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

REAL?

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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NEW HOPE AS TIP REOPENS KATIE SEEFELDT CASE

AGE PROGRESSED

AGE 12

SHE was a naughty, grounded, 12-year-old girl when she vanished without trace back in October 2002.
Today she would be 21, but the mystery surrounding her disappearance remains.
Investigators once believed Katie Seefeldt may have run away, but but now after what officers are calling a credible tip in the case deputies have begun searching for bones.
The night of her disappearance Katie answered the phone and told the whoever it was at the end of the line: "You guys know I can't have phone calls this late, and if you continue to call me, my mom is going to keep me grounded longer."
Her mother Sholly Seefeldt said when she woke up the next morning, her daughter and a lot of her new clothes were gone.
Sholly told KMBC: "She was very outgoing and loving," adding that knew her daughter was also pushing the boundaries.
"I wanted her not to be the wild child that I was, which she kind of resented me for that."
For some time deputies had thought she had run away from her Kansas City, MO, home but now they're digging for bones.
They have been searching the general area for a couple of weeks and have narrowed their search to more specific spots, digging about 18 inches into the soil for bones or other clues.
Sholly added: "I had a bad feeling in my gut. There was nothing really bad between us.

I love her with all my heart, with all my soul," 

Anyone who knows anything about her whereabouts is asked to call the Jackson County Sheriff's Office at 816-524-4302 or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.

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NO NEWS IN ANCHOR JODI HUISENTRUIT'S VANISHING

MYSTERY

SHE was a popular TV news anchor who simply vanished one morning in a mystery which has baffled cops and the general public for more than 16-years.
Cops believe there was a struggle before Jodi Huisentruit disappeared as her car keys were left in the parking lot along with a single shoe.
But although they suspect foul play may have been involved, no body has ever been found for the KIMT reporter, although she was legally declared dead in 2001.
Now a new book from former fellow TV personality Beth Bednar is raising new questions about the disturbing case and she's accusing cops in Mason City, IA, of not investigating properly.
She told KEYC that Dead Air:  The Disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit includes new leads which investigator's have yet to follow up.
She said: "I remember hearing about the case.  I followed a lot of the media as well, and her sister actually lived next door to my grandmother.
"I think someone knows something, I think perhaps more than one knows a lot more than they are telling. There are certain things that I wrote about in the book that the police never investigated adequately."
She also claims to have interviewed a woman who claimed she was in the vicinity at the time when Huinsentruit went missing and claimed to have relevant information to the case adding that supposed information was never followed up on by police.
She said: "It was a curious amount of secrecy in Mason City when I was talking to people about her disappearance, it is still very hush hush."
She also hopes information in this book will shed light on the case and play a role in reopening it.

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AMBER ELIZABETH SCHOLZ STILL A MYSTERY 30-YEARS ON

WITHOUT TRACE

IT'S been 30-years since she vanished, but cops are refusing to give up on the case of Amber Elizabeth Scholz. 

On November 8, 1981 the gorgeous 21-year-old had been partying with pals and was dropped of by a friend at her Rock Spring, WY apartment. 

She was never seen again. 

Scholz's father called the police when he was unable to reach his daughter later that day, but when officers called round, there was no sign of forced entry or a struggle. 

A police source said: "It's a genuine mystery. There was nothing out of the ordinary about her home and her friends said she seemed fine when they dropped her off.
"We'll not let this case go though. It will always remain open and we want to solve it, as much as anything to find out what happened."

Oddly however, while they found her wallet and an uncashed paycheck her car, a 1971 Oldsmobile two-door couple with WY plates, 4-93AW was gone. 

It has never been recovered.

 At the time she was involved in a custody battle over her son with her ex-husband, but there was never any suggestion that he was involved in her death.

Anyone with information on this case, please contact the Rock Springs Police Department on 307 352 1575.

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NO CLUES IN 1971 JOHNNIE HERRERA DISAPPEARANCE

JOE HERRERA says he hasn't had a decent birthday since his twin brother vanished in 1971. Johnnie Herrera vanished from Oxnard, California on Aug. 27, 1971 when he was just 20-years-old. The years since have been a complete mystery for Joe and the rest of the family. he wasn't depressed. There were no signs of foul play. Joe, now 60, told the Ventura Star: "I lost my twin, and since then, I don't think I've ever been the same. There's a really deep, empty void in my life since he vanished."
He was last seen at a friend's bachelor party in his 1969 blue Volkswagen. He and his car were never found. Johnnie was married and had an infant son, Johnnie Jr. and his brother said it was very unusual for him not to come home. Someone thought they had spotted him at a McDonalds near his home. Over the years the family has scoured southern California looking for him without any luck.For the next couple of days, Joe went to inquire about his brother at the typical hangouts of the time, including a McDonald's on Saviers Road, where someone thought they spotted Johnnie.
Over the years, Joe and his five siblings went from the San Fernando Valley to Los Angeles' Skid Row in hopes of finding clues. Nothing. MORE IN THE VENTURA STAR

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D.B COOPER: AIR HOSTESS SPENT 10-YEARS IN NUNNERY

COOPER

MUCKLOW AT THE TIME

THE STRANGE case of mysterious skyjacker DB Cooper just took another bizarre twist when it was revealed that the stewardess who dealt with the thief, then spent 10-years in a nunnery - possibly as part of the witness protection programme.
Tina Mucklow was praised for her calm handling of the man, who called himself Dan Cooper, who in 1971, boarded the Seattle to Portland plane and claimed to have a bomb strapped to his chest. 
With as little fuss as possible, she served him drinks and passed messages between him and the pilot and then helped the passengers off the plane when it landed in Seattle. 
Then after he'd got his $200,000 ransom and forced the plane to take off again, she showed him how to operate the emergency door out of which he jumped. 
Hailed as a heroine at the time she told the World's media: "He seemed rather nice. He was never cruel or nasty. He was thoughtful and calm."
The pilot is said to claimed that the 22-year-old's actions in air saved the passengers' lives.
But while she may have had nerves of steel at the time, the media glare allegedly became too much for the overawed young witness, who stopped speaking to the media completely in about 1980.   
Then she entered the Maria Regina Convent, a Carmelite Catholic nunnery outside Eugene, Oregon, where she would have had to immerse herself in prayer and would rarely have been allowed to leave the grounds of the convent.
Strangely, she left after 12-years, something very unusual for Carmelite nuns.
When CNN contacted them to ask why she'd left after 12 years, the head sister said it was because she "no longer fit in."

Refusing to give her name she added that she "left in about 1991 or 1992. I'm not going to say any more about it."
She's now believed to be living a quiet life in Oregon under a different name but has co-operated with the ongoing DB Cooper investigation, FBI spokeswoman Ayn Sandalo Dietrich said.
Her role may, however, become more important than ever now after a woman came out to say she believed her uncle was DB Cooper.
She has now provided the FBI with a photograph of her uncle Lynne Doyle and a guitar strap which he owned for fingerprint testing.
The FBI said DNA found on the tie does not match - but refused to rule him out as a suspect.

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SYLVIANE FINCK LOZADA MISSING: FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED

MISSING?

MISSING?

A POPULAR Belgian schoolteacher who has been missing for over a month may have been the victim of foul play, cops have revealed.
Sylviane Finck Lozada was reported missing from her Baton Rouge, LA home on July 18, although she last spoke with her family a couple of weeks earlier.
Her husband Oscar Lozada boarded a plane from Dallas to Venezuela July, only with the couple's young daughter.
He was scheduled to return July 14, but it appears he remained in the South American country and while Detectives were able to speak with him early on in the investigation, in the last week he has disappeared. 
East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Casey Hicks told CNN: "We would obviously like to speak with him," Hicks said.
"Detectives have communicated with Oscar Lozada at the beginning of the investigation into her disappearance, but over the past week, they have been unable to contact him."
She added that no warrants have been issued in connection with the disappearance.
Authorities have examined the husband's credit card statements and found that he bought five-gallon buckets and several bags of concrete mix.
But, Hicks said: "The buckets and concrete mix are unaccounted for."
 Walter Lemoine, principal at Brusly High, said Sylviane Finck Lozada had been a West Baton Rouge Parish Teacher of the Year. She is also a National Board Certified Teacher and had earned a doctorate degree two years ago.
Lemoine called Sylviane Finck Lozada a "tough" teacher and said her disappearance is "a major impact" to the community.

On August 8, the 500-student school was scheduled to hold "a celebration of hope" in the gymnasium for the missing teacher, and participants were also to move outdoors to light vigil candles, Lemoine said.

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