My D.B. Cooper Story · 14 January 2023
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It seems that everybody has a D.B. Cooper story. Or at least a theory. If you have not already guessed, so do I.
If you do not know who D.B. Cooper is, he is the proverbial one who got away. He is the one who in 1971 hijacked a Boeing 727, got $200,000 in twenty-dollar bills, jumped out with the money, and was never found again. Oh sure, somebody found some bills. Nine years after he got away. There is, of course, more to the story, but those are a few of the main facts.
I have been interested in D.B. Cooper since I was a kid when my mom gave me a book about him. Amateur sleuths all over the country (and the world) tried to figure out what happened to the guy. People checked their twenty dollar bills to see if they might have the correct serial numbers on them. Of course, most regular people did not know any of the serial numbers, but they still checked anyway. And people looked suspiciously at men who fit the description. Especially, if the man was wearing dark sunglasses.
But the notorious hijacker got away. Nobody knows what happened to him. Or at least nobody who is going to tell. He just disappeared into the night.
Well, there have been many theories about D.B. Cooper since that fateful night. Theories that make him out to be some Robin Hood or other folk hero. Theories that he is the guy living down the street. But none have proven to be true. Nobody has found him.
I tend to agree with the late Ralph Himmelsbach, the chief FBI investigator of the crime, who said that Cooper was a criminal not a hero. He committed a heinous act of air piracy and should be thought of in that way. Still, even though I have thought that about the man, it still did not convince me to write a story about him in that light. Instead, I wrote a story that might add a bit to the mythology of the man.
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Now, I am not going to give away my theory (which is really just a short story), but I will say that in my story, D.B. Cooper had some help. I know. It makes me look like a conspiracy theorist, but that is okay. I doubt the FBI would have been looking so hard for so long if there was some conspiracy. But who knows. All I know is that I just tried to look at the facts that I knew and came up with a story. It is up to my readers to see if it is plausible or not.
My D.B. Cooper story is short and written for a juvenile audience. I hope that people like it. By the way, the picture of the book cover is a link to the book. It is available digitally and in print.
[A special note to the person who already bought the one digital copy back in early November. I actually finished the book. I was getting the print version ready when I realized that I had not quite finished the book that I had already released in its digital version. I also added a chapter. I believe you can get the finished version by merely downloading the book again. Or maybe you want to get the print version.]
© 2023 Michael T. Miyoshi
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