you already know it's gonna be freezing. | |
| God damn it. | |
| The problem was even if the estimated bailout point was accurate, Cooper's eventual landing or drop zone was far more difficult to pinpoint. | |
| The loosely defined search area covered a vast stretch of mountainous wilderness occluded by a dense forest. | |
| So it was truly like finding a needle in a haystack. | |
| Apart from the difficult terrain, the search was further complicated by low temperatures and inclement weather, which persisted for days. | |
| Despite their best efforts, authorities never managed to find a single trace of Cooper, nor the items he brought along with him. | |
| Well, not until 1980, which we're gonna hear here in a second. | |
| Also, guys, a spoiler my well, I'm not gonna say what they found. | |
| You'll see here in a second. | |
| And just so you guys know, by the way, uh the reason why Cooper asked for four parachutes, guys, which was actually really smart 40 chess, was because he wanted the FBI to think he was going to take hostages. | |
| So if they gave him a dummy parachute, they would have basically allowed one of the uh victims that he would take hostage with him to die. | |
| So since he asked for four parachutes, they were like, damn it, we can't go ahead and give him a dummy parachute. | |
| We gotta give him all good parachutes because we don't know who he's gonna take with him. | |
| So that was how he basically created an insurance policy for himself to make sure that they wouldn't give him a dummy parachute and let him fall to his death. | |
| That's a theory, because that was never confirmed, but yeah, that's a theory that he might have done that, and they actually reason would it be then because I don't know, but that's a theory. | |
| But they actually gave him a dummy parachute. | |
| Oh no, no, it was a uh it was a training one, but it still worked. | |
| Yeah, but they call him dummy parachute. | |
| I mean, dummy hasn't like it wouldn't deploy. | |
| Yeah, and he they gave him like a civilian luxury parachute and a military parachute. | |
| That was the one he took. | |
| As long with like the dummy parachute. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| He took he took the uh he took the military one, and then take the yeah, and the training one. | |
| But um, the training one still worked, it just wasn't um as efficient as efficient, but it still will work. | |
| But his fear was well, uh suspected, was that they would give him a parachute that doesn't work at all. | |
| Yeah, and uh, and then he would just fall to his death because the 1970s were different. | |
| But but uh, but that was actually a smart idea for him to ensure that they wouldn't um try to fuck him over. | |
| Yeah, this one was very clever. | |
| Because 200,000 guys back then was, again, that's 1.5 million today's dollars. | |
| *music* | |
| Having made little to no progress by early December, the FBI turned their attention to the 200,000 dollar ransom. | |
| The money had been collected from the Seattle First National Bank, which maintained a ransom package of 250,000 just for such an occasion. | |
| So this is also something this is me speculating here, okay. | |
| But for him to ask for 200,000, right? | |
| That seems like a very specific number, as if it would have been able to be given to him fairly quickly, and it just so happens that the closest that there's a bank that keeps 200,000 ready to go with oral serial numbers recorded. | |
| I mean, that doesn't sound like that. | |
| Sounds a little bit like too much of a coincidence to me. | |
| But he's 20 deals. | |
| What were you gonna say? | |
| And 20 bills. | |
| So, like so the it's not like they you know sat there, guys and counted it, was like, okay, 200k, let's record all the serial numbers. | |
| No, the money bag was pretty much ready to go with all of the serial numbers already recorded, guys, which is why they were able to get it out to him so quickly. | |
| Because of this, the serial numbers of the 10,020 banknotes given to Cooper had been documented in advance. | |
| A complete list of which were quickly made available to financial institutions, government agencies, and the I know some of you guys in the chat are like, what the fuck, bro? | |
| That'd be for the 1970s. | |
| Yeah, the 1970s were different, guys. | |
| I guess the bank robberies and ransom was so common, they're like, all right, bro, like just let's just have uh 50 to 250k just sitting around. | |
| If some guy makes a crazy demand, let's just give him the money. | |
| It is what it is. | |
| Actually, there is a bunch of people that admire this man. | |
| Yeah, there is one of uh I'm one of them to be honest with you, because this guy is like a what he's just a doble, like folklore legend. | |
| Yeah, and there is uh uh town uh near Seattle or Poland, I don't remember, it's called REL that has like uh a whole pub that celebrates the Dan Dan Cooper uh DB Cooper uh day every year, one day before Thanksgiving. | |
| And they make like these huge parties where they just celebrate to him and they make toast on his name. | |
| Yeah, this is it right here. | |
| I'll show y'all real fast. | |
| It's um it's called the Aerial uh DB Cooper Tavern. | |
| Yeah, the aerial uh aerial in Aerial Washington. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| I think this is it right here. | |
| DB Cooper Day. | |
| Uh DB Cooper Day at the Aerial General store and tavern, an annual celebration of the infamous unsolved skyjacking. | |
| Uh, because I think where they suspect that he landed was in that area. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So yeah. | |
| And people actually like dress like him. | |
| Yes, they have a they have a um a competition. | |
| Yeah. | |
| To see who could get the best Debbie Cooper costume. | |
| Which is crazy. | |
| And he's a bunch of old people. | |
| So it's a bunch of people that might have known him, and you know, it's just crazy people too. | |
| He honestly. | |
| Americans used to be doing crazy shit. | |
| Yeah, you know how it is. | |
| Public. | |
| The intention was to make it as difficult as possible for Cooper to spend his money. | |
| Northwest Airlines and several newspapers even began to offer rewards to anyone who could find a note with a matching serial number. | |
| In spite of these efforts, no one ever did. | |
| That is until nearly a decade later. | |
| In early 1980, a young boy named Brian Ingram was building a campfire on a small beach in southern Washington. | |
| As he was digging into the sand, Ingram discovered three bundles of cash totaling five thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. | |
| Having heard about the information. | |
| Yeah, I have it here. | |
| Yeah, how much that is in today's dollars? | |
| Uh yeah, I have it here. | |
| Give me one second. | |
| The skyjacking, Ingram's parents brought the sevela-degraded bundles to the FBI. | |
| The notes were promptly inspected. | |
| And sure enough, the serial numbers matched those of the ransom. | |
| Boom, got it. | |
| AKA, it's a match. | |
| Uh so real quick, guys. | |
| I got the actual 1980 uh news clip from when they found the money. | |
| The break in the nine-year-old investigation came Sunday when Duane and Patricia Ingram's eight-year-old son overturned some sand while walking the shoreline of the Columbia River near Vancouver, Washington. | |
| The public learned in an FBI news conference Tuesday, little Brian Ingram unearthed several packets of deteriorated $20 bills, and the FBI confirmed it. | |
| It was indeed several thousand of the two hundred thousand dollars that bailed out with D.B. Cooper on the eve of Thanksgiving back in 1971. | |
| Well, we were gonna make a campfire, and we found it was partially on top of the ground. | |
| It was just beneath. | |
| Yeah, so five hundred uh five thousand eight hundred dollars in nineteen seventy-one is forty-three thousand today. | |
| Oh, what about in nineteen eighty? | |
| Can you do it by nineteen eighty? | |
| Because that's when they found it, yeah. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| The sand. | |
| Who found it? | |
| Uh well, my son and I found it together. | |
| I was getting ready to drop the wood, and he cleared out the spot and rolled the money over on top of the sand. | |
| Yeah, 21 scoured the 21,000. | |
| 21,000. | |
| Wow. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Wow. | |
| Yeah, just uh well, the 70s there was really bad inflation, so that makes sense. | |
| Uh okay, 20 so 21k. | |
| Yeah. | |
| The area of the Ingram's find. | |
| At one point, a geologist was called in to determine whether money might be buried below the surface level in dredge material deposited on the beach in 1974. | |
| On Wednesday, that geologist confirmed the money washed ashore. | |
| That meant there could be deposits of money anywhere along a 100-mile stretch of beach. | |
| Searching in the sand on a deserted Columbia beach, finding bits of money along the high water mark. | |
| That's what's changed the whole myth of a man named Dan Cooper. | |
| People thought he landed on the west side of the range, but his money was found to be on the east side. | |
| That's how it drifted down river. | |
| And now that's what's changing the whole search and the whole story of D.B. Cooper. | |
| Cooper landed where he thought his money might have gone by the Lewis River, but then it would have had to go against river current to get where it was found. | |
| People who study river flow are checking if tides could have done it. | |
| It's doubtful. | |
| The more logical route from somewhere upriver. | |
| Debbie Cooper bailed out of a Northwest Airlines jet going 200 miles an hour at about 10,000 feet. | |
| The best guess is he jumped almost exactly over Le Center, Washington. | |
| In fact, a placard from the jet was found near there. | |
| But two things add to the confusion. | |
| One and the placard from the jet guys was the warning uh from the stairway that he jumped from. | |
| At that speed, seconds mean miles. | |
| Three a minute. | |
| Any delay by Cooper from when they thought he jumped, puts him further south. | |
| Also, he jumped into a major storm at that altitude. | |
| Winds could toss him and drift him for many miles. | |
| The FBI thought it carried him into Lake Merwin. | |
| That was the major search area. | |
| But now experts feel he might have gone at least over another ridge. | |
| Perhaps into the drainage of the Washugo. | |
| The speculation does lead to excitement. | |
| Are we closer to the secret of DB Cooper? | |
| Is it somewhere up there? | |
| The river is a kayakers' joy, but it is shallow. | |
| Could it have carried 21 pounds of 20 dollar bills miles down its length? | |
| It did have over eight years to do it, and it does flood often. | |
| This is also rough backcountry, but not as rough as the area around Ariel and Lake Merwin, or so the residents tell us. | |
| Maybe a man who landed in a parachute could have made it. | |
| Long time residents are talking about that more again now, and about the money that may have flowed through their backyards. | |
| I don't say he's in that Columbia River out there. | |
| This is remote country, traveling at 200 miles an hour. | |
| Many things Cooper was separated from his money, and his shoot was ripped to shreds, leaving him at the mercy of the winds falling. | |
| But if he didn't make it, his remains must be up there somewhere, waiting to be found. | |
| It's doubtful there will be a modern day treasure hunt for it, with little to no chance of finding money, virtually none of finding anything of Cooper's. | |
| But maybe, maybe someone in this area may be thinking more about the ex-Skyjacker, and maybe as lucky as a young Vancouver boy was spotting yet another clue in what is now the best guess for Cooper's final resting place, the Washugal drainage basin. | |
| Did Dan Cooper come tumbling down through these trees in southern Washington, or was it somewhere else away from the Washugo River on that Thanksgiving night eight years ago? | |
| Chances are people will continue to look for the legend of DB Cooper. | |
| Chances though are slim that we'll ever really know the facts. | |
| But maybe it's better that way. | |
| Shout out to that 1980s mustache man. | |
| By the way, guys, there's 1400 plus y'all watching right now. | |
| Do me a favor. | |
| Go ahead and like the video. | |
| Subscribe to the channel. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| I knew that was coming. | |
| We uh stream got suspended. | |
| It's fine. | |
| I'll tell you. | |
| Probably because we're playing this news thing, or we played a little bit of uh the other thing, but it's fine, it'll we'll be back. | |
| Oh, we kind of some super chats then. | |
| Uh well, they're not even live right now. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| I'll just tell them don't worry. | |
| Don't worry, give us one minute. | |
| Don't worry. | |
| Give us YouTube content. | |
| Yeah, this is what they do preemptively a lot of the times. | |
| Because this will, it's fine. | |
| This will get shown on the thing. | |
| Yeah, it's back now. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I think. | |
| We're gonna be back here in a little bit. | |
| Uh, but yeah, guys, first because you guys are gonna watch this back on a playback. | |
| What YouTube does, guys, is if you play anything, what's gonna YouTube doesn't know if it's copyrighted or not. | |
| So what they'll do is they'll temporarily suspend the stream, right? | |
| Just out of an abundance of caution. | |
| And what'll end up happening is once the video is fully uploaded and it's all good to go, they'll go ahead and uh you know, let it play through. | |
| So when you guys watch this back on the replay, don't worry, it's gonna all be there because at the end of the day, this stuff isn't copyrighted. | |
| But that's what they do typically when you play videos is they just assume that uh because you took it's them boys. | |
| Yeah, you that's why YouTube is the boys. | |
| But don't worry, guys, we're gonna definitely be back here. | |
| So give it a minute or so. | |
| Uh Elf are the people leaving the the stream, man. | |
| Like you guys are impatient. | |
| Yeah, it's because they think uh, but yeah, it'll be back in about what I've when I time it's normally about two minutes. | |
| Well says and they're saying about someone just said I hate you too and we made it. | |
| I was just about to be done playing the thing too. | |
| This is why we need to go to rumble. | |
| Yeah, this is true, but don't worry, guys. | |
| We'll be back here in a second. | |
| And we're back. | |
| Are we back? | |
| Yeah, we're back. | |
| Okay, guys. | |
| Uh you guys missed a little conversation that me and Angie had, but just to sum it up for y'all, don't worry. | |
| When you guys watch this back on the playback, everything is gonna show as seen. | |
| It's just that what YouTube does is if you play any type of content that they're not sure about, what they'll do is they'll just go ahead and automatically like suspend the stream for a little bit until you go back to playing irregular stuff and then they'll put it back up. | |
| So don't worry about it. | |
| Um we're back. | |
| We'll be fine for the rest of the play. | |
| I'm I'm gonna stop playing that news article. | |
| But you guys get the idea. | |
| Do me a favor though. | |
| Since I know that they're gonna try to shadow ban this video. | |
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| Like the video, subscribe to the channel. | |
| Um and yeah, let's get back to it. | |
| We're gonna go ahead and play um this uh the clip the video from um Lamino. | |
| Subscribe to the channel if you guys haven't already. | |
| Let me go ahead and put this back up for y'all. | |
| Boom. | |
| Once the excitement subsided, however, the money managed to raise far more questions than it answered. | |
| The most significant of which was how? | |
| How did a money end so just to recap you guys? | |
| Um so Manja gets on a plane, uh requests 200,000, says that he has a bomb in his briefcase. | |
| They go ahead, they land um where they're in their destination, refuel the plane 727. | |
| He gets his money, gets four parachutes. | |
| Uh he asked for the parachutes specifically to be four, because you know, so that it would give him good parachutes that would work because they weren't sure if he's gonna take hostages. | |
| He jumps out somewhere in the middle of nowhere, um, and lit about almost what nine years later, a kid and his dad find the money um right by the beach. | |
| And just so you guys know, by the way, here is a photo of the money um and the tie. | |
| I'll go ahead and share a screen with y'all real quick and show this. | |
| He's on the FBI uh website website. | |
| This is from the official FBI website. | |
| So here's a clip on Ty that he had, which made people think that he might be left-handed because of the way uh that was clipped. | |
| And then here is the money recovered in 1980 that ran matched the ransom money serial numbers um from the bank that the money was taken from. | |
| So obviously, this is a historical case now, so the FBI keeps all this stuff in their museum. | |
| There is actually um I don't know, I don't remember if it's on because I I guys forgive me if if I'm repeating myself in these things because I watched too many documentaries and I don't know which one mentions what. | |
| So uh there is a theory that there is another theory that they made us to a study in 2009, I think, about the bands, the elastic bands that the money was found in. | |
| Oh, yes. | |
| And I don't know if you saw it, but they they like ruled out the theory about he might have like that that money was found in the water, that stuff. | |
| Like it wasn't because the rubber button wouldn't have, you know, lasted that long underwater or or like you know, like natural circumstances, like natural environment. | |
| I don't know, I don't know if you can explain it better. | |
| Uh yeah, you made zero sense there. | |
| Stupid. | |
| No, I'm just kidding. | |
| Uh basically what what she's trying to say, guys, is that there's a theory that he buried the money versus the money being uh go uh you know flowing through the water, etc. | |
| Because the rubber bands that were used to secure the money would not have been able to endure uh the natural elements for that long period of time. | |
| So there's a theory that DB Cooper went to that area and specifically buried the money to be found later on. | |
| That's uh what some people say. | |
| And there's a lot of conspiracy theories with this case, guys, right? | |
| Stall. | |
| This is probably one of the biggest unsolved cases in American history, along with the Zodiac Killer, John Bennet Ramsey, etc. | |
| End up so far away from the drop zone. | |
| I might do a playlist for y'all just on unsolved cases, matter of fact, now that I think about it. | |
| Looking at this map, it might be tempting to think that Cooper simply dropped some of the money, which then fell into the Lewis River. | |
| The bundles could then have been carried further downstream by the Columbia River before finally being washed ashore at Tina Bar, which is the name of the beach. | |
| Tina Maklow, Tina Bar. | |
| Coincidence. | |
| Yeah, coincidence. | |
| Anyway, the problem with this idea is that the Columbia River flows in the opposite direction. | |
| This has led some, including members of the FBI, to re-evaluate the initial drop zone assessment. | |
| For instance, if the drop zone was much further southeast, close to a river called the Washugal River. | |
| It is conceivable, albeit improbable, that the money floated all the way down. | |
| Also, uh still our eyes makes a good comment here. | |
| DV Cooper escaped yet. | |
| Yo, he was an experienced jumper, who also knew the area. | |
| He recognized Tacoma from the sky. | |
| He was very calm and used terminology to suggest experience around aircraft. | |
| Yes, he also recognized the military base as well while they were circling around, waiting for the money to be uh to be gathered. | |
| He also recognized the military base in area as well. | |
| So and he Picked a military parachute, which led um people to believe that he was potentially a paratrooper back in the day. | |
| So he also mentioned that the Air Force base was like about 20 20 minutes drive from the airport. | |
| Is that what you just said? | |
| Uh no, he saw from the sky. | |
| I didn't know about the him saying it was a 20 minute drive. | |
| To the to the girl to this to the to the lady that that the mock mock for, I think it's called the air for base was only 20 minutes it wasn't uh a 20 minute drive from the from the airport that they were gonna land in Seattle. | |
| So that also and he saw it from the sky too. | |
| So he knew where he was at, guys. | |
| He was very familiar with the northwest, uh the Pacific Northwest for sure. | |
| Alternatively, the bundles may have simply landed on the beach if the flight path was further to the west. | |
| Even so, natural explanations struggled to explain how three independent, potentially free-falling and or free-floating bundles of cash ended up at the exact same place on the same beach. | |
| To complicate matters, sediment from the riverbed was excavated and dumped onto Tinabar as part of a dredging operation in 1974. | |
| And according to one analysis, the money was discovered above this layer of sediment. | |
| If true, that would mean the money came to rest at Tina Bar sometime after 1974. | |
| But a re-examination of that analysis found that what was believed to be a layer of deposited sediment might actually have been a perfectly natural layer of clay. | |
| Not only that, but the sediment was clearly dumped some distance away from where the money was discovered. | |
| Furthermore, when Ingram discovered the bundles, the rubber bands which held them together. | |
| Uh, making sure that we're still good. | |
| Okay, it looks like we're still live. | |
| Okay, just making sure. | |
| Because someone put in the chat stream unavailable or some crap like that. | |
| Guys, you can't you can't mess around like that, because then you you heard the quiet of the show for everybody else because I just pause it randomly to make sure. | |
| So please no trolling. | |
| Yeah, they were still intact. | |
| This is significant because experiments conducted in 2009 revealed that this brand of rubber bands could not withstand exposure to open air or water for more than a year. | |
| This is what Angie was trying to describe for you guys. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So, unless the bundles were somehow protected from the elements, they must have become buried at Tina Bar within a year of the hijacking. | |
| The most probable explanation, therefore, seems to be that Cooper or someone else deliberately buried the money. | |
| Did Cooper survive and bury the money himself? | |
| Did someone else bury the money after stumbling upon Cooper's remains? | |
| If there is an explanation which does not require human intervention, it's managed to elude investigators for decades. | |
| Suffice it to say, this is a mystery within a mystery. | |
| Since Ingram's discovery in 1980, both Tina Bar and the grounds around the Bashugal River have been subjected to numerous searches, but to date, there's been no sign of Cooper, nor the rest of the money. | |
| you you you Thank you. | |
| So now we're gonna get into the suspects, guys. | |
| Um I think this is yeah, this chapter is a suspects if I'm not mistaken. | |
| Oh no, Leap of Faith. | |
| Okay. | |
| From the very beginning, it was assumed by many that Cooper did not survive his daring escape. | |
| And don't worry, guys, I'm gonna go into the theory of why he potentially did not survive uh the jump as well. | |
| I'm gonna play another video from National Geographic where um one of the scientists goes into his theory on what he thinks happened. | |
| And you know, we'll present both sides for you guys, and you guys can go ahead and decide what you want. | |
| But I think it's important to present all the sides and then you go from there. | |
| It would not make for a very thrilling conclusion to this story, but that's the thing about stories, they're usually far more exciting than reality. | |
| While there is no hard evidence for nor against Cooper's survival, the assumption that he fell to his death is not without merit. | |
| When Cooper leaped into the darkness, Flight 305 was ploughing through a frigid rainstorm at roughly 170 knots, 10,000 feet above southern Washington. | |
| The wind was so violent that it ripped out a placard from the aft stairway, which was late. | |
| It recovered in 1920. | |
| And that's what, when we're watching that news article, by the way, guys, that's what was found by another person in that same area and later on, a few years later. | |
| In 1978, almost directly below the estimated flight path. | |
| To say that Cooper was not dressed for the occasion, uh, would be an understatement. | |
| The ground beneath him, meanwhile, was obscured by multiple layers of clouds, which likely means that Cooper jumped without knowing his precise location. | |
| Even if he could see the ground and had a specific drop zone in mind, the parachute he selected was non-steerable, meaning he would not have been able to steer his descent towards a specific landing spot, thus precluding. | |
| That's very important, guys, because that means that he would have been at the mercy of the winds, which if I'm not mistaken that night we're going in a westerly uh direction. | |
| Any potential coordination with an accomplice stationed on the ground. | |
| While Cooper expressed some familiarity with parachutes, his actual competence level is up for debate. | |
| It's widely believed that Cooper demanded two pairs of parachutes, two primary and two reserve, to make the authorities believe that he intended to take a hostage. | |
| That is precisely what happened as the FBI contemplated but eventually decided against sabotaging the chutes as they did not want to risk the life of an innocent civilian. | |
| But in their haste to obtain them, they unintentionally provided Cooper with a non-functional dummy chute intended for training purposes. | |
| This mishap seems to have gone unnoticed by Cooper because that dummy chute was one of the two missing from the plane. | |
| Not only that, but Cooper chose the older and technically inferior parachute out of the two primary shoots provided. | |
| Well, is that you drew that as well? | |
| No, actually, you know what? | |
| Angie, it looks like you're right. | |
| The one of them was a training dummy shoot, but I don't know if that means it works. | |
| Yeah, wait, go ahead and show that's the thing again to the audience. | |
| So, uh okay, yeah, yeah. | |
| For train so someone someone in the in the chat, if if anyone here is uh is a uh I knew this here, this thing money, like the money science, because that's what he put yeah. | |
| Yeah, guys, anyone here that's uh um that die that jumps out of planes or anything like that as a parachuter, let us know if a dummy shoot still deploys, like if you can still use it. | |
| If it's for training purposes, that means it's gotta work. | |
| Like it's not like it's gonna like like nah deploy and the person just fostered death. | |
| It probably just isn't as efficient. | |
| But uh, let me know, guys. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Thing is that the project that he used, the military one, was uh uh was a backpack. | |
| And even that was a difference between the others, I think. | |
| Gotcha, gotcha. | |
| Okay. | |
| So in both cases, it seems like Cooper made the worst possible choice. | |
| But there are other ways to interpret this information. | |
| For instance, it's possible that Cooper used the dummy chute not as a reserve but as a means to secure the bag of money. | |
| In fact, that is precisely what Cooper tried to do with a functional reserve chute. | |
| First, he tried to place the money in the chute's canopy before removing some of the suspension lines and wrap them around the bag. | |
| Perhaps he used a dummy chute for a similar purpose. | |
| And Cooper's decision to use the older primary chute is not necessarily an indication of inexperience. | |
| It could also be a sign of familiarity because the chute he left behind was a civilian luxury chute, while the one he used was a military chute. | |
| So that right there, guys, okay, led people to believe that he was a military guy because the primary shoot that you guys could see here was actually better quality. | |
| However, he might have not been familiar with it. | |
| And he said, okay, you know what? | |
| Let me go with what I know. | |
| It might not be as nice, but I know how to operate this. | |
| So and you know, human beings typically like to go the path of least resistance and what they know. | |
| So, you know, I I would I mean, if I was in his shoes, I would go with a shoe obviously that I'm more familiar with versus a better one because I know how to use it. | |
| The thing with the military one it was it was that it was harder to pull off. | |
| Yes than the other one, because it was more like metallical. | |
| Yes, yes, it was. | |
| Yeah. | |
| The argument is that Cooper might have been trained as, say, a paratrooper and chose the older military chute because that's the one with which he was most familiar. | |
| And there is at least one other reason to suspect that Cooper had a military background. | |
| While the flight was in a holding pattern near Seattle, Cooper mentioned that the McCord Air Force Base was only 20 minutes. | |
| There you go, that's the military base you were trying to mention, yeah. | |
| minutes away from the Seattle Tacoma Airport. | |
| At the time, that was an accurate assessment and might suggest a military background. | |
| Apart from the potential military connections, Cooper may even have had links to the Central Intelligence Agency. | |
| You see, the type of aircraft which Cooper chose to hijack, a Boeing 727, was also used by the CIA to covertly drop agents and supplies during the Vietnam War. | |
| A task for which the 727 was uniquely qualified Due to its distinctive aft stairway. | |
| So it's fairly safe to assume that Cooper chose to hijack a Boeing 727, specifically because it provided a relatively safe means of escape. | |
| Whether he learned of this from the CIA or came to that conclusion independently, is another question. | |
| However, the fact that Cooper chose to hijack a flight operated by Northwest Airlines was apparently random chess. | |
| When Tina Muklu asked Cooper about this motives, he responded, it's not because I have a grudge towards your airline, it's just because I have a grudge. | |
| He further clarified that flight 305 just happened to be in the right place at the right time. | |
| And he could have said that to maybe divert, you know, from where his you know his real angle, because uh, as you guys are gonna see with some of the suspects, one of them definitely had a bone to pick with Northwest Airlines. | |
| Um, which also, guys, do me a favor. | |
| Uh, there's 1600 of you guys watching right now. | |
| We had 1400 before the stream went down, which kind of sucks. | |
| I don't know where they all went. | |
| But do me a favor, guys, like the video. | |
| Let's get to 1,000 likes. | |
| It helps with the engagement quite a bit. | |
| As y'all know, this channel is somewhat shadow banned, I would say. | |
| Um, so go ahead and let's get to 1,000 likes because the likes and get help with engagement. | |
| Engagement increases the video's power and the algorithm. | |
| The more likes, the more comments, the more engagement, the more the video gets shown. | |
| Two other people that can go ahead and you know enjoy the channel. | |
| We can have an army of uh true crimmers and sleuths joining under one umbrella for Fed Reacts, because we are the best true crime channel on YouTube by far. | |
| I think we're better than everybody else, because we don't have to put makeup on our shit to go ahead and get views. | |
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| God damn it. | |
| So like the goddamn video, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already, and uh follow us on Instagram as well at Fed Reacts on Instagram. | |
| Even so, it's clear that Cooper came prepared. | |
| He seemed to know a great deal about aircraft and aviation. | |
| He appeared to be familiar with the local terrain. | |
| He maintained a low profile to avoid a panic, he covered his eyes with a pair of glasses to conceal his identity, he left very little evidence behind, and he demanded four parachutes to force the assumption that he was taking a hostage. | |
| He was even cunning enough to reclaim the note which he'd initially given to Florence Schaffner. | |
| Uh, very smart. | |
| Apart from the name he wrote on his plane ticket, there are no other samples of Cooper's handwriting. | |
| But for all his planning and cunning, it seems Cooper did not give enough thought to his eventual escape. | |
| Not only did he fail to specify a route, but he was forced to make a last-minute destination change from Mexico City to Reno. | |
| He could have demanded more appropriate parachuting equipment, like a pair of boots, a helmet, or jumpsuit. | |
| He could even have specified the ransom to be delivered in larger denominations to make it lighter and less cumbersome to carry. | |
| Presuming he did survive the fall and made it safely to the ground, he may then have had to be. | |
| And real quick, guys, here are the actual um photographs of the shoot that was given to him. | |
| You can see here the canvas bag that contained one of the parachutes given to DB Cooper in 1971. | |
| Oh, let me enlarge it for y'all real fast. | |
| Hold on. | |
| Uh he jumped with two, including one that was used for instruction and had been sewn shut. | |
| He used a cord from one of the remaining parachutes to tie the stolen money bag shut. | |
| One of the unused parachutes requested, but never used an FBI's so-called Norjack case. | |
| So and these are on display at the at the FBI museum to this day. | |
| That's crazy. | |
| ...make his way through a dense, partially snow-covered forest in nothing but loafers and a trench coat in late November. | |
| I get the distinct impression that Cooper's escape was much more of a leap of faith than a carefully executed jump. | |
| On the other hand, scares me a lot because that thing right there, like that, that gif right there. | |
| It's just crazy because can you imagine just jumping off a plane? | |
| I just get terrified with turbulences. | |
| Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, that's true. | |
| You actually do. | |
| She gets sick guys in a plane when they're gonna be. | |
| He gets sick every time I'm on a plane, and I can't imagine a person. | |
| I like jumping off a plane. | |
| I just can't get my get my. | |
| Especially in 1970s, like the planes weren't as nice as they are now. | |
| It's cold as hell, the wind is going crazy, you're the plane's going 170 knots. | |
| You you're you know, you're 10,000 feet above ground, so it's not as bad as jumping from a higher altitude. | |
| But regardless, like you can't see anything. | |
| It's pitch black. | |
| Yeah, you know, so it's windy, cold, it's he doesn't even know where he's jumping out of. | |
| Like, it's it's it's wild that he like said, you know what? | |
| Screw it, I'm just gonna jump out. | |
| So um, it's either prison or or jumping out in the middle of nowhere. | |
| So he I guess he decided to jump out of nowhere. | |
| So you guys could clearly see that wasn't planned because he wanted to go to Mexico City, couldn't do that. | |
| Thought about Yuma or Phoenix or any of these other places, couldn't do that. | |
| So he's like, you know what? | |
| Screw it. | |
| We're on the way to Reno. | |
| I'm just gonna jump out. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Authorities never received a missing persons report matching the description of Cooper in the wake of the hijacking. | |
| This might suggest that Cooper did survive, and that he swiftly and quietly resumed his normal routine. | |
| Furthermore, other hijackers have performed similar stunts, and many of them did survive, even if they were quickly apprehended. | |
| Finally, the simplest explanation for how three bundles of cash ended up at Tina Bar is human intervention. | |
| At the end of the day, most of this is based on nothing but supposition without any concrete evidence of Cooper's demise. | |
| It leaves the door wide open to the far more exciting proposition that he did in fact survive. | |
| I hope he did all right. | |
| Now they're gonna get into the suspects. | |
| Before we get into suspects, guys, let's go ahead and um read some of these chats that came through. | |
| Um we got here, let me pull it up. | |
| Oh, yeah, you got it. | |
| DB Cooper ledger for avoiding that 304 flight. | |
| He could handle heist and high stakes, but not them whores. | |
| Okay, I appreciate that, sir. | |
| Uh Angie Gaines. | |
| Oh, come on. | |
| No, we're not reading that shit. | |
| Go back, go back, go back. | |
| People, you should stop making just this lame ass things. | |
| Seriously, why would you spend $10 just to make a false account? | |
| Like, this is why I went private on Instagram, you guys, because you guys are crazy. | |
| Like you and I just went on read it and read a bunch of shit you guys been writing in there, and we just sat down and became paranoid of everything like of social media. | |
| We wanted to close everything, like everything at all. | |
| Because you guys are crazy. | |
| You be clipping my my stories and like commenting on my post, like my family is there. | |
| You need to understand, like, what the hell is wrong with you? | |
| Stop. | |
| God damn it. | |
| You got her. | |
| Don't read that. | |
| Sucks the suck, Kim. | |
| Poppy Myron says, I'm the number one wife. | |
| Don't worry, you can have this seat back next week. | |
| I'm keeping it warm for you. | |
| I'll take back my rifle spot on the controls and keys. | |
| And then we got here Andy Lay, two bucks. | |
| Appreciate that. | |
| Amiri goes, I've been watching all the FNF episodes of Chronological Order since I found y'all in January 2022. | |
| I just finished the hater called into G Check Us episode where you turn into a blood named Byron. | |
| Bro, Byron, I haven't seen him in a while. | |
| What happened? | |
| What Byron is in jail. | |
| Uh Andy Lai, two dollars. | |
| Appreciate that. | |
| Uh uh oh, got that one. | |
| Okay. | |
| Uh Bloody Chigger goes. | |
| I used to watch Lamino all the time. | |
| Most soothing voice on YouTube, pause. | |
| You said sleep to it, pause again. | |
| My old world and new world colliding W. Gotcha, my friend. | |
| Don't worry about it. | |
| Andy Lai goes again. | |
| You should do a case on Pizzagate and Andreno Chrome. | |
| Speaking of Pizza Gate, you guys need to go watch the episode that we did on the pizza bomber. | |
| That shit was lit. | |
| We spent quite a bit of time researching that one. | |
| It's probably one of my favorite ones we did too, because that was a really weird case on some saw taste. | |
| Oh, Ferry. | |
| The what the pizza what? | |
| The Pixagate, we get canceled is immediately. | |
| I don't know what the Pizzagate one is. | |
| It's a theory on Jeffrey Epstein and a bunch of shit. | |
| Like all together. | |
| Okay, and then boys. | |
| Okay. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Hi, Myron. | |
| When will Ryan Dawson make his highly anticipated return? | |
| We will do Ryan Dawson probably next week, guys. | |
| Don't worry. | |
| Um, he just he had some family stuff that they have to deal with, so that's why we couldn't do the 9-11 part two. | |
| I heard Destiny make an appearance on June 2nd. | |
| I didn't hear anything about that. | |
| Making an appearance, yeah, making an appearance. | |
| I didn't hear anything about that. | |
| Uh just jumping on. | |
| I was getting a workout and then listening to DJ Santana. | |
| All right, fair enough, my friend. | |
| Uh, and that's from who, Bob? | |
| Shout out to you, Bob. | |
| Uh, can you do a breakdown of 1980 Iranian embassy siege? | |
| Uh, yes, I think we can. | |
| I think there was a movie that was based on that with Ben Affleck. | |
| Was it Argo or something like that? | |
| I forgot. | |
| That's so good. | |
| That's yeah, I think it was that movie that was based on that situation. | |
| Uh Cooper was probably one of them boys. | |
| Okay, that's from Rob. | |
| Uh, and then Darnell Elliott, Miss Mr. Gate. | |
| Oh, Miss Gaines. | |
| The the of the air base, I think it means the air base you mentioned was called McCord Air Force Base, about 30 minutes from uh CTAC. | |
| The army base was Fort Lewis. | |
| I was there from 06 to 09. | |
| Oh, now it's now known as JB Lewis McCord. | |
| Okay, now I think he said that before we pulled it up on the documentary. | |
| Okay, thank you for that. | |
| That thing. | |
| Uh well, so we got here. | |
| Bloody checker goes in English, please, Angie. | |
| Okay. | |
| Uh and what uh goes the TV show Prison Break touches on the theory that he hurt his leg while landing, buried the money, hit a girl with a stolen car and went to prison. | |
| Okay. | |
| What? | |
| Uh hey, as a prior military, you should do some of the big military crimes. | |
| Also L YouTube. | |
| Uh, don't worry, guys, we're back. | |
| I figured YouTube might do that, so we're back. | |
| I I was prepared. | |
| And again, guys, whenever she's streamed uh suspended, when we put it back on the playback, it's gonna show that part that was suspended, so don't worry. | |
| I got y'all. | |
| I always put that in the timestamps as well. | |
| Uh, what else? | |
| Caught up? | |
| Yep. | |
| All right, cool. | |
| So we're gonna go ahead, guys, and go into the suspects, and then we'll go into the other theory of what they think potentially could have happened. | |
| By the time the press got wind of the hijacking, the FBI had already begun to investigate a few potential suspects. | |
| Among them was a man in Portland with initials DB and surname Cooper. | |
| This Cooper was quickly eliminated as a suspect. | |
| Yeah, it wasn't that easy, FBI. | |
| Come on, man. | |
| But due to a mix-up by the press, the name Dan Cooper was confused for DB Cooper, and the rest is history. | |
| Yeah, so basically a reporter that didn't pay attention to detail, guys, put DB Cooper in the press release, and the name just stuck because it sounded a lot cooler than Dan Cooper. | |
| Uh, nowhere in the investigation did they use the term DB Cooper. | |
| Just a reporter that put it that way, and then bam, they said, you know what? | |
| That's the moniker, we're gonna stick with it. | |
| It is what it is. | |
| Yeah. | |
| While Dan Cooper is most likely a pseudonym, there is a comic book series of the same name. | |
| The comic is written in French and centers around a Canadian pilot named Dan Cooper. | |
| While the comic was not translated into English nor sold in the United States before 1971, it was available in Canada, which has a large French speaking population. | |
| Given that American and Canadian accents can be difficult to distinguish. | |
| Besides certain terms, like I told y'all before, like a boot and stuff like that. | |
| This is what leads people to suspect that um Cooper was potentially Canadian and or had ties to Canada because this comic book was not in the United States prior to 1971, and it was written in French only. | |
| It's possible that Cooper, who was described as having no discernible accent, was a bilingual Canadian. | |
| This might even be supported by something that Cooper might have said. | |
| Before you get into that, guys, do me a favor. | |
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| Yes, sir. | |
| You see, when the captain relayed Cooper's demands to air traffic control, he used the phrase negotiable American currency. | |
| It seems doubtful that an American citizen would specify American currency. | |
| So perhaps Cooper won't. | |
| Yeah, I'll tell you this. | |
| Uh Jamal ain't robbing a bank and say, Hey, I need negotiable denominations of US currency right now, okay, or else you're gonna get the crap. | |
| So, yeah, definitely some type of shit that a foreigner would say. | |
| The problem is we don't know if this is a direct quote from Cooper or paraphrasing by the captain. | |
| For instance, notes taken by the crew during the hijacking merely contain the phrase negotiable currency, while testimonies provided by the crew after the hijacking include phrases like 200,000 in cash and circulated a US currency. | |
| So Cooper might have been Canadian and he might have taken his name from the Dan Cooper comics, just as he might have been American and might have taken his name from something or someone else. | |
| Nearly half a century has gone by since the hijacking took place, and in that time, thousands of suspects have been questioned and investigated. | |
| It would obviously be impossible to cover all of them here, but let's take a look at some of the people that at some point or another have been suspected of being DB Cooper. | |
| And these are pretty much all the top suspects in the investigation, guys that we're gonna go through. | |
| Um, so and I think some of you guys actually mentioned some of their names uh earlier in the chat. | |
| Some of y'all said McCoy, etc. | |
| So let's see what could have implicated them and what actually ended up exonerating them. | |
| Robert Rackstraw first became a suspect in 1978, and on the surface, he seems like a solid candidate. | |
| He was a decorated army paratrooper and helicopter Pilot. | |
| He had experience with explosives. | |
| He had an extensive criminal record. | |
| He had an uncle named John Cooper, who was an avid skydiver. | |
| He was expelled from the army only months before the hijacking, which might suggest a motive. | |
| After all, the hijacker did say he had a grudge. | |
| When confronted by journalists and private investigators, Raxstraw would neither confirm nor outright deny that he was D.B. Cooper. | |
| Instead, he'd say things like, I could have been, or I would not discount myself. | |
| On the other hand, Raxstraw had light colored eyes, which Cooper did not. | |
| More significantly, Raxstraw was only 28 years of age at the time of the hijacking. | |
| This is well outside the range of ages reported by the crew and passengers, most of whom believed Cooper was in his mid-40s. | |
| Kenneth Christiansen first became a suspect in 2003 when his brother noticed certain parallels between him and Cooper. | |
| Christiansen had briefly served He does look like him quite a bit though from that photo as a paratrooper in World War II, and since 1953, he'd worked for Northwest Airlines as both a mechanic and a flight attendant. | |
| He was 45 years old at the time of the hijacking. | |
| He was left-handed, which Cooper might have been. | |
| For instance, Cooper used his left hand to interact with his briefcase, and the clip on tie he left on board was affixed with a tight clasp applied from the left. | |
| Shortly before he died in 1994, Christiansen had supposedly told his brother, there is something you should know, but I cannot tell you. | |
| After his passing, his family discovered over 200,000 in his bank accounts. | |
| To top it all off, Florence Shaffner stated that photographs of Christiansen bore a strong resemblance to Cooper. | |
| On the other hand, Christiansen did not match the physical description of Cooper. | |
| He was both shorter and lighter. | |
| While Shaffner did see a strong resemblance, she remarked that Cooper had more hair, and that is supported by the composite sketches. | |
| And there was nothing suspicious about the large sums of money which he'd simply earned by selling land. | |
| But guys, I will say this: right after the hijacking, uh, and I think December of 1971 or so, people did see that he had a big amount of money around 200,000 uh in his bank account, and also he bought a house cash, guys, right after that hijacking. | |
| And he was mad because the airline, right, kept getting strikes uh given after them, right? | |
| Um, the uh North Northwest Airline, they kept getting strikes given to them, and that fucked his uh his ability up to basically work and make money. | |
| So he was pissed off and he had to do odd jobs like div digging ditches, etc. | |
| to make ends meet. | |
| So he definitely had a bone to pick with the airline. | |
| Um and he was only earning about 150 dollars a week back then in 1971. | |
| So for him to save up almost 200,000 hours in cash and buy a home cash, um, highly unprovable, especially the way he was able to do it so quickly. | |
| And if you guys see from the photos, he looks a lot like him. | |
| Let's go back real quick. | |
| I'll show y'all. | |
| 150 back then was a thousand and a hundred. | |
| Eleven hundred. | |
| 1100. | |
| So look, I mean, look at the resemblance here. | |
| He I would say by far looks the most like since 1955. | |
| Debbie Cooper had briefly served on him a suspect in 2003 when his brother noted And also, guys, he know he knew um the routes very well, and he knew about the airplanes very well as well. | |
| So um, you know, the way that he was able to strategize and everything else like that was very telling of someone that could have potentially worked for this company. | |
| Also, the ones that ended up paying that 200k, I think it was the airline themselves that paid that 200,000. | |
| How would he have known that they would have that money ready to go? | |
| I don't know. | |
| You know, so there's a lot of coincidences there. | |
| The thing with him is that everyone that saw act actually saw DB Cooper rule him out. | |
| No, no, no, it was the next guy that they're gonna rule out. | |
| Not him. | |
| They they say that he actually looked the most like DB Cooper. | |
| But either okay. | |
| You're gonna see the next I did the next you're thinking of the next guy that they're gonna rule out that he didn't look like or no. | |
| Yeah, uh the next guy, the next guy didn't look like him. | |
| You'll see of the hair of the edges here. | |
| Yeah, they said that like the they remember Cooper having more hair, but he definitely has the most uh the face that looks the most. | |
| I mean, hell, look at the pictures, guys. | |
| So um we we'll see here in a second. | |
| Just bring and a flight attendant. | |
| He was 45 years old since Cooper used his left hand. | |
| Oh, and then the thing also, this guy was about five foot eight, and they had D.B. Cooper at about five foot ten or six foot. | |
| That was another thing that they said, hey, we don't know if that's him. | |
| Shortly before he died in 1994, tell you. | |
| After his passing, his family discovered over 200,000 in his bank accounts. | |
| To top it all off, Florence Schaffner stated that photographs of Christiansen bore a strong resemblance to Cooper. | |
| On the other hand, Christianson did not match the physical description of Cooper. | |
| He was both shorter and lighter. | |
| While Shaffner did see a strong resemblance, she remarked that Cooper had more hair, and that is supported by the composite sketches. | |
| Yeah, so he did have a strong resemblance from the witnesses, but just the hair is the only thing that was off. | |
| And there was nothing suspicious about the large sums of money which he'd simply earned by selling land. | |
| Richard McCoy first became a suspect in 1972 when he hijacked a Boeing 727 and escaped via the aft stairway, much like D.B. Cooper. | |
| Because of the significant overlap between the two hijackings. | |
| This is a guy that was very favored to be the uh DB Cooper. | |
| Some believe they must have been committed by the same person. | |
| McCoy used a fake name, he used a fake hand grenade to threaten the crew, he used handwritten notes to issue his demands. | |
| Both McCoy and Cooper used the phrase no funny stuff as a warning to the crew. | |
| McCoy demanded $500,000 in cash and four parachutes. | |
| McCoy also bailed out the back of the plane once they passed over his hometown in the state of Utah. | |
| Apart from the similar modus operandi, McCoy had also served in the Vietnam War as a demolitions expert and a helicopter pilot. | |
| McCoy did actually survive the fall and managed to evade authorities for two full days before he was apprehended and sentenced to 45 years in prison. | |
| Before his death in 1974, McCoy refused to confirm or deny that he was D.B. Cooper. | |
| On the other hand, McCoy was an avid recreational skydiver and even came prepared with a skydiving helmet and jumpsuit. | |
| He gave very specific instructions about the flight path. | |
| In addition to the fake hand grenade, McCoy also used an unloaded handgun to threaten the crew. | |
| He failed to retrieve one of the notes he'd given to a flight attendant. | |
| He was only 29 years of age at the time of the hijacking, and all three flight attendants were quite certain that McCoy was not Cooper. | |
| Yeah, so they basically said, no, that's not him, he doesn't look like him at all. | |
| While there are meaningful parallels between these two cases, McCoy might simply have been a copycat who'd read about D.B. Cooper in the news. | |
| And I think that's the most plausible uh explanation. | |
| I mean, he didn't even he didn't even like deny it. | |
| Like, so you could already tell, oh yeah, clout I want the clout, fuck it. | |
| Because this was a huge story back then, guys. | |
| Wayne Weber first became a suspect in 1995, when shortly before his death, he supposedly told his wife, I've got a secret to tell you. | |
| I am Dan Cooper. | |
| Following his deathbed here we go, another one confession, Weber's widow recalled a number of fascinating details. | |
| She claims to have found a bank bag resembling the one used in the hijacking. | |
| She claims Weber had sustained a knee injury after jumping out of a plane. | |
| Weber supposedly had a nightmare about leaving his fingerprints on the aft stairs. | |
| And a year before the money was discovered at Tina Bar, Weber had allegedly paid a quick visit to the same location. | |
| In addition, Weber was a World War II veteran, he had an extensive criminal record, he matched the physical description, and he was 47 years old in 1971. | |
| On the other hand, Weber's fingerprints did not match any of the prints collected from Flight 305. | |
| Although, to be fair, there's no way to know if any of those prints actually belonged to Cooper. | |
| Furthermore, Weber's DNA did not match a DNA sample collected from the tight clasp. | |
| But once again, there's no way to know if the DNA on the tight clasp actually came from the hijacker and not someone else. | |
| What's so frustrating is that the FBI likely had a much better source of DNA at one point. | |
| If you recall, eight cigarette butts were collected from the scene, and there's a good chance they were all suffused with Cooper's DNA. | |
| The problem is that evidence was lost at some point. | |
| in a small turtle. | |
| Oh, man. | |
| Shout out to the FBI. | |
| Now going to be called for the rest of this podcast as the LBI. | |
| God fucking damn, bro. | |
| Bombocard! | |
| And they would have definitely been able to go ahead and use that DNA and potentially find out who he is. | |
| At least they would have had a Legit DNA profile of the the um hijacker man and they fucking lost it. | |
| Uh Department of Justice goes, uh yeah, lost my ass. | |
| Oh man, LBI. | |
| Up since the FBI scribbling the chat. | |
| William Smith first became a suspect in 2018. | |
| Smith served in the Navy during World War II and likely had some experience with parachuting. | |
| He was 43 years old at the time of the high with the do but lost bureau of investigation. | |
| Don't demongo. | |
| Now that's fucking funny. | |
| Yo, lost bureau of investigation. | |
| What the fuck, bro? | |
| Hijacking. | |
| He had dark brown eyes. | |
| He matched a physical description. | |
| He shared a certain likeness with a compulsive sketches. | |
| Even the FBI finds that shit funny. | |
| And the Department of Justice. | |
| Oh my God. | |
| Especially this speculative sketch of an older D.B. Cooper, a student named Ira Daniel Cooper, who was killed in World War II. | |
| Like the fucking video, guys. | |
| I only see 878 likes, but we're getting all these fucking laughs over here. | |
| Guys, like the video, subscribe to the channel, man, if you haven't already, but at least like the video. | |
| Let's get this thing to 1,000 likes, man. | |
| So I can stop asking, god damn it. | |
| Attended the same high school as Smith. | |
| Smith worked as a yardmaster for a railroad company for most of his life. | |
| But in 1970, the company fined for bankruptcy. | |
| As a consequence, Smith lost his pension, which might suggest a motive. | |
| He could, for instance, have developed a grudge towards the airline industry for their role in bringing about the downfall of the rail transportation industry. | |
| It's further speculated that Smith could have used his knowledge of railroad networks to hop on a train and escape undetected. | |
| On the other hand, Smith spent his entire life in the Northeastern United States. | |
| Given that the hijacking occurred on the other side of the country and was committed by someone who at least appeared to be familiar with the local terrain. | |
| Smith is not the most ideal candidate. | |
| However, the fact that Smith worked as a yardmaster is interesting. | |
| You see, the tie that Cooper left behind was recently examined using an electron microscope, which uncovered various metallic particles. | |
| Some of these particles, especially pure titanium, were quite rare in 1971. | |
| This might suggest that Cooper worked as a manager at some sort of chemical or metallurgical facility. | |
| Or possibly a rail yard. | |
| Also, they knew that the tie came from JC Penny because JCPenney was the only place I think from the 1960s up until the early 1970s that carried that clip on tie. | |
| So that's another little link there as well. | |
| So that's another little link there. | |
| If nothing else, I hope this limited selection of suspects illustrates just how difficult it is to be certain when you have so little evidence to work with. | |
| These five individuals look nothing alike, yet any one of them could be DB Cooper. | |
| Was Cooper really in his mid-40s, or did he simply look old for his age? | |
| Did Cooper really serve in the military? | |
| Which one of these sketches most closely resemble Cooper? | |
| In 2016, the FBI had to admit defeat and officially close down the case. | |
| And this is uh their official statement. | |
| It goes update on investigation of 1971 hijacking by DB Cooper. | |
| Also, just so you guys know, as far as the cigarette butts go, back in 1971, there was no DNA guys, so they probably didn't take it as seriously back in the 70s because they were like, what the hell's DNA gonna do? | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| They didn't even know what it was really. | |
| So DNA didn't become a thing, guys, until damn near the 90s into the 2000s. | |
| That's how they were able to catch the Golden State Killer and BTK. | |
| Um, because DNA technology really wasn't used in court in the court system until I think the first official prosecution was sometime in the late 80s or 90s, and then they didn't actually streamline using DNA and criminal investigations until the 2000s. | |
| So, you know, in 1971, FBI just back then, you know, for fucking live uh living under a rock, not understanding the power of DNA in the future. | |
| Uh but here's their statement that they gave. | |
| Update on our investigation on 1971 hijacking by DB Cooper. | |
| Quote, following one of the longest and most exhaustive investigations in our history on July 8, 2016, the FBI redirected resources allocated to the DB Cook Cooper case in order to focus on other investigative priorities, uh priorities. | |
| During the course of the 45 year Nordjack investigation, the FBI exhaustively reviewed all credible leads, coordinated between multiple field offices to conduct searches, collected all available evidence, and interviewed all identified witnesses. | |
| Over the years, the FBI has applied numerous new and innovative investigative techniques as well as examined countless items at the FBI laboratory. | |
| Evidence obtained during the course of the investigation will now be preserved for historical purposes at the FBI or FBI headquarters in Washington DC. | |
| That's a fancy way of saying. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I don't know if you know, Mara, but, well, you might know. | |
| But I read somewhere or I saw in any of these documentaries that even though the FBI closed the investigation, D.B. Cooper to this day, if they find him, he can be prosecuted. | |
| And I think that has a name for the FBI, but I don't know what it is. | |
| Oh, really? | |
| Yeah. | |
| He can still be prosecuted to this day. | |
| Maybe even though the FBI closed the investigation. | |
| It has a name, but I just didn't remember what he's doing. | |
| Can you look it up real quick? | |
| I mean, uh, I mean, there's always a statute of limitations, but I guess maybe uh uh because there is, I think an air piracy statue on the books that doesn't have a statute of limitations and actually declassified. | |
| Uh I think the law might have come in uh after the fact um from a case that I watched on declassified. | |
| So um like that angle, you can see us right there going hard in the paint on on the kick out cam. | |
| Uh and you can see Angie over there doing what she does as well. | |
| Uh okay, so let's go ahead. | |
| Um, so uh let me go back to the documentary. | |
| And then we're gonna go into the death theory here, guys. | |
| Next, unless someone stumbles upon Cooper's remains or manages to track down the rest of the money. | |
| It seems there is little hope of resolution. | |
| Did Cooper survive? | |
| I have no idea. | |
| But as long as that possibility cannot be dismissed, the legend of DB Cooper will no doubt persist. | |
| And shout out to Lemonito, bro. | |
| Great video, great breakdown that you did. | |
| Um, so we're gonna go ahead and look at a um national geographic documentary that goes into the theory, guys, of him potentially dying. | |
| Before I do that, though, um, here is from the official FBI website, by the way, as well. | |
| Uh, scientist hunt for DB Cooper clues. | |
| DB Cooper, 1971 has a wild scheme to jump out. | |
| Like the video, guys. | |
| 1200 y'all in here, man. | |
| We should be at 1,000 likes easy. | |
| Out of the back of an airplane at 10,000 feet in the middle of the night in a rainstorm over unknown territory. | |
| The guy either had to be crazy or brilliant and have mad skills. | |
| Right at the spot we're standing here, we've calculated that this is the precise location that Brian Ingram, when he was eight years of age, scooped across the sand with his arm and uncovered the three bundles of bills, which have been the only Cooper Cash ever recovered from that hijacking event in 1971. | |
| Well, I I think it's a it's a great mystery. | |
| You know, what happened to this guy? | |
| All right, this guy Larry Carr is the case agent guys. | |
| Um, now he's probably the one that closed the case. | |
| Um, he was the lead agent. | |
| That he was a lead, he's the modern lead agent. | |
| He was the lead investigation investigator agent. | |
| Yeah, but he wasn't the original case agent. | |
| He inherited this case from the 70s. | |
| Oh, this dude. | |
| Yeah, this dude. | |
| Uh uh, let me find the actual original case agent for y'all because he has more details. | |
| Last thing we knew is he had 200,000 and uh bailed out of the back of a 727 uh November November 24th, 1971. | |
| Uh, and then from there, we don't know. | |
| If we can find resolution to the case without allocating resources, without sending FBI manpower to the investigation, but come up with an answer, then why wouldn't we do that? | |
| We have with us a team of people that have all volunteered their time, their money, and their effort to come try and solve this just purely for the excitement of doing it. | |
| Right now we're on Tina Bar. | |
| We're looking at the location where the money was found. | |
| Tomorrow we're gonna be heading off to look at unpublished photos from the Oregonian newspaper, which could tell us exactly what was going on here at that time. | |
| And then at the end of the week, we're heading up to Seattle to meet with special agent Larry Carr to look at the FBI archive. | |
| Right now we're in the Little Washugal River, which is east of the flight plant of DB Cooper, and where they think he potentially jumped out. | |
| We're here because the Little Washugal River and the Washuga River are the biggest rivers in the area that are capable of moving a lot of money like this downstream. | |
| So it's thought that his money fell into one of these two rivers, went downstream, hit the Columbia River, and then moved further south on the Columbia River toward the ocean until it showed up on Tina Bar. | |
| We're out here making a campfire. | |
| My father and I that's when we went for the city. | |
| There is a kid that found the money. | |
| I think he was eight or nine years old back then. | |
| Uh but obviously now he's an adult. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So this is almost 20 years old, well, over 20 years later. | |
| Discovered discovered it's dad's time to take that credit though. | |
| No, it wasn't you, bro. | |
| It was him. | |
| Three packages of 20 pills. | |
| Ransom money of DV Cooper. | |
| We're throwing a lot of technology at these Cooper bills and trying to figure out the history, what caused them to degrade, what degradation components have been mixed in with them. | |
| And does this tell us something about where these Cooper bills have been? | |
| Trying to find out how buoyant it is, and as far as what's the distance it's gonna travel. | |
| We seem to find his location right here where it seems like it's wanting to come right back to us. | |
| Um 1980. | |
| Why am I so interested in DB Cooper? | |
| Who isn't interested in DB Cooper after hearing um all right? | |
| Women deserve less. | |
| Who cares what she got to say? | |
| All right. | |
| So now we're gonna get into uh this was the case agent right here, guys. | |
| The original uh Ralph Hammelsbach. | |
| I can't find the dang T Retired FBI special agent Ralph Hammelsbach was one of the first agents to respond to the DB Cooper hijacking at Portland International Airports in 1971. | |
| And you always want to talk to the original case agents, guys, because they're the ones that are gonna have the most piss of vinegar to solve the case versus someone that inherits the case later on. | |
| Himelsback continued to pursue leads for the rest of his career, becoming the public face of the FBI's investigation. | |
| The DV Cooper case had a bigger impact on my life than any other single case I've ever had. | |
| When you had heard what his demands were that he asked for four parachutes and 200,000 dollars. | |
| Was there anything in your mind thinking about who this guy might be? | |
| No, uh my initial uh reaction was uh you look for criminals, you know, because a guy doesn't live his whole life as a law-abiding citizen, and all of a sudden uh uh threatened to kill over 40 people and uh uh himself. | |
| Is there any just so you guys know, um, and again, this is history channel, so we gotta be careful here. | |
| Um the plane was not packed. | |
| If I'm not mistaken, it was only once one or two, one of two three quarters. | |
| Uh it was 37 passengers, 37 and six people of the crew. | |
| Okay, so but how much did that plane hold? | |
| Like 200 seats or something like that? | |
| Yeah, I think so. | |
| Okay, so it was damn near empty. | |
| Uh and remember, he flew, he was flying the day before Thanksgiving. | |
| So, you know, that's not a typical day that you want to uh you want to travel. | |
| So he was smart to pick a certain day when he knew the the there wouldn't be the most people on board. | |
| Oh, yeah, some people will come back. | |
| There'd be a skeleton crew. | |
| What was that? | |
| People will go home for for the for the Thanksgiving, no. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| But you don't want to fly in the day before Thanksgiving. | |
| That sucks. | |
| You know, you typically want to be there a couple days prior. | |
| Anybody out there that you think this is the guy, but you weren't able to pin anything on him? | |
| No, no. | |
| If I had gotten that close to where I was convinced on duty or off, I'd still be looking because no person should be able to uh profit from a criminal activity. | |
| And one thing that Mr. Hoover always reminded us was that you don't arrive at a conclusion without the facts. | |
| You know, and that's not as easy to do. | |
| Uh not just for investigators, but if you're and yeah, J Edgar Hoover was the first director of the FBI. | |
| So you that tells you guys that this dude was probably in the bureau like right at the beginning. | |
| So he's an old old school FBI agent way back in the day, man. | |
| Not like today where it's all bureaucratic, right? | |
| The bureau nowadays, man, is super bureaucratic, man. | |
| A lot of red tape. | |
| It's very difficult for them to get their job done. | |
| Uh a good friend of mine actually is still an FBI agent to this day. | |
| And uh it's really tough for them to do shit, guys, because it's such a political thing nowadays. | |
| Uh versus, you know, that's one thing I liked about HSI is like we were just out there running a gun in and doing what the fuck we gotta do because it's a relatively new agency, so we don't have all this red tape in the way of getting shit done. | |
| But the Bureau, bro, you know, it's the you know, they they're they have a lot, we have a lot of funny nicknames for them. | |
| Uh, you know, famous but incompetent. | |
| Um, yeah, call him the Phoebes. | |
| Uh as we call him, yeah. | |
| The you call a lot of people call him the Bureau. | |
| Uh, you know, the Federal Bureau of uh Federal Bureautic Idiots, you know, like there's a whole bunch of um names or famous but idiots. | |
| There's so many different acronyms that other agencies say uh to make fun of the bureau, man. | |
| The supervisor, if you're the head of the office, right? | |
| You know, everybody up the chain has to guard for that. | |
| It's very easy to fall prey to. | |
| Aha. | |
| That's there's no real aha moment early in a case like that. | |
| Right. | |
| Were you thinking we're gonna find his body somewhere sooner or later? | |
| Were is that what you were thinking? | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| That's what you're hoping. | |
| I I'd rather believe that he is dead. | |
| If he wasn't dead, and if he was alive right now and you met him, what would you say at all? | |
| Freeze, you're under arrest. | |
| Bro, I open up it never ends. | |
| Funny as hell, bruh. | |
| My man is barely walking. | |
| Freeze, you're under arrest. | |
| Did he cooperate right now must be dead? | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| I doubt he's yeah, he's if he's alive now, he'd be around 98 years old or something like that. | |
| So um, okay, so let's go ahead, guys, and go into the death theory. | |
| And actually, um, those scientists that y'all saw when we were um covering uh when we're showing you the FBI version, that's where that those clips came from, actually. | |
| So we're gonna go to the National Geographic one. | |
| So we gotta be careful here because uh National Geographic are losers. | |
| So I'm gonna pause this thing quite a bit. | |
| Um so that we go ahead and um you know make sure we don't get hit with the stream, whatever. | |
| But before I do that, real quick, I need y'all to like the video because right now I'm looking. | |
| We got, let's see how many of y'all we got uh 948 likes, but there's 1,200, almost 1300 of you guys watching right now. | |
| So I need y'all to get me to 1,000 likes. | |
| Okay, guys, I really don't want to stop the show. | |
| I hate doing that shit. | |
| But you guys have been, you know, one of them boys, you know what I mean, when it comes to giving the likes out. | |
| Listen, it's not a dollar. | |
| I'm not asking you guys for money. | |
| I'm only asking you guys to like the video because I already know this thing is gonna get throttled by the algorithm because we had a stream suspended bullshit, and uh, you know, we're fresh and fit in general is shadow banned. | |
| But like the goddamn video, guys, subscribe to the channel. | |
| And Fed and follow Fed Reacts on Instagram. | |
| Yes, follow Fed Reacts on Instagram. | |
| And she manages that. | |
| So um, so yeah. | |
| So let's go ahead and get this thing. | |
| Uh let's get the show on the road as DB Cooper would say. | |
| So we're gonna go into the theory, guys, of why he may have not survived. | |
| Believes the three bundles of ransom money provide the best clue to solving Cooper's fate. | |
| Apart from the $5,800 found on the riverbank, none of the other bills were ever found in circulation. | |
| Tom is convinced that the bag of money, all $200,000 of it, must have traveled by river to where the three stacks of money were found. | |
| The three bundles couldn't have traveled independently yet ended up in the same place on the sandbar. | |
| What's so funny, Andrew? | |
| You're over here dying. | |
| What's going on? | |
| The chat, what they say. | |
| Shadow band fresh is a shadow. | |
| Shadow band. | |
| What? | |
| Here shadow band nigga fresh as a shadow. | |
| Oh man. | |
| You guys are fucking hilarious, man. | |
| Y'all got no chill in the chat, man. | |
| This tells us that the bank bag was involved in the transport. | |
| It could have split open close to the sandbar, thereby increasing the odds that three out of the hundred bundles of cash would have ended up together in the same place. | |
| If the bank bag ended up in the river, then whatever happened to Cooper. | |
| The money he risked his life to steal was never spent. | |
| But how exactly did the bag of money end up in the water? | |
| Okay, guys, so we're gonna get into the theory now of how the money ended up there and um the facts and circumstances based on the scientists of what potentially could have led to uh DB Cooper's death. | |
| All right, guys. | |
| So um, and again, like I said before, this is just one theory, guys. | |
| There's a bunch of theories out there. | |
| If you guys watch the Netflix documentary, I think uh what was the name? | |
| Tom Colbert, if I'm not mistaken, he's the head of a cold case. | |
| Uh, they spent a decade plus on this, and they're pretty much, I think uh, if I'm not mistaken, they're almost certain that it's Ragstraw that was DB Cooper. | |
| So there's a million different theories on this, and this is just one of them as to how he potentially didn't survive. | |
| *Dramatic Music* | |
| Tom examines the flight path and timing of the jump, recorded at approximately 8 10. | |
| At this point, he's directly over the Lewis River. | |
| If the bank bag, which was being flailed by 200 mile an hour winds, detached from Cooper, it would have fallen directly below into the Lewis River. | |
| The Lewis River is around 300 feet wide with a fast current and rapids. | |
| So that is a theory that potentially, guys, the bag, right? | |
| Because remember, he was trying to affix the bag to himself, right? | |
| Uh before he jumped out. | |
| It is possible with all those winds and him flying all over the place, right? | |
| Uh, that the bag could have fell off of him and fell into the river, and you know, he would have been mad as hell, or maybe some of the money would have fallen out and he was able to secure it before the rest of it fell out, and that's why that money ended up there. | |
| So that's another potential situation. | |
| It's possible that the money bag could make its way downstream. | |
| But Dan Cooper was protecting the money with his life, and with 30 feet of parachute cord, could have secured the bag. | |
| If Cooper did secure the bag and manage to deploy his shoe, where would he have landed? | |
| Okay, so this is where stuff is gonna get interesting here, guys, because remember, uh, we talked about this as well, guys. | |
| Uh that unfortunately, the military parachute that he chose uh doesn't allow you to maneuver and steer like the other luxury citizen one or sports parachute that he chose to leave behind. | |
| So you would have been at the mercy of the wind at that point, which we know it was pretty damn cold and windy that night. | |
| So let's get back to it. | |
| It's a little bit better than the other. | |
| His chosen parachute, the NB-8, unlike the sports chute, is not maneuverable, it would take him wherever the winds blew. | |
| Tom Kay believes that whatever altitude Cooper deployed, the westerly winds would carry him directly to his worst nightmare. | |
| Water. | |
| Ah shit. | |
| And I want you guys to picture this. | |
| You fall into the water the day before Thanksgiving, being into the Pacific Northwest, which is cold as fuck, by the way. | |
| It was below zero that night, guys. | |
| So it would have been freezing, and all you got on is a trench coat, a suit, maybe some long johns underneath your suit, right? | |
| Uh, because he was planning to jump out. | |
| But it is cold as hell, guys. | |
| We're talking hypothermia type temperature. | |
| From our calculations, we can determine that if Cooper pulled his parachute right away, he would have had a long drift and likely ended up in Lake Merwin. | |
| If he waited and pulled a couple thousand feet above the ground, he would have ended up in the Lewis River. | |
| Lake Merwin is a huge dam, which spills directly into the Lewis River. | |
| The low cloud Cover and the non-maneuverable parachute would have given Cooper little, if any, chance of changing course with near freezing temperatures. | |
| The water would have been cold. | |
| Cold enough to kill. | |
| So, real quick, before we go into uh how he would have had to been able to survive this if he um actually landed on the water, I need you guys to do me a favor. | |
| Well, number one, we're watching National Geographic, so you already know that they're gonna be on some lamo shit, like oh copyright, blah blah blah. | |
| So like the video. | |
| I see that we got 1k likes, which I really appreciate that. | |
| But there's 1300 of you guys watching right now. | |
| So if we could get 100% engagement and get 1300 likes, I would really appreciate that. | |
| I need you guys to not be one of these ninja watchers that sits there on YouTube fucking like this. | |
| Because this is half y'all that watch the goddamn show. | |
| Just literally sitting there like what the hell. | |
| I need y'all to hit the fucking like button, show your goddamn support because content like this, you ain't gonna find it anywhere else. | |
| You're not gonna have a former Fed with actual experience giving y'all sauce on how these investigations are done, giving you guys some commentary. | |
| I mean, goddamn it, look at Angie's notes, goddamn it. | |
| She worked really hard on this for y'all. | |
| Show them that notebook, show it to them, woman, so they know that you are you're not out here just being a pretty face. | |
| Look at that, man. | |
| She out here drawing suits and trench coats for y'all. | |
| The plane. | |
| Show them the other page notes that you had with the I drew the the dynamite too. | |
| She drew the dynamite, yeah. | |
| Like, come on, guys. | |
| No security. | |
| She's taking notes. | |
| Yeah, this is her second language. | |
| Show them the the parachute. | |
| Yeah, the pictures that you took. | |
| Look at that, man. | |
| We work hard over here for y'all, man. | |
| Sorry. | |
| Dumb the monko. | |
| Okay. | |
| Like the goddamn video. | |
| We should be 1300 likes. | |
| Easy. | |
| We're at 1100. | |
| We should be 1300 easy, man. | |
| She ain't just a pretty face out here, you know. | |
| Oh, I'm going to talk and give some commentary. | |
| No, man. | |
| She really be out here researching for y'all, bro. | |
| What hang on? | |
| Is that your patient of my accent? | |
| Pretty much is terrible. | |
| Oh my god. | |
| But uh, yeah, man. | |
| So like the goddamn video, man. | |
| She be it should be out here like helping out for real. | |
| Um, her and Kim like really go hard behind the scenes, guys to research stuff. | |
| A lot of the times I'll be like, hey, uh, what did the people want? | |
| She'll give me a list of the case. | |
| I'm like, all right, let's hit this one. | |
| Um, DB Cooper. | |
| Was it your idea to do this one this week or was it Kim's? | |
| I wanted to do it. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So there you go, man. | |
| Y'all are getting this show right now because uh because of her, man. | |
| So go ahead and like the video, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. | |
| And uh let's go ahead and hit 1300 on this thing, man. | |
| Let's get 100% engagement. | |
| We are risking right now getting the stream shut down because we're playing national geographic shit. | |
| If we're gonna take these risks, that's fine, right? | |
| Some of these videos don't even get monetized, to be honest with y'all. | |
| I don't care about that shit. | |
| My goal isn't to sit here and make money off of this channel. | |
| That's not really our goal here. | |
| Our goal is to give y'all entertainment, sauce, and diversify and show you guys that we're, you know, we're not a one-trick pony over here at Fresh Fed. | |
| We could give you guys everything. | |
| So the only thing we ask guys for all the hard work and research is to like the video. | |
| That's all we ask, man. | |
| Y'all see Angie over here putting work behind the scenes. | |
| She's not just here to just give some commentary. | |
| She really does study these cases and enjoy doing it and helping you. | |
| I really I really love doing this, to be honest with you guys. | |
| So yeah, like the video. | |
| Like the video, please. | |
| When DB Cooper hit the water, like we believe he did, he would have only had a matter of minutes in that type of cold water to get off on shore at that point. | |
| Remember, he was laden with 20 pounds of money, he had a harness and he had a long parachute attached to him at this point. | |
| So we think that his odds of survival would have been very low. | |
| He used the poorer choice of equipment. | |
| The conditions were horrible. | |
| And the fact that we haven't found anything really leads me to believe that he died tonight. | |
| So that's debatable. | |
| We know that there was a citizen type parachute, sports parachute and a military one. | |
| He chose the military one because uh more than likely he probably was military trained and you would have been uh would have preferred to use equipment that he understands and knows. | |
| So it's not necessarily a poor choice of equipment, it's uh just equipment that might have not been as good. | |
| But hey, what's better? | |
| Equipment that you're familiar with and know how to operate, or equipment that's slightly better, but you're not familiar with. | |
| I always go with what you're familiar with. | |
| Yeah, also uh I don't know if they mentioned this in here, but Uh the the lady that hand the part is to to DB Cooper, they actually came with instructions. | |
| Oh, yes, good point. | |
| Okay, they came with instructions, and he said that they didn't they wouldn't need them. | |
| He wouldn't need them. | |
| Why do you put that camera on? | |
| Oh, yeah, switch it up, man. | |
| Switch it up. | |
| Okay. | |
| So right. | |
| You don't gotta look at the camera. | |
| You can have song is fine. | |
| It came with instructions, and he said that he wouldn't need them. | |
| So that also. | |
| Yeah, that also was very, yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Like, yeah, he basically was like, I don't I don't need any of that. | |
| That camera is so weird, but I take it out. | |
| Just because you see like the back part of the studio and everything. | |
| Hey, y'all like that. | |
| Yo, like the goddamn video, man. | |
| We go hard to pay for you, man. | |
| Don't see that setup, man. | |
| We go hard on fucking pain over here, man. | |
| Uh okay. | |
| So, yeah, that also was a big thing, too, because he didn't say he needed the instructions, guys. | |
| He was very dismissive when they gave it to him. | |
| Body would have moved down the fast running river, some 20 miles to the Columbia. | |
| The three bundles of ransom cash were found just a few miles from where the Lewis and Columbia rivers meet. | |
| But there's a catch. | |
| These few miles are upriver against its natural flow. | |
| Tom K offers a rational explanation. | |
| At the time, the Columbia River was one of the busiest shipping lanes in North America. | |
| We believe it's possible that Cooper's body and the money became snagged up on one of these ships' propellers, and it moved upstream with the ship. | |
| At some point, the violence of this ripped open the bank bag and spilled out the money. | |
| So I'm gonna go ahead and do a poll here with you guys, okay. | |
| Do you guys think survived? | |
| Hold on. | |
| Well, I'll have you give your theory last, Angie. | |
| Let me um get asked the community here, though. | |
| I'm putting a poll up right now for y'all. | |
| I want to know what you guys think. | |
| Polls up right now. | |
| Do you guys think DB Cooper survived this jump? | |
| Yes or no? | |
| And I'll end the poll at the end of the day. | |
| You know what? | |
| I'm gonna make a poll on Instagram too. | |
| On Instagram too? | |
| Yeah, go ahead. | |
| Good good move, good move. | |
| Uh, so I want to see what y'all think because now you guys are seeing kind of both perspectives here, right? | |
| You saw you've seen the suspects, you've seen the evidence in the case, even though there's not much of it. | |
| You've seen what his request has demands, you've seen the notes, you've seen the ticket. | |
| Uh you know what he was wearing that night, you know the date, what the conditions were with all these facts. | |
| Yeah, do you guys think he survived? | |
| Okay, play the last part of this bit here. | |
| Three of the hundred bundles subsequently found their way onto the shore before being covered by the shifting sands. | |
| But if this is true, what happened to Cooper's body? | |
| All right, real quick before we get into this, guys. | |
| We only got one thousand one hundred and likes. | |
| Okay, we're playing National Geographic here. | |
| These guys are probably gonna come in and cock block because they're haters, okay? | |
| Because they're stupid. | |
| So I need y'all to like the video. | |
| Hang on, this is gonna be 1300. | |
| Let's get 1300 likes, so we hit 100 uh percent engagement. | |
| Go ahead, Angie. | |
| Um, so I know we're in a like this, but uh because uh I am uh very fan of Marvel, and I actually believe Lucky might have been DB Cooper. | |
| I'm gonna put that option on the poll, you guys. | |
| So what do you guys think? | |
| If you actually watch the lucky series or you know anything about Marvel, you'll know what I'm talking about. | |
| Mark, you probably need to. | |
| Oh, on Instagram, yeah. | |
| Okay, go ahead. | |
| Uh so yeah, guys, let's get to 100% engagement. | |
| God damn it. | |
| We need 100% engagement. | |
| We need what 1300 likes on this thing. | |
| Let's make Angie uncomfortable with this camera angle, goddamn it. | |
| So go ahead, like the video right now, and subscribe to the goddamn channel if you haven't already. | |
| All right. | |
| This is camera eight. | |
| This is the kick out cam, actually. | |
| It's so weird. | |
| So go ahead. | |
| Y'all see that right there. | |
| I got the little kick. | |
| Well, we're not kicking anybody out in this situation, but you guys get the point, guys. | |
| Hang on. | |
| Is that the camera that you guys put? | |
| So when you kick out somebody on the on the yeah, we put the little boot on the side. | |
| Yeah, so yeah, like the video, guys. | |
| All right. | |
| We've looked at and the polls up on Instagram for the people. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Okay, let's see what potentially happened to DB Cooper's body. | |
| Like the video, guys. | |
| 1300 likes. | |
| Let's get it. | |
| The currents and these tell us that within a few days, the Columbia River is gonna suck up your body and spit it out into the ocean. | |
| So DB Cooper may be at the bottom of the ocean at this point, and we would never ever be able to come up with his body. | |
| After nearly four decades, Tom K offers the first comprehensive theory of what might have happened to Dan Cooper. | |
| But dead or alive, the identity of the hijacker remains a mystery. | |
| All right. | |
| Bam. | |
| So uh that is the theory, guys, with um with DB Cooper. | |
| Uh, that's the theory that he might have not survived. | |
| A lot of people think that he did survive. | |
| Um, looking at the poll right now. | |
| It looks like 68% of you guys think Debut Cooper survived. | |
| Um, which is oh, that's interesting. | |
| Um, Angie, what are your you want to give your thoughts? | |
| Uh on what do you what do you think here? | |
| I have my own theories. | |
| I think uh somebody I have like one theory that is maybe somebody might have a boat waiting for him on any of the lakes. | |
| Well, on on the main thing, like the the lake thing, or the lady, the steward, the is this the steward the word that you say, yeah, the stewardess, yeah. | |
| Yeah, flight attendant. | |
| Yeah, the flight attendant was helping him. | |
| I heavily believe that. | |
| I believe that way off the first one, but like the second one, uh Tina Muklu might have helped him, and he kept like a part of the money. | |
| Okay, I think that interesting, interesting. | |
| Uh, yeah, I mean, from all the planning that he had done, it sounded a little weird that he would like maybe his intention was to jump out in that area the whole time and he just told them to go to New Mexico or sorry to go to um Mexico Mexico as as a diversion. | |
| So who knows? | |
| Um, but regardless, uh, it seems like uh okay. | |
| It looks like 69% of you guys looking at the poll here think he survived. | |
| 31% of you guys think he passed away. | |
| Um, but yeah, it was a rough night that night. | |
| You know what? | |
| I'm gonna support my theory on the on the stewardess, the flight attendant helping him on and so you think he survived too? | |
| Yeah, he might have survived, but the thing what I'm saying, why I'm saying this, why I'm saying this is because nobody else but the stewardess saw the suitcase. | |
| Nobody else saw it. | |
| It was just them that said so. | |
| Exactly. | |
| So you think the first one, Shaffner, yeah, was in on it then. | |
| Because only Shaffner saw the bomb, not not Buckalo, not Tina. | |
| Yeah, you know, you won't see any any of these documentaries that both both of the of the flight attendants saw the bomb. | |
| You will see like only one, or maybe maybe what like maybe the two of them saw it, but I think he bribed them or they were working together, and that's why he escaped. | |
| Interesting the whole time. | |
| Okay, all right. | |
| Well, that's an interesting uh theory. | |
| Uh, yeah, I mean, because I see some of you guys in the chat are asking me, guys. | |
| Uh, I'll keep it. | |
| I have no fucking clue. | |
| Like uh, I I don't like to speculate on things wildly. | |
| Uh, but given the amount of time that he probably would have faced and the severity of the charges, you know. | |
| I air piracy is you're gonna do a lot of time as you guys can see. | |
| McCoy did like 40 plus years or something like that. | |
| Uh to him, he looked at it like I'm not getting caught. | |
| So the fact that he jumped out in a random area at night, so cold. | |
| Um, let's say he didn't land in the water and he landed in the in the woods. | |
| Well, it would have been very difficult for him to you know navigate the woods that dark in the middle of nowhere with the wilderness without some type of aid, and how would the aide know where he's at unless he had maybe a satellite phone on his person? | |
| Who knows? | |
| Maybe if he had um camping gear with him. | |
| I mean, if you got a cigarette lighter uh and a knife, I mean you could build fire, right? | |
| Maybe he was an outdoorsman and he kind of was like, you know what? | |
| No matter where I land, I'll be able to survive and find my way back. | |
| So that could have been it as well. | |
| Um he might not pay somebody to help him, and we'll never know. | |
| Yeah, I mean, yeah, we'll never know. | |
| I mean, uh, there's a high likelihood too that he was he was Canadian, that he could have after he had the money, he would have gone back right into Canada because as you guys know, uh, just so you guys know, and I didn't know this from being in in homeland for so long. | |
| Uh, the northern border border is not nearly as secure as the southern border, right? | |
| You can kind of go up and down into you know, into and out of Canada, no problem. | |
| If you're an American or Canadian citizen, they don't really give a shit. | |
| Um, it's the southwest border that all the scrutiny is at, you know. | |
| So it's possible that he could have fled back to Canada if he was a Canadian uh citizen. | |
| There is some evidence to show that he was a Canadian, he could potentially have been Canada, a Canadian. | |
| So um, and he could have also been Canadian military, guys. | |
| He might have not been even American military, could have been a Canadian military. | |
| So back then you wouldn't have to show your passport at the airport. | |
| No, I don't even think he showed ID. | |
| That's the thing. | |
| Yep, you didn't even show ID. | |
| That's why he was able to say Dan Cooper, and they didn't have to verify that was definitely not his real name. | |
| Yeah, of course. | |
| I think he he actually saw the comic. | |
| I think he was like probably, yeah. | |
| Yeah, a fan of the comic, and he was like, Yeah, that's just too many. | |
| That's way too coincidental. | |
| Yeah, so um I have 53% of people voting that yes, he survived. | |
| Okay, 35% no, and 12% that he was lucky the whole time. | |
| Okay, and people are saying TSA, yeah, guys. | |
| TSA didn't exist back then. | |
| TSA came into play after the 9-11 attacks, guys. | |
| I don't think y'all understand how different the 1970s were, man. | |
| A lot of you guys are young here in the chat, so you don't know. | |
| I mean, I was born in 1990, so I don't even know, but I'll tell y'all, even as a kid, I remember airports were not nearly as strict after 9-11. | |
| So the 70s were a whole different breed. | |
| No IDs, you plop $20 down, you buy the ticket right at there at the counter. | |
| There's no internet to reserve the ticket beforehand. | |
| There's no expedia, none of this bullshit. | |
| They had travel agents who you could call, or you could show up to the airport and just put the money down and pay and be on the plane and go to where you gotta go. | |
| So there was no security, and they didn't give a shit. | |
| They served alcohol, they served uh you could you could smoke cigarettes back then on planes. | |
| It wasn't uh the you know, the the security that you guys have come to learn uh as of today. | |
| So uh let's read the rest of these chats and close this thing out. | |
| We got almost 1400 of y'all back in here. | |
| Welcome back for all you guys that bailed when we hit the uh little stream unavailable thing. | |
| Uh but we made uh dollar, thank you so much from the Arab Brother. | |
| Uh who else we got uh John Ray DB equal them boys, yeah. | |
| Probably uh you should never discount a suspect suspect just because of witness uh something they don't remember shit, and that's from Rob. | |
| Yeah, that's true. | |
| Witnesses can be uh faulty at times. | |
| Darnell Elliott goes, Mr. Gaines. | |
| If Cooper was prior military, he would have known the difference between training and real parachutes. | |
| The military always marks training aids as to not confuse with real items. | |
| Okay, but again, uh he didn't take he took it uh the dummy shoot, probably to secure the money, Darnell. | |
| You gotta remember that as well. | |
| Uh Jared Troy, five bucks. | |
| Appreciate that, my friend. | |
| Uh, likes are literally free, unlike this super chat. | |
| Do this man some justice and show love for his and and helica's work. | |
| I appreciate that, my friend. | |
| And pronouncing it with the Spanish way. | |
| Uh, yeah, guys, we are we're at 1.2k likes. | |
| If we can hit 1300 likes before the end of the show, we're almost at 1400, y'all watching, but I'm not gonna ask for 1400 likes. | |
| I'm just gonna ask for 1.3 so we can have that high engagement. | |
| Um Sam Swaka goes, Myron, I'll just tell you who do be cute DB Cooper was. | |
| I'm 30% them boys. | |
| We eat Matsaball soup and running the world, also accept my LinkedIn Connect Fresh 2. | |
| Okay, I appreciate that, my friend. | |
| Uh IRS, shout out to you, IRS. | |
| Uh, I paid y'all, man. | |
| So don't ask me no more questions. | |
| Shout out to you, Myron, for providing great content that no one else can match. | |
| Angie out here providing wise. | |
| Some women actually deserve some things. | |
| W Fed Reacts, yes, Angie is very, very helpful, guys. | |
| Uh, African goes, 10 bucks. | |
| Two years. | |
| I've been listening while at work, never miss an episode. | |
| You guys at FNF changed my life. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Maybe someday I'll stop ninja watching L Anus and reach around and soy a boy reactors. | |
| Yeah, fuck those idiots, man. | |
| I appreciate that, my friend. | |
| The Mongol. | |
| Uh, anything else? | |
| That's it. | |
| We're caught up. | |
| Cool. | |
| Uh, Angie, I uh what are your last thoughts on this case? | |
| And what do you think? | |
| Um, yeah, well, I already said it. | |
| I think he might have survived, he might have paid somebody to help him. | |
| Or I don't know, he probably died, but I I don't think I mean if he died, could he have drowned the whole time? | |
| I don't know. | |
| That's those those are my I have so many questions. | |
| Yeah, if he landed the landed in the water, he definitely could have survived, but it would have been frigid. | |
| So he would have had unless but we don't know if he had gear with him. | |
| Who knows if he's gonna be able to do that? | |
| He didn't have gear. | |
| I'm telling you, like he was wearing a suit and a coat. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| I mean, as in like maybe he wore long John's under his shit. | |
| No, I don't think so. | |
| Uh, but it depends on where he landed. | |
| Uh Michael meet shrugged one dollar, appreciate that. | |
| And uh, and I gave y'all my thoughts, man. | |
| So who knows? | |
| But regardless, the legend is gonna stay. | |
| Uh the again, the only air hijacking to be unsolved in American history. | |
| Speaking of air hijackings, I'll probably cover uh air jack hijacking case for you guys from declassified. | |
| There was a good one um that came out on declassified uh from I think the Egypt air hijacking and of like the 90s or 80s. | |
| But yeah, hijacking is a nail because most of the hijackings uh just get caught. | |
| Yeah, facts. | |
| It's a big L. Yeah. | |
| That shit is a big, big fucking Light air hijacking. | |
| A few super chats. | |
| Uh Chief Cube goes, DB Cooper's Angie's grandpa escape to her country. | |
| Okay, definitely a possibility. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Link, Dark Mellow goes, Myron is the boss looking good, bro. | |
| Stay up. | |
| I appreciate that, my friend. | |
| I got my hair back. | |
| Um cool. | |
| Guys, I think we're at 1.2k. | |
| Let's see. | |
| Did we hit 1.3? | |
| 1.2, yeah. | |
| 1.2. | |
| God damn it. | |
| Y'all didn't. | |
| Y'all are acting like them boys right now. | |
| But uh anyway. | |
| Guys, I hope you enjoyed that episode of uh Fed Reacts. | |
| Um, you guys have been asking for DB Cooper for a very long time. | |
| Yes. | |
| Uh and I got you guys. | |
| Yeah, shout out to Angie for suggesting this episode for you guys. | |
| She actually brought it back to my memory because I had forgot about even doing this one. | |
| Um the next episode we'll probably do again. | |
| Uh, we'll do something with the mafia for y'all, and then we'll do something with Ryan Dawson. | |
| And then after that, I think we might take a one or two-week break where we cover serial killers and other case that you guys were requesting for a while for the Thursday episodes, and then we will go ahead and get into the Colombian cartel. | |
| So that's probably gonna be the next series that we do. | |
| And uh please follow at Fed Reacts on Instagram, guys. | |
| Uh, we are almost at 1k followers, and yeah, uh, I'm very like excited and happy with the with the Instagram and how it's going because we have plenty of content coming up. | |
| Bam. | |
| And uh Angie is running that as well. | |
| So uh you do you take you take requests on there as well, right? | |
| Yes, I do. | |
| I do take requests. | |
| And she responds. | |
| So you guys have been texting me to to ask Mario for works and this and that, and I'll be, you know, yeah, uh asking my own about those things as well. | |
| Yeah, so shout out to Angie for managing the Fed Reacts um Instagram. | |
| Uh it's linked below, and then also, guys, uh the audio version of the podcast, we have it live on Anchor, aka also known as uh on Spotify for creators nowadays, I think is what it's called. | |
| So if you guys want to listen to the audio version of this podcast, it's definitely there. | |
| So uh, you know, we're on Apple Podcast. | |
| Uh, shout out to Mo for handling that, by the way. | |
| We're on Apple, Spotify, Google, every single podcast platform that you guys like and enjoy. | |
| We're out there. | |
| Actually, I could show y'all real quick um what I mean by this. | |
| Um, it's right here. | |
| If you guys go to uh the description, right? | |
| Uh let me show it to y'all real fast. | |
| You go to the description, right? | |
| Uh, so we'll go on YouTube real quick. | |
| We need to change that photo. | |
| Yeah, I need to change it. | |
| This is true. | |
| But you go you come here, right? | |
| So this is the video, right? | |
| I'm showing myself here, and then top of the description, anchor, right? | |
| Fed Reacts Bam, it'll bring you there. | |
| And then you can go ahead and pick whatever platform you like, whether it's Apple, Spotify, or an RSS or whatever it is. | |
| But uh, let's say we go to Spotify, bam, here we are. | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| Nice, or if you guys like Apple, click this, boom, we're on Apple. | |
| Okay, nice. | |
| So, yeah, man, all the episodes are there, guys. | |
| Go check it out. | |
| Uh, because some of you guys like to get the audio version, but I know Spotify also has it on video as well. | |
| If you guys like video, and Mo uploads uh, I think uh once or twice a week. | |
| So um, so yeah, man. | |
| Uh, can you show the playlist as well? | |
| Uh oh, oh yeah, on the channel, yeah, good idea, actually. | |
| So, guys, if you come on over to the YouTube channel, right? | |
| For Fed Reacts, you guys are gonna see here uh the nice little banner. | |
| Um, and then oh, what the hell? | |
| My bad, I did not mean that. | |
| Uh you come down and let me hit control plus a few so they can actually see. | |
| Right. | |
| Uh you guys, so we have different playlists for y'all, right? | |
| We got um all videos, right? | |
| So every single video that we release is right here, right? | |
| Chronological order from uh newest to oldest. | |
| Then you go into the hip hop and rico cases, right? | |
| Um, from the most viewed, right? | |
| We got the YSL, O Block, Melly, Casanova, because a lot of you guys have asked for some of these cases. | |
| We've already done them, right? | |
| The um obviously the black mafia, Tori Lane's uh 6'9. | |
| Um then we go into infamous serial killers, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, the Zodiac Killer, the Night Stalker, Golden State Killer. | |
| I had a lot of fun doing this one with Kim and Angie, the Toy Box Killer, BTK, Samuel Little actually has the most kills in history. | |
| The Green River Killer. | |
| Then we got high profile cases. | |
| You know, Amber Heard. | |
| this one was crazy. | |
| Um, um, Courtney Clenny, hush puppy, Nigerian scammer, Jeffrey Epstein, um, Sean, Sean, Qala Robinson, Vives Cartel, the Nashville shooter, Jody Arias. | |
| Oh, yeah, this chick is fucking crazy. | |
| Casey Anthony. | |
| That's one of my favorite ones. | |
| And then we go into national security cases, guys. | |
| We got terrorism, right? | |
| We got the Merchant of Death, Victor Bow, Osama bin Lada, 9-11, right? | |
| We covered the official narrative and a conspiracy. | |
| The dead uh the DC snipers, right? | |
| I did this one with Angie as well. | |
| This was very enjoyable. | |
| The Boston Marathon bombing, right? | |
| We actually just had the 10-year anniversary for the Boston Marathon bombing. | |
| Wow. | |
| Uh so and I go into detail on this one as well, man. | |
| Because I was living in Boston at the time. | |
| So I go like, look, look how in depth we go on some of these fucking things. | |
| I'm showing surveillance footage of when the Asian guy ran away from the hijackers and made the phone call. | |
| I play the 911 call. | |
| All the detailed stamps are in there for y'all. | |
| You know, so go ahead and watch some of this stuff, man. | |
| We put a lot of work in there. | |
| Um we cover the unibomber, uh espionage cases, right? | |
| We got Hezbollah, Queen Anna uh Anna Montez, right? | |
| She was spying for Fidel Castro back in the day. | |
| That's very good one, yeah. | |
| Organized crime cases, right? | |
| We got the real pain and full story. | |
| This one was the craziest dirty cop history show ever with the um Operation Shattered Shield, Pablo Escobar, uh, which was a ring in New York that he got caught, but we're gonna cover in more detail. | |
| We got the Italian mafia in here, the biggest heist in history, 18.89 million, right? | |
| The pizza bomber case, which I did that with Angie. | |
| Whitey Bulger. | |
| Y'all been asking me for Whitey Bulger forever. | |
| I haven't. | |
| It's right here, god damn it. | |
| Okay, Whitey Bulger. | |
| It's here, right? | |
| One of the biggest, uh one of the most infamous uh mobsters in Boston history, right? | |
| Uh, which I go, I suggest you guys go watch Black Mass, right? | |
| Great movie. | |
| Yeah, Myron has like 300 plus videos in this channel, guys. | |
| I suggest you to check you all to check them on before you request another one because you'll be requesting like the same ones over and over, and some of them had already covered. | |
| And then I got a whole playlist just on the Italian mafia. | |
| I went ahead and covered the Colombo Crime Family with Michael Francis. | |
| Yeah, shout out to him, right? | |
| Uh and then we did uh the Bonanno crime family, Genevieve, Gambino, yeah, all you know, history of the Italian mafia. | |
| So, guys, we got probably the most diverse true crime channel on fucking YouTube, man. | |
| So subscribe to the channel, man. | |
| Let's get to 200k on the way. | |
| Like this goddamn video. | |
| Let's hit 1300 likes. | |
| And uh, yeah, man. | |
| We're the best, man. | |
| We're the best out here. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So um, cool. | |
| Other than that, guys, we'll catch you guys on the next episode of Fed. | |
| I'm gonna go ahead and play this. | |
| Uh, this is the second to last um demo of the intro/slash outro. | |
| Um, like the video, guys, subscribe to the channel. | |
| Love y'all. | |
| Angie, I'll give you the last word before I close this thing up. | |
| That was it. | |
| I already did like two times. | |
| Okay, fantastic. | |
| Bye guys, bye guys later. | |
| I'm a special agent with Homeland's investigation. | |
| Okay, guys, HSI. | |
| Fanny Jeffrey Williams, an associate of YSL did commit the felony. | |
| Here's what 6ix9ine actually got to your conspiracy. | |
| This attack shifted the whole U.S. government. | |
| This guy got arrested, espionage, okay. | |
| Trading secrets with the Russian Zodiac Killer is a pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who operated Northern California. | |
| Serial killers got um Samuel Little, etc. | |
| They really get off on getting attention from the news. | |
| Here's Jeffrey Epstein, sexually exploited and a view dozens of minor girls. |
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