The true identity of infamous airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper has been discovered — with a letter that investigators believe contains a secret code! Get the inside story on how the notorious crook managed to get away with jumping from a plane with his ill-gotten gains…
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Nine digits typed on a 46-year-old letter prove the hijacker can only be one person — a 74-year-old U.S. Army veteran named Robert W. Rackstraw, Sr.! “This confirms what we’ve believed all along!” siad filmmaker Thomas Colbert, whose cold-case team broke the letter’s cryptic code.
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J. Edgar Hoover himself believed this Dec. 11, 1971, letter was written by the daredevil. “So, the fact that code from Rackstraw’s three military units — two of them secret until the late 1980s — were embedded in the letter makes this the smoking gun!”
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The codes were identified by a team member who was a radio codebreaker during the Vietnam War, said Colbert. The FBI has closed its probe of the hijacking, in which the man dubbed Cooper parachuted out of a plane over Washington state with $200,000 in cash.
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Rackstraw, who now lives in San Diego, is a former Army paratrooper — one of many reasons Colbert’s team has focused on him. Cooper allegedly sent five letters to newspapers, taking credit for the crime and baiting authorities, who never cracked the case.
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The letter with the code had not been publicly released or reprinted until Colbert obtained it through a public records request,
The National ENQUIRER learned. The typewritten letter begins with the gloat, “Sirs, I knew from the start that I wouldn’t be caught.”
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Colbert believes Rackstraw’s coded dispatch was directed at three co-conspirators who, according to FBI documents and witnesses, helped him escape after he parachuted to the ground.
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Rackstraw closely resembled the police sketch of the skyjacker, and he has coyly refused to fully deny any involvement in the decades-old mystery. “They say that I’m him,” Rackstraw has said. “If you want to believe it, believe it.”
Nine digits typed on a 46-year-old letter prove the hijacker can only be one person — a 74-year-old U.S. Army veteran named Robert W. Rackstraw, Sr.! “This confirms what we’ve believed all along!” siad filmmaker Thomas Colbert, whose cold-case team broke the letter’s cryptic code.
“FBI documents show senior agents and
J. Edgar Hoover himself believed this Dec. 11, 1971, letter was written by the daredevil. “So, the fact that code from Rackstraw’s three military units — two of them secret until the late 1980s — were embedded in the letter makes this the smoking gun!”
Photo credit: Getty Images
The codes were identified by a team member who was a radio codebreaker during the Vietnam War, said Colbert. The FBI has closed its probe of the hijacking, in which the man dubbed Cooper parachuted out of a plane over Washington state with $200,000 in cash.
Rackstraw, who now lives in San Diego, is a former Army paratrooper — one of many reasons Colbert’s team has focused on him. Cooper allegedly sent five letters to newspapers, taking credit for the crime and baiting authorities, who never cracked the case.
The letter with the code had not been publicly released or reprinted until Colbert obtained it through a public records request,
The National ENQUIRER learned. The typewritten letter begins with the gloat, “Sirs, I knew from the start that I wouldn’t be caught.”
Colbert believes Rackstraw’s coded dispatch was directed at three co-conspirators who, according to FBI documents and witnesses, helped him escape after he parachuted to the ground.
Rackstraw closely resembled the police sketch of the skyjacker, and he has coyly refused to fully deny any involvement in the decades-old mystery. “They say that I’m him,” Rackstraw has said. “If you want to believe it, believe it.”