Current Events > D.B. Cooper identity confirmed?

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-db-cooper-confession-decoded-20180626-story.html

A team of cold-case investigators claim theyve decoded a 1972 message by D.B. Cooper and that it contains a confession from Vietnam veteran Robert Rackstraw, long suspected of being the infamous skyjacker.

The letter was addressed to The Portland Oregonian Newspaper.

Months earlier, a man identified as the fictitious Cooper had hijacked a Seattle-bound flight and later parachuted out of a plane with $200,000, never to be heard from again.

This letter is too (sic) let you know I am not dead but really alive and just back from the Bahamas, so your silly troopers up there can stop looking for me. That is just how dumb this government is. I like your articles about me but you can stop them now. D.B. Cooper is not real, it reads.

I want out of the system and saw a way through good ole Unk, he writes. Now it is Uncles turn to weep and pay one of its own some cash for a change. (And please tell the lackey cops D.B. Cooper is not my real name).

Television and film producer Tom Colbert whos led a team of about 40 private investigators in the search for Cooper said he received the letter after successfully suing the FBI for the Cooper files.

No one even knew about this letter, Colbert told the Daily News. When I got it, I noticed it was typed just like (a different Cooper letter), so I called a code breaker and showed it to him. He said, Tom, youre not going to believe it, but his confession is in here,' Colbert said.

Rick Sherwood, a former member of the Army Security Agency which deciphers signals said he spotted four phrases or words that were repeated throughout the note, including D.B. Cooper is not real, Uncle or Unk referring to Uncle Sam, the system, and lackey cops.

D.B. Cooper and lackey cops appeared in the same sentence, as did Unk and the system, suggesting to Sherwood that the coded messages could be contained in those sentences.

He decoded through good ole Unk to mean by skyjacking a jet plane, using a system of letters and numbers.

And please tell the lackey cops was decoded to mean I am 1st LT Robert Rackstraw, according to Colbert.

Sherwood had deciphered earlier letters from Cooper and had become familiar with his writing style.

I read it two or three times and said, This is Rackstraw, this is what he does, Sherwood told the Daily News.

I noticed he kept on repeating words in his sentences and thought he had a code in there somewhere. He was taunting like he normally does and I thought his name was going to be in it and sure enough the numbers added up perfectly, he said.

He said the entire decoding process took him a couple weeks.

I was definitely shocked his name was in there. Thats what I was looking for and everything added up to that, he said.

An earlier letter, addressed to four different newspapers, contained hidden identifiers including his military units that pointed to Rackstraw, now 74 and living in the San Diego area. Rackstraw, who could not be reached for comment, was previously investigated and cleared by authorities of being Cooper, but he remains the most likely suspect in the elusive case.

Lets just say we closed the case and this is icing on the cake I didnt expect, it truly is. We not only had his initials and units in the other letters, but we now have him saying, I am Cooper. Rackstraw is a narcissistic sociopath who never thought he would be caught, Colbert said.

He was trying to prove that he was smarter than anyone else. But he couldnt fight 1500 years of brainpower on our team. We beat him. I didnt expect it, but its the icing.
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Obligatory:
https://xkcd.com/1400/

It's crazy that everyone still refers to him as D. B. Cooper even though that wasn't even his alias.
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Also this literally looks like they pulled some shit out of their ass, like "yeah it's TOTALLY the suspect we thought it was, just look at the code we cracked in his poorly written letter".
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Hexenherz posted...

Also this literally looks like they pulled some shit out of their ass, like "yeah it's TOTALLY the suspect we thought it was, just look at the code we cracked in his poorly written letter".

Without the article bothering to describe the methodology, it does look pretty fantastical. Almost on par with a "that's not what I really meant!" politician spin-backdown on twitter or something.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Obligatory:
https://xkcd.com/1400/

I did not hijack plane. I did not.
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M_Live posted...

Lmao @ that decoding

you used "lmao" and "that" which both have an "a" in the third position of a four letter word

you must be jaxter dackstraw famed airplane hijacker extraordinair.
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i love that the gov't is still triggered by this guy
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I mean

It's interesting if real, but it's kind of vague on the details.
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Hexenherz posted...

M_Live posted...

Lmao @ that decoding

you used "lmao" and "that" which both have an "a" in the third position of a four letter word

you must be jaxter dackstraw famed airplane hijacker extraordinair.

Yeah really.
It's easy to invent a key to make anything mean anything else, just have to come up with it, but if you have the origin message and the end message you want it to say, all that's left is come up with a plausible key.
And that's one letter from 45 years ago, not multiple daily messages like the Enigma code, where they didn't know what to look for in the end, really.
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