No, D.B. Cooper almost certainly has not been identified.
It's another deluge of press releases making the tired old claim that an investigator has finally identified the famous hijacker.
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Once again, the media has been buried in press releases announcing a “new” solution to some old mystery — this time, as it often is, it’s a random guy claiming to have done what the FBI failed to do for 45 years: identified the famous hijacker DB Cooper, who parachuted out the back of Boeing 727 in 1971 with $200,000 in cash, and was never found and never identified.
Obviously, when we see so many articles, we know a press release carpetbombing was involved, which usually means one of TV’s pseudoscience/pseudohistory networks has a TV show coming out soon. In addition to DB Cooper, we see this happen with Jack the Ripper, Amelia Earhart, and other famous mysteries (and non-mysteries). Usually the explanations presented are not new (even though the headlines always claim they are) and the person making the claim, though always described as an “investigator,” is usually just some fringe crackpot. Oh well, I guess crackpots can “investigate” as much as anyone else can.
Not once have I ever heard of such a case where a fringe explanation presented on a pseudohistory TV network has ever had legitimate academic or law enforcement support, and certainly never seen such an explanation turn out to be true. I fully expect the same in this case.
Here is the new claim about Cooper, and why we should dismiss it: