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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 responsible for the only unsolved skyjacking in American history.
DB Cooper suspect dies leaving hijacking mystery unsolved
1 Feb, 2021 08:44 PM
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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: Sheridan Peterson, one of the lead suspects thought to be Dan DB Cooper , died on January 8, according to memorial website Legacy.com, taking any secrets about the case to his grave.
By Inside Edition Staff
Updated: 11:54 AM PST, February 01, 2021
The man suspected for decades of being D.B. Cooper, who was wanted in connection to a plane hijacking over 50 years ago, has died. The case remains an unsolved mystery.
Sheridan Peterson, the man suspected in the decades-old D.B. Cooper case, where a mystery man hijacked a plane and parachuted out after demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars 50 years ago, has died.
On Nov. 24, 1971, a man who identified himself as Dan or D.B. Cooper, boarded a flight from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. As the plane soared midair, Cooper passed a note to a flight attendant with a message that read: you are being highjacked, the Spokesman-Review reported.
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.