From the New York Daily News:
FBI shuts down D.B. Cooper air piracy case after 45 years due to lack of ‘credible leads’
The FBI has closed the book on one of the greatest riddles of all time.
The lone agent assigned to the D.B. Cooper manhunt was assigned to other mysteries within the federal agency on Friday, effectively shuttering the 45-year-old case after the FBI — and troves of tipsters — failed to identity the infamous hijacker, the FBI announced.
“Unfortunately, none of the well-meaning tips or applications of new investigative technology have yielded the necessary proof,” FBI spokeswoman Ayn Dietrich-Williams said in a statement late Monday.
The agency has poured over the legendary theft ever since a frigid night on Nov. 24, 1971, when passenger Dan Cooper flashed what appeared to be a bomb, donned a parachute and leaped from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane to Seattle with a bag with $200,000 in stolen cash.
Broke my leg when I landed - had to bury the cash and get help. Dug it up and went back to Seattle, invested in tech stocks and the rest is history. But don't tell anyone.
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