The Nation - News from Sept. 13, 1989

John Emil List, who faces charges of murdering five members of his family before disappearing in 1971, is not the infamous airliner hijacker D.B. Cooper, investigators said in Elizabeth, N.J. Frank Marranca, a captain of detectives with the Union County prosecutor’s office, said investigators have found nothing to tie List to the man who jumped out of an airliner and into the nation’s folklore two weeks after List vanished. List disappeared around Nov. 9, 1971, after allegedly murdering his wife, mother and three children in his Westfield, N.J., home. He was apprehended earlier this year in Richmond, Va., from information supplied by a viewer of the television program “America’s Most Wanted.” Cooper disappeared Nov. 24, 1971, when he hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 and took $200,000 before parachuting over southwest Washington.