The search for D.B. Cooper: skyjacker's identity confirmed (trunc)

MSN Daily News ^ | 6/28/2018 | Thomas Colbert and others

[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).”

[A_Former_Democrat]

Not me

[proxy_user]

See posts 15, 25, 26, and 28.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Don’t forget Jimmy James was also Bob woodward’s source, ‘Deep Throat” in Watergate

[a fool in paradise]

Usually each investigator has a book or tv special to promote when they announce their ‘discovery’.

[Jim W N]

Elvis, Cooper and Michael Jackson are all working at a Dairy Queen in Indiana...

Just as I suspected.

[a fool in paradise]

Wasn’t Jimmy James Jimi Hendrix?

[Beowulf9]

What the police won't tell you. The REAL reason they never caught D.B. Cooper. Actual original police sketch:

[a fool in paradise]

I thought DB invented dolby sound

[a fool in paradise]

No one remembered going to school with Barack Obama either

[arthurus]

“We beat him” but do “we” have anything we can arrest him on?

[arthurus]

Rackstraw and his partner Judge Crater made it big in Mexican real estate with the capital obtained from the jump.

[rjsimmon]

Well, at least it wasn’t Ralph Rackstraw...

You mean, Wreck-it Ralph?

[17th Miss Regt]

“Will all those who got it take three steps forward?”

“If what?”

“If you please!”

[GoldenPup]

The search for D.B. Cooper: skyjacker's identity confirmed Yeah...sure...right...🐂💨💩

[Hootowl]

Well, for one thing there never was a D.B. Cooper. The man bought his ticket as Dan Cooper. A media mistake made it D.B. Cooper. But, as it’s said in “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

[CedarDave]

See posts 15, 25, 26, and 28.

Sorry, don't understand what I'm supposed to "get."

[Oatka]

I cannot count the number of times over the years when various investigators have said they had confirmed D.B. Cooper’s identity.

Same with Amelia Earhart.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 6/28/2018. Thanks sodpoodle.