Dr Alexander always considered himself a man of science, with a career in the top medical institutions of the world. In 2008 he fell into a coma, but as his family prepared themselves for the worst, his brain went from near total inactivity to awakening. He woke certain of a life beyond death.
The "D. B. Cooper" case is the only unsolved act of air piracy in US history. On November 24, 1971, a polite, nondescript, and dark-complexioned man calling himself "Dan Cooper" hijacked Northwest Airlines Flight 305, Boeing 727, between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.