I spent five years examining evidence and I believe our team solved the case.
People are fascinated by D.B. Cooper because he stuck it to the man—and got away with it. The man hijacked a plane in November 1971, demanded $200,000 and then parachuted from the aircraft and was never found. It became folklore. People wrote songs about it, there are movies about it—and, as of July 2022, a newI watched the documentary and I thought they muddied the waters with some of the people they featured.
To find out whether these users were Rackstraw, I put a team together and we went out undercover, creating separate online personas. We joined the site for over a month and then tried to draw these four people to us. Sure enough, they started conversations with us. I helped with other investigative work, and getting access to new evidence was exciting. The FBI said that Rackstraw hadn't become a suspect in the D.B. Cooper case until seven years after the incident but we found memos to and from J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, talking about Rackstraw as a probable suspect from the beginning.Our team also uncovered physical evidence. A couple of pilots in Washington heard that three now-deceased members of their aero club had helped D.B. Cooper.
Within a day, he came back to me and said,"I want you to listen very carefully to what I say. I asked my source at the CIA and the answer was, 'We cannot confirm.' Words matter." As an investigator, you want the bad guy to go to jail. This was what motivated me throughout my five-year involvement in the investigation. I believe in right and wrong and I believe that people should be held accountable. D.B. Cooper might be a hero to some, but you still shouldn't do what he did: taking a bomb on a plane, putting all those people at risk.
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