Robert W. Rackstraw Witness - Ken Overturf

A Commanding Witness – Rackstraw in Vietnam

  Lieutenant Colonel Ken L. Overturf (ret.) is an award-winning helicopter pilot, Master Parachutist, and Rackstraw's former commanding officer during the Vietnam War (1969-1970). He is one of a dozen...
Robert Rackstraw - DB Cooper - with Niece Michelle

“This ‘outlaw’ is my uncle…”

Testimonial for "The Last Master Outlaw" - I must admit, I was captivated while reading how this man lied, stole, cheated and scammed his way through the 1970s. When he...
Bill M. Mitchell - Witness D.B. Cooper

The D.B. Cooper Airline Witness that Fingered Rackstraw

Because all three flight attendants on Northwest Flight #305 have been documented as having various levels of trauma-induced memory loss, the Cold Case Team sought out Cooper's nearest passenger,...
Robert Rackstraw DB Cooper at Dock

How the hunt for D.B. Cooper made an aging Vietnam veteran the target of...

Washington Post - In the News - D.B. Cooper Published July 27, 2016; by Ian Shapira They were certain they knew the identity of the long-missing hijacker known as D.B. Cooper,...
Handwriting Comparison DB Cooper, Robert W. Rackstraw, The Last Master Outlaw

A new Stockton angle on D.B. Cooper?

By Michael Fitzgerald Record columnist Posted Jul. 23, 2016 at 3:12 PM Legendary skyjacker D.B. Cooper is looking more and more like a man with Stockton ties, thanks to new evidence that...
Morrie Ruvinsky - The Last Master Outlaw Review - DB Cooper Case

The D.B. Cooper Documentary vs. The Last Master Outlaw

The D.B. Cooper Documentary vs. The Last Master Outlaw -  When Henry Ford was informed that Lindbergh had just flown the first ever trans-atlantic solo flight, he supposedly responded that...
Pete Roscoe - DB Cooper in Corvallis

Astorian’s Long Quest for the Truth

He saw more than a con-man For four months in late 1971, a vacationing “Swiss baron” pilot, Norman de Winter, charmed his way through two Oregon communities while grifting thousands...

A Tale of Unforgettable Charisma in Corvallis

 "And did I meet D.B. Cooper?  I believe I did!" Cold Case investigators state that Rackstraw used more than twenty fake identities in five countries over the years, but none...
Robert Rackstraw - The D.B Cooper Case

Was D.B. Cooper in Stockton?

BY MICHAEL FITZGERALD RECORD COLUMNIST Posted Jul. 12, 2016 at 4:22 PM D.B. Cooper, the legendary skyjacker who parachuted from a jetliner with $200,000 in loot over Oregon in 1971 and vanished,...