Convention meets to ponder 1971 hijacking cold case

Joe Teehan

KGMIAPThis undated sketch shows the skyjacker known as D.B. Cooper from recollections of the passengers and crew of a Northwest Airlines jet he hijacked between Portland and Seattle on Thanksgiving eve in 1971.

11-26-2018

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mystery lovers and others gathered this weekend to discuss a common obsession — the infamous hijacker known as D.B. Cooper.

KGW-TV reports the “D.B. Cooper Con” conference was held Saturday in Portland, on the 47th anniversary of the unsolved crime.

On Nov. 24, 1971, a hijacker calling himself “Dan Cooper” parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared after receiving $200,000 in ransom.

Former law enforcement officers, forensic specialists, cold case investigators, historians and others attended the event.