D.B COOPER WAS MY UNCLE: MYSTERY SOLVED

SOLVED?

LYNN DOYLE COOPER

AN ASTONISHING development could the see case of the mysterious hijacker D.B Cooper closed after more than 40-years. 
An Oregon woman who says her uncle was the elusive criminal known and is now claiming that agents have told her that it is enough for them to close the file. 
Marla Cooper told 14 News is claiming her uncle, a man named Lynn Doyle Cooper, is the man who escaped with $200,000 after parachuting out of the Northwest Orient Airlines 727 flight, back in 1971.
Burdened by guilt, she had broken a 40-year family secret to reveal the mysterious skyjacker's true identity.
She said that she was eight years old when her uncle, whom she called L.D Cooper, came to her home, badly injured, for Thanksgiving in 1971 - the day after the infamous incident. 
He claimed his injuries were the result of a car crash, but given time to think about it, her parents came to believe that he was the hijacker. 
She never saw him again and was later told that he died in 1999.
Cooper  gave investigators with a photograph of LD and a guitar strap that he owned for fingerprint testing, the results of which have yet to be revealed.  
But she added that agents had told her: "Regardless of the findings of the fingerprints, they would be closing the case after this.
"He said, 'I am certain your uncle did it. I feel certain that your uncle did it. And that, what's the point in continuing the investigation?'"
As we reported here back in 1971 the man who's ticket was in the name of D.B Cooper boarded the Northwest Orient Airlines 727 flight took off. Then once it had taken off, the man who gave his name as Dan, handed a flight attendant a note: 'Miss, I've got a bomb, come sit next to me — you're being hijacked.'
He then opened a briefcase that appeared to contain explosives and demanded $200,000 and parachutes.

With little choice officials met his demands when the plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where passengers and two flight attendants were released.
The man in 18F then ordered the flight crew to take the plane back into the air, insisting that it fly at an altitude of no more than 10,000 feet on its way to Mexico through Reno, Nevada.

About 40 minutes after take-off, a signal light in the cockpit showed that the plane's rear stairway had been extended and when the jet landed in Reno, the stairs were down and two parachutes, the money and Cooper were gone.
Marla Cooper however believes her uncle lost all the cash on the way down. 
The FBI have yet to comment on this development.

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HEATHER LYNN MAYO'S 911 CALL LEADS TO OWN ARREST

BUSTED

TALK about getting what you deserve.
Heather Lynn Mayo called in the cops to help her boot her boyfriend from their apartment, but she ended up implicating herself in a fatal hit and run, when he told them all the details of the case.
Back in February Jeannie Fisher was run down in Palm Harbor, FL, but despite a large police investigation, no one was ever caught for the crime.
But 10 months after the case went cold Mayo called in the deputies to remove her boyfriend Robert Worden, who had just gotten out of jail, where he'd been serving a 40 day sentence for check fraud.     
According to the Sun Sentinel Worden agreed to leave but as he walked out with the deputies, he pointed to a damaged black 1997 Ford Ranger in the apartment complex parking lot and said he had a story to tell them.
He said that Mayo broke down and admitted to hitting someone a few weeks after the accident, but was too scared of going to jail to come forward.  
Cops said the pedestrian violated the driver's right of way that night, according to police, but under Florida law, police said, the driver had a legal obligation to stop and identify herself.
They said she confessed and was arrested.
The fact that no repairs had been made in the 10 months after the fatal crash also helped their case.
Pinellas Park police Sgt. Brian Unmisig said: "We found pieces of the turn signal and the passenger side mirror at the scene and they matched the parts that the vehicle was missing."
Mayo was also arrested on a warrant for driving with a suspended or revoked license. According to state records, her license was suspended in 2009 and 2010 for failing to pay traffic fines and last year she was cited for DUI.
She was booked into the Pinellas jail, where she was being held Tuesday in lieu of $52,250 bail.

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WHO MURDERED ANNE MARIE TINSLEY, 8, IN 1988?

ON APRIL 1, 1988, April Marie Tinsley vanished on her way home from school in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Despite a desperate manhunt for the 8-year-old cutie, it ended in tears on April 4, 1988 when her body was found in a ditch in southeastern DeKalb County. She had been raped and murdered. If you have any information on this heinous crime contact: Indiana State Police District Investigative Commander 5811 Ellison Road Fort Wayne, IN 46804 1-260-432-8661 or 1-800-552-0976.
America's Most Wanted has a superb report on this shocking case.
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WAS ROBYN GARDNER IN ON INSURANCE SCAM?

 WHEN party girl Robyn Gardner, 35, vanished during a sex trip to Aruba on August 2, police on the Caribbean island thought they had their man: her companion, Gary V. Giordano. But now it appears that he is going to be sprung tomorrow. Cops think he's lying but there is little evidence. Now, a new possibility has emerged: Was the blonde swinger in on her own "death"?
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NEW LEADS IN MELANIE MELANSON 1989 DISAPPEARANCE

'NEW LEADS'

SHE VANISHED over 21 years ago, but now a private detective believes that he has new leads in the mysterious disappearance of Melanie Melanson.
The 14-year-old was last seen at a high school party in a woods near her home in Woburn MA and then she vanished without trace.
But 22-years on P.I Michael Garrigan, who has worked the case from the very beginning says he has "credible leads" which could see people in the woods that night prosecuted.
He told Fox 25: "I developed some leads over the past year, we can’t discuss those at this time, but very credible leads from several sources.”
And with the help of trained cadaver dogs he hopes he's hoping to confirm that traces of human decomposition in the woods, which he believes hold the key to discovering the truth.  
It's not the first time that investigators have returned to the woods. Detectives launched a revitalized search in 2009, just before what would have been Melanie’s 35th birthday.
While Melanie’s parents have passed on, her aunts and other family members are standing watch over the new search.
Garrigan says he can’t share many details on the investigation, but says he believes the people he hopes will ultimately be prosecuted were absolutely in the woods on that October night.

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JENNIFER PERSIA, 16, MURDERED DURING '94 BURGLARY

 

JENNIFER PERSIA was just 16 when she was found murdered on the living room floor of her home in Magnolia, New Jersey. She had been stabbed multiple times and cops soon discovered containers of coins and silver certificates were missing. That was April 4, 1994. The case is still unsolved. For information leading to an arrest and conviction in the slaying of Jennifer Lynne Persia. Anyone with information should call the Camden County Prosecutor's Office hotline at (856) 225-8476 or e-mail tipline@co.camden.nj.us. Offering a REWARD of more than $15,000.  SEE THE CLIP ABOVE

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HOESCHELE THOMAS 2007 KILLER BUSTED

THOMAS

HE was a loving father in the wrong place at the wrong time, but now four years on cops say they've caught Hoeschele Thomas's killer.
The 48-year-old was minding his own business outside his Largo, FL home when a vehicle approached him and the guys inside asked him if he wanted to buy drugs.
When he refused, an argument erupted and someone in the car blasted him.
The case went cold until Detective John Spoor began reviewing the case again this summer and was able to make a connection between the weapon used in Thomas' murder and one used in a drive-by shooting that occurred several weeks later.
And that weapon was in the hands of Lloyd Neal, 22, who is already serving a life sentence at the Taylor Correctional Institution in Perry for a 2007 Clearwater murder case.
When the diligent lawman interviewed several people who confirmed Neal shot Thomas and bragged about it, the sheriff's office said.
Thomas' family told The Tampa Tribune they are pleased to hear the news.
Thomas' son, Hoeschele Thomas Jr said: "It has been hard, and I don't have a father figure in my life. I had to be a man on my own."

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