VANCOUVER, Wash. - A simple black necktie may be the smoking gun tosolving a mystery that has fascinated the country for 50 years: who is D.B. Cooper and what happened to him? On the afternoon of Nov.

A newly released batch of FBI investigative files in the long-unsolved D.B. Cooper hijacking case shows that agents once examined a former pilot from western Maine as a possible suspect. The files, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The FBI has quietly released hundreds of brand-new files from its investigation of the infamous airplane hijacker known as D.B. Cooper. On November ...

Experts believe debris trapped in the fabric could reveal details about the skyjacker’s past that no witness ever could.

In one of the most mysterious crimes in U.S. history, an unidentified man known as D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane, demanded $200,000 in cash, and then parachuted into the night—never to be seen again.