Cooper is a Documentary about one of the biggest aeroplane heists in history. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Cooper: Sweden: Flygkaparen som försvann: UK: The Mystery of D.B. Smith, BA (May 4, 2013): "Update on the murder of Earl Cossey, an analysis of his role in the DB Cooper case". The article was based on research from an Army data analyst who sent his findings to the FBI in mid-2018. [148] Gossett's eldest son, Greg, said that his father, a compulsive gambler who was always "strapped for cash", showed him "wads of cash" just before Christmas 1971, weeks after the Cooper hijacking. That finding, if true, favors an arrival time of less than one year after the event (based on the rubber band experiment), but does not help to explain how the bundles got to Tina Bar, nor from where they came. "If you were planning on going 'back to work on Monday', then you would need as much time as possible to get out of the woods, find transportation and get home. [104], In November 2011, Kaye announced that particles of pure (unalloyed) titanium had also been found on the tie. [46], FBI agents recovered 66 unidentified latent fingerprints aboard the airliner. She also recalled that her uncle, who died in 1999, was obsessed with the Canadian comic book hero Dan Cooper (see Theories and conjectures), and "had one of his comic books thumbtacked to his wall" — although he was not a skydiver or paratrooper.[140]. Cooper and the crew discussed options and agreed on Reno, Nevada, as the refueling stop. In 2010 the detective, Skipp Porteous, published a book[127] postulating that Christiansen was the hijacker. [251], In 2020 John Dower released his documentary, The Mystery of D.B. [184][185] Cooper investigators noted his physical resemblance to Cooper composite sketches (although he was only 28 in 1971[186]), military parachute training, and criminal record, but eliminated him as a suspect in 1979 after no direct evidence of his involvement could be found. [216][217] Cooper's apparent success inspired a flurry of imitators, mostly during 1972. “There was too much wind… I slowed the airplane down and got on the phone and said, ‘okay, now you should be able to lower the stairs’.”, The crew felt a huge bump as the stairs bounced, and pressure in their ears, before the pilot is recalled saying: "I think our friend just took leave of us.”. The war had ended by the time he was deployed in 1945, but he made occasional training jumps while stationed in Japan with occupation forces in the late 1940s. Areena on Suomen suurin netti-tv ja radio. [76] In 1975 Northwest Orient's insurer, Global Indemnity Co., complied with an order from the Minnesota Supreme Court and paid the airline's $180,000 claim on the ransom money. [58] The T-33 pilots never made visual contact with the 727. The article also noted that a picture of Smith on the Lehigh Valley Railroad website showed a "remarkable resemblance" to Cooper wanted-poster sketches. [172], On April 7, 1972, McCoy staged the best known of the so-called "copycat" hijackings (see below). Cooper suspect", "Has The Mystery of D.B. [110], The official physical description of Cooper has remained unchanged and is considered reliable. Multiple media venues, including the CBS news program 60 Minutes, considered and rejected it. DB Cooper was the name given by the FBI to the mystery man behind the famous plane hijacking in 1971. [74][75], In early 1973, with the ransom money still missing, The Oregon Journal republished the serial numbers and offered $1,000 to the first person to turn in a ransom bill to the newspaper or any FBI field office. On November 24, 1971, a man in his mid-forties and giving the name Dan Cooper, also known as DB Cooper, hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft and demanded two parachutes and $200,000 in ransom ― worth $1.2 million today. She also recalled him throwing a bag in to the water on another occasion and watching it float off, but she had assumed it was trash at the time. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. But because they could not be certain, intervention could not be recommended. "Those were his last words, except I love you," she says. They reveal how many of the pilots at the airfield would discuss DB Cooper's heist, and whenever they criticised it, Barbara would get angry. So Am I. The article theorized that the loss of his pension created a grudge against the corporate establishment and transportation industry. "[80], Agents theorized that Cooper took his alias from a popular Belgian comic book series of the 1970s featuring the fictional hero Dan Cooper, a Royal Canadian Air Force test pilot who took part in numerous heroic adventures, including parachuting. Now a new BBC Four Storyville documentary - The Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery of DB Cooper - is aiming to uncover what really happened on November 24, 1971. A stranger boarded a plane and handed a note to a female flight attendant advising that a hijacking was about to occur. He was thoughtful and calm all the time. Whelan, Frank (June 30, 1985): "A-B-E Hijacker Who Parachuted into Jungle Is Free From Prison Air Piracy". [70][71] Ultimately, the search and recovery operation—arguably the most extensive, and intensive, in U.S. history—uncovered no significant material evidence related to the hijacking. While dying of cancer in 1994, he told Lyle, "There is something you should know, but I cannot tell you." He demanded the plane be flown at 10,000ft with the flaps down - and second officer Anderson says: "It was quite obvious – he was going to jump out.”. (Error Code: 102630) Play trailer with sound 1:23. [168], In 2006, two amateur researchers named Daniel Dvorak and Matthew Myers proposed Mayfield as a suspect once again, asserting that they had assembled a convincing circumstantial case. "[173], Although there is no reasonable doubt that McCoy committed the Denver hijacking, the FBI does not consider him a suspect in the Cooper case because of mismatches in age and description;[180] a level of skydiving skill well above that thought to be possessed by the hijacker;[6] and credible evidence that McCoy was in Las Vegas on the day of the Portland hijacking,[73] and at home in Utah the day after, having Thanksgiving dinner with his family.[131][181]. [191] Rackstraw stated in a 2017 phone interview that he lost his job over the 2016 investigations. Cooper, was DB Cooper, Richard Floyd McCoy after he was arrested, Ben Anjeweirden, Richard Floyd McCoy's former roommate, According to some findings, the bills were submerged in the river MONTHS after the initial jump, FBI agents 9 years after the hijacking search the banks of the Columbia River for more money and clues, Vietnam veteran Jerry Thomas has been scouring the Washougal woods for decades, How did Dan ‘DB’ Cooper pull of the infamous skyjacking of a Northwest Orient flight and escape with $200,000 in 1971, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). "We concluded after a few years this was simply not true. Cooper? He compared it to the composite sketch of Cooper and recalls the massive similarities. [101], In March 2009, the FBI disclosed that Tom Kaye, a paleontologist from the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, had assembled a team of "citizen sleuths", including scientific illustrator Carol Abraczinskas and metallurgist Alan Stone. It also lent credence to supplemental speculation (see Later developments above) that placed the drop zone near the Washougal River, which merges with the Columbia upstream from the discovery site. After directing the pilot to fly towards Mexico, via Nevada for a fuel stop, the plane then took off again with just the four crew members and Cooper onboard. [5] Later, his DNA also failed to match the samples recovered from Cooper's tie,[56][131] though the bureau has since conceded that they cannot be certain that the organic material on the tie came from Cooper.[100]. "It's difficult to draw firm conclusions from these samples. L.D. Heady, 22, Night jump, Reno, $200k, Vietnam vet, gun, sticker, caught immediately (August 1, 2008). A series of composite sketches was developed. [32], During refueling, Cooper outlined his flight plan to the cockpit crew: a southeast course toward Mexico City at the minimum airspeed possible without stalling the aircraft—approximately 100 knots (185 km/h; 115 mph)—at a maximum 10,000-foot (3,000 m) altitude. [3], Flight attendant Tina Mucklow recalled that Cooper appeared familiar with the local terrain; at one point he remarked, "Looks like Tacoma down there," as the aircraft flew above it. Cooper", Robert Rackstraw: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, FBI Closes Case On D.B. [18], At 5:24 p.m. PST, Cooper was informed that his demands had been met; and at 5:39 p.m., more than an hour after sunset, the aircraft landed at Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Boswell, Randy (November 24, 2011). "I actually lit several of his cigarettes, because he didn’t want to take his finger off that trigger.". [117] He also may have known that the Central Intelligence Agency was, at the time, using 727s to drop agents and supplies behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War. Cooper case appears to remain as unsolved, and as mysterious, as ever. [94], More recent analysis of diatoms found on the bills suggests that the bundles found at Tina Bar were not submerged in the river or buried dry at the time of the hijacking in November 1971. This led to the “Washougal Washdown Theory,” which held that the money fell in the Columbia River and washed downstream. Cooper Hijacking In 2016. [168], McCoy (1942–1974) was an Army veteran who served two tours of duty in Vietnam, first as a demolition expert, and later, with the Green Berets as a helicopter pilot. [169] Mayfield denied any involvement, and repeated a previous assertion that the FBI called him five times while the hijacking was still in progress to ask about parachutes, local skydivers, and skydiving techniques. Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr. – aircraft hijacking. "[195], One of the Flight 305 flight attendants reportedly "did not find any similarities" between photos of Rackstraw from the 1970s and her recollection of Cooper's appearance. [39]) The FBI stressed that inclusion of the dummy reserve parachute, one of four obtained in haste from a Seattle skydiving school, was accidental. Yle Areenassa on tarjolla radio- ja televisio-ohjelmia, suoria lähetyksiä sekä ohjelmatiedot. The 60-volume case file compiled over the 45-year course of the investigation will be preserved for historical purposes at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., and on the FBI website. [192] This was followed later in 2017 with a piece of foam, suspected of being part of Cooper's parachute backpack. Between 1971 and 2016, the FBI processed over a thousand "serious suspects", including assorted publicity seekers and deathbed confessors. "[100] The Bureau also made public a file of previously unreleased evidence, including Cooper's 1971 plane ticket (price: $20.00, paid in cash),[101] and posted previously unreleased composite sketches and fact sheets, along with a request to the general public for information which might lead to Cooper's positive identification. [124][125] The question was rendered moot in November when a Portland grand jury returned an indictment in absentia against "John Doe, aka Dan Cooper" for air piracy and violation of the Hobbs Act. In July 2016, after “one of the longest and most exhaustive investigations in our history”, the FBI admitted defeat and closed the case. [169] The FBI offered no comment beyond Himmelsbach's original statement that Mayfield, who died in 2015,[166] was ruled out as a suspect early on. [73], On April 23, 2013, Earl J. Cossey, the owner of the skydiving school that furnished the four parachutes that were given to Cooper, was found dead in his home in Woodinville, a suburb of Seattle. New suspect in D.B. Lead DB Cooper suspect Sheridan Peterson dies, leaving mystery of hijacker unsolved The prime suspect in the infamous unsolved hijacking of a flight carried out by the mysterious “DB Cooper”, has died, taking his secrets to the grave. D.B. Thomas spends every day trekking through the dense woodland in the area, and has done for years, and says the chances of surviving a parachute landing there - as well as an escape afterwards - are slim. The article notes that L.D. [160], John Emil List (1925–2008) was an accountant, World War II and Korean War veteran who murdered his wife, three teenage children, and 85-year-old mother in Westfield, New Jersey, fifteen days before the Cooper hijacking, withdrew $200,000 from his mother's bank account, and disappeared. One of Lepsy's daughters submitted a DNA sample to the FBI in 2011, with unknown results. Cooper, who boarded a Northwest Orient Airlines plane in November 1971 and hijacked the flight while it was still on the tarmac. New evidence: Was DB Cooper a Boeing employee? Bernie Rhodes, the retired chief probation officer in the case, recalls meeting McCoy in prison and says: “From where I sat that day, the face across from me seemed identical to the composite drawing [of DB Cooper].”. It was November 1971 and a man known as DB Cooper hijacked a plane flying out of Portland, Oregon. Schaffner described him as calm, polite, and well-spoken, not at all consistent with the stereotypes (enraged, hardened criminals or "take-me-to-Cuba" political dissidents) popularly associated with air piracy at the time. "[191], In 2017, Colbert and a group of volunteer investigators uncovered what they believed to be "a decades-old parachute strap" at an undisclosed location in the Pacific Northwest. 1 VIDEO | 19 IMAGES. "He seemed rather nice. As the plane was preparing to take off, however, he handed one of the stewardesses a note, claiming to have a bomb in his suitcase. Seattle police obtained them from a local skydiving school. [130], Despite the publicity generated by Porteous's book and the 2011 television documentary, the FBI is standing by its position that Christiansen cannot be considered a prime suspect. [212] The analyst claimed that Smith's Naval aviation experience would have given him knowledge of planes and parachutes, and that his railroad experience would have helped him find railroad tracks and hop on a train to escape the area after landing. [15] Cooper leaned toward her and whispered, "Miss, you'd better look at that note. It will premiere on HBO on Wednesday, November 25. Cooper Exclusive: Did Niece Provide Key Evidence?". PST. His wife, Jo Weber, reveals she was married to him for almost 20 years, until his death in 1995 - but they rarely spoke about his past before they met, in 1978, seven years after the hijacking. No trace of him on the ground was ever found. Cooper' up for auction", "The Mystery of DB Cooper: Tiny Algae on Money May Lead to Crack in Case, Study Says", "Six Years Later Brian Ingram Gets a Piece of D.b. [79], Himmelsbach wrote, "I have to confess, if I [were] going to look for Cooper, I would head for the Washougal. In fact, she went into even more detail about what allegedly happened, claiming she'd jumped at 10,000ft and pulled the parachute at 1,000ft. [235][241] As a direct result of the hijacking, the installation of peepholes was mandated in all cockpit doors. He was proposed as a suspect by his widow, based primarily on a deathbed confession: Three days before he died in 1995, Weber told his wife Jo, "I am Dan Cooper." Video vi473481497. HD 6.50 85 min. “It got really noisy," co-pilot Rataczak recalls. [61] Search efforts focused on Clark and Cowlitz counties, encompassing the terrain immediately south and north, respectively, of the Lewis River in southwest Washington. Yet Another D. B. Cooper Suspect: William Pratt "Wolfgang" Gossett. According to the FBI's retired chief investigator, Ralph Himmelsbach, extortionists and other criminals who steal large amounts of money nearly always do so because they need it urgently; otherwise, the crime is not worth the considerable risk. Such training would have given Cooper a working knowledge of parachutes—but "not necessarily sufficient knowledge to survive the jump he made. Over the years, the … A mysterious fugitive, a hijacked airplane and a daring mid-air escape. )[99] Because the Dan Cooper comics were never translated into English, nor imported to the U.S., they speculated that he had encountered them during a tour of duty in Europe. But the strong similarities between the two led some to claim he may have been Cooper all along - and carried out the second hijacking after somehow losing the money in the first. [37], At approximately 7:40 p.m., the Boeing 727 took off with only Cooper, pilot Scott, flight attendant Mucklow, copilot Rataczak, and flight engineer Harold E. Anderson on board. [3] Christiansen was 45 years old at the time of the hijacking, but he was shorter (5 ft 8 in or 173 cm), thinner (150 pounds or 68 kg), and lighter complected than eyewitness descriptions. Cooper could have worked at Portland-area tech firm, scientists say", "F.B.I. [3] "He wasn't nervous," Mucklow told investigators. [85], On February 10, 1980, eight-year-old Brian Ingram was vacationing with his family on the Columbia River at a beachfront known as Tina (or Tena) Bar, about 9 miles (14 km) downstream from Vancouver, Washington, and 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Ariel. Cooper was her uncle. [10] Cooper boarded the aircraft, a Boeing 727-100 (FAA registration N467US), and took seat 18C[3] (18E by one account,[11] 15D by another[12]) and ordered a drink—bourbon and soda. The Mystery of D.B. He further specified that the landing gear remain deployed in the takeoff/landing position, the wing flaps be lowered 15 degrees, and the cabin remain unpressurized. [29] Cooper rejected the military-issue parachutes offered by McChord AFB personnel, instead demanding civilian parachutes with manually operated ripcords. Koerner, B (June 14, 2013). Cooper, found Max Gunther's book, and discovered notations in the margins in her husband's handwriting. Cooper case no longer actively investigated by FBI", "Hijacked plane makes landing at Seattle airport", "D B Cooper's Loot Serial Number Searcher", "FBI Records: The Vault — D.B. In 1972 he began claiming he was Cooper, and attempted through an intermediary, a former cellmate named James Brown, to sell his story to a Hollywood production company. Cooper: New Developments in the Unsolved Case", "Investigators: F.B.I. Cooper Skyjacking Case: The Two-Way : NPR", "DNA Test Negative for D.B. Cooper hijacking case", "F.B.I. [139] The next day flight 305 was hijacked; and though the uncles ostensibly were turkey hunting, L.D. [121][122], Assuming that Cooper was not a paratrooper, but was an Air Force veteran, Carr suggested the possibility that he was an aircraft cargo loader. Baumann, L (May 7, 2013): "Man Who Packed DB Cooper's Parachutes ID'd as Woodinville Homicide Victim". Cooper Case, PCGS Currency Notifies F.B.I. [204], Reca gave Laurin permission in a notarized letter to share his story after his death. Reca reportedly confirmed that Osiadacz was the man at the cafe, after seeing a photo Laurin sent him. Smith, BA (August 15, 2015). The man asked Osiadacz to give his friend directions to the café over the phone, and he complied. Peterson often teased the media about whether he was really D.B. Door-to-door searches of local farmhouses were also carried out. Furthermore, "if he was planning ahead, he knew he had to hitchhike out of the woods, and it is much easier to get picked up in a suit and tie than in old blue jeans. [39][40], After takeoff, Cooper told Mucklow to join the rest of the crew in the cockpit and remain there with the door closed. The FBI has always maintained that only two parachutes, a primary and a cannibalized reserve, were found aboard the plane. Cooper countered that it was indeed safe, but he would not argue the point; he would lower it once they were airborne. Cooper (1931–1999), a leather worker and Korean War veteran, was proposed as a suspect in July 2011 by his niece, Marla Cooper. [250], Cooper has appeared in the story lines of the television series Prison Break, The Blacklist, NewsRadio, Leverage, Journeyman, Renegade, Numb3rs, 30 Rock, and Drunk History, as well as the 1981 film The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper, the 2004 film Without a Paddle, and a book titled The Vesuvius Prophecy, based on The 4400 TV series. Cooper skyjacking case unearthed by Army data analyst; FBI stays mum, Ralph Himmelsbach, FBI agent who led search for D.B. [42] The crew soon noticed a subjective change of air pressure, indicating that the aft door was open. She also claimed when she landed, she changed out of the tie she was wearing and put on a blonde wig. They also point out that Reca, who died in 2014, was a military paratrooper and private skydiver with hundreds of jumps to his credit, a direct contradiction to the FBI's publicized profile. [137][138] As an eight-year-old, she recalled Cooper and another uncle planning something "very mischievous", involving the use of "expensive walkie-talkies", at her grandmother's house in Sisters, Oregon, 150 miles (240 km) southeast of Portland. On November 24, 1971, a man known as DB Cooper boarded a Seattle-bound Northwest Orient Airlines flight in Portland, Oregon. INVESTIGATORS probing a bizarre 46-year-old mystery of a businessman who hijacked a plane and jumped out with a bag of cash strapped to him … Other search parties ran patrol boats along Lake Merwin and Yale Lake, the reservoir immediately to its east. For other inquiries, Contact Us. While she first grew suspicious that he was hiding something on Thanksgiving Eve, when he became secretive about a 'hunt" he was going on, she thought nothing more of it. [116] In addition, Cooper was familiar with important details, such as the appropriate flap setting of 15 degrees (which was unique to that aircraft), and the typical refueling time. Cooper Trailer This documentary brings to life the stories of four people believed by their family and friends to be “DB Cooper,” a man who hijacked a 727 flying out of Seattle and jumped from the plane over the wilds of Washington State with a … It also had the ability (unusual for a commercial jet airliner) to remain in slow, low-altitude flight without stalling, and Cooper knew how to control its air speed and altitude without entering the cockpit, where he could have been overpowered by the three pilots. Cooper: A life ruined or a case solved? [203] In 2008, Reca told Laurin via a recorded phone call that he was the hijacker. [95], Alternative theories were advanced. [252], Unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in November 1971, N467US, the aircraft involved in the hijacking, When Schaffner's description was relayed to the FBI command post in Portland, agents pointed out that dynamite sticks are typically brown or beige in color; the eight red cylinders were probably highway or railroad flares. Cooper Suspect Named: William Pratt Gossett," associatedcontent.com. Cops then found the $500,000 hidden in McCoy's attic. Eventually landing at Seattle, Mucklow was allowed to disembark to collect the cash and parachutes, before Cooper let the passengers off - their first signal that something drastic had happened. After hijacking a Boeing 727 aircraft between Portland and Seattle on 24 November 1971, DB Cooper … [99], In late 2007, the FBI announced that a partial DNA profile had been obtained from three organic samples found on Cooper's clip-on tie in 2001,[56] though they later acknowledged that there is no evidence that the hijacker was the source of the sample material. [198] "I told everybody I was [the hijacker]," Rackstraw told Colbert, before explaining the admission was a stunt. Cooper, he claimed, jumped in conditions that thousands of RAF crewmen survived during WWII. Cooper: Investigators say they've confirmed skyjacker's identity by decoding long-lost 'confession, "Investigators think letter confirms ID of D.B. Pat and Ron Forman appear on the show to reveal how they struck up a friendship with her, when she began visiting their small airfield. [51][52] A wire service reporter (Clyde Jabin of UPI by most accounts,[53][54] Joe Frazier of the AP by others[55]) republished the error, followed by numerous other media sources; the name "D. B. Cooper" became lodged in the public's collective memory. Their serial numbers remain available online for public search. The Australian Classification website comprises information for general public and industry about the classification of films, games and publications. [149], In 1988, Gossett changed his name to "Wolfgang" and became a Roman Catholic priest, which Cook and others interpreted as an effort to disguise his identity. [87][88], The discovery launched several new rounds of conjecture and ultimately raised more questions than it answered. Ingalls C (November 23, 2011): "40 years later, new evidence unveiled in DB Cooper case". [176] Tracked down three months later in Virginia Beach, McCoy was killed in a shootout with FBI agents. Dayton claimed to have staged the Cooper hijacking two years later, dressed as a man, to "get back" at the airline industry and the FAA, whose insurmountable rules and conditions had prevented her from becoming an airline pilot. [92], In 1986, after protracted negotiations, the recovered bills were divided equally between Ingram and Northwest Orient's insurer; the FBI retained fourteen examples as evidence. “He had ordered a drink, bourbon, [and] he was a smoker," Mucklow recalls. He knew that the aft airstair could be lowered during flight—a fact never disclosed to civilian flight crews, since there was no situation on a passenger flight that would make it necessary—and that its operation, by a single switch in the rear of the cabin, could not be overridden from the cockpit. Denson, Bryan (November 24, 1996). [206][207] According to Laurin, Joe Koenig, a forensic investigator, found no evidence of tampering or manipulation, and no discrepancies from available FBI records that eliminated Reca as a suspect. “He didn’t make it out alive that night, that’s an impossible thing for him to do. They also found a folder of Northwest Orient news clippings which began about the time he was hired in the 1950s, and stopped just before the date of the hijacking, although the hijacking was by far the most momentous news event in the airline's history. No strong evidence has ever connected Duane to the crime. He was quickly ruled out as a suspect; but a local reporter named James Long, rushing to meet an imminent deadline, confused the eliminated suspect's name with the pseudonym used by the hijacker. The Mystery of D.B. In it, he set out his demands - for $200,000 to be waiting on the ground at Seattle Airport, along with a refuelling truck and four parachutes. The crime remains the only unsolved air piracy in commercial aviation history. She went to her local library to research D.B. Lyle said he never pressed his brother to explain. Merchant Marine and then the Army during World War II. New suspect emerges years after infamous hijacking". [3] Christiansen smoked (as did the hijacker), and displayed a particular fondness for bourbon (the drink Cooper had requested). Another major suspect in the documentary is Barbara Dayton, who was formerly known as Robert before undergoing a sex change. Physical evidence was incompatible with geologic evidence: Himmelsbach observed that free-floating bundles would have had to wash up on the bank "within a couple of years" of the hijacking; otherwise the rubber bands would have long since deteriorated,[91] an observation confirmed experimentally by the Cooper Research Team (see Subsequent FBI disclosures). To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. [56][131] It cites a poor match to eyewitness physical descriptions, a level of skydiving expertise above that predicted by their suspect profile, and an absence of direct incriminating evidence. Like the hijacker, Weber drank bourbon and chain smoked. The FBI officially suspended active investigation of the case in July 2016, but the agency continues to request that any physical evidence that might emerge related to the parachutes or the ransom money be submitted for analysis. (. The bills were disintegrated, but still bundled in rubber bands. ", "F.B.I. Cooper DNA Results: "Not A Match". Cooper: The Real McCoy,[178] parole officer Bernie Rhodes and former FBI agent Russell Calame asserted that they had identified McCoy as Cooper. [145] Other circumstantial evidence includes testimony that Cook claims to have obtained from William Mitchell, a passenger on the hijacked aircraft, regarding a mysterious "physical detail" (which he will not divulge) common to the hijacker and Gossett. 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