Synopses & Reviews
In 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a jetliner, demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes, and bailed out somewhere over Oregon, never to be seen again. He became a folk hero to hippies, survivalists, libertarians, and anarchists, who admired the man who had, apparently, beat the system. However, his jump, in brutally cold weather and in the midst of a major storm, left one question unanswered: where was he?George C. Nuttall, with his best friend, also a trained policeman and investigator, began to poke around in the mystery of Cooper's disappearance. The resulting book, D.B. Cooper Case Exposed: J. Edgar Hoover Cover-Up? is a record of his investigations, which turn up some results implicating far more powerful people than D.B. Cooper, whoever he was.
Review
“Nuttall’s investigation turns up some interesting findings: the absence of radar tracking the highjacked jet, conflicting reports from witnesses aboard the plane, a lackluster search for Cooper in the wrong location, and the tardy release of serial numbers on Cooper’s ransom money.” Publishers Weekly Select March 28, 2011
Synopsis
On November 24th, 1971, somewhere over Oregon, Dan “D.B.” Cooper parachuted out of the Northwest Airlines Jet he had hijacked with $200,000 in cash, and into what would turn out to be one of history’s most notorious unsolved crimes. D.B. Cooper was never seen again, but $5,800.00 of his ransom money was found on a bank of the Columbia River on February 10, 1980. Who was this man calling himself Dan Cooper, was it even possible to survive a jump from that altitude and in that freezing and stormy weather, and if so – why was the perpetrator (dead or alive) never found? In D.B. Cooper Case Exposed, former Captain and Secret Service Coordinator with the California Highway Patrol, author George C. Nuttall examines all the evidence available, and discovers that an astonishing case filled with poor police work, missing documents, lies, and cover-ups that may implicate some of the most powerful people in the country at that time – including, congressmen, mafia Dons, and even the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover himself. We may never know exactly who D.B. Cooper was, why he did what he did, and whether or not he survived his infamous leap into the history books –- but this book will disclose amazing evidence of who Cooper was, why he made his near-certain suicide jump, and why the FBI has not reportedly solved this skyjacking.
About the Author
George C. Nuttall spent his adult life working in law enforcement, first with the San Diego Police Department, and then the California Highway Patrol (CHP). In 1983 he retired from the CHP after having achieved the rank of Captain, and having worked and trained extensively with both the FBI and acted as the CHP coordinator for the Secret Service. This is Mr. Nuttall’s second book, his first book is a memoir of his career entitled Cops, Crooks, and Other Crazies.