Retro Garlic: Did D.B Cooper Jump Out of Hillary's Plane In Bosnia?

Oh, I'm sorry, I misspoke ... I've been sleep-deprived and, I do write millions of words, so, there is the chance I that I am human, and will misspeak at times.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that if Hillary Clinton was on the same plane with D.B. Cooper, than, she would have left the plane, he wouldn't be her co-passenger, that's for sure.

Of course, D.B. Cooper couldn't have jumped from Hillary Clinton's plane, it was a different time, different place (though, we're sure, he would have ducked his head and ran for the cars).

Well, after raising an eyebrow, that the FBI was putting resources and manpower on a 37+ year-old case, still the only unsolved hijacking, stunningly, new evidence has, allegedly, surfaced.

Has DB Cooper's drop zone been located?

Some kids pulled a parachute out of the ground near Vancouver in Clark County, and now the FBI is working to determine if it may have been one of the chutes used by infamous skyjacker DB Cooper.

The chute was unearthed as their father was plowing for a new road and now the FBI in Seattle is analyzing it to see if it matches a reserve chute left behind by DB Cooper when he hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 on November 24, 1971 during a flight between Portland and Seattle.

The Retro Part ...

D.B. Cooper Is Barbarosa ... Or Is It Barbarosa Is D.B. Cooper?

D.B. Cooper Is Barbarosa ... Or Is It Barbarosa Is D.B. Cooper?

[Don Baulio has chosen the next one to go after Barbarosa]
Don Braulio Zuvalla: Eduardo. You are the one. You will go after Barbarosa. Will you know him?
Eduardo: Si, I will know him. From the songs we sing and the stories we tell, I will know him.
Don Braulio Zuvalla: Kill him; kill this Barbarosa. Bring me his cojones. Bring them to me on a stick so we can see them and honor you.

From "Barbarosa", starring Willie Nelson, Gary Busey and Gilbert Roland

Boy, don't these guys have anything better to do?

One would think that the CIA Interrogation Tapes case, which the Justice Department announced today they will investigate, will need some extra bodies.

After all, that's a crime that leads directly, and squarely, into the Oval Office.

But no.

Perhaps swayed by television shows that solve their cold cases in about 48-minutes (gotta have the commercials accounted for), the FBI has announced it is reinvestigating the 36-year-old "D.B. Cooper" hijacking case, the nation's only unsolved hijacking.

“This case is 36 years old, it’s beyond its expiration date, but I asked for the case because I was intrigued with it,” said Larry Carr, a federal agent based in Seattle who usually investigates bank robberies, and who was 4 when the hijacking occurred. “I remember as a child reading about it and wondering what had happened. It’s surreal that after 36 years here I am, the only investigator left. I wanted to take a shot at solving it.”

Since the case was turned over to him about six months ago, Mr. Carr has come up with a new way of seeing the incident: as a bank robbery that just happened to be on an airplane. The fresh perspective led to new investigating techniques.

“The classic way we solve bank robberies is with the public,” Mr. Carr said. “Everything we know — pictures, descriptions, m.o., everything. We put it all out there.”

D.B. Cooper jumped from the back of a Boeing 727 jet airplane on the night of November 24th, 1971, somewhere between Seattle and Reno, with $200,000, in unmarked $20-bills and was never seen or heard from again.

Speculation has rested heavily that he died from the jump.

In 1980, an eight-year-old boy found $5,800 of the money, near the banks of the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, but that's all that has surfaced.

Let us hope that it doesn't take 36-years to bring the Bush Grindhouse to justice.

After all, we already have, seven-years-worth, of "pictures, descriptions, m.o., everything ..."

Bonus D.B. Cooper Links

D.B. Cooper, where are you? Saturday is 36th anniversary of hijacker's leap into legend

The D.B. Cooper Story: A Mystery

D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act