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Eric Ulis, a citizen investigator who sued the FBI for access to the case's files and evidence, claims the man behind the November 24, 1971, mystery was Vince Petersen from Pittsburg.
Eric Ulis, of Phoenix, filed the suit this spring - as part of a yearslong bid to try to identify the man behind the 50-year-old skyjacking.
Image: Marvel Studios Who is D.B. Cooper? The last person you’d expect to show up in a Marvel show, unless you’re creator Michael Waldron. In 1971, a dapper man in shades and a suit going by the alias hijacked one of Northwest Orient Airlines’ Boeing 727 jets — while it was still on the ground waiting to take off. The demand: $200,000 and four parachutes, and no one would get hurt. Cooper, who claimed to have a bomb in his briefcase, forced the plane to take off while authorities scrambled to fulfill his request. He would eventually ground the plane again, let the passengers go, asc...