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Newly revealed DB Cooper files shed new light on FBI’s hunt for hijacker — including suspect in wheelchair

July 4, 2025
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Will the real DB Cooper please stand up?

Newly released FBI files provide new insights into G-men’s probe into the mysterious case of airline hijacker DB Cooper — including that one potential suspect was a man in a wheelchair.

The 398-page trove unveiled Tuesday details the FBI’s dogged efforts to investigate tips from people claiming to know the still-elusive man who leapt out of a Boeing plane with $200,000 in cash after taking passengers and crew hostage in 1971.

But suspect after suspect appeared to be a dead end, such as a wheelchair-bound man, one document revealed.

“A man confined to a wheel chair (sic) did not hijack the plane in this case,” the document dryly notes.

Accused skyjacker D.B. Cooper is shown in these FBI sketches released to Reuters August 1, 2011.
Newly released files reveal details about the investigation into skyjacker DB Cooper. REUTERS

DB Cooper is the moniker given to the skyjacker — a dapper, dark-haired man apparently in his mid-40s who called himself Dan Cooper.

The mystery man passed a flight attendant a note while on a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in Portland, Oregon, bound for Seattle on Nov. 24, 1971.

The note claimed he had a bomb in his briefcase, which he opened to show a tangle of wires and red sticks.

When the Boeing aircraft landed in Seattle, the man who became known as DB Cooper freed 36 passengers in exchange for a mountain of cash and four parachutes.

The plane then took off with several crew members aboard, bound for Mexico City on his orders.

A hijacked Northwest Airlines jetliner is seen in this Nov. 25, 1971 file photo as it sits on a runway for refueling at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Nov. 25, 1971, Seattle.
DB Cooper received $200,000 in cash when the hijacked plane landed in Seattle. AP
A map showing the flight path of the plane hijacked by D.B. Cooper is part of the body of evidence gathered in the investigation of his hijacking.
The hijacker jumped from a jetliner in 1971 and disappeared. ASSOCIATED PRESS

DB Cooper, at an altitude of10,000 feet between Seattle and Reno, Nevada, jumped from the back of the jetliner with a parachute and ransom money, vanishing into history.

The case remains unsolved, despite a manhunt, the FBI tenaciously interviewing hundreds of people and a cottage industry of true crime buffs poring through evidence.

The newly revealed files largely follow a similar pattern: a suspect is identified, FBI agents investigate and, in many cases, show photographs to the hijacking’s witnesses.

“Eliminated” is handwritten on many of those suspects’ files.

Popular suspects such as Richard McCoy Jr. — whose children last year claimed he was DB Cooper — largely do not appear in the files.

n this undated file photo, a helicopter takes off from search headquarters to scour the area where hijacker Dan Cooper might have parachuted into in Woodland, Wash.
DB Cooper was never found. AP

Instead, the suspects are otherwise anonymous people largely lost to history: an Alabama man who died of cancer months after the skyjacking, airline pilots, parachutists and Boeing employees.

But one would-be DB Cooper named in the files has entered the murky case’s lore.

Donald Sylvester Murphy actually claimed to be DB Cooper — at least to a former Newsweek editor, according to the files.

But the claim was part of a plot to extort $30,000 from the editor by impersonating DB Cooper.

Murphy even posed for photographs “wearing a wig and glasses and otherwise appearing much like the widely circulated ‘artist’s conception’ of ‘D.B. Cooper,’” a court document included in the files states.

He also copied three $20 bills with serial numbers superimposed to match those from the ransom money, the files state.

Murphy and a conspirator received prison sentences for the fraud, the New York Times reported in 1973.

The post Newly revealed DB Cooper files shed new light on FBI’s hunt for hijacker — including suspect in wheelchair appeared first on New York Post.

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