Still Missing: Rethinking the D.B. Cooper Case and Other Mysterious Unsolved Disappearances Read Online Free PDF

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    ATTORNEY: I’d like to ask you now, please, if you could give us sort of a run-down on your financial status at the present time. You have indicated to me earlier that you’re earning between five and six dollars an hour as a practical nurse.
    JACKIE: That’s right.
    ATTORNEY: Forty hours a week.
    JACKIE: Uh-huh.
    ATTORNEY: Do you work over time occasionally?
    JACKIE: Very seldom.
    ATTORNEY: And that you own your home. That’s paid for.
    JACKIE: Yes, it is.
    ATTORNEY: Do you have bonds or stocks?
    JACKIE: No, I don’t.
    ATTORNEY: A savings account?
    JACKIE: No, I don’t.
    ATTORNEY: Is your life pretty much one of taking care of obligations each week as you get paid?
    JACKIE: Yes, it is.
    ATTORNEY: Now, do you own an automobile? 
    JACKIE: Yes.
    ATTORNEY: Is that paid for?
    JACKIE: No, I’m still paying for it.
    ATTORNEY: What kind of an automobile is it?
    JACKIE: It’s a ’77 Datsun.
    ATTORNEY: And roughly what size payments do you make on that?
    JACKIE: $140 a month.
    ATTORNEY: And that will go on for how long? Do you know?
    JACKIE: Oh, another two years.
    ATTORNEY: Now, do you have life insurance on your own life?
    JACKIE: Yes, through the hospital.
    ATTORNEY: And that’s the same—as long as you work for the hospital, you’re covered; is that right?
    JACKIE: That’s right.
    ATTORNEY: You have no other policies?
    JACKIE: No, I don’t.
    ATTORNEY: Does anyone owe you money of any kind?
    JACKIE: My daughter owes me a couple hundred dollars, because I, you know, got her apartment for her to go back to school. But she’ll give me that when she gets her scholarship.
    ATTORNEY: Do you have an opinion on what happened to your husband, whether he disappeared or what?
    JACKIE: Naturally I have speculated.
    ATTORNEY: What is your speculation?
    JACKIE: I really feel that he’s dead, because I don’t—even if he were to leave an unhappy situation, or what he thought was an unhappy situation, with his job or whatever, I’m sure that he would have kept in contact with his children. He was a good father, and he was a good husband.
    ATTORNEY: And, of course, as you said earlier, he has not been in touch with any of his family.
    JACKIE: No, he has not.
    ATTORNEY: What happened to his motorcycle?
    JACKIE: I called the bank in Traverse City and said “Would you please come get it, because I certainly can’t make payments on it.” And it was too big for me to ride if I could make payments on it. So they just came and repossessed it and sold it at no loss.
    ATTORNEY: Did he have any sporting goods or equipment; boats, motors, guns?
    JACKIE: No
    ATTORNEY: He did hunt occasionally, did he not?
    JACKIE: On occasion, yes. But he hocked his gun once when we lived in Chicago when the kids were little when we needed some extra money, and he never got it out of hock. The only thing he had left was a scope for that gun, which my son David now has in his possession.
    ATTORNEY: Was your husband Catholic?
    JACKIE: Yes, he was.
    ATTORNEY: Did he regularly attend church?
    JACKIE: He did up until probably 1967, ’66. Then just the children and I attended church. He was a little disillusioned with the church, and he just quit going.
    ATTORNEY: Are you Catholic?
    JACKIE: Yes, I am.
    ATTORNEY: Had you continued to attend church?
    JACKIE: No, I do not attend church regularly.
    ATTORNEY: Did you raise your children in the church?
    JACKIE: Yes.
    ATTORNEY: Are they good church attendants?
    JACKIE: Two of them are pretty good, and the other two are occasionally.
    ATTORNEY: When you receive the money from the settlement of the equitable life insurance policy, what did you use those funds for?
    JACKIE: Oh, I fixed my house that had been falling apart for ten years.
    ATTORNEY: You didn’t invest in anything other than fixing up your house?
    JACKIE: No, I didn’t. No, I fixed my house.
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    The following year, 1980, Jackie found herself being questioned again by more insurance company lawyers. The following deposition is for