London Guardian: The “Focus Shifts to Colbert”

By Stuart Heritage; Wednesday, July 13, 2022; The Guardian  DB Cooper is one of those figures who everyone thinks...
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Lead FBI agents on 1980 river dig want Rackstraw reconsidered

          Seattle Post-Intelligencer, by Daniel DeMay; Sept. 13, 2017 A new theory about what happened to the mysterious D.B. Cooper has gained attention and perhaps some credence in recent weeks, as...
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Oregon couple on long D.B. Cooper quest gets FBI’s attention

FOX NEWS, August 21, 2017 The FBI has reportedly accepted new potential evidence that may be linked to a closed case that has stumped investigators for decades. The New York Daily News revealed Sunday...
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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...

Former outlaw featured in TV program dies in San Diego

By Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union Tribune; 7/9/19 He was a high school dropout and U.S. Army paratrooper trained in explosives and psychological operations. In addition, he...
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“Stunning” Army-coded message reveals Cooper’s identity

THE OREGONIAN; By Doug Perry; Thursday, June 28, 2018; J. Edgar Hoover's lab staff missed all 6 Army codes The infamous skyjacker known as D.B. Cooper encrypted his real identity in...

San Jose Mercury News: Was Hijacker from Santa Cruz?

The 50-year hunt for the man who parachuted out of a plane with $200,000 in cash ‘speaks to something in the American soul,’ author says in new...

D.B. Cooper: Sleuths claim they’ve discovered hijacker’s identity

A private team digging into the cold case says they used a “confession” from the 1970s to finger a former CIA operative, now living in San...

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....
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Finding D.B. Cooper

Possible new evidence turns up in Cooper dig Daily Astorian, by Elleda Wilson; August 18, 2017 Maybe the D.B. Cooper mystery will finally be solved, after all. In case you don’t remember,...