Part 50, page 177

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Coffelt placed the money in a green bag like the one shown above, then tied up the bag with parachute shroud lines.

pretend to be one of the searchers, flashing his government ID to anyone who might question him, a green FBI badge with his name on it, in fact, which he showed me in 1974!

Tina watched him tear open one of the para- chutes and cut the shroud lines off of it using a long, thin-bladed knife which according to her "looked like a dagger." She recalled that he nervously chain-smoked Raleigh cigarettes. (Raleighs were Coffelt's favorite brand) and also admitted that Cooper offered her a handful of the loot, digging into the bag of money and shoving the small bundle at her, insisting that she take it. But when she was delicately prompted about whether the skyjacker had touched her "in any way," she flushed heavily and averted her eyes before answering faintly, "He may have made a pass at me." Many years had passed, but scars still remained from this ugly incident involving the desperate bandit who briefly but dramatically entered her life, then disappeared into total mystery again. She clearly remembered his hushed words, though, words which seemed to haunt her still— "I have nothing to lose" — the same phrase that Jack Coffelt repeated to me many times during our lonely journey together in 1974.

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Even though Tina Mucklow confirmed every one of Coffelt's details about these hectic and obscure events which occurred as the plane headed south from Seattle, she was not in fact the person who had observed him most care- fully that night. As his sole hostage at that point, she remained with Cooper for only a few short minutes as he frantically prepared to jump and attempted to lower the 727's rear stairway compartment, a period in which she was scared half to death. Since he had de- manded four parachutes, the terrified crew, especially Tina herself, thought that he was planning to force at least one of them to bail out with him! Tina remembers these horrifying moments like the sordid images of a long-

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