Playboy After Hours

January, 1986

Oh, chute!He should have just dropped us a line. A sky-diving smuggler wearing combat fatigues and packing pistols, knives and 80 pounds of cocaine plunged to his death in a Knoxville, Tennessee, back yard when his parachute failed to open. The flattened felon was discovered by 85-year-old Fred Meyers, who remarked, "I've never had a landing in my back yard before. I got up to shave, looked out my window and saw him." Authorities believe the dead man, a former Army paratrooper and Lexi...