by Denise Diana Huddle | May 17, 2024 | Anthrax to Zodiac, True Crime
This post contains the last part of Chapter 12 of Antrhax to Zodiac and concludes he examination of Richard McCoy as a suspect in the hijacking of Flight 305. Read about how, after McCoy was convicted for a copycat hijacking, he escaped from a federal prison and was killed during an effort to apprehend him.
Then we’ll look in detail at two other prominent candidates: the mysterious Robert Rackstraw, a war hero turned felon, and Lynn Doyle Cooper, a reclusive logger from Sisters, Oregon, and check out the pros and cons of each of these possible suspects.
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by Denise Diana Huddle | May 10, 2024 | Anthrax to Zodiac, True Crime
Who was D.B. Cooper? Over the past fifty years, the passenger in seat 18E of Flight 305 has morphed from a man into a legend. Yet, the hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper was a real, flesh and blood human being whose true identity has never been revealed.
This post contains the first part of Chapter 11 of Antrhax to Zodiac and looks at FBI’s investigation of the crime, including the question of whether or not the hijacker could have survived the jump. In the first part of Chapter 12, we’ll also consider one of the most prominent entries on the suspect list: veteran helicopter pilot Richard McCoy of Provo, Utah.
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by Denise Diana Huddle | May 3, 2024 | Anthrax to Zodiac, True Crime
On November 24, 1971, a man using the name Dan Cooper boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305. Once airborne, he passed the flight attendant a ransom note and showed her what he said was a bomb in his briefcase. He demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes.
When the plane landed in Seattle, he collected the ransom and released the passengers and two of the crew then instructed the pilots to fly him to Reno. But somewhere between Woodland and Ariel, Washington, the hijacker strapped on the parachutes and jumped out of the plane with his loot, never to be seen again.
Chapter 9 looks at the social and economic context in which the hijacking transpired, and Chapter 10 explores the facts of the case.
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by Denise Diana Huddle | Apr 26, 2024 | Anthrax to Zodiac, True Crime
In the last part of Chapter 7, we’ll examine the controversy surrounding the DNA collected from the JonBenét’s body.
We’ll also consider further the possibility the family played a role in the crime. In spite of four secret grand jury indictments against John and Patsy Ramsey for their alleged roles in the murder, in a 2008 letter, the Boulder County DA publicly exonerated the entire Ramsey family of any involvement in the crime.
We’ll wind up our consideration of JonBenét’s death with Chapter 8 which includes my comments, some tips for keeping your children safe, a quiz to test your knowledge of the case, some snarky humor, and a list of references and cool sites.
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by Denise Diana Huddle | Apr 19, 2024 | Anthrax to Zodiac, True Crime
In the last part of Chapter 6, we’ll take a look at questions surrounding semi-digested pineapple found in JonBenét’s small intestine, and we’ll explore the relationship between JonBenét and her older brother, Burke.
We’ll also discuss the rift between the police and the Boulder DA regarding whether the killer was a member of the household or an intruder—a rift that quickly widened into a chasm and may have caused irreparable damage to the case.
Chapter 7 includes an exploration of the main suspects in the murder, including the jolly “Santa Bill” McReynolds, accused child pornographer John Mark Karr aka Alexis Valoran Reich who confessed to the crime, and Gary Oliva, the known paranoid schizophrenic pedophile obsessed with JonBenét.
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by Denise Diana Huddle | Apr 12, 2024 | Anthrax to Zodiac, True Crime
Six hours after Patsy Ramsey called the Boulder police, JonBenét’s father, John, cried out from the basement of their home and emerged from the stairs carrying the corpse of his six-year-old daughter, launching one of the most notorious murder investigations of modern time.
This post contains the last half of Chapter 5 and the beginning of Chapter 6 of Anthrax to Zodiac. We’ll take an in-depth look at the events leading up to the discovery of the body and the gross lack of proper police procedure that hobbled the investigation from the very start.
Then, we’ll do a deep dive into the ransom note and try to reconcile its contents with the events of the crime and its aftermath.
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by Denise Diana Huddle | Apr 5, 2024 | Anthrax to Zodiac, True Crime
John and Patsy Ramsey enjoyed a traditional Christmas morning at home with their children, six-year-old JonBenét and nine-year-old Burke, before attending Christmas dinner at the home of friends.
According to Patsy Ramsey, she got up early the next morning and discovered a ransom note on the stairs. When she and John couldn’t find JonBenét, at 5:52 a.m. on December 26, 1996, she called 911 and frantically indicated that her daughter had been kidnapped.
This post contains the first half of Chapter 5 of Anthrax to Zodiac and covers the case background and the details of the chaotic events of December 26, 1996 before JonBenét’s body was discovered.
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