I'm looking for very particular types of unsolved crimes/mysteries where an individual or group:
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Commits a crime whose main purpose isn't murder (or, if a murder does take place, it isn't/perceivably isn't the main motivation for the crime being perpetrated)
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Gets away with said crime and disappears with either very little or no trace as to what happened to them.
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The individual's identity, or if a group, the members' identities aren't known (or at least not concretely proven)
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The individual's or group's actions either don't have a body count (no deaths) or the body count as a result of their actions is very low (single digits)
I don't think I'm going to get a lot of mysteries because this is a very specific type of mystery I'm looking for, but I figured I might as well ask since I'm very interested in these types of unsolved crimes/mysteries where the crime is either outlandish or normal, but yet doesn't focus on murder and the person/people still get away with it completely or relatively unscathed.
Given the subreddit I'm on, I'm certain most people already know about both cases, but just in case someone doesn't know of them:
D. B. Cooper:
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/cold-cases/d-b-cooper/
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/db-cooper-hijacking
https://www.britannica.com/biography/D-B-Cooper
(In 1971, a man hijacked a Boeing 727 and extorted $200,000 in ransom from the passengers before parachuting and never being seen again.)
The Monster With 21 Faces:
https://www.historicmysteries.com/monster-21-faces/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/monster-with-21-faces
(From 1984 to 1985, an individual, or group, was responsible for terrorizing Japanese candy manufacturers and extorting money from them. Then stopped after the superintendent of the police force committed suicide and never being heard from again after their final letter.)
He wasn't a skilled jumper and the conditions were horrendous
Special Agent Larry Carr, leader of the investigative team:
> "We originally thought Cooper was an experienced jumper, perhaps even a paratrooper."
> "We concluded after a few years this was simply not true. No experienced parachutist would have jumped in the pitch-black night, in the rain, with a 172 mph [77 m/s] wind in his face wearing loafers and a trench coat. It was simply too risky. He also missed that his reserve parachute was only for training and had been sewn shut, something a skilled skydiver would have checked."
> "He also failed to bring or request a helmet, chose to jump with the older and technically inferior of the two primary parachutes supplied to him, and jumped into a probable 15 °F (−9 °C) wind at 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in November over Washington state without proper protection against the extreme wind chill.
The area where he landed was vast wilderness. The route had been chosen by the pilot without input by cooper, on the fly. The working parachute was not steerable. The clouds at 10,000 feet also impeded his vision.
This rules out accomplices on the ground that could have helped a man in the heavy rain, pitch black darkness of night. Lugging 10k 20 dollar bills around in loafers and a trench coat. In the extreme cold.
In the wilderness he almost certainly had no familiarity with. Having no food or supplies. With his last nourishment being some bourbon on the flight and several cigarettes.
None of the money was ever put back in circulation, a single rotten package has been unearthed
Almost immediately the serial numbers on every single bill was released. To banks, businesses and even newspapers put out rewards to be people who received one.
To this day none have been been put back into circulation. That means unless he abandoned his loot he never had the chance to use that cash.
None of the counter arguments for his death aren't very strong
"No one fitting his description was a missing person during this time."
Alot of people don't get recorded missing. What about that women who died in her apartment and wasn't noticed for three years?
It's simply not that implausible that he few family and friends. I believe people just want to believe he made it, he stuck it to the man and got away.
When to me it's more amusing to imagine this engineer (tie clip particles) or middle manager involved in the aerospace industry (alot of technical knowl
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Anyone know the name for the d b Cooper song in that d b Cooper episode.
Looked all over the internet and I'm not able to find it. Anyone know if it actually exists or if it was made for the show and if it was made for the show where the hell can I find it.
It seems to be nowhere.
Anyone who provides add. direct proof #dbcooper (hijacker on plane)w/Ethan Klein orh3 (same for criminal L.W. Wright) will PayPal $5 on confirming actual provable connection. DM me on insta.
For your festivities next week, enjoy a bunch of buff dudes hunting turkeys.
https://preview.redd.it/bllxsn4skmd81.jpg?width=744&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c188bf92edd4e07654efc7fb202417da90a47148
In case anyone wants to buy it for their collection. There are currently 3 pieces up for sale on eBay. Seller wants 6, 9 and 10k. I don't know if it's a good price for them. Pieces are very small. Just search on eBay D.B Cooper money and you will find them. What you think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UuRpW8wdVA
Dan Gryder is a bit of a polarizing figure in the Avation community, but his passion and research has brought to light a Mormon connection to the D.B. Cooper mystery (and essentially solved it) Its a long video, but about half way through he brings in Richard Floyd McCoy. The genius of the disguise is the use of cigarettes.
A new release of documents has discovered that the FBI might have the infamous hijacker Dan Cooper's voice on tape!
I found this out on the D.B. Cooper subreddit and was completely in shock, great find by u/Fungabungadelicadesh!
The document states that a voice recorder tape printout contains all contact between Cooper and the flight attendants. This could mean that it was a manuscript, but it could also point to a voice recording. But if that's the case then why was this not brought into the public earlier?
What do you guys think?
Sources:
The document: https://i.imgur.com/OdLu1go.png
The sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/dbcooper/comments/pqtjh2/d_b_cooper_on_tape/
Other sources on D.B. Cooper:
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/db-cooper-hijacking
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/08/historian-dig-db-cooper-case-evidence
The money is buried in a safe location in southern Canada
From the author of "The Man on the Street" comes another book, this one about the D.B. Cooper plane hijacking. The novel is a bit on the dry side, but it's a good read.
I think it's between McCoy and Rackstraw. Mostly McCoy.
They had a tie from the same University, and had strikingly similar hijackings. Of course, this can be dismissed as a copycat crime, but according to some FBI officials, McCoy did things that were not made public about the Cooper hijacking in his own just yet. He also hasn't been ruled out by DNA just yet.
I believe that the man we know as Dan Cooper died in 1974 in a shootout with federal officers, but what do YOU think?
