Webhis audacious crime remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th century. The fbi officially gave up and closed the case years ago, but amateur. Webwith that, “db cooper”, the man who jumped out that night with a parachute and $200,000 in ransom money, passed into legend, his fate unknown. Webtiny particles on skyjacker d. b. Cooper's tie offer clues to where the mysterious man worked. A sleuth tracked the particles to a factory in pittsburgh. Cooper, who hijacked northwest orient flight 305 out of portland (oregon), demanded and received ransom money upon landing in seattle,. Webit's the only unsolved skyjacking in u. s. Eric ulis is searching for evidence to try to finally learn what happened and maybe who cooper really is. Webon november 24, 1971, a man who identified himself as d. b. Cooper hijacked a flight from portland to seattle and disappeared with $200,000 in ransom.