Time-Line: How Sleuths Exposed D.B. Cooper and his FBI Cover-Up
When a former FBI leader declared a cold case team's hijacking evidence against Robert W. Rackstraw to be “a tremendous circumstantial case,” alarm bells went off at Bureau Headquarters....
Northwest couple learns escape story, directs team to buried find
Story Sources Russ and Kristy Cooper
'Parachute Strap' discovery spot may also hide D.B. Cooper's ransom
By James Wilksinson, for DailyMail.com; August 10, 2017
A team of volunteer investigators may have found...
San Diego man accused of being D.B. Cooper: A life ruined or case solved?
Orange County Register, SoCal News Group; by Keith Sharon; 10/6/17
The man in the natty suit smoked a cigarette, ordered a bourbon and soda and carried a bomb in his...
DB Cooper mystery: ‘Potential’ physical evidence uncovered in search
Thomas Colbert is handed the buried object by a retired FBI supervisor
New York Post; by Samual Chamberlain
Published August 10, 2017
A crew of volunteer cold-case investigators in the Pacific Northwest,...
D.B. Cooper: FBI gets more ‘evidence’ and a getaway tale
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, by Daniel M. Demay; August 20, 2017
Just days after a piece of fabric — thought to be from a parachute used by the mysterious hijacker D.B. Cooper...
Formerly secret FBI files ‘prove’ Rackstraw was the skyjacker
By Kayla Brantley & Luke Kenton / DailyMail.com and Ross Ibbetson / MailOnline; Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019
“Bombshell development” about infamous hijacker D.B. Cooper
CBS NEWS-KOVR/Sacramento, CA; Rep. Steve Large; Feb. 2, 2018;
It's a stunning update in a 46-year-old cold case mystery. A commercial airplane hijacker escaped with a daring parachute jump in...
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...
Five Fast Facts You Need to Know
Heavy.com; By Shannon Walsh; July 11, 2016; Updated December 4, 2016
In July of 2016, History Channel aired its new documentary, DB Cooper: Case Closed, in which a team of...
Was D.B. Cooper’s escape COVERED UP by the FBI?
A letter that spent 46 years buried in feds' files reveals the hijacker may have survived plane leap
DailyMail.com; By James Wilkinson, November 19, 2017
A letter newly released from the FBI's...