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Story Published: Jul 24, 2008 at 12:12 AM PDT Story Updated: Jul 24, 2008 at 12:15 AM PDT SEATTLE -- On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man named Dan Cooper boarded a plane headed to to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and showed a flight attendant a bomb. At the airport, Cooper released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes and asked to be flown to Mexico. He jumped from the plane somewhere near the Oregon state line. His body has never been found. And so begins the story of D.B. Cooper. It's been told times over, but the famous Northwest hijacking mystery has never been solved. Without an explanation, may have provided their own endings to the story. Some even claimed to be related to the legend. Others paid thousands of dollars for tattered $20 bills of the recovered ransom money. John Detlor and Bob... [read full story]
