'D.B. Cooper, where are you?'
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 42 p. 262 (DB Cooper-16992), News clipping — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-42%3A262-262
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D.B. Cooper, where are you?
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — More than 1,000 suspects have been investigated in the D.B. Cooper hijacking — the nation's only unsolved air piracy case, the FBI says. Now there's speculation the FBI has another suspect.
A man calling himself D. Cooper parachuted from an airliner with $200,000 and disappeared without a trace in the rugged terrain of Washington state more than seven years ago.
ROBERT WESLEY Rackstraw — pilot, explosives expert and a suspect in assorted crimes — was sought for questioning in the Cooper case last year, FBI agent Pete Norregard confirmed.
But Rackstraw disappeared, officials said, by faking a plane crash in Monterey Bay to avoid trial on check-kiting charges. Now he's in custody again. Rackstraw, 35, is in San Joaquin jail on $650,000 bail.
"He's a hell of a con man — you'd buy a used car from him every time," said Deputy Dist. Atty. Clark Sueyres. "He was also in the Pacific Northwest operating a light plane service at the time of the D.B. Cooper hijacking and was trained in parachuting while a Green Beret.
"I think that's how the speculation started. I know it crossed the minds of the Stockton police investigators and they mentioned it to the FBI."
The FBI in Seattle is handling the Cooper case, and would not confirm or deny interest in Rackshaw.
THE COOPER hijacking occurred Nov. 24, 1971, on a Northwest Airlines flight between Portland and Seattle. Cooper let passengers off in Seattle and collected $200,000 ransom and four parachutes.
After the plane took off again, he bailed out over forest land in Clark County, Washington. No trace of him, the parachute or the money has ever been...reported, despite several searches.
The crime was before there was a statute of limitations on air piracy cases, so the investigation is continuing, authorities said.
Rackstraw was arrested Friday in Southern California for trying to duplicate a pilot's license and medical certificates at a Fullerton printing shop, authorities said.
He was returned to Stockton to face charges of grand theft of an airplane, possession of explosives, check forgery and issuing checks with insufficient funds.
Last Oct. 11, six days before he was to have gone on trial on those charges, Rackstraw took off in a rented plane on a flight from Stockton to Monterey.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Rackstraw radioed a mayday distress call and said he was going to ditch the plane in the bay after reporting smoke in the cockpit.
But officials said that was a hoax and the plane was later found, repainted, at a Southern California airport.
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Associated Press "D.B. Cooper" ... artist's sketch of missing skyjacker.
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America accused of plot WASHINGTON (UPI) —
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DB Cooper-16992
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