Law Has D.B.Cooper been identified? - Investigators Claim They’ve Discovered Skyjacker’s Identity

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https://www.rollingstone.com/cultur...theyve-discovered-skyjackers-identity-693912/

A team of former FBI investigators is claiming to have proof of the real identity of D.B. Cooper, the notorious airplane hijacker who has remained at large since he parachuted out of a Seattle-bound plane with $200,000 in November 1971.

According to filmmaker and author Thomas Colbert – who has led the independent investigation into the cold case for the last seven years – the real Cooper is a 74-year-old Vietnam veteran named Robert Rackstraw. And the proof is hidden in a series of letters allegedly written by Cooper in the months after the hijacking and his disappearance.
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  • A 40-person team digging into the cold case says they used a “confession” from the 1970s to finger a former CIA agent living in San Diego
  • Rackstraw – a former Special Forces paratrooper, explosives expert and pilot with about 22 different aliases – was once a person of interest in the case, but was eliminated as a suspect by the FBI in 1979.
  • “We now have him saying, ‘I am Cooper,’” Colbert told Seattle PI


Well, I love a good true crime story. DB Cooper is probably one of my favorites, no casualities, a supercool, übermensch gangster, cold case. I am sceptic about the outcome of this, but at least it is brining up the case again, possibly revealing evidence never seen before.
 
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If Cooper = Wiseau, then the age confirms my related hypothesis that Wiseau is a vampire or other creature whose life has been unnaturally prolonged.
 
I'm skeptical about this because Cooper was suspected to be an inexperienced parachutist. He turned down military chutes and a pro-grade sport chute for an old, shitty civilian model and (this is the important part) his reserve chute was an inoperable training dummy. He used the functioning one to tie the money bag shut.

Also, Rolling Stone is fucking garbage.
 
https://heavy.com/news/2016/07/robert-rackstraw-db-cooper-case-closed-documentary-culprit-who-is/

In 1979, TV Reporter Warren Olney of KNBC spoke to Rackstraw, and asked him: “Are you willing to state one-way or the other whether or not you’re DB Cooper?” According to the transcript, Rackstraw responded: “Uh, I’m afraid of heights [smiling].”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper#Robert_Rackstraw

Cooper investigators noted his physical resemblance to Cooper composite sketches (although he was only 28 in 1971),[181] military parachute training, and criminal record, but eliminated him as a suspect in 1979 after no direct evidence of his involvement could be found.
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Robert Rackstraw seems like an utter attention whore and the FBI knows it.
 
He probably died falling and that his body was buried by the lahar from Mount St. Helens.
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RJ MacReady said:
I'm skeptical about this because Cooper was suspected to be an inexperienced parachutist. He turned down military chutes and a pro-grade sport chute for an old, shitty civilian model and (this is the important part) his reserve chute was an inoperable training dummy. He used the functioning one to tie the money bag shut.

Also, Rolling Stone is fucking garbage.
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Plus the chump left behind money.

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If Wiseau was Cooper, why didn't he make a parachute of Levis? Hmmm?

 
The fact they found a bit of the money, albeit badly decomposed, in a sandbank along the Columbia River, indicates that the dumb ass never even got to spend any of the cash, having either lost hold of it during the jump, or having ridden it into the ground, thus being too dead to spend it.

To date, none of the serial numbers of the ransom bills have turned up in circulation anywhere, and the cash found in the river is the only portion ever accounted for.

Rackstraw's too young, (as said, he was 28 in 71') everyone who saw Cooper pegged him as early to mid 40's, and the FBI (who have since put the case on low priority) agree this is accurate.

Cooper showed an intimate understanding of the aircraft he hijacked, knowing exactly what speeds and conditions it could fly under that would make bailing out via the rear airstairs possible, and also knew it's relatively low stall speed meant military aircraft couldn't easily follow it without overshooting. Yet he was ignorant, apparently, of what a dummy parachute looked like and flat out refused bonna-fide USAF-grade ones, that to me says this guy was at least a pilot, but not from the military , and had never actually jumped from a plane before except maybe once, recreationally. Hence he wanted a "civilian" chute he had only passing familiarity with and didn't notice he had possibly put on an inoperable trainer. (the FBI agents grabbed random chutes off the shelf at a local skydiving school in a hurry and didn't realize the error at the time either, the dummy chute was not intentional.)

The FBI ruled out the hypothesis that Cooper was an experienced skydiver based on a host of additional "mistakes" he made, least of all, jumping with only a civilian raincoat on into an outside temperature at altitude of over sixty below that included a rainstorm, means the guy probably ended up too numb and frozen to pull the cord when the time came.

My guess, whoever he is, his badly-broken bones were chewed up by bears that probably discovered them at the bottom of a very small man-shaped crater a long time ago.

Until airlines adopted stricter security measures, there were 5 "copycat" cases of people hijacking commercial flights, extorting money and jumping out with parachutes in the US, none of them were successful, all 5 men were apprehended within anywhere of months to hours of jumping. And one of them lost the money as he descended, that kinda seals the deal on Cooper, IMHO, guy either died, or lost the case and decided to cut his losses and not tempt fate again.
 
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That guy is no more DB Cooper than he's Alice Cooper.
 
I believe he died the night of his jump, or shortly thereafter. It was raining at altitude. He likely would have come down in heavily forested terrain at night. It rained and snowed the entire weekend, and he was ostensibly only wearing an overcoat and loafers. A tree or water landing, broken leg, etc, could easily spell his doom.
 
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