Formerly secret FBI files ‘prove’ Rackstraw was the skyjacker

By Kayla Brantley & Luke Kenton / DailyMail.com and Ross Ibbetson / MailOnline; Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019
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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...
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New ‘evidence’ in DB Cooper case handed over to Bureau

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 14, 2017; by Daniel DeMay A fabric strap or flap, perhaps from the famed D.B. Cooper's parachute, was reportedly found recently in the Pacific Northwest and handed...

Sleuths: Hijacker brags of escape, outfoxing FBI in encrypted note

NEWSWEEK; By Maria Perez, Friday, June 29, 2018; An investigative team led by former FBI agents claims it has unmasked a coded message in a 1972 letter from the infamous...

A no-bones letter to FBI Director

UPDATE: Attorney Zaid's status-report deadline of November 13, 2017, came and went without an FBI response. With the prodding of the Colberts' local congresswoman, the Bureau finally responded on January...
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D.B. Cooper Mystery Deepens

By Erick Bengel, The Daily Astorian, 9/5/2016  http://www.dailyastorian.com/Local_News/20160905/db-cooper-mystery-deepens The FBI may have closed the case on the unidentified skyjacker D.B. Cooper, but citizen-sleuth Tom Colbert and his cold case team...
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Loot/Chute Burial Sites

MOVIE MAKERS, TRUE-CRIME READERS & "COOPERITES": 2021 UPDATE Court-released FBI records, along with supporting documents from retired military-intel commanders, collectively conclude the missing ’71 hijacker was Robert W. Rackstraw Sr....
DB Cooper Letter #5

Sleuth: Letter held by FBI, now released by judge, is Cooper’s

Fox News Website; by Robert Gearty, 11/19/17 Newly-released FBI documents pertaining to the D.B. Cooper hijacking case include a letter that may only deepen the mystery surrounding the notorious unsolved crime,...

NW Indiana Times: The Cryptic ‘D.B. Cooper’ Connection

Columnist Jerry Davich, NW Indiana Times; Thursday, 7/15/22 Thomas J. Colbert is convinced that his crack team of cold-case...
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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...