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D.B. Cooper’s Parachute: Why the FBI May Not Want Answers

When a family managed to find an old parachute in their Amboy, Washington home earlier this year (reported by the FBI on March 24), it managed to be recently re-used in D.B. Cooper’s hijack case. Why is there so much interest and recent clues suddenly coming back into the picture in the last six months […]

Top Five Famous Disappearances in History

Throughout history, literally countless people have disappeared, some without a trace, some leaving behind frightening evidence of the nature of their disappearance and some have disappeared, only to be found again. Some of these disappearances go virtually unnoticed. There are simply too many missing people for all of them to be recognized by the public. […]

Vanished! History’s Famous Disappearances

D. B. Cooper On November 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper purchased a one-way ticket on Northwest Airlines Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle. News services would later mistakenly publish reports with the name D. B. Cooper (a preliminary suspect who was quickly eliminated by police) and the moniker stuck. Shortly after takeoff, […]