Part 50, page 180

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me to stay with you?" Almost no one was aware that Florence actually believed that she herself, instead of Tina Mucklow, should have remained with Cooper as his hostage when the plane headed south from Seattle towards Reno because she felt that she had grown to know and understand him, in however strange a way. "He told me, like a spirit," she said with poignant nostalgia in her voice, "that I probably sat beside him somewhere else a hundred years ago." Florence, it is true, developed a profound sympathy for the lonely man while trying to comfort him in the back of the plane.

Dr. Dick Simmons, a psychologist special- izing in the field of abnormal perceptions, was on the flight but stole only a cursory glance at Cooper. Simmons pointed out that the further people get away from an event the more they are inclined to remember it the way they think it should have been. This is why some people reported Cooper as being no more than 45 years old, he felt, since skyjacking is not regarded as an occupation for the middle-aged. But this qualification would not necessarily apply in the case of Florence Schaffner, since she had spent so much time with Cooper and had obviously seen him clearly. Indeed, Florence would be an ideal witness, especially in view of her compassionate feelings for Cooper and her rapt attention to even minor details about him.

After weeks of searching for her I finally found Florence Schaffner, and after winning her confidence (she claimed that she had been warned never to talk to anyone about the sky- jacking and reluctantly declined to allow us to publish her photograph with this article) was able to learn many new and surprising facts about the crime, startling details which proved increasingly disturbing. To begin with, according to Florence, the FBI composite

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The FBI composite drawing of D.B. Cooper showing him veiled behind the dark sun glasses he wore part of the time.

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