Unsolved Crime · 1971

The Man Who Jumped Out of a Boeing 727 and Vanished

He paid for a bourbon and 7-Up, lit a Raleigh cigarette, and at ten thousand feet he opened the back of the plane and stepped out. Nobody has ever found him. It's the day before Thanksgiving, nineteen seventy-one.

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