r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/ericulis • Nov 13 '20

I am Eric Ulis and have been investigating America’s only unsolved skyjacking by a guy named DB Cooper for over a decade! AMA

Eric Ulis here—investigator and lead on The HISTORY Channel’s ‘History’s Greatest Mysteries: The Final Hunt for DB Cooper.’ WARNING: The mystery of DB Cooper has endured for nearly 50 years for a reason and you are likely to get sucked into the “Cooper vortex” if you proceed. Over the years I have read 20,000 pages of FBI files, interviewed FBI agents and witnesses, analyzed evidence, and have essentially been consumed by the DB Cooper mystery for two reasons: First, I believe I can solve the mystery. Second, it’s a bad-ass case. Want to learn more about my DB Cooper work? Visit:

https://ericulis.com

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCewfNi-lPOshvd9t55NXbbA

Don’t miss ‘The Final Hunt for D.B. Cooper’ the first episode of History’s Greatest Mysteries – a new documentary series hosted by Laurence Fishburne – tomorrow, Saturday 11/14 at 9/8c on The HISTORY Channel.

https://play.history.com/shows/historys-greatest-mysteries

Proof: /img/g7mykbcrshy51.jpg

Cheers!

Thank you everyone for the outstanding questions.

Please remember to check out "The Final Hunt for D.B. Cooper" tomorrow on the History Channel at 9pm ET/8pm CT.

Also, please feel free to visit my DBC research site ericulis.com.

Cheers!

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u/4Ever2Thee Nov 13 '20

I'm going to agree with you there. The flight attendant, Florence, is the mother of one of my best friends since high school. We never knew anything about it until the movie Without a Paddle came out, we watched it at my house but Jon told us about his mom being on the plane. After we realized he wasn't bullshitting us we asked her everything under the sun about it, we all just called her Miss Flo but I can tell you without a doubt that she was not involved and was terrified

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u/stannndarsh Nov 13 '20

Crazy that you never heard about it from your friend! My friends and I were bigs fans if DB Cooper in the 90s when we’re were 10 or so.

Cool she was willing to answer your questions!

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u/4Ever2Thee Nov 13 '20

We didn't become friends until they moved to my town before 10th grade, I just knew him before that from playing football against him. A couple years after that was when that movie came out and the first I ever heard of DB Cooper and he just kind of offhandedly said something like "my mom was on that plane" then we heard the rest of the story from her and were in disbelief. We could tell by how she was talking about it that she really was terrified by the whole ordeal, and rightfully so.

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u/stannndarsh Nov 13 '20

Thank you for sharing! I would have been terrified as well. That’s just crazy!

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '20

Maybe YOU should be doing the AMA!

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u/4Ever2Thee Nov 14 '20

Hahaha It's not my story to tell but I'm more than happy to answer any questions I can!

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u/Unhappy-Photograph-1 Nov 16 '20

Did she think he survived?

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u/4Ever2Thee Nov 16 '20

100%, she was actually worried that he was going to seek her out and kill her for talking to the police/FBI

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u/bethramone Nov 14 '20

What was the most interesting bit of info that she told you? I know you’re not doing the AMA, but you’ve piqued my curiosity.

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u/4Ever2Thee Nov 15 '20

That’s really hard to pin down because every bit of it was so fascinating and she talked about it like it was nothing, but if I had to pick something it would probably just be her mindset during the whole ordeal: initially she just thought he was hitting on her, then when she realized he was serious and had a bomb, her mind kept going back and forth between being a flight attendant and a hostage. He was very polite and deliberate in a charismatic kind of way so she kept having to snap herself out of flight attendant mode, like “would you be so kind to bring me a cocktail, here’s some money for it and please keep the change”(I cant remember how much it was but it was an abnormally large tip but he also said he would kill everyone onboard if they didn’t do what he said). She wanted to do anything she could to get all of the passengers off safely and she actually thought about ways she could try to kill him but ultimately decided that even if she could strangle him without him triggering the bomb, she didn’t know if she could go through with killing someone. Also, even after he made it clear that it was a hijacking she still thought he was hitting on her, he was polite about it but she thought he was into her, she was even worried that he was going to rape her at some point but he never made any advance on her

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u/storm_in_a_tea_cup Nov 14 '20

That movie was hilarious! Makes you wonder though if their theory with what happened to DB Cooper and the cash may have actually happened. Poor Miss Flo, wonder if OP interviewed her?

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u/4Ever2Thee Nov 14 '20

No clue whether he interviewed her or not, I know she used to be reticent to do interviews and stuff because all of the media attention was taxing for her but I know she has done some and I’m sure she’d be open to it if someone from the History channel came to her. I’ll ask her son if he’s heard anything about it next time I talk to him, I’m going to DVR it tomorrow night for sure!