Las Vegan Magazine article on D.B. Cooper, Part I (1983) by Byron H. Brown
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Original title: Las Vegan Magazine, 'The Discovery of D.B. Cooper' Part I (Oct 1983) by Byron H. Brown
Document date October 1983
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-50:169-169 Document: Las Vegan Magazine article on D.B. Cooper, Part I (1983) by Byron H. Brown Id: Cooper-Part-50:169-169 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-50%3A169-169 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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abruptly and doors slammed. Then, as darkness enveloped us, we suddenly made out a black pickup truck through the trees behind us. Two men with guns climbed out of it. Everywhere around us we heard whispering voices and footsteps treading the underbrush, coming in our direction. In a panic we jumped in our truck and, guided only my moonlight, sped over the trails while behind us we saw the lights of the two strange vehicles furiously careening through the forest after us. We made it to a paved road and sped south. In two days we were in Las Vegas — my father wanted to take a southerly route to throw the pursuers off our scent — and in four days we were back in Georgia. We sincerely believed that Coffelt had sent the men — perhaps his accomplices — to kill us. Whatever the case, we would never see him again. We had failed in our mission to find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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The movie executives meeting in Las Vegas were fascinated by the story I told them. They had plans to develop a major motion picture based upon it. But their legal counsel at that time felt that there was not enough solid evi- dence linking Jack Coffelt to the skyjacking to warrant an investment of millions of dollars. Nevertheless, they decided to press on with a full-fledged investigation and I was assigned to track down leads, interview witnesses, and search for physical evidence in the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Various trips would take me to the stark mining country of northeastern Oklahoma — Coffelt's boy- hood territory — to interview people who knew him there, to the mountains of Oregon on yet another hunt for the lost money, and to Washington D.C., where his many cloudy years spent there would baffle attempts to un- ravel them.
During the next few years the twists and turns of fortune would be many. But with financial assistance from Hollywood, and in close coordination with the Las Vegas FBI, my father and I would uncover astounding evidence to confirm Jack Coffelt's bizarre tale — but not until we learned more incredible news about the mysterious man who claimed to be D.B. Cooper!
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NEXT MONTH: THE INVESTIGA- TION TAKES ON DRAMATIC PROPORTIONS, ENCOUNTERING OFFICIAL RESISTANCE WHEN NEW INFORMATION IS UNCOV- ERED ABOUT THE SKYJACKING!
©by Byron H. Brown and Las Vegan Magazine
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