Part 40, page 416

Transcript

The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.

[redacted] formed a group to conduct mediation and arbitrations. Because of his "experience" in mediation and arbitration, we asked Robert if he wanted to join our group to set up a web site.

He agreed to join our group but provided a very limited resume for our website. He listed BS, BS, JD and LLM but gave no school. He then mentioned mediating 3100 cases but he was never specific. We worked on expanding his resume but had very little facts to deal with. [redacted]

Our group is composed of professional's in law, contracts, real estate and government. After seeing the History Channel program, I taped the second showing and got our group together to review the tape. We are all in agreement that the man shown on the History Channel, "In Search of, DB Cooper" is Robert Wesley Rackstraw, a member of our mediation group. He was 35 when he was a suspect in the DB Cooper case. That was 1979, and he would be 56, which is his age now.

Our concern is that Robert Rackstraw holds himself out as a non practicing attorney, dealing with all the various judges, courts and dispute centers of Riverside and the surrounding areas. He was hired for a short time at UCR Extension as director of Public Law and Policy. The FBI had him arrested for something else and he was a suspect in the DB Cooper case. Our group is very concerned being associated with him, if he has a felony record.

Our group has tried to check him out and has been unable to find any law school from which he might have graduated, the address he gives in Lake Elsinore is an industrial park and his military experience is very questionable.

The History Channel stated that he was arrested, it did not say convicted. We would like to know if we should be concerned about associating professionally with this man.

The group has always been concerned about Robert and his stories but felt it was better to have him on our side, than to have him mad at us because of his mouth and contacts all over the court system.

There are a few of us that feel that maybe you did have your man and he talked his way out of the situation. The man is very much a loner. They stated the suspect wore sun glasses, was a chain smoker, had military experience, possible jump and flying experience. Robert matches all of those clues. We have checked and he owns no property in California, he has several different email addresses, and phones that forward to other numbers. Just a strange man. None of us would be surprised if he was DB Cooper.

Please let us know if any information on Robert Rackstraw's arrest is open to the public for review and if so how we can obtain a copy. [redacted]