D.B. Cooper mystery may be solved

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: PorkChop96

I guess its is possible that a person could be charged as an accessory after the fact.

Yes, but this is a minor crime in comparison.

But thats if they knowingly assist someone who has committed a crime by my understanding.

Yes, and this is a more serious and different crime.

Would mealy omitting the fact that you know you husband had committed a crime in the past constitute such?

I guess it would depend on the circumstances and the laws of the jurisdiction where the crime occurred.

The reason I'm asking questions is I'm not sure as to the laws in the US in their totality.

There are several components here:

1.) Did they simply 'know' about it? OR...
2.) Did they assist in the commission of said crime in some way? AND/OR...
3.) Did they benefit from the crime in some/any fashion.

Simply knowing about the crime and not saying something isn't really a serious crime, and it's unlikely many prosecutors would pursue such a case. The effort required for a conviction would not be worth the cost of the proceedings. However, items #2 and #3 are much more serious crimes, felonies even, which carry significantly more severe penalties...up to and including the penalty of death.

a reply to: PorkChop96

I take it a lot of people are accessories after the fact then.

Suppose we better keep that one stum.

Anyhoo cheers for the input.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Oh, they two looked like wonderful people.

originally posted by: blend
"McCoy is an intriguing suspect—one who was later passed over because many FBI personnel had come to believe that the real D.B. Cooper died in the jump by the time McCoy surfaced as a possibility. And McCoy didn’t exactly match the physical description, as he was much younger—27 years old at the time—than the original estimation of Cooper’s mid-40s age.

At about 45 minutes in the video, the amateur sleuth Ryan in the DB Cooper Vortex group said that all 10 eyewitnesses from the hijacked plane said McCoy was not DB Cooper, so he seems skeptical the case is solved, but he says if the DNA matches the necktie, that would be interesting.

If it turns out it actually is McCoy, it will be another blow to the validity of eyewitnesses, though eyewitness credibility should have already been destroyed over 300 people convicted of crimes they didn't commit, often because of faulty eyewitness testimony, 21 of which were sentenced to death. Though if all 10 eyewitnesses were wrong about McCoy not being DB cooper, it would be the opposite, failing to identify the man for a crime he DID commit.

The FBI already has the DNA from the McCoy family member taken about a year ago, and the video says the next step would be to exhume McCoy's body to get a DNA sample for confrmation, but what is taking so long to exhume the body? Why hasn't the FBI done it in the last year?

Was the necktie something DB cooper left on the plane? Is that what they want to try to match if they can find DNA on the necktie? Maybe if that's so and they can't find any DNA on the necktie, then they would have nothing to match with even if the body was exhumed? If not the necktie, I'm not sure what else they would match DNA with, and the video didn't explain how the necktie fits into the picture in any detail. In fact, Ryan is the one who mentioned it; Gryder the video maker, didn't even mention the necktie or anything else that they might try to match the DNA with, so there's sort of a gaping hole in the story as presented in Gryder's video. Gryder talks about DNA from McCoy a lot, but he never says what it's supposed to match from DB Cooper.

DB died when he jumped why else would you find money with matching serial numbers in the mud on a riverbank. One thing that always puzzled me is why would they give him working parachutes I'm sure he did not repack them or check them on the flight.

originally posted by: Ravenwatcher
DB died when he jumped why else would you find money with matching serial numbers in the mud on a riverbank.

The reason, according to the OP video, is that DB Cooper asked for the money to be in a knapsack, but that request was not fulfilled. The video claims back then hardly anybody even knew what a knapsack was, and they instead put the money in a satchel that couldn't be worn, so Gryner's explanation is, because it wasn't in a knapsack, he wasn't able to wear it or hang on to it so, he dropped it as he was falling. The "wind speed" is pretty high when you're in freefall at terminal velocity, so that does seem possible.

Try driving on the autobahn at 240 km/h, and sticking your arm out the window to feel the wind forces at that speed. Now try holding onto a satchel at 240 km/h. I could see that kind of speed ripping it right out of your hands if you weren't wearing it. Though you can slow down somewhat by falling belly down, you're still falling pretty fast even in that position.