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Old 08-14-2017, 15:06   #61
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More clues...??

A story that just keeps getting new legs...



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Physical evidence that may be connected to the unsolved 1971 D.B. Cooper hijacking case is now in the hands of FBI agents in California.


The “evidence” -- a frayed 18-inch-long nylon strap that may have come from the parachute D.B. Cooper used when he escaped from a plane with $200,000 -- was found in a mound of dirt in the deep Pacific Northwest mountains nearly two weeks ago. It was turned in Friday to the FBI’s Ventura County office by acclaimed D.B. Cooper sleuth Tom Colbert, a Los Angeles TV and film producer
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Old 08-14-2017, 16:05   #62
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Given the altitude that DB Cooper made the jump, and the wad of money found in the river, I'd just made what, a mile (maybe two) circle from that wad of money that came from the duffle bag and find the body hanging in the trees or in a nice hole he made upon impact.

Jumping in a thunderstorm..... I can see him wrapped up in his own parachute screaming all the way down......

DB is dead....... so is the story, unless you're a moronic reality TV producer looking to cash in.
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Old 08-14-2017, 18:10   #63
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No he made it. He jumped where he did because DB Cooper is really Bigfoot. He shaved his hair, got some cosmetic surgery and made the jump and lived. After the jump he just grew his hair out and went back to laying low. Come on anyone looking at the fact can put that together. The FBI knows it but were covering it up because they don't want the truth coming out because Bigfoot had photo evidence of how they killed JFK.

As a matter of fact, he had to steal the money to cover the cost of the surgery. It was the extreme make over that went sideways.
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Old 08-14-2017, 19:41   #64
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DB Cooper was really Bill Otley, the Operation saved the USPA...
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Old 08-15-2017, 08:33   #65
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No he made it. He jumped where he did because DB Cooper is really Bigfoot. He shaved his hair, got some cosmetic surgery and made the jump and lived. After the jump he just grew his hair out and went back to laying low. Come on anyone looking at the fact can put that together. The FBI knows it but were covering it up because they don't want the truth coming out because Bigfoot had photo evidence of how they killed JFK.
So you're saying that wasn't Bigfoot on the grassy knoll?
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Old 08-15-2017, 10:58   #66
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So you're saying that wasn't Bigfoot on the grassy knoll?
Damn...there goes my theory.....
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Old 08-15-2017, 12:06   #67
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So you're saying that wasn't Bigfoot on the grassy knoll?
Actually, that was Bigfoot!...You see, Bigfoot was using his own hair as a ghillie suit and when the shooters hid behind him, he was effectively stuck.
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Actually, that was Bigfoot!...You see, Bigfoot was using his own hair as a ghillie suit and when the shooters hid behind him, he was effectively stuck.
I know how that feels, having someone take up a position right next to where you're prone in your ghillie.........

DB Cooper is dead.
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DB Cooper is dead.
Yeah, Yeah, I know...but this is just too fun to watch

Sort of a modern version of Butch Cassidy's alleged death in Bolivia

But hey, maybe it sells a few books and the guy makes a couple dollars.



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A new ‘D.B. Cooper’ suspect? Yet another possible identity for elusive hijacker.

On Thursday, a whole new theory emerged from Carl Laurin, an 84-year-old pet sitter who lives in DeLand, Fla. Laurin, his Michigan publishing firm announced at a news conference, has written a memoir detailing the confessions of a longtime friend who supposedly committed the crime: Walter R. Reca, a former military paratrooper and intelligence operative.
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Yeah, Yeah, I know...but this is just too fun to watch

Sort of a modern version of Butch Cassidy's alleged death in Bolivia

But hey, maybe it sells a few books and the guy makes a couple dollars.





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Agree.

Another idiot hack and one more moron that thinks he'll make a buck off of bigfoot stories.

DB Cooper is long dead...…. he died in 1971 while "parachuting" from a jet in a thunderstorm. You can only perform that trick once. One day they will find the remains of his parachute/bones on the ground under a large tree that he landed in and hung himself while trying to release the parachute.


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Agree.

Another idiot hack and one more moron that thinks he'll make a buck off of bigfoot stories.

DB Cooper is long dead...…. he died in 1971 while "parachuting" from a jet in a thunderstorm. You can only perform that trick once. One day they will find the remains of his parachute/bones on the ground under a large tree that he landed in and hung himself while trying to release the parachute.


The true constants surrounding DB are (and both end in -ity): gravity and stupidity. I’m sure someone will find someone’s happy sock out in the woods and claim it was DB Cooper’s.

BTW, my dog’s name is Cooper! (Named because he was rescued, living in a chicken coop)
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Old 05-19-2018, 18:26   #72
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A guy by the name of Larry Patterson who was part owner of a skydiving club I belonged to in Cedar Valley Utah was rumored to be DB Cooper. He was a pilot and skydiver. He was a friend of Richard McCoy who was the second person to attempt a skyjacking. They both flew helicopters for the Utah NG. When anyone would call him out as DB Cooper he would just laugh but never denied it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_McCoy_Jr.
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Old 06-29-2018, 16:36   #73
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And now a new lead from Forensic <Magazine:

https://goo.gl/oUB5G2

Colbert says he has put together 40 volunteers, many of them former FBI agents, who reviewed six letters potentially connected to the Cooper case.

Colbert recruited Rick Sherwood, a Vietnam veteran who was a senior codebreaker for the Army Security Agency. Sherwood had been Rackstraw’s superior officer.

His conclusion: a series of strangely-worded phrases in the D.B. Cooper letters actually spell out Rackstraw’s name. The FBI agents would have not known what they were looking for in the 1970s, Sherwood concluded.

“It would have made no sense to them,” Sherwood said, in a statement from the team. “For the agents to do it, they’d have to know a lot about the individual and our units.”

The ciphers in the letters allegedly identify the military units that Rackstraw served in: the 371st Radio Research Unit, and the 11th General Support Company—as well as the Army Security Agency.

But the sixth letter, from March 28, 1972, and sent to the Oregonian newspaper, contained even more information.

“I want out of the system and saw a way through good ole Unk,” it reads. “(And please tell the lackey cops D.B. Cooper is not my real name).”

Translated, using a 1950 Army cryptography, it is decoded to a startling message, according to Colbert and his team:

“I want out of the system and saw a way by sky-jacking a jet plane,” it reads. “I am 1st LT Robert Rackstraw, D.B. Cooper is not my real name.”

Could the messages be a coincidence that was identified only once they had focused in on Rackstraw? Sherwood says potentially—but not likely.

“It’s not impossible,” Sherwood told The Oregonian newspaper earlier this year. “But what are the odds these digits would add up to these three Rackstraw units? Astronomical. A million to one. Rackstraw didn’t think anyone would be able to break it.”

Rackstraw, for his part, dismissed Colbert—“he’s costing the taxpayers a lot of money”—and also his former Army colleague Sherwood.

“The other guy—it’s kind of interesting that he said that,” he said.

But he does have respect for how good investigators were in the 1970s, he said.

"The old FBI was very, very thorough,” he said. “Way back when—full faith and credit in an agency like that. They were very, very, very good. I would say that they still are ... probably a lot of them are gritting their teeth at what’s going on currently with their top end—their upper management.”

As for the coming defamation court battles, the outcome will remain to be seen, Rackstraw added.

“All off that stuff is up in the air,” he said.
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It's amazing!!!!

(Not)

Make up a narrative after all involved are dead and then get 6 people to agree on it, make a movie and pocket a few million.

Soon a tree will fall that holds the remains of one DB Cooper........
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Old 06-30-2018, 05:23   #75
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Prester John

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DB Cooper


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