VANCOUVER, Wash. - A simple black necktie may be the smoking gun tosolving a mystery that has fascinated the country for 50 years: who is D.B. Cooper and what happened to him? On the afternoon of Nov.

The man known as D.B. Cooper jumped out of the commercial airplane with ransom money in 1971 and has never been found.

The cash had last been seen on Nov. 24, 1971 — the night a hijacker known as D. B. Cooper extorted $200,000 and four parachutes from a flight traveling from Portland to Seattle, then jumped from the ...

The last time anyone saw D.B. Cooper, he parachuted out of a Seattle-bound airplane with $200,000 in ransom strapped to his body, vanishing over the Pacific Northwest and initiating one of America’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A phone tipster who would insist on remaining anonymous reached a special agent in the FBI’s Little Rock office in the summer of ...

The FBI said last week it had a “credible” lead in the D.B. Cooper case, which involved the 1971 hijacking of a passenger jet and the suspect’s legendary parachute escape, but a DNA test is ...

Newly released FBI files are offering a deeper look into the only unsolved airline hijacking in U.S. history — the 1971 case of D.B. Cooper, who parachuted from a commercial airliner with $200,000 in ...

A group of volunteer investigators believe they have found a piece of potential physical evidence in the D.B. Cooper case, the only unsolved airliner hijacking in American history. Fox News reported ...

It's one of America's most enduring mysteries - the only unsolved hijacking of a commercial airliner in the country's history: Who was the man known as "D.B. Cooper" who took control of a Northwest ...

The newly released 398-page FBI file includes strange suspect tips, forensic evidence from Cooper's tie — and no clear answers D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane in 1971, parachuted with $200k and was never ...