Posted on 06/28/2018 9:15:27 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Headline: The search for D.B. Cooper: Investigators say they've confirmed skyjacker's identity by decoding long-lost 'confession'
<>A team of cold-case investigators claim they’ve decoded a 1972 message by D.B. Cooper — and that it contains a confession from Vietnam veteran Robert Rackstraw, long suspected of being the infamous skyjacker. The letter was addressed to “The Portland Oregonian Newspaper.”
Months earlier, a man identified as the fictitious Cooper had hijacked a Seattle-bound flight and later parachuted out of a plane with $200,000, never to be heard from again.
“This letter is too (sic) let you know I am not dead but really alive and just back from the Bahamas, so your silly troopers up there can stop looking for me. That is just how dumb this government is. I like your articles about me but you can stop them now. D.B. Cooper is not real,” it reads.
“I want out of the system and saw a way through good ole Unk,” he writes. “Now it is Uncle’s turn to weep and pay one of it’s own some cash for a change. (And please tell the lackey cops D.B. Cooper is not my real name).”
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
This part lost me.
““And please tell the lackey cops” was decoded to mean “I am 1st LT Robert Rackstraw,” according to Colbert.
Elvis is alive. I know because I hear him singing when I’am in the shower.
You mean DB is working at DQ?
That name, remorse, remorse!
Hard to say. People here are better-educated than they let on.
I once started posting in Anglo-Saxon, and several posters responded...
He was a Russian spy?!?!
Even if he himself had said it?
And it’s greatly to his credit.
D.B. Cooper went out the rear exit, hit a 180 kt windstream, went ass over teakettle, balled up in his parachute, and plunged to his death.
Geez, he couldn’t even see as he fell. What must have been going through his mind......
But nobody ever surfaced saying," I went to school with that guy. Or "he was on my bowling league."
Or" I worked with him." Or "he went to my church."
Odd that not even one person recognized him from the sketch.
A very different FBI then and not run by DC
Sometimes sketches like that are uncanny - I can’t imagine how they do it - but sometimes they don’t look a thing like the perp.
I think he died in the jump.
This comes from a television producer who needs a hook for the next special he’s working on.
Sound like some crypto jumping “expert” did the decode.
OK, provide the cipher key if it’s true.
From the article:
An earlier letter, addressed to four different newspapers, contained hidden identifiers — including his military units — that pointed to Rackstraw, now 74 and living in the San Diego area. Rackstraw, who could not be reached for comment, was previously investigated and cleared by authorities of being Cooper, but he remains the most likely suspect in the elusive case.
A spruce tree?....................
Well, it sure wasn’t “At least I got away with the money, they’ll never find it!”
““And please tell the lackey cops” was decoded to mean “I am 1st LT Robert Rackstraw,” according to Colbert.
"Get the @!*%%#$ off my lawn!" means "Rinnwald is John Wilkes Booth reincarnated as Voldemort."
With the parachute not opening
My bad!
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