Resolves when it is determined whether Cooper survived the jump and the immediate aftermath
1,000My two pronged case for “yes”:
1. skydiving is generally very safe with a fatality rate of less than 1 in 100,000. The fact that D.B. Jumped into bad conditions doesn’t mean he probably died
2. If a missing persons report for him was filed, then surely a clear candidate that went missing around the time of the jump would have been identified by now. I think the odds that he died and a missing persons report wasn’t filed are pretty low
@JaundicedBaboon yes but most sky diving isn’t done at night, and they are familiar with where they are jumping over? Db cooper wouldn’t have known where he was jumping over and it was dark and hard to see
He could have gone into a lake
Good point. But how would he have got home? Why was money never spent?
@Jack1 I don’t think it’s been clearly established that the money was never spent. As for point one, IIRC there was a paper that showed the money that was recovered at the sand bar didn’t get wet until months after the jump happened, not to mention the fact that the three recovered bundles were found basically right on top of each other. I don’t see how that happens if he landed into a lake: the money would have gotten wet immediately.