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Investigators Claim They've Discovered D.B. Cooper's Identity (rollingstone.com)
A team of former FBI investigators is claiming to have proof of the real identity of D.B. Cooper, the notorious airplane hijacker who has remained at large since he parachuted out of a Seattle-bound plane with $200,000 in November 1971. From a report: According to filmmaker and author Thomas Colbert -- who has led the independent investigation into the cold case for the last seven years -- the real Cooper is a 74-year-old Vietnam veteran named Robert Rackstraw. And the proof is hidden in a series of letters allegedly written by Cooper in the months after the hijacking and his disappearance. Rackstraw -- a former Special Forces paratrooper, explosives expert and pilot with about 22 different aliases -- was once a person of interest in the case, but was eliminated as a suspect by the FBI in 1979. His elimination was controversial amongst the investigating agents, and he remained, for many, the most viable suspect in what remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in the United States. In 2016, the FBI announced they were ending their investigation into the case.
I'm D.B Cooper! Or Spartacus. One of those.
Conclusively demonstrating the identity is much harder than developing a hypothesis.
One theory claims D.B. Cooper must have died because he took a parachute that was a dummy parachute, and so would have had just a stuffed backpack when he jumped. People believe this despite obvious questions like "why would you have something like that on a commercial airplane?" and "where is the body?"
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People just love conspiracy theories and will make up facts to create a better story and further their agenda. Pathetic little people.
But the truth is that the ending of this investigation just proves how corrupt the FBI is and how the Deep State has taken control of our government.
And I'd also like to point out that we haven't heard much from Stormy Daniels lately. Coincidence?! I think not!!
Main reason, he was too young.
Yeah, because Rolling Stone magazine has such a sterling history of conducting deep in depth investigations. Just ignore the fact that they had to pay about $1.65 million when they published a scandalous accusation of rape in a fraternity when the case against them collapsed due to serious credibility issues with the accuser.
Coop!.....You remind me today, of a small, Mexican Chiwawa.....
I'll bet it's Tommy Wiseau!
“And please tell the lackey cops D.B. Cooper is not my real name,” was decoded to “I am 1st Lt. Robert Rackstraw, D.B. Cooper is not my real name.”
What? How does lackey cops translate to Robert Rackstraw?
This smacks of some weird numerology, and cop hunches. I sure don't see any actual evidence pointing to Rackstraw being Cooper. Just someout with a pet theory .
So they decided Rickshaw was the guy after analyzing the information they had; then, when they got the last two letters, were able to decode them to conclusively prove he did it? They even were able to decode his name in the letters? He may have been a prime suspect, per TFA, but absent physical evidence such as a parachute or a stack of bills from the hijacking I would not consider that conclusive. If Rickshaw is a narcissist who needs to prove he was smarter than everyone else I would think he'd save proof that he was in fact D. B. Cooper an not yet another imposter.
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What makes this any more credible or newsworthy?
The first sentence, "I want out of the system and saw a way through good ole Unk," was decoded to, "I want out of the system and saw a way by skyjacking a jet plane."
And the second sentence, "And please tell the lackey cops D.B. Cooper is not my real name" was decoded to "I am 1st Lt. Robert Rackstraw, D.B. Cooper is not my real name"
Well. That settles it I guess. Fine work, fellas. Roll commercial!
Good old Rolling Stone, always light on specifics and heavy on unverified claims made by interview subjects.
Allegedly...
I've been following these knuckleheads for years and they still have no proof at all... just a bunch of conjecture and innuendo.
Isn’t it “former investigators” now that the investigation had been closed? I mean, it’s great if they are investigating other stuff in the mean time, but that’s hardly pertinent to the title. It would really be better if it was something less clickbaity like “Two years ago some FBI agents thought that the guy they suspected to be Cooper forty years ago could still be Cooper.”
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tell us about astrology and how to lose weight next!
but no photos of Rackstraw? Does he look anything like the drawings?
Decades of salaries paid to chase down a guy that stole *once*, and only $200k which insurance probably covered ages ago--far less than the amount of tax dollars sunk into the man hunt.
Now, if he was still stealing? Sure, go after him. But for fck's sake, know when to let someone go. He pulled off a nearly perfect caper.
msmash,,
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How the Hell is this relevant??
I find it difficult to understand why this is here??
I also find it increasingly difficult to understand why you have not been removed from staff??
Beau,, Is the stoopid crap that falls from her lips, really that valuable??
I could go on regarding the chauvinistic aspects of this argument, but would be afraid it would be missed, and thus time wasted like msmash.
With that sed, can we publish, or expect to read something today with any REAL relevance???
chose the worst parachute rig to jump with, a Navy NB-8. FFS wasn't he aware the Paracommander in a B4 container vastly superior and has some forward speed and excellent turnability compared to a unmodfied round canopy of the NB-8? I didn't RTFA but I don't think this guy was Dan Cooper.
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You do realize that the thermite reaction (Fe2O3 + 2 Al 2 Fe + Al2O3) has no vapor byproducts. The alumina is a solid, and the iron comes out as a liquid. i.e. There's no smoke from a thermite reaction.
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Most crimes have some sort of statute of limitations, why not this? Declare the deed pardoned and let whoever did it come forward. It's in the public interest (i.e. curiosity) to know whodunit and if they indeed survived they can probably even repay the money from potential book/film rights and everybody's happy.
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Am I missing something in that there is no evidence presented around the actual message coding except for pictures of letters and then apparently the secret messages which have been conveniently 'decoded' from them?
Considering it's rather trivial to produce an enciphering scheme that will transliterate any plaintext into any other the designer desires (not that the "investigators" even bothered in this case) I find the whole thing pretty suspect.
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Mr. Rackstraw has been the main suspect for a while, based not on anagrams in this letter but the presence of particles of aerospace materials in a tie that he left. The suspect had to have worked where such materials were machined.
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Having aliases is part of being secure online.
I'd never give goo-book-insta-twee-box-micro-acle-app my real name. Never.
You can look up OPSEC information online. Hint: don't do this at home or in any chain or using any online accounts or with your cell phone on.
Ever actually seen a thermite reaction?
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
"At this point, what difference does it make?"
Seriously.... it doesn't really matter...
in a related story, historians have determined that Homer did not write the Odyssey and the Iliad. it was a DIFFERENT BLIND POET NAMED HOMER who wrote it.
you didn't even post as an AC, you used your /. account to post this shit.
You may see some of the vaporizing aluminum, or smoke from the surrounding material. After the reaction, there is very little white powder left, not enough to account for the Al + O.
Guy stole 200k, and the gov spends what? 200m+ hunting him down over decades?
How is that not gov waste?
...In 1979? The FBI didn't even publicly coin the phrase "person of interest" until the Anthrax terrorism scare of 2001. It was meant to be a new classification of person by the FBI, as in "not a suspect, but still under investigation". There was even a lot of controversy over the term back then. People would have their lives ransacked without evidence as a result of the new classification. There was no such thing as a "person of interest" in 1979, there were only "suspects".
That paragon of journalistic integrity?
Everyone else told ya so I'm gonna tell ya again: You've never played with thermite. I have. That smoke isn't the thermite, it's everything it has set on fire and/or vaporized.
OP is still a kook tho, so carry on.
As a fellow libtard, I'd agree but here's why we libtards couldn't pin it on Bush per reddit conspiracy nerd theory:
The whole operation was cover to get several million Jewish gold bullion out of the basement. No shit, google it. They also claim no Jews came to work on that day because they knew. I guess someone should tell the dead Jews that. But the thing that irks me the most is that by default Jews get lumped in with us liberals. Do you guys know any Jews? They're conservative as fuck. Even the gay ones I hang out with.
But yeah, yet again everything is the Jews fault per republitard logic supposedly. I don't think these dudes read the bullshit they type. It makes no sense that the entire liberal citzenry would cover for a handful of bankers who wanted to truck out a couple hundred mil in gold. The fuckers didn't give me my cut if we were supposed to be covering for them, lol.
Doesn't this claim pop up every couple of years? Alternating with discovering who Jack the Ripper was. And for some decades the regular unmasking of Deep Throat of Watergate fame.
...he is known to the staff as as D.B. Pooper.
Yes I have.... :)
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
So, then... Unlike the person I was replying to, you probably realize that other things around the thermite will burn, creating some of those vapor byproducts we were just told thermite doesn't have.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Then why don't the give up on Jimmy Hoffa? Yards and yards of concrete dug up when we all know he is swimming with the fishes.
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Well, considering we had high pressure constituents being sprayed up and ignited, we certainly had vapor byproducts. There's also the question of the material around the thermite, although in my particular use cases it appears that the burn didn't affect those. Also, in no chemical reaction do you get 100% conversion, and with thermite heating the mixture in the 2500C range with a continuous feed sources, we had vaporization of some of the sources as well. Needless to say, there were nice clouds of smoke above the very bright burning sources.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
One explanation I heard (reported on CNN minutes after Tower 7 collapsed) was that the building was fitted with thermite "charges" during construction so, if it ever became unstable, it could be evacuated and brought down in a controlled manner. Of course, that was in reference to Tower 7, not the main towers, but it still has the absolute stench of bullshit. No sane engineer would design that and no sane inspector would pass it, as it is a major violation of a number of fire and building codes.
Either there was no controlled demolition of Tower 7 and it fell in a controlled manner by chance, or there was a controlled demolition of Tower 7 and it was planned, which would hint to the whole event being planned, as well. Not prove, mind you, but it sure does make it look a lot less coincidental.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Where are you claiming this is happening? I took a look at this video, and I just see smoke coming out of windows as you would expect from a building that's on fire. Maybe you could provide a time index and a better description of anything that's actually notable in that ~14 minute long video?
(checks link) ... Oh... According to a story in Drooling Stoner. Never mind.