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DB Cooper and the FBI: A Case Study of America's Only Unsolved Skyjacking
Special 50th Anniversary Issue
The 3rd Edition of DB Cooper and the FBI – A Case Study of America’s Only Unsolved Skyjacking is an updating of events since August 2016 when the FBI officially closed their investigation.
When the Bureau threw in the towel, two important dynamics were unleashed: First, the FBI no longer had absolute control over their paperwork and it became available to the public. Second, citizens and private sleuths took over the Cooper case in a robust fashion, unimpeded by any of the bureaucratic turgidity that had stymied the FBI’s 45-year quest. As a result, the veil covering the inner workings of the FBI has been lifted, and the public has engineered many exciting evidentiary breakthroughs. These include discovering springtime diatoms on ransom bills uncovered at Tina Bar in 1980, and identifying rare earth minerals and other exotic metals on the tie DB Cooper left on the plane.
In addition, two independent research groups have presented compelling suspects in the case, and have backed their announcements with a media blitz that has included two documentaries, several books, and a lawsuit against the FBI.
Further, Cliff Ammerman, the Air Traffic Controller who actually monitored the flight when Cooper jumped, has finally been interviewed, resulting in original and critical perspectives on the flight path and potential landing zones.
All of these aspects are discussed in detail in the 3rd Edition, along with many new photographs and maps, new and exclusive interviews with several passengers, and a full chapter on the fingerprints recovered from Cooper’s plane, which is a dimension of the case not discussed substantively in any other book on DB Cooper.
The 3rd Edition of DB Cooper and the FBI – A Case Study of America’s Only Unsolved Skyjacking is an updating of events since August 2016 when the FBI officially closed their investigation.
When the Bureau threw in the towel, two important dynamics were unleashed: First, the FBI no longer had absolute control over their paperwork and it became available to the public. Second, citizens and private sleuths took over the Cooper case in a robust fashion, unimpeded by any of the bureaucratic turgidity that had stymied the FBI’s 45-year quest. As a result, the veil covering the inner workings of the FBI has been lifted, and the public has engineered many exciting evidentiary breakthroughs. These include discovering springtime diatoms on ransom bills uncovered at Tina Bar in 1980, and identifying rare earth minerals and other exotic metals on the tie DB Cooper left on the plane.
In addition, two independent research groups have presented compelling suspects in the case, and have backed their announcements with a media blitz that has included two documentaries, several books, and a lawsuit against the FBI.
Further, Cliff Ammerman, the Air Traffic Controller who actually monitored the flight when Cooper jumped, has finally been interviewed, resulting in original and critical perspectives on the flight path and potential landing zones.
All of these aspects are discussed in detail in the 3rd Edition, along with many new photographs and maps, new and exclusive interviews with several passengers, and a full chapter on the fingerprints recovered from Cooper’s plane, which is a dimension of the case not discussed substantively in any other book on DB Cooper.
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First published March 17, 2015
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Bruce A. Smith
1 bookI've been an investigative journalist since 2006. First I wrote for the South Pierce Dispatch in Washington, and currently I'm the editor of the Mountain News-WA.
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November 29, 2022
By now, a lot of people know about the DB Cooper case. As far as unsolved crimes go, this one is a fascinating story because so little, in fact almost nothing, is known about the perpetrator and, by some estimates, he appears to have gotten away with the skyjacking. With so many unanswered questions, it inevitably attracts a large number of hobbyists, amateur sleuths, conspiracy theorists, and cranks. Of the latter category, it is tempting to include Bruce A. Smith, author of DB Cooper and the FBI: A Case Study of America’s Only Unsolved Skyjacking.
This book starts off with a standard account of the DB Cooper adventure. The day before Thanksgiving in 1971, a solitary man checked onto an airplane in Portland, Oregon. After the flight took off, he told a stewardess he had a bomb in his suitcase. He demanded the plane be grounded and also requested four parachutes and $200,000 in cash. The FBI handed over the money and parachutes, then the plane took off again in the direction of Mexico City. But en route to the Land of Manana, DB Cooper jumped out of the plane, disappearing into the freezing cold night. He and his money were never to be seen again, except for a small stash of bills that were found at a beach on the Columbia River seven years later. Ever since then, the skyjacker has been an endless source of fascination for certain kinds of people. The beginning of Smith’s book does an adequate job of telling the story, but this is no great literary feat. The same story has been told dozens of times in other books so no new ground is broken here.
From there, the author tracks down other people who might have knowledge of the case including FBI officers and other authors who have covered the DB Cooper case. Things start to get a little creepy while he stalks Tina Mucklow, the stewardess who spent the most time with Cooper during the flight. At this point, the author’s sanity comes into question. He not only stalks this woman, who clearly wants to be left alone, but he also states his pet theory that she and everyone else in the Cooper case were part of a brainwashing program conducted by the CIA.
From there a big chunk of the book is dedicated to people who have either admitted to being DB Cooper or have been identified by family members as the unknown skyjacker. Yes, believe it or not, there have been hundreds of people who were suspected of this crime by their own families. Some of the evidence is as flimsy as can possibly be; typically some dysfunctional family in rural Washington or Oregon wonders why Uncle Joe unexpectedly didn’t show up for Thanksgiving and then they later found out he had gone on a gambling spree in Las Vegas or something like that. People who admitted to being Cooper are no more promising. The most interesting one was a transgendered pilot who supposedly carried out the skyjacking for therapeutic reasons; after having the surgery, he needed to do something macho to feel like the transition to manhood was complete. The evidence linking this lady who became a dude is flimsy. The author takes himself pretty seriously when stating that this pilot and Cooper could have been the same because both of them wore loafers and smoked cigarettes. I could never imagine this kind of evidence being considered admissible in court.
Then we get to the really kooky stuff. Smith presents his conspiracy theory that DB Cooper was a participant in the CIA’s MKUltra mind control experiments. I guess they wanted to brainwash people into skyjacking commercial American airliners for some incomprehensible purpose and DB Cooper happened to be their most successful experiment. He entertains the thought that this was done to force the privately owned airline companies into taking safety a little more seriously. There is also something about Cooper’s clip-on tie, which he left behind before parachuting into the wilderness. Smith believes that everyone who has come into physical contact with the tie has developed amnesia regarding details of the case via post-hypnotic suggestion. There is also a lot about clandestine military operations in the Vietnam War and an FBI plot to avoid solving the case to cover up the activities of the CIA. To Smith’s credit, at least he is man enough to admit that he has no evidence to support any of this bunk.
But then it gets even weirder. Bruce Smith, admitting to being a member of the Ramtha the Enlightened One cult in Washington, has some meditation and hypnotherapy sessions in which he claims to meet DB Cooper somewhere in the afterlife. This doesn’t yield any useful information, except that it vaguely justifies the author’s conspiracy theories. I suppose DB Cooper was some kind of supernatural being from another dimension and the author has pursued him so vigorously because he thinks of him as some kind of long-lost (imaginary) friend.
At least the author was smart enough to save his most loony ideas for the end. He is probably sane enough to know that he would lose any of his more skeptical readers if he had mentioned that stuff in the beginning. Then again, maybe he just thought he was saving the best parts for last, thereby making a horrible miscalculation. To be fair, the majority of the book is about relaying information he found during his own research. He presents his ideas clearly and in an orderly fashion which is great if you’re writing something for a freshman composition class. But for the world outside of community college writing classes, the ideas presented need to carry a little more weight to be plausible unless you are a conspiracy theories or a religious nut. The conspiracy theories and mysticism might appeal to other cranks, but for people who actually want a realistic theory of what happened with DB Cooper, this information just ruins the whole book which was nothing exceptional to begin with.
DB Cooper and the FBI is not the best book to read if you want to learn about this skyjacking. There are plenty of other books on the subject and most of them are shorter too because they aren’t bulked up with nonsense. Actually, all the facts that are known are readily available on the DB Cooper Wikipedia page. In the end, this book is more like a chronicle of a Ramtha cult member who spends too much time going down internet rabbit holes and associating with too many other online kooks.
If you really want to know who DB Cooper was and what happened to him after he jumped out of the plane with the money, you aren’t going to find the answers here. You aren’t going to find them anywhere because there isn’t enough evidence to solve the case and it happened so long ago that the surfacing of new evidence is extremely unlikely. But this is the appeal of it all. Just reading the story will make you try to fit the pieces together and fill in the blanks while the uncomfortable lack of closure will leave you wondering about it for long stretches of time. In the end, my gut feeling is that DB Cooper survived the jump and escaped with most of the money, but then again, I am the kind of person who places little value on gut feelings. Maybe DB Cooper lost all his money in a poker game with Bigfoot. My personal theory is that DB Cooper and Thomas Pynchon are the same man.
This book starts off with a standard account of the DB Cooper adventure. The day before Thanksgiving in 1971, a solitary man checked onto an airplane in Portland, Oregon. After the flight took off, he told a stewardess he had a bomb in his suitcase. He demanded the plane be grounded and also requested four parachutes and $200,000 in cash. The FBI handed over the money and parachutes, then the plane took off again in the direction of Mexico City. But en route to the Land of Manana, DB Cooper jumped out of the plane, disappearing into the freezing cold night. He and his money were never to be seen again, except for a small stash of bills that were found at a beach on the Columbia River seven years later. Ever since then, the skyjacker has been an endless source of fascination for certain kinds of people. The beginning of Smith’s book does an adequate job of telling the story, but this is no great literary feat. The same story has been told dozens of times in other books so no new ground is broken here.
From there, the author tracks down other people who might have knowledge of the case including FBI officers and other authors who have covered the DB Cooper case. Things start to get a little creepy while he stalks Tina Mucklow, the stewardess who spent the most time with Cooper during the flight. At this point, the author’s sanity comes into question. He not only stalks this woman, who clearly wants to be left alone, but he also states his pet theory that she and everyone else in the Cooper case were part of a brainwashing program conducted by the CIA.
From there a big chunk of the book is dedicated to people who have either admitted to being DB Cooper or have been identified by family members as the unknown skyjacker. Yes, believe it or not, there have been hundreds of people who were suspected of this crime by their own families. Some of the evidence is as flimsy as can possibly be; typically some dysfunctional family in rural Washington or Oregon wonders why Uncle Joe unexpectedly didn’t show up for Thanksgiving and then they later found out he had gone on a gambling spree in Las Vegas or something like that. People who admitted to being Cooper are no more promising. The most interesting one was a transgendered pilot who supposedly carried out the skyjacking for therapeutic reasons; after having the surgery, he needed to do something macho to feel like the transition to manhood was complete. The evidence linking this lady who became a dude is flimsy. The author takes himself pretty seriously when stating that this pilot and Cooper could have been the same because both of them wore loafers and smoked cigarettes. I could never imagine this kind of evidence being considered admissible in court.
Then we get to the really kooky stuff. Smith presents his conspiracy theory that DB Cooper was a participant in the CIA’s MKUltra mind control experiments. I guess they wanted to brainwash people into skyjacking commercial American airliners for some incomprehensible purpose and DB Cooper happened to be their most successful experiment. He entertains the thought that this was done to force the privately owned airline companies into taking safety a little more seriously. There is also something about Cooper’s clip-on tie, which he left behind before parachuting into the wilderness. Smith believes that everyone who has come into physical contact with the tie has developed amnesia regarding details of the case via post-hypnotic suggestion. There is also a lot about clandestine military operations in the Vietnam War and an FBI plot to avoid solving the case to cover up the activities of the CIA. To Smith’s credit, at least he is man enough to admit that he has no evidence to support any of this bunk.
But then it gets even weirder. Bruce Smith, admitting to being a member of the Ramtha the Enlightened One cult in Washington, has some meditation and hypnotherapy sessions in which he claims to meet DB Cooper somewhere in the afterlife. This doesn’t yield any useful information, except that it vaguely justifies the author’s conspiracy theories. I suppose DB Cooper was some kind of supernatural being from another dimension and the author has pursued him so vigorously because he thinks of him as some kind of long-lost (imaginary) friend.
At least the author was smart enough to save his most loony ideas for the end. He is probably sane enough to know that he would lose any of his more skeptical readers if he had mentioned that stuff in the beginning. Then again, maybe he just thought he was saving the best parts for last, thereby making a horrible miscalculation. To be fair, the majority of the book is about relaying information he found during his own research. He presents his ideas clearly and in an orderly fashion which is great if you’re writing something for a freshman composition class. But for the world outside of community college writing classes, the ideas presented need to carry a little more weight to be plausible unless you are a conspiracy theories or a religious nut. The conspiracy theories and mysticism might appeal to other cranks, but for people who actually want a realistic theory of what happened with DB Cooper, this information just ruins the whole book which was nothing exceptional to begin with.
DB Cooper and the FBI is not the best book to read if you want to learn about this skyjacking. There are plenty of other books on the subject and most of them are shorter too because they aren’t bulked up with nonsense. Actually, all the facts that are known are readily available on the DB Cooper Wikipedia page. In the end, this book is more like a chronicle of a Ramtha cult member who spends too much time going down internet rabbit holes and associating with too many other online kooks.
If you really want to know who DB Cooper was and what happened to him after he jumped out of the plane with the money, you aren’t going to find the answers here. You aren’t going to find them anywhere because there isn’t enough evidence to solve the case and it happened so long ago that the surfacing of new evidence is extremely unlikely. But this is the appeal of it all. Just reading the story will make you try to fit the pieces together and fill in the blanks while the uncomfortable lack of closure will leave you wondering about it for long stretches of time. In the end, my gut feeling is that DB Cooper survived the jump and escaped with most of the money, but then again, I am the kind of person who places little value on gut feelings. Maybe DB Cooper lost all his money in a poker game with Bigfoot. My personal theory is that DB Cooper and Thomas Pynchon are the same man.
February 6, 2020
So... obviously.... the remote viewing chapter is off the rails. And there are other chapters of dubious importance. There's a good hunk of speculation and shoulder shrugging. So, you're wading through that but at the same time you're going to learn a lot too. Be ready for a homespun, small town journalist style.
While learning about the case... and this is true of the podcasts too... it's about the case but it's also a bit of a journey through some odd 1970s Americana, with the stories of all the suspects and copycats. I find that enjoyable.
While learning about the case... and this is true of the podcasts too... it's about the case but it's also a bit of a journey through some odd 1970s Americana, with the stories of all the suspects and copycats. I find that enjoyable.
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November 30, 2021This is a link to the old 2nd edition. There is a new, better 3rd edition.
At Amazon it's https://www.amazon.com/DB-COOPER-FBI-...
From the author:
The 3rd Edition of DB Cooper and the FBI - A Case Study of America's Only Unsolved Skyjacking is an updating of events since August 2016 when the FBI officially closed their investigation.
When the Bureau threw in the towel, two important dynamics were unleashed: First, the FBI no longer had absolute control over their paperwork and it became available to the public. Second, citizens and private sleuths took over the Cooper case in a robust fashion, unimpeded by any of the bureaucratic turgidity that had stymied the FBI's 45-year quest. As a result, the veil covering the inner workings of the FBI has been lifted, and the public has engineered many exciting evidentiary breakthroughs. These include discovering springtime diatoms on ransom bills uncovered at Tina Bar in 1980, and identifying rare earth minerals and other exotic metals on the tie DB Cooper left on the plane.
In addition, two independent research groups have presented compelling suspects in the case, and have backed their announcements with a media blitz that has included two documentaries, several books, and a lawsuit against the FBI.
Further, Cliff Ammerman, the Air Traffic Controller who actually monitored the flight when Cooper jumped, has finally been interviewed, resulting in original and critical perspectives on the flight path and potential landing zones.
All of these aspects are discussed in detail in the 3rd Edition, along with many new photographs and maps, new and exclusive interviews with several passengers, and a full chapter on the fingerprints recovered from Cooper's plane, which is a dimension of the case not discussed substantively in any other book on DB Cooper.
At Amazon it's https://www.amazon.com/DB-COOPER-FBI-...
From the author:
The 3rd Edition of DB Cooper and the FBI - A Case Study of America's Only Unsolved Skyjacking is an updating of events since August 2016 when the FBI officially closed their investigation.
When the Bureau threw in the towel, two important dynamics were unleashed: First, the FBI no longer had absolute control over their paperwork and it became available to the public. Second, citizens and private sleuths took over the Cooper case in a robust fashion, unimpeded by any of the bureaucratic turgidity that had stymied the FBI's 45-year quest. As a result, the veil covering the inner workings of the FBI has been lifted, and the public has engineered many exciting evidentiary breakthroughs. These include discovering springtime diatoms on ransom bills uncovered at Tina Bar in 1980, and identifying rare earth minerals and other exotic metals on the tie DB Cooper left on the plane.
In addition, two independent research groups have presented compelling suspects in the case, and have backed their announcements with a media blitz that has included two documentaries, several books, and a lawsuit against the FBI.
Further, Cliff Ammerman, the Air Traffic Controller who actually monitored the flight when Cooper jumped, has finally been interviewed, resulting in original and critical perspectives on the flight path and potential landing zones.
All of these aspects are discussed in detail in the 3rd Edition, along with many new photographs and maps, new and exclusive interviews with several passengers, and a full chapter on the fingerprints recovered from Cooper's plane, which is a dimension of the case not discussed substantively in any other book on DB Cooper.
August 15, 2016
Oh boy.
I knew I was in for it when the author begins to speculate early on that "powerful forces" within government might be interfering with the Dan Cooper investigation. From there it's MKULTRA mind control experiments by the CIA and military black ops and finally some astral projection for good measure.
But by far the most off-putting aspect of this book is the author's utter lack of self-awareness. He harasses a sixty-year old witness to the hijacking (even badgering the nuns at a convent she once stayed at) and claims the whole time he's simply concerned about her mental health. He believes he's entitled to other people's time and has convinced himself he's on an epic crusade in defense of Truth, Justice, and the American Way, rather than the gratification of his own ego. And all the while he tut-tuts about people caught up in the "Cooper vortex" of irrationality. Yeesh.
Whatever its failings might be, "Skyjack" by Geoffrey Gray (who, it is insinuated in this book, only got the kind of law enforcement access he got by being a stooge of the cover-up) is a superior take on the Cooper mythos.
I knew I was in for it when the author begins to speculate early on that "powerful forces" within government might be interfering with the Dan Cooper investigation. From there it's MKULTRA mind control experiments by the CIA and military black ops and finally some astral projection for good measure.
But by far the most off-putting aspect of this book is the author's utter lack of self-awareness. He harasses a sixty-year old witness to the hijacking (even badgering the nuns at a convent she once stayed at) and claims the whole time he's simply concerned about her mental health. He believes he's entitled to other people's time and has convinced himself he's on an epic crusade in defense of Truth, Justice, and the American Way, rather than the gratification of his own ego. And all the while he tut-tuts about people caught up in the "Cooper vortex" of irrationality. Yeesh.
Whatever its failings might be, "Skyjack" by Geoffrey Gray (who, it is insinuated in this book, only got the kind of law enforcement access he got by being a stooge of the cover-up) is a superior take on the Cooper mythos.
January 6, 2018
The unsolved mystery of the D B Cooper hijacking in 1971 has continued to fascinate and intrigue the public since it happened. In this book, journalist Bruce A. Smith continues the investigation as to what really happened and who D B Cooper really was. I did a great deal of research on the case for a young reader book about Cooper that I wrote in 2012, and I wish I had Smith's book at that time. It is the most comprehensive book about the case that I have read, and Smith's journalistic background makes it crisp and compelling reading. I highly recommend it to readers who are either already familiar with the Cooper case, or want the best introduction to both the hijacking and the investigation that followed-- and continues to follow-- it.
February 16, 2022
Not so much a Case Study as the Diary Of A Mentally Unbalanced Person. Starts off decent enough, just giving a narrative of the hijacking but even that loses its luster in later chapters as the author's credibility takes a swan dive and I began to wonder how closely he stuck to the facts. The majority of the book is mainly the author working on his own agenda to: a.) Try to justify the fact that he legitimately stalked an elderly woman, b.) Attempt to discredit or fling mud at any other competing researches or interview subjects who offended or refused to him him and finally c.) Document his "I'm getting to close to the truth" fantasy. The latter was especially hilarious because he appears to be the victim of hacking from one of his fellow researchers (something he admits to partaking in and is apparently common among these people) but of course he thinks it's the FBI and that he's getting too close to some huge coverup. It's pretty much inevitable that conspiracy theorist nuts reach this conclusion, in part it's their ego that leads them into these investigations in the first place and their ego usually supplies them with these types of fantasies as an antidote for failure. Every fake moon landing nut on YouTube thinks the CIA is after them for getting too close to the truth when they don't even understand basic physics.
The stalking of Tina Mucklow was disgusting to read. He admits to having a crush on her at one point in the book and later his attempts to track her down are just revolting to read. Her family and friends beg this guy to leave her alone but he just continues to harass them, even going so far as to show up to their places of work and interrupting them.... especially awful considering one of them was a mental health professional currently holding a session. She was rightly ticked off or else I imagine she may have offered the author a session for his own bundle of issues. So anyway he harasses friends, family and nuns until he finally tracks her down and harasses her. Taking photos of her from the bushes, trying to con her into talking to him by using tidbits of information he had learned about her from others. For instance he found out at one point she had taken care of a sick family member and so he's yelling through her door for her to talk to him because he too took care of a sick family member. When that didn't work he just starts lecturing her about truth and justice and guilt tripping her about not being on the side of justice. An absolutely sickening display of behavior that rightly earned him some grief from the Cooper community but he shrugs it off by asking how he could have possibly been more respectful or gentle. By doing none of what you did is how.
A huge chunk of the book is devoted to discussing debunked suspects. Does he do so because he feels there is some merit to their stories? No, he doesn't believe them at all it's seemingly just for the sake of calling out other authors/researchers who at one point or another championed that suspect. He spends the rest of the time blathering about FBI conspiracies, MK-ULTRA mind control and remote viewing. The only good thing I can say about this book is that I didn't have to pay for it, Amazon wisely included it for free on Kindle Unlimited though it would have been wiser to just ignore it. I don't even feel like I'm more knowledgeable about the case, both because I don't even know what I should believe from the pages and because he used the old conspiracy theorist tactic of trying to confuse people with pointless and unnecessary information in order to better advance the idea of a conspiracy theory. Bottom line is if you want to read a book about Cooper, I can't imagine a worse choice than this.
The stalking of Tina Mucklow was disgusting to read. He admits to having a crush on her at one point in the book and later his attempts to track her down are just revolting to read. Her family and friends beg this guy to leave her alone but he just continues to harass them, even going so far as to show up to their places of work and interrupting them.... especially awful considering one of them was a mental health professional currently holding a session. She was rightly ticked off or else I imagine she may have offered the author a session for his own bundle of issues. So anyway he harasses friends, family and nuns until he finally tracks her down and harasses her. Taking photos of her from the bushes, trying to con her into talking to him by using tidbits of information he had learned about her from others. For instance he found out at one point she had taken care of a sick family member and so he's yelling through her door for her to talk to him because he too took care of a sick family member. When that didn't work he just starts lecturing her about truth and justice and guilt tripping her about not being on the side of justice. An absolutely sickening display of behavior that rightly earned him some grief from the Cooper community but he shrugs it off by asking how he could have possibly been more respectful or gentle. By doing none of what you did is how.
A huge chunk of the book is devoted to discussing debunked suspects. Does he do so because he feels there is some merit to their stories? No, he doesn't believe them at all it's seemingly just for the sake of calling out other authors/researchers who at one point or another championed that suspect. He spends the rest of the time blathering about FBI conspiracies, MK-ULTRA mind control and remote viewing. The only good thing I can say about this book is that I didn't have to pay for it, Amazon wisely included it for free on Kindle Unlimited though it would have been wiser to just ignore it. I don't even feel like I'm more knowledgeable about the case, both because I don't even know what I should believe from the pages and because he used the old conspiracy theorist tactic of trying to confuse people with pointless and unnecessary information in order to better advance the idea of a conspiracy theory. Bottom line is if you want to read a book about Cooper, I can't imagine a worse choice than this.
March 22, 2021
As the subtitle says, this is a "case study" not really a book in the traditional sense so there should be no expectations as such ... all of the written accounts of the D.B. Cooper skyjacking are mixed with an element of nuttiness and as this "book" tries to summarize all of those attempts and provide a balancing voice it is valuable ... it is very straightforward and clinical and the author worked his ass off ... by the way, if you care, the Kindle version, from a formatting perspective, is a mess
January 27, 2021
This is a great book that details all of the suspects in the case. There is a lot of information on the crime also. I enjoyed the first half of the book and felt it was more informative.
March 20, 2023
When it comes to DB Cooper this is the Bible.
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May 19, 2025I want whatever he’s smoking!
January 1, 2016
This book reads like a Michael Moore documentary: constantly stirring up controversy and asking leading questions where the answers, if we knew them, are most likely benign. I was fascinated by the first dozen or so chapters that recounted the story of the hijacking, because I'd never really heard the full story, but after that it began to bore me to tears.
Ain't nobody got time fo dat.
I very much enjoyed the telling of the story, but I feel absolutely fine putting the book down unfinished. On to something more interesting than a reporters notes on who he bugged, where, when, and why, to not be able to answer the questions he's about to pose...
Ain't nobody got time fo dat.
I very much enjoyed the telling of the story, but I feel absolutely fine putting the book down unfinished. On to something more interesting than a reporters notes on who he bugged, where, when, and why, to not be able to answer the questions he's about to pose...
November 15, 2016
Really good until he gets into the hypnosis stuff, then laughably ridiculous!
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