{"product_id":"db-cooper-and-the-fbi-a-case-study-of-americas-only-unsolved-skyjacking-9780997312003","title":"DB Cooper and the FBI: A Case Study of America's Only Unsolved Skyjacking","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1971  a man known as DB Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient airliner flying from Portland  Oregon to Seattle  Washington. After exchanging the passengers at SEA-TAC airport for $200 000 and four parachutes  Cooper instructed the pilots to fly him to \"anywhere in Mexico. A few minutes after take-off  he lowered the aft staircase and jumped into the chilly  rainy night skies north of Portland. He has never been seen since  and his identity is still unknown. After forty years of investigation the FBI still doesnt know who Cooper was or if he survived  and nothing has ever been found of the skyjackingno parachutes  no body or clothes  nor any of the money  except for $5 800 a young boy found eight years later buried on a Columbia River beach. Adding to the intrigue  no one knows how the money got there or when. As a result  it is as if Cooper came from nowhere and returned there when he made his getaway. Now after years of research and writing  a comprehensive case history of the skyjacking is available  and the reader can examine the facts of the case  and assess the FBIs efforts to find DB Cooper. Shockingly  the Bureaus investigation has been crippled by lost evidence  inaccurate record-keeping  and ineffective leadership. As we learned in 9-11  the FBI has difficulty \"connecting the dots\" in complicated investigations that span multiple jurisdictions  and the same is true with DB Cooper. For example: the FBI gave DB Cooper a 40-hour head start before anyone went looking for him in the woods of southeast Washington State. More troubling  critical evidence has been lostthe eight cigarette butts Cooper left on the plane  which would give us his DNA profile via the dried saliva. Perhaps more disturbing  though  the cigarette butts went missing after their true value was realized in 2002  along with the documentation on the FBIs findings. In addition  the FBIs chief technical expert  Earl Cossey  was murdered in 2013 when his credibility plummeted as Internet sleuths revealed his fraudulent and deceptive history  and how the FBI was duped. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792639189045,"sku":"ByrdShop_0997312009","price":238.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780997312003_6f728d97-71dd-4d36-9d81-b3bbf01b9807.jpg?v=1784757636","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/db-cooper-and-the-fbi-a-case-study-of-americas-only-unsolved-skyjacking-9780997312003","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}