Jet Age Jesse James
He made international headlines, stymied the FBI and inspired, songs, books and a movie.
D.B. Cooper probably never lived here -- to this day authorities don't know who he was -- but he makes our notorious list because investigators searched southern Cowlitz County after he bailed out of a jetliner on Nov. 24, 1971, with $200,000 strapped to his torso.
Admirers call him the Jet Age Jesse James and imagine that he's sipping bourbon and water on a beach somewhere.
Detractors call him a foul-mouthed thief and a lunatic. They figure the only good thing about D.B. Cooper is that he probably died when he jumped out of the Boeing 727 he hijacked that dreary November night.
Some of the stolen loot turned up eight years later in the sand along the Columbia River about five miles northwest of Vancouver, but no trace of the man has ever been found.
D.B. Cooper probably never lived here -- to this day authorities don't know who he was -- but he makes our notorious list because investigators searched southern Cowlitz County after he bailed out of a jetliner on Nov. 24, 1971, with $200,000 strapped to his torso.
Admirers call him the Jet Age Jesse James and imagine that he's sipping bourbon and water on a beach somewhere.
Detractors call him a foul-mouthed thief and a lunatic. They figure the only good thing about D.B. Cooper is that he probably died when he jumped out of the Boeing 727 he hijacked that dreary November night.
Some of the stolen loot turned up eight years later in the sand along the Columbia River about five miles northwest of Vancouver, but no trace of the man has ever been found.
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