Formerly secret FBI files ‘prove’ Rackstraw was the skyjacker
By Kayla Brantley & Luke Kenton / DailyMail.com and Ross Ibbetson / MailOnline; Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...