Is the Mystery of DB Cooper About to Be Solved? FBI Reveals It Has New Suspect 40 Years After America’s Most Elusive Fugitive Parachuted From a Hijacked Plane

Is the Mystery of DB Cooper About to Be Solved? FBI Reveals It Has New Suspect 40 Years After America’s Most Elusive Fugitive Parachuted From a Hijacked Plane:

"The FBI today announced that it has a new suspect in the case who they are hoping to link to a tie Cooper left on the plane and cigarette butts in an ashtray using DNA testing and fingerprints.

There have been more than 1,000 suspects over the past four decades, but the FBI have described the new lead as 'looking like our most promising one to date'.

'We do actually have a new suspect we're looking at,' said FBI spokesman Ayn Dietrich as she revealed the twist in the investigation.

'It comes from a credible lead who came to our attention recently via a law enforcement colleague,' she said.


Map: Locations in Washington where Cooper was originally thought to have landed and where some of the ransom money was found in 1980

'The credible lead is somebody whose possible connection to the hijacker is strong,' she told the Daily Telegraph. 'And the suspect is not a name that's come up before.'

The FBI said that an item belonging to the suspect has been sent for testing at a forensics lab in Quantico, Virginia.

'We're hoping there are fingerprints they can take off of it,' she said. 'It would be a significant lead.

And this is looking like our most promising one to date.'"