Who Was DB Cooper, the Man Who Stole $1.4 Million and Vanished Without a Trace?

Jack Coffelt was a conman, an ex-convict, and a chauffeur for Abraham Lincoln's great-grandson, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith. In 1972, Coffelt began claiming he was Cooper, intending to sell his story to a Hollywood production company. Coffelt, who bore a slight resemblance to composite drawings of Cooper, was reportedly in Portland on the day of the skyjacking and suffered injuries consistent with a jump from a plane.

While his story was temporarily convincing, FBI investigators later found that several details Coffelt provided about the incident were inconsistent with confidential information about Cooper's disappearance. Coffelt was quickly eliminated as a suspect and died in 1975.