Laurin’s $17.95 book is called, “D.B. Cooper & Me: A Criminal, a Spy, My Best Friend.”
In an interview with The Washington Post, Laurin said he’d long suspected Reca was involved. “It feels like something he would do,” he said. When Reca finally acknowledged it, “I wasn’t surprised.”
“He didn’t know what kind of airplane it was,” Laurin said, adding that Reca said he’d tried to parachute out the side exit door. One airline attendant (Mucklow) apparently told him, “Why don’t you use this one in the back. And he said, ‘Okay. I will.’ ”
Yabidi Yabidi Yabidi Yabidi - thats all folks!
Honestly, you'd think people peddling a suspect would at least read the FBI docs. That conversation never happened per Mucklow and would absolutely have been remembered and mentioned if it had. It flies (yuk yuk) in the face of Mucklow's statements. Easy scratch.
Re: Hahnemann, my main objections remain that his voice doesn't match witness accounts of Cooper's, and more importantly he did every major thing in his hijacking wrong that DBC did right - DBC kept the passengers in the dark, stayed out of the cockpit, communicated only through the FAs and kept his temper even under stress - the opposite of violent, boorish thug Hahnemann. But it never hurts to investigate. If there's a smoking gun there, it needs to be seen to be believed.
Gossett is an interesting subject - btw, whatever happened to Galen? - and of course there's my fave who I won't name again lest a certain someone blow out the vein in his sphincter that comes close to erupting anytime anyone rejects the CLEARLY NOT COOPER suspect KC.