Explores the airplane hijacker who parachuted to apparent safety with two hundred thousand dollars in 1971, explains how he eluded the police, and describes his life since the crime.
Today, the hijacking is the only unsolved air piracy case in the United States. Learn more in Investigating the D.B. Cooper Hijacking, a World’s Greatest Mysteries book.
Put on your detective hat and uncover the facts and myths about the D. B. Cooper hijacking.
This book is the story of a fictional character, an intelligent young man who becomes bitter at society and unlucky in love.
Somewhere along the way, he jumped. He was never found or identified. Forty-five years later, the FBI gave up the hunt. This book looks at the case from the perspective of a mathematician and pilot.
Or was it? But this book is more than a true-crime thriller. "DB Cooper and the FBI" reveals how law enforcement truly functions in our country, and so it delivers a measure of justice to the arrogant, the hubristic, and the guilty.
"Gray weaves a fascinating tale about one of the twentieth century's greatest unsolved mysteries. It's a page-turner. --USA Today"--Cover page 4.
Discusses the D.B. Cooper hijacking including what happened, Cooper's chances of survival, and different suspects in the case.
"On November 24, 1971, a man boarded a passenger plane in Portland, Oregon.
Almost forty years later, new evidence was uncovered when the case was finally opened up to a select group of amateur sleuths. Now, their findings have confirmed one of the scores of stories surrounding the hijacking.
John Wigger's gripping account of this period is based on fresh interviews and first-hand accounts from FBI agents, flight attendants, pilots, and passengers who were swept up in the heist and the hunt for the hijacker.