Was this man D. B. Cooper?
Left: An FBI sketch of “D.B. Cooper.” Right: The late Kenneth Christiansen, Northwest purser and former paratrooper, who, despite his strong resemblance to a doofus elf on quaaludes, may have been the notorious hijacker.
Raoul and I had a fake fight last night so we could make up later, and while he was out of the tent I passed the time reading the D.B. Cooper story in last week’s New York magazine. Damn. Could it be? Probably not, but it’s a good piece anyway. Read it even if you think D.B. is just spattered DNA somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.
If you’re a young whippersnapper and don’t know about D.B. Cooper, or if you’re an old whippersnapper but you’ve forgotten a lot of the case (or never gave a hoot in the first place), Crime Library has a good review. My hatred of Crime Library burns with the heat of a thousand suns (just how many ad views do you need from each article for crying out loud? What next, a paragraph per page? The greed, the greed, people, it’s destroying you) but their rundown on the Cooper case includes a bunch of details about the hijacking that didn’t make it into the New York piece.
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