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    D.B. Cooper Mystery Solved? Alleged Best Friend Says Hijacker Was Paratrooper

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    It was November 24, 1971 that a man, who identified himself as Dan Cooper, hijacked a Seattle-bound Boeing 727 by handing a flight attendant a note indicating he had a bomb. 47 years after the hijacking, the identity of the legendary skyjacker might finally have been revealed.

    During a news conference on Thursday, Michigan publisher Principia Media claimed the hijacker, known as D.B. Cooper, who managed to parachute out of the plane with a $200,000 ransom, was former paratrooper Walter Reca. The company stated it worked with Reca's alleged best friend, Carl Laurin,  on a book, “D.B. & Me: A Criminal, A Spy, My Best Friend,” having gathered evidence, including “almost-daily discussions over a 14-year period and 3+ hours of audio recordings” corroborating his claims.

    “The audio recordings, created in 2008, include Reca discussing skyjacking details that were not known to the public prior to the 's information release in 2015,” the press release read.

    While the publisher did not disclose if Reca was still alive, an online obituary repository listed a man with an identical name, who used to  in Oscoda, Michigan, as having died in 2014 aged 80.

    According to the publisher, Reca was able to survive jumping out of the plane because he was on the Michigan Parachute Team.

    “I always got the feeling that when he jumped with our team, the Michigan parachute team, it was a means…

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