Sky Heist

transformation changes form, not content

A collector bought a camera with film preserved for fifty years. The film shows a family by a woman in a backpack. The backpacker, some speculate, is the robber who pulled a heist in the sky and parachuted free. For fifty years, the only clue was a cipher left aboard the airplane

The old photos published the same day an amateur cryptographer solved the cipher. The cryptographer, a senior, wrote about her discovery. Unusual spellings in her letter matched those in the decoded message. The cryptographer had decoded her own cipher, but forgot about the photos of her younger self

About Me

Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and offers free critical thinking and character development courses online.

“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”