UFC legend Chael Sonnen aka The American Gangster, revealed in an interview that he learned who DB Cooper was before he died four years ago.
“He’s my sister’s godfather, yeah. He’s just a regular guy,” the UFC legend shared.
“But your parents know him?” an interviewer asked Sonnen.
“Yep. Mhmm.” “He’s dead now. He’s dead now, but it was a big deal. It was a big deal at the time. Then every 10 years someone comes up with a new story on DB Cooper. Netflix just came out with one. They never have any new information,” Sonnen said. “They never have any new no information. It’s the same information and then you get a new producer that comes along.”
“There was a couple things [of new information]. The flight attendant said he was Hispanic. And she told that from day one and the FBI was always putting out composite drawings and they would always have him as a caucasian,” Sonnen said. “And she would tell anyone that would listen, which wasn’t very many people, you know there was no Internet, there was no Facebook when this happened, she had a hard time getting an audience but [to] anybody that would listen she said, ‘I don’t think he’s Caucasian, I think he’s Hispanic,’ and he’s Indian.”
Sonnen shared more information which detailed Cooper’s landing onto Native American land with which he was intimately familiar.
“They never found him. They never found the money. What they tried to say was that well he would have died. He jumped into this forest and between the wolves and the bears and the fall itself, he would have died. But what they didn’t understand is, and it relates back to his ethnicity of being Indian, is that was all government land; tens of thousands of acres that backed to Native land. So he jumped into his own backyard. He jumped into where he camped every single [summer], he knew exactly where he was,” Sonnen stated.
‘Oh, Native American,’ the podcast host said, who mistakenly thought Sonnen meant that Cooper was descended from India proper.
Sonnen had his own theoretical addition to this new intel in the legendary DB Cooper case.
“I think he had a motorcycle. That part is my [speculation and] me making that up because he used to race motorcycles. I think he had a motorcycle down and drive right home. It’s only a three-hour drive,” he said.
“I’ve spoken to him many times. I wasn’t even born until 27 years after this happened [but] he was my sister’s godfather, yeah.”
“How was it disclosed to you that he was DB Cooper?” the podcast host asked.
“Well, my aunt told me. My aunt told me that he was DB Cooper and my aunt asked him-They’re from a really small hometown, maybe I jumped in a little late on this story. They’re from a very small hometown.”
“Most of them have never been on an airplane. A lot of them have never even seen an airplane. This guy was taking skydiving lessons. This would be the hottest thing from this town. ‘You’re jumping out of an airplane?’ and he didn’t tell anyone. He was having this very private lessons.”
“My aunt said to him, ‘Are you DB cooper?’ They were having dinner. Lee’s kitchen at 12th and Oregon. And he said no. He said no. But everything got weird. The whole table got really weird. It was my mom and dad, my aunt and uncle, he and his wife,” Chael revealed.
“A couple days later he went over to my uncle’s house and he said, ‘ Hey, about what she asked me,’ and my he said, ‘she’s not the only one who’s pout this together. The FBI has already been to my house,” Sonnen shared. “So, he went into hiding. which is, all he did was go to Arizona.”
“He went to Arizona for about seven years and he came back. He ended up passing away about four years ago.”
“He was a night watchman was what he did. Then he came into these shotguns- he was into these over-under shotguns that were expensive and ‘four wheelers and a motorhome. There just started being these toys that all of a sudden popped up and my parents noticed and said ‘Hey man, where’s this coming from?’”
“He told them he got Indian money. He said because I’m Native every year I get money, which is true. He had enough Native blood and that came out too but that was $1200 a year so it just didn’t cover the spread so they were like ‘[It’s] DB Cooper.'“
D.B. Cooper was the pseudonym used by the most famous hijacker of all-time, who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft set for Seattle, Washington, to Portland, Oregon on November 24th, 1971.
Cooper told a flight attendant he had a bomb strapped to himself and demanded $200,000 in ransom and two parachutes. After release of the passengers in Seattle, Cooper told the flight crew to head to Mexico City after a fuel stop in Reno, Nevada, but jumped over southwestern Washington 30 minutes after take-off from Seattle.
“Cooper was not nervous. He seemed rather nice and he was not cruel or nasty.”
Crew of Flight 305 after arrival in Reno from left to right: Captain William Scott, Co-pilot Bill Rataczak, Flight Attendant Tina Mucklow, and Flight Engineer Harold E. Anderson.
Sonnen, who opined that the elusive Cooper made it home “in time for dinner,” was not the only person who thought that the unidentified man got away with the 747 hijacking cleanly.
In 1986 an FBI Agent allegedly told The Seattle Times, “I think [he] made it. I think he slept in his own bed that night. It was a clear night. A lot of the country is pretty flat…he could have just walked out. Right down the road. Hell, they weren’t even looking for him there at the time. They thought he was somewhere else. He could just walk down the road.”
Although Sonnen stated that he “almost nobody” was interested in hearing the testimonial of the female flight attendant, another passenger, Robert Gregory, described Cooper has 5’ 9” (1.75m) tall and thought him to be of Mexican-American or Native American (American Indian) descent.
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