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A new hunt for D.B. Cooper clues, video of a moose charging a hiker, and a teenager in Australia who forced a wallaby to smoke an e-cigarette are among the strange and unusual stories to cross our desk this week.
One of the suspects who may have been the infamous “D.B. Cooper” has passed away. Sheridan Peterson was one of the suspects in the hijacking of a Northwest Orient flight that was traveling from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, almost 50 years ago. The man claiming to be Dan Cooper (or D.B. Cooper) said that he had a bomb on board the plane and demanded $200,000 in cash in addition to several parachutes. After receiving the money and parachutes, at some point during the flight (between Seattle and Reno, Nevada) he jumped out of the plane and was never seen again. He was responsibl...
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DB Cooper suspect dies leaving hijacking mystery unsolved 1 Feb, 2021 08:44 PM 5 minutes to read news.com.au Few cases in history have been able to stump America's most experienced investigators. Yet the unsolved mystery of how a well-groomed businessman-type successfully hijacked a flight from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington 50 years ago – only to parachute from the plane after his demands were met, never to be seen again – baffled the FBI to such a degree authorities decided to close the book on it years ago. The odds of them ever solving the puzzle are even slimmer now: Sherida...
One of the main suspects in the infamous unsolved hijacking of a flight from Portland to Seattle 50 years ago carried out by the mysterious “DB Cooper” has died in California aged 94. Sheridan Peterson, who passed away on 8 January according to memorial website Legacy.com, was thought to possibly be the “Dan Cooper” who hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 on Thanksgiving eve 1971. Mr Cooper handed a flight attendant a note saying that he had a...
Here’s a look at the story of D. B. Cooper, the man who hijacked a flight in 1971, parachuted out and was never heard from again. A prominent suspect in the infamous D.B. Cooper skyjacking case died earlier this month in Northern California, according to reports. He was 94. The 1971 skyjacking by a man using the name Dan Cooper left the world breathless as he ransomed 36 hostages aboard Northwest Orient Flight 305 for $200,000, then parachuted from the plane with the money. D.B. Cooper disappeared from sight and into history, his true identity unknown. Sheridan Peterson was chief amon...