D.B COOPER MYSTERY: DID HIJACKER PUBLISH MEMOIR??

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THE MYSTERIOUS crook who pulled off America's biggest hijacking may have released a memoir, taunting authorities about his audacious crime.  

The newly unearthed autobiography, tauntingly called "HA-HA-HA" has a drawing of a man in a suit holding a briefcase while parachuting from a jet.  

The author claims to be D.B Cooper - the name given by the mystery passenger who escaped with $200,000 during the 1971 crime.  As we reported here the man waited until the Northwest Orient Airlines 727 flight took off before the man who gave his name as Dan, handed a flight attendant a note: 'Miss, I've got a bomb, come sit next to me — you're being hijacked.'
He then opened a briefcase that appeared to contain explosives and demanded $200,000 and parachutes.

With little choice officials met his demands when the plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where passengers and two flight attendants were released.
The man in 18F then ordered the flight crew to take the plane back into the air, insisting that it fly at an altitude of no more than 10,000 feet on its way to Mexico through Reno, Nevada.

About 40 minutes after take-off, a signal light in the cockpit showed that the plane's rear stairway had been extended and when the jet landed in Reno, the stairs were down and two parachutes, the money and Cooper were gone.
Within the book's 330 pages, the author recounts his life prior to the hijacking, as a failed real-estate developer, heavy drinker and petty thief.
He explains how he pulled off the heist on November 24, 1971 - in part by having rented a house and a gassed car nearby where he landed near Pyramid Lake - and says he invested his ransom money in Boeing and silver, becoming very wealthy as a result.
The 1983 book from a Jefferson, Oregon publisher called Signum Books Ltd originally sold for $3.95, although a recent search by the outlet found only three copies for sale to date - each for around $30. 
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.'

With so little known about the hijacker some believe the hijacker may have died following the 10,000 leap.
But no body has ever been found and few other signs of his fate have been discovered, so he continues to remain a mystery.

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MICHAEL WEST SLAIN, GIRLFRIEND GANG RAPED IN '71

ON DEC. 24, 1971, Michael West, 17, and his girlfriend, 16, were abducted from Miami's Cutler Ridge Mall area by a trio of black males and taken to another area of the city. There, Michael was murdered and his girlfriend raped and shot in the head to the point of near death. Cops say West and his female companion were walking in and around the mall when they were approached by three black males who forced the victim and his companion inside their vehicle. The subjects transported the victims to the area of S.W. 107 Avenue and S.W. 225 Street where the female was gang raped by the three black male subjects. After the assault both victims were shot in the head. The female victim survived her wounds and alerted authorities. Michael died. They were doing some window shopping after a high school dance.

Anyone with information concerning this crime is requested to call Crime Stoppers at
(305) 471-8477, or send an email to hominfo@mdpd.com.

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NEW LEAD IN 1971 D.B COOPER HIJACKING CASE

HIJACKER

FBI agents have an astonishing new lead in the D.B Cooper skyjacking case just over 40 years after his amazing heist.
During the audacious crime, which could have come straight out of a movie, back in 1971, the man jumped up on the Northwest Orient Airlines 727 flight, shortly after it took of from Portland, telling terrified passengers, he had a bomb.
Then after landing at Seattle Airport, the man who gave his name as Dan Cooper, exchanged the terrified passengers for a huge $200,000 ransom, before forcing the pilots to take off and head for Mexico.
But he never made it south of the border, as at some point during the flight, he parachuted out the plane, never to be seen again.
Now four decades later, G-men think a tip from a fellow law enforcement member has led them to a person who might have helpful information on the brazen hijacker.      
Amy Sandalo, told the Seattle Times it was the "most promising lead we have right now," but cautioned that investigators were not on the verge of breaking the case.
She added that an item belonging to the man was sent to a lab in Quantico, VA. for forensic testing. However, she did not provide specifics about the item or the man's identity.
Investigators have checked more than 1,000 leads since the suspect bailed out on Nov. 24, 1971, over the Pacific Northwest, to no avail.

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