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Rackstraw: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

It was easy for D.B. Cooper to vanish in 1971; there were no airport flight screenings, computer background checks, surveillance cameras, cell-phone tracking or CSI crews. The skyjacker’s decades as...
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“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...

Gumshoes say coded clues in Cooper letter reveal their man

New York Daily News by Megan Cerullo, January 4, 2018 A team of stalwart investigators committed to solving a decades-old cold case think they have definitively identified the infamous skyjacker known...

Investigators: Cooper documents confirm suspect, FBI deception

  Seattle Post-Intelligencer; by Daniel DeMay, Nov. 19, 2017 It's the case that won't go away. The only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history remains unsolved. But a small army of private investigators is...
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D.B. Cooper Code Cracked?

COAST TO COAST Radio News Interview; February 2, 2018;  A seven-year cold case team trying to solve the infamous D.B. Cooper mystery believes it has deciphered a secret code contained in...

A 6th Cooper note, a decrypted admission and J. Edgar Hoover

SEATTLE PI; By Senior Editor Daniel DeMay; June 29, 2018; Rain fell hard through the dark November sky in 1971 as the Boeing 727 flew low and slow over southwest...
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D.B. Cooper Mystery Appears Cracked; Californian Suspected

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER; By Ryan Parker, August 9, 2018;   CBS News credits a veteran's "fascinating" code-breaking skills for a "remarkable" development. It was one of the most mysterious unsolved crimes ever committed,...

Californian’s 7-Year Cooper Quest: Results & Reflections

By Gretchen Wenner; Ventura County Star Edition; August 22, 2019; When a 75-year-old grandfather passed away last month of natural causes in his San Diego...

Cold case leader on D.B. Cooper: “We have the man”

COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE;  by Britain Eakin;  February 9, 2018; WASHINGTON, D.C. – A group of private investigators says they have definitively identified the living daredevil who hijacked a commercial plane in 1971...
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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...