D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!, is the new four part Netflix docu series leaving viewers intrigued and wondering what actually happened to the man behind the mystery.
The mini series directed by Marina Zenovich, reveals the mind-bending story of one of the FBI’s great unsolved mysteries: The D. B. Cooper hijacking.
The Netflix hit is about the 50 year search for the infamous D.B. Cooper, the pseudonym for a well-dressed hijacker who took over a Northwest Airlines passenger flight from Portland to Seattle in November, 1971.
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The first episode starts off with a man being questioned to confess his true identity being the infamous hijacker DB Cooper.
The culprit had asked for $200,000 dollars in cash with parachutes, and once his demands were met, he jumped off the plane in the middle of nowhere.
DB Cooper claimed he had a bomb in his briefcase, which had wires inside it.
According to a fellow passenger on the flight, a well-suited man wearing sunglasses was sitting near him.
The man named Dan Cooper, sat down on the flight, and passed a note to a flight attendant, the note revealed that he was hijacking the plane, that he had a bomb in his briefcase and wanted her to sit down next to him.
She wrote this down and then delivered this new note to the captain of the plane, who immediately contacted Air Traffic control.
The plane company manager agreed to the ransom demand and authorised the payment, on condition that the passengers would be released.
The flight landed in Seattle, where the hijacker allowed the 36 passengers to get off the plane in exchange for the money and parachutes.
Several members of the crew were kept on the plane and D.B Cooper request the plane fly to Mexico City.
Cooper took off his black tie before leaping out the back of the plane with the ransom money and one of the parachutes.
Who was DB Cooper?
Dan D.B. Cooper was the hijacker who managed to get away with $200,000 when he parachuted out of a Northwest Airlines passenger jet in November 1971.
He was never found and neither was the money.
One of the possible explanations for how D. B. Cooper has never been identified as the popular theory that Cooper actually did not survive the jump from his plane.
An eight-year-old boy discovered a bag containing nearly $60000 in damaged twenty-dollar bills with serial numbers that matched those on the ransom money on a beach near the Columbia River.
FBI Investigators confirmed that the money found carried the same serial number as the money given to D.B Cooper.
DB Cooper suspects
There have been many suspects and theories over the years.
It has been almost five decades since the incident with very few clues and too many suspects.
The FBI launched a huge investigation, and interviewed hundreds of people across the US.
By the five-year anniversary of the hijacking, they had considered over 800 suspects, but D. B. Cooper was never found.
Robert Rackstraw
A man named Robert Rackstraw is the main suspect and focus of D.B Cooper Where are You? on Netflix.
Robert Rackstraw is one of the many individuals suspected of pulling off the D.B. Cooper hijacking.
Rackstraw was investigated by the FBI as a D.B. Cooper was suspected back in 1979.
He was a skilled pilot and dishonourably discharged Vietnam veteran, with rumoured links to the CIA and a criminal history.
Throughout his life, he was asked whether he was the man behind the DB Cooper alias and he never confessed, and died in 2019.
But during his life had been charged with fraud and had attempted to steal a plane.
Duane Weber
In 1995, Duane Weber announced on his deathbed: "I'm Dan Cooper" – the real name used by the skyjacker.
Because of this, his wife Jo didn't make the connection until months later.
Duane had a long term knee injury he claimed was from a plane jump, which started to make sense to his wife.
Weber also physically matched the drawing made by the FBI, but there is no other concrete evidence to link him to the crime but circumstance and his admission.
Lynn Doyle Cooper
In 2011, Marla Cooper publicly claimed that D.B. Cooper was her uncle, Lynn Doyle "LD" Cooper.
Marla recalled that he disappeared after Christmas 1972 and that her father was vague whenever she asked what happened to him.
During Christmas in 1995, Marla's father admitted that LD had been in hiding since he tried hijacking an plane.
She passed a polygraph test regarding her testimony, however there was never any other evidence linking LD Cooper to the case
DB Cooper: Where Are You? is available now on Netflix.
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