Part 91, page 209

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Los Angeles, California December, 1971.

F. 3. I. Portland, Oregon

Dear Friends: Ihope you don't get mad at me if I write you one more letter and sort of summarize the case of the $200,000. hijack in the sky. I see that he hasn't been found yet and naturally it is an interesting case. I guess I have written you five or six letters about it and guess I had better quit it or you will be after me, but I am only trying to crack the case. I was thinking tonite or today if that man was real intelligent or if he was kind of dumb. If he was dumb he might have stayed in the plane for an hour and a half and endured the cold and kind of got caught like a rat in the trap, not anticipating the extreme cold in the plane. I kind of think he was dumb, because it looks to me if he had of been planning such a caper he would have dressed in very warm clothing and it looks to me that it was a sort of spur of the moment like a drunk would think up, because I don't think he was dressed very warm according to what he was wearing and what I read in the papers. If he was intelligent then, he was all prepared to bail out of the plane, before he got very cold. I would say that would be in less than 25 minutes. If this is true then, he would be familiar with the seattle area and get out of the plane and know right where to go in a hurry. I would say that he probably lived or worked near the area where he got out. The other day when I wrote a letter to you I thot you were right about the Woodland, area and then I got to thinking it might be the Seattle, Tacoma area, not far from the airport. He got out quick if he was smart, but if he stayed too long he was dumb and probably practically froze to death. I kind of go for the idea, that he came out near the Seattle area. I figure he lives in a small town like Enumclaw or Puyallup. I noticed on the map there is a college of forestry below the airport. This is La G ande and Alder, [guess: Wash]. Wouldn't it be funny if he was a professor in this college and he taught smoke jumping. I think this is a lead. All the pictures of the teachers in the school should be showed to the stewardess on the ill fated plane. Annyone that had quit recently would also be a suspect. It might be that he works around one of those little towns and knew his way around. The spirit that I told you I get occasionally told me that he made a phone call. It could have been before he went up or after he came down. The spirit said, he called a[illegible]. That means he either called his wife, his girl friend or his relatives, perhaps a sister. She could have come and picked him up near where he came down and they might have taken the chutes home with them and burned them in the furnace and destroyed the evidence. The spirit has blasted me with different words and if you put them all together they make sense like a giant jig saw puzzle. The first day of the caper, I remember the word-Ford and I thought spring was another one. Today the word ferry came thru and about eight times it said he is in a seater- he is in a seater. Would that mean he fell in a tree? and is there dead like he was sitting in a tree? It said over a fair. Game over a fair. Fair could mean fair grounds at Puyallup or at Multonomah north of Portland or at Kelso, like the convention [illegible] or some kind of place like a park where people are congregating like a historic site. There is even a town called Fairview [illegible] from the Columbia or Willamette. The phrase near a fair over a [illegible]-[guess: cape] thru me many times now in the last few days. I like to think of the Puyallup Fair at Puyallup. Perhaps he lives near here or works there or did go there or come down near it. The word Ford might mean that he owns a ford car, but the word car came thru me too. Maybe he works [illegible] a Ford dealership or Ford garage near where he came down in one of these small towns near the airport. There was also the word college.

FAIRVIEW MIGHT BE GOOD LEAD.

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