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major suspect in the skyjacking all along. Out of 933 suspects in the D.B. Cooper case, Coffelt was "in the top 20" of those the Bureau had spent the most man-hours working on — according to Agent Gary Penrith, then in charge of the FBI's anti-hijacking unit at headquarters in Washington D.C. "We can't rule him out," Penrith admitted.

It is virtually certain that Coffelt was the skyjacker. Solely because of our efforts, two people have identified him as D.B. Cooper, he has been placed in Portland when the crime occurred, physical evidence has been found confirming where he jumped, and a mass of circumstantial evidence overwhelmingly supports all the details of his story. More than anything, Jack was afraid of slow destruction. After spending half of his adult life that way, he wanted no more of poverty or lonely prison cells. He was stunned to the very essence of his being by the crime's horrible failure — this perverse modern tragedy which so miserably revealed the fatal flaw of rabid pride which stained his character. As Robert Dobbs, Coffelt's trusted Memphis confidant put it: "He would laugh Death in the face if he thought he could pull something over on somebody . . . and Jack always wanted to do one big thing before he left here!"

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BRYANT COFFELT. FEBRUARY 20, 1916 JUNE 19, 1975

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Daily I search the realms of Hades For the soul of the hawk, That I may offer him the friendship Of one whom life wounded and caged. —Edgar Lee Masters "The Unknown"

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BYRON BROWN'S BOOK ON THE SKY- JACKING IS CURRENTLY UNDER NEGOTIATION FOR SALE. LAS VEGAN MAGAZINE WILL REPORT FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS EXTRAOR- DINARY CASE AS THEY OCCUR.

©by Byron H. Brown and Las Vegan Magazine

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92 NOVEMBER 1983/LAS VEGAN MAGAZINE

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