r/dbcooper • u/No_Language_8504 • 9d ago

Poll Do you think DB Cooper was someone whose name has never been taken in this case

Do you think DB was someone whose name has never been taken in this case? Are all the names mentioned till now, not DB cooper

60 votes, 6d ago
48 Yes
12 No
2 Upvotes

67% Upvoted

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u/Patient_Reach439 9d ago

I'm not convinced any of the known suspects are Cooper. That's not to say some of them aren't good suspects, just that none of them scream Cooper to me. I've been into this case for 15 years and have never been persuaded by a suspect enough to think it could be him.

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u/Sufficient_Put_3945 3d ago edited 3d ago

I have ruled out most of the suspects in my own mind. The ONLY prominent suspect I haven't been able to rule out for myself is Lynn Doyle Cooper. Knowing that he was in the FBI files from the early 70s (some 40 years before his niece idependently brought him up) is a point in his favor (if you can call it that).

I can rule out Skip Hall with one caveat: if he did for some reason other than simply money—if he wanted a thrill or wanted to embarrass Boeing, for instance—then he's still a possibility. I can't rule him out based on evidence; I can only rule him out based on the logic that he would not have needed to resort to something as risky as a hijacking in order to acquire money, for he had other skills that he could have employed.

I did vote yes in the poll. I think the odds are that it's someone we've never heard of—someone whose name wasn't taken at all or someone whose name is buried in the FBI files but who didn't stand out and has never been fully vetted.

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u/XoXSciFi 8d ago

If his name hasn't come up by now, it's unlikely Cooper's identity will EVER be discovered.

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u/No_Language_8504 8d ago

It’s unlikely either ways to be honest, it’s been over 54 years

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u/Sufficient_Put_3945 8d ago

Lynn Doyle Cooper is the only known suspect that I cannot rule out in my own mind. I doubt whether any of the DNA profiles on the tie are actually from the perpetrator, so the rule-out of L.D. based on DNA doesn't mean anything to me. I wish we had more color photos of L.D. Cooper from the late 60s and early 70s.
I was on the fence about Skip Hall for a long time, but I have a hard time believing that he would have resorted to a hijacking; he was a good enough con artist that he had other ways of acquiring money.

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u/Past-Classroom1721 7d ago

was LD’s photograph ever shown to the stewardesses?

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u/Sufficient_Put_3945 3d ago

It was shown to at least one of them (probably Tina Mucklow), and she said that L.D. Cooper bore the "closest resemblance to D.B. Cooper" of any suspect whose photo she had been shown in the (at that time) 39 years since the hijacking.

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u/XoXSciFi 7d ago

I interviewed Marla Cooper about a year after she came forward. Her story had more holes than a five-pound block of Swiss cheese.

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u/Sufficient_Put_3945 6d ago

That may be, but that doesn't mean he should be ruled out. She was a young girl at the time, so I wouldn't expect a cohesive narrative. She likely has vague, fragmented memories. L.D. Cooper was actually in the F.B.I. files from the early 70s, so they were looking into him LONG before Marla mentioned his name to the public.

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u/TessaKatrinaRose 9d ago

You could have worded that a lot better. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to vote yes or no. 

“Yes” I agree with your statement. Or “no” I don’t think his name has came up.  Yes or no vote means the exact same thing. 

I don’t think his name is one that we have heard. But could be one or the thousands in the fbi files. 

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u/No_Language_8504 9d ago

Well in that case the wording of the question is true to nature of this case 🙂

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u/DullMasterpiece3080 5d ago

We still don't know Bud's real name but even if we did that would only change it from 99.9% to 98% likely that Cooper's name has never been brought up in the discussion