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America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring

D.B. Cooper: After 53 Years, Here's Where the Case Stands Pt. 3

6/18/202626 min

In 2016, the FBI suspended its investigation into D.B. Cooper after forty-five years with no confirmed identity. Then, in 2020, the adult children of a prime suspect found a parachute rig in their mother's shed, and the case came back to life.

In the third and final episode on D.B. Cooper, Katie Ring covers the new evidence that reinvigorated the investigation, the DNA question still waiting to be answered, and the one thing the case has never produced in over fifty years: a body.

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Clips

Why Cooper Still Matters
The McCoy Parachute Revelation
Can DNA Seal The Case?

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First 90 seconds

  1. Katie Ring· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Hi, we have some exciting news. Crime House Plus and Murder: True Crime Stories are celebrating America's 250th by dropping a four-part limited series on the crimes that built America. These are the crimes and cases that gave us Miranda rights, sparked criminal profiling, and a murder that built America's missing children movement. Follow Murder: True Crime Stories for a new episode every Monday leading up to July 4th, or you can listen to all of them right now with Crime House Plus. To join, go to crimehouseplus.com, or if you're listening on Apple Podcasts, tap try free at the top of the shows page.

  2. Carter Roy0:35

    [suspenseful music] This is Crime House.

  3. Katie Ring· Host0:47

    For almost 50 years, the investigation into DB Cooper produced exactly one confirmed piece of physical evidence, a cheap clip-on tie from JCPenney. Every suspect was investigated and cleared. Every promising lead dissolved. The FBI formally suspended the active investigation in 2016, and then in the 2020s, new evidence emerged, evidence that could finally expose DB Cooper's real identity. An aviation investigator who'd spent 20 years on the case said it was, quote, "Literally one in a billion." The FBI looked into it, and quietly the investigation that had been suspended came back to life. Today,

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