By Tim Binnall
An indefatigable D.B. Cooper researcher believes that he knows where the famed skyjacker ditched his parachute over 50 years ago and will soon launch a new search for the long-lost evidence. The intriguing endeavor is reportedly being spearheaded by Eric Ulis, who asserts that an air traffic controller from the night the 1971 caper provided previously unknown details about the incident which steered him towards a spot in Washington state. Specifically, the Cooper sleuth contends that the skyjacker likely left his parachute in a trench not too far from where some of the money from the case was later found along a river bank.
"It is clear to me that D.B. Cooper actually landed much closer to the 1980 money find spot than originally believed," the researcher explained to a local TV station, "I am absolutely certain that the heavy parachute D.B. Cooper jumped with is still near where the man landed 52 years ago." This coming Thursday, Ulis and a search team plan to scour the trench, which he describes as particularly "treacherous." While the prospect of finding such a tantalizing piece of evidence from the decades-old cold case may sound rather far-fetched, the researcher expressed remarkable confidence in the effort, declaring that "we are searching in the correct area and will find the parachute."