Oscar Zeta Acosta
Benicio Del Toro portrayed him in the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Oscar Zeta Acosta was a Mexican-American lawyer and activist in Las Vegas. Despite leading a bizarre lifestyle as depicted in the cult classic film, Acosta vanished in 1974 while traveling through Mexico at 39.
Oscar Zeta Acosta
D.B. Cooper
He may not have been famous before his disappearance, but he sure is now. D.B. Cooper isn’t even his real name – it’s a version of his fake name, Dan Cooper. He used the name when he bought a plane ticket. The media reported his name as D.B. Cooper and it stuck. Anyways, on November 24th, 1971, Cooper was on a plane traveling from Portland to Seattle. He showed a flight attendant a note and a bomb. He demanded the plane land and he get $200,000 and some parachutes. The plane landed, the money was collected along with the parachutes, and the passengers were let off. Then, the plane took off again, and Cooper strapped on a parachute, took his money, and jumped. Investigators have said he was unlikely to survive the jump since he was inexperienced and the conditions were poor that day. All the same, neither his body nor the money have ever been found.
D.B. Cooper
