A twist in high-flying mystery
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2008053882_danny16.html7/16/2008
"My wife says I'm two people," reads a 1969 letter to a University of Washington psychiatrist, as unearthed in a wild, so far unpublished book, "The Legend of D.B. Cooper: Death by Natural Causes."
"She tells me that when I am Bob I seem bitter," the letter goes on. "But when I'm Barbara, I'm a much nicer person."
That was written by Bobby Dayton as part of his pre-surgery counseling for a sex-change operation at the UW hospital. The book suggests that two years later, on a November night in 1971, he — now technically a she but still looking very much like a he — hijacked a 727 out of Seattle and parachuted into the dark with $200,000 in ransom money.
