sherbetbizarre
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Here's an article on Tom Colbert, the TV Newsman who believed Rackstraw was Cooper, and tried to get him to confess, so they could sell the story to television:San Diegan featured in program about notorious D.B. Cooper skyjacking case dies.
Robert Rackstraw was the subject of a 2016 miniseries examining the unsolved case from 1971
But it all ends in denials and catfishing lesbians...Colbert's original cover plan: to lure him with the offer of consultant work on a fictitious TV show about a group of mercenaries, in the vein of The A-Team or The Expendables. "I'd thought, 'Why don't we try to do our own Argo?'" he recalls. Colbert had grown convinced that this old U.S. Army soldier with a distinctive criminal record, Robert W. Rackstraw, was in fact D.B. Cooper, who in 1971 skyjacked a Boeing 727 and then — with $200,000 in ransom money — parachuted from the plane into the Pacific Northwest night and enduring American myth.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/f...yjacker-db-cooper-finally-been-solved-1236196