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.
The mysterious case, which remains unsolved today, quickly took the country by storm, and went on to become one of the most talked about incidents of its time.
The case of DB Cooper, an American hijacker who made off with $200,000 after holding a flight to ransom in 1971, is retold in Netflix docu-series DB Cooper: Where Are You?!