Is a Missing Grayling Grocery Store Manager D.B. COOPER? A wood-paneled station wagon was found abandoned at Cherry Capital Airport Nov. 2, 1969, the keys in the ignition and a half pack of Chesterfield Kings on the dashboard. It belonged to the manager of the Glen’s Market in Grayling.
Days earlier, the man had phoned his wife to say he was going to go for a drive rather than come home for lunch; he called his assistant saying he wouldn’t be back to the store that day.
That was the last anyone ever heard from 33-year-old Dick Lepsy who left behind a wife and four children, an empty bank account and a safe at Glen’s missing $2,000.
DISAPPEARNANCE UNNOTED
Author Ross Richardson was researching the Lepsy case in addition to several dozen other missing persons cases for a book about people and things that have vanished in northern Michigan.
Even before the Lake Ann author noted his subject’s uncanny resemblance to D.B. Cooper, something about the Lepsy case stood out.
Local media ignored Lepsy’s disappearance because it was considered an embezzlement case, not a missing persons case, and police kept it quiet.
The focus of Richardson’s book—“Still Missing: Rethinking the D.B. Cooper Case and Other Mysterious Unsolved Disappearances”—narrowed until it included just three cases. Most of the book’s 238 pages are absorbed by the Lepsy-Cooper similarities.
“It really struck a chord with me in a couple different ways,” Richardson said. “He’s probably Michigan’s most obscure missing person’s case.”
If a connection to D.B. Cooper could be confirmed, the Lepsy case would no longer be obscure.
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