D.B. Cooper: A Professor From WSU?

Never underestimate the wordly expeience of that seemingly mild-mannered guy on the bus, with his nose buried in a book

By Curmudgeon

Hell of an interesting story front-paged in Sunday's Standard-Examiner by Scott Schwebke, about D.B. Cooper, the now legendary skyjacker who parachuted out of a commercial jet plane carrying $200K in ransom money, and disappeared from history.

Uncovering his true identity and fate has become almost a cottage industry among crime writers. But if what's reported in today's Std-Ex proves out, D.B. Cooper was a faculty member [ROTC instructor] at Weber State University when he pulled off his crime.

So, you out there who would cavalierly dismiss all those faculty types as other-worldly nerds, think twice. That mild-mannered professor with his nose in a book on the bus yesterday morning may have depths unsuspected in his [or her, for that matter] off-campus life. Ya never know....

Update 11/2/08 10:45 a.m. MT: This morning's Std-Ex story adds tantalizing new information in re the locally-centered D.B. Cooper story:

Attorney focusing on former WSU ROTC instructor