Texsox Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Link This week marks the 40th anniversary of D.B. Cooper's infamous "skyjacking" of a Northwest Airlines jet for $200,000--and Cooper's no-less-infamous vanishing act in the wake of the caper. Every few years a new lead in the case emerges, only to disappear into legend like Cooper himself. Pacific Northwest author Matt Love recently created a new ripple in the seemingly endless cache of fascinating Cooper trivia. Love has unearthed a rare book from an Oregon publisher that claims to be the memoir of Cooper himself: In 1983, a publisher from Jefferson called Signum Books Ltd. released a 330-page book titled "HA-HA-HA." The cover features a drawing of a man in a suit holding a briefcase while parachuting from a commercial jetliner. The back cover features a graphic of a certificate announcing a contest called "Your Big Score." The certificate's first sentence reads: "It's true. In this book are seven clues. By reading it carefully and discovering the clues, one could receive as much as $200,000 in twenty dollar bills." The book's author is D.B. Cooper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I have always been fascinated by this case, but I have never heard of this book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 I am 85% convinced he is dead, but it seems like there is just enough evidence to make me wonder . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 The most believable of the survival storylines that I have read had him dying of natural causes a few years back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 I should have said, I am 85% that the dive killed him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman delivers Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 The one episode of Decoded that was dedicated to him makes a pretty damn good case for who D.B. Cooper really was. Their best guess was an employee of an airline, but the guy died a while before it. I can't recall his name, but it made perfect sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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