The 50th Anniversary of DB Cooper’s historic skyjacking will be celebrated November 19-21 – the weekend before Thanksgiving – in Vancouver, WA, promoter and preeminent researcher Eric Ulis announced last week. The event will be held at the Kiggins Theater, which was the site of the 2019 CooperCon, the last one held before the Covid pandemic. […]
Vern Jones and his Principia Media publishing company have just released a book that claims to identify the iconic skyjacker DB Cooper. DB Cooper and Me: A Criminal, a Spy, My Best Friend, is a memoir penned by an 84-year old Floridian named Carl “Charley” Laurin, and it traces the alleged exploits of Detroit native, Walter R. […]
The new documentary “D.B. Cooper: The Real Story” claims to have solved America’s only unsolved hijacking. Walter Reca revealed to long-time friend Carl Laurin, over a series of recorded conversations before his death in 2014, that he was D.B. Cooper. Now, Laurin has teamed up with filmmaker Dirk Wierenga to tell Reca’s story. Wierenga joins […]
Carl Laurin claims to know the true identity of D.B. Cooper, a man who pulled off a famous unsolved airplane hijacking in 1971 and made off with $200,000 in ransom money. Laurin, a former Pinckney resident, says his pal, Detroit-born Walter R. Reca, of Oscoda, confessed to being the infamous skyjacker before he passed away. […]