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not Dan Cooper simply because the
descriptions of Florence and Tina didn’t fit his physique.
Richard was also a political science student, and a few months after
Dan organized the hijacking, he also did something similar. The
difference was, he was caught and sent to prison. In the year 1974,
he died after a shoot-out in a prison break.
    In
an interesting twist of events, 9 years after the hijacking, one boy
who was innocently walking down the Columbia River saw $5,800 dollars
in $20 bills. It was confirmed that those bills were part of the
ransom provided to Dan to release the hostages. But nothing more came
forward after that.
    In
2001, the clip on tie Dan was wearing was recovered and from there,
the police were able to take a DNA sample. The problem was, there
were two small DNA samples and a large one-- it was hard to confirm
which one was Dan’s or if Dan’s DNA was even on the tie.
Perhaps, Dan intentionally placed other DNA there. The case was
reopened in 2008 and in 2011, when a woman named Marla Cooper
reported that it was her uncle who did the crime.
    According
to Marla, for 40 years, their entire family swore to protect Dan
Cooper, who really was Lynne Doyle Cooper in real life. But her guilt
made her come forward. She provided the police with photographs of
Lynne Doyle as well as a guitar strap for fingerprints. According to
her, the reason why Lynne Doyle used “Dan Cooper” was
because it was his favorite comic character.
    When
the test results came in, it was found that there were no
fingerprints on the guitar straps. When Lynne Doyle’s DNA was
examined, they couldn’t find it to match the ones on the clip
on tie. The police, however, said that they found nothing
inconsistent with Marla’s stories, so the possibility of LD
being Dan Cooper was still being looked into.
    Aside
from being missing, D.B. Cooper also raised a lot of questions: the
first being his experience in skydiving. Many expert parachutists
said that jumping from the plane at the height of 10,000 feet was
dangerous for a first-timer. They insisted that if it was his first
attempt, then he would have died.
    However,
if he had prior experience (6 or 7 times), then there would have been
no problem. The only factor to consider was if he would have survived
the cold after landing. Since there was no body and parachute found,
people assumed that he lived. The reason why it became a major issue
was because of his actions in the plane.
    For
the experts, asking for a primary and reserve parachutes was a novice
thing to do, but then again, he turned down the offer of an
instruction manual. The way he fastened the chutes as what was
observed by Tina was an expert behavior, but actually choosing the
reserve chute (which was sewn closed and non-functional) was a thing
only a novice would do. So, was Dan an expert skydiver, or not? If
not, then where was the chute and the body?

Chapter
4 - Michael Rockefeller

    The
disappearance that rocked the year 1961: the case of Michael
Rockefeller. Back then, the 23-year old Harvard graduate had a lot of
good things ahead of him. He was an upcoming photographer and an art
collector. On top of that, he was one of the heirs of the Rockefeller
fortune who was a prominent family back then. His father was also the
New York governor at that time, and later on, became the vice
president Nelson Rockefeller.
    Michael
was the fifth and last child of May Todhunter and Nelson Rockefeller.
Considering his academic standing in Buckley school in New York and
in Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire where he was a student
senator, his parents knew that he would go far.
    And
this expectation was sealed when Michael graduated cum laude in
Harvard University. His degree was Bachelor of Arts in History and
Economics. After his graduation, he spent 6 months in the US army
before setting out for the adventure of a lifetime-- which was also
his penultimate voyage.
    The
trip was supposed to explore the Dani tribe which was