Vern Jones Joins The Cooper Vortex
Recently Vern Jones was featured on the podcast The Cooper Vortex to talk about the taped confession. Use the podcast player below to hear the whole podcast, or skip to the 3rd play button to hear from Vern!
Expedition Unknown Press Release
Evidence presented in Principia Media’s documentary DB Cooper: The Real Story, was featured in an August 2021 episode of Expedition Unknown, titled Ransom in the Sky (S9 E3). Forensic Linguist and retired Michigan State Police investigator Joe Koenig joins host Josh Gates and other Cooper enthusiasts to explore the compelling evidence that identifies Michigan-native Walter […]
CooperCon 2021 to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the DB Cooper Skyjacking in Grand Style
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. […]
DB Cooper and the flap over Walter R. Reca – an interview with publisher Vern Jones
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 Real D.B. Cooper Is Found In New Documentary
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 […]
Former Pinckney man claims to know true identity of skyjacker D.B. Cooper in new documentary
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. […]
Mystery Solved! The World Premiere of the Documentary ‘D.B. Cooper: The Real Story’ Debuts in Cle Elum, Washington, the Verified Site of the Infamous Drop Zone
Four-part documentary series now available to the public via online outlets GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — All eyes were glued to the movie screen for three hours on Saturday, July 14, as a sold-out crowd watched the world premiere of the documentary, ‘D.B. Cooper: The Real Story’ at the Putnam Centennial Center […]
Believed Identity of D.B. Cooper Revealed 46 Years After Notorious Skyjacking in New Memoir Published by Principia Media
Relatives, Eyewitness, and Cooper’s Best Friend Step Forward with Evidence Appearing to Solve FBI Cold Case GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — After a 20-year investigation, the believed identity of D.B. Cooper will be revealed in a press conference May 17th. D.B. Cooper is the infamous skyjacker who boarded a Boeing 727 in Portland that was heading to Sea-Tac […]