Petey and Rackstraw connection!

Petey just told me that he was in charge of Bell Helicopter operations at Meribad Airport in Teheran just before the Revolution. Airborne Bob was there, too!!!

You can't make this stuff up. Or can you?

Were they there at the same time?

377

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

Rackstraw Update

Tom Colbert said Bill Mitchell had identified Robert Rackstraw as DB Cooper, last Sunday, Nov 13, on Coast to Coast AM radio with host Richard Syrett. Colbert spoke definitively, and Syrett replied, "Bingo!"

I have spent all week trying to get through to C2C, Syrett, his producers, etc., to no avail to challenge this assertion.

I believe that Bill Mitchell looked at the photos in front of him. He pointed to Rackstraw and said that it was McCoy. It was also on the History Channel show. They are saying that since Bill pointed out Rackstraw and said McCoy, Mitchell subconsciously remembers the person he pointed to being involved with the hijacking.

The other thing to remember is Bill Mitchell was part of a BBC (I think) special about ten years ago about McCoy.  So, Mitchell's "recognition" of McCoy could just as likely be from that as the hijacking.

When Vicki and I had lunch with Bill, he said he only remembers bits and pieces of Cooper at this point.  Colbert's claim Mitchell identified Rackstraw as the hijacker seems like wishful thinking to me.

Did Mitchell assess Mel Wilson, Vicki's Dad?

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

Rackstraw Update

Tom Colbert said Bill Mitchell had identified Robert Rackstraw as DB Cooper, last Sunday, Nov 13, on Coast to Coast AM radio with host Richard Syrett. Colbert spoke definitively, and Syrett replied, "Bingo!"

I have spent all week trying to get through to C2C, Syrett, his producers, etc., to no avail to challenge this assertion.

I believe that Bill Mitchell looked at the photos in front of him. He pointed to Rackstraw and said that it was McCoy. It was also on the History Channel show. They are saying that since Bill pointed out Rackstraw and said McCoy, Mitchell subconsciously remembers the person he pointed to being involved with the hijacking.

The other thing to remember is Bill Mitchell was part of a BBC (I think) special about ten years ago about McCoy.  So, Mitchell's "recognition" of McCoy could just as likely be from that as the hijacking.

When Vicki and I had lunch with Bill, he said he only remembers bits and pieces of Cooper at this point.  Colbert's claim Mitchell identified Rackstraw as the hijacker seems like wishful thinking to me.

Did Mitchell assess Mel Wilson, Vicki's Dad?

Vicki can probably remember the details better than I, but as I recall it, Bill's "bits and pieces" comment was after looking at Mel Wilson's photo.  The "turkey neck" resembled something that he remembered about Cooper, but he just couldn't say one way or the other beyond that.

Do you remember anything else, Vicki?

Mel was sought for years by the US Marshall's office and others - very likely they did a profile of him as a part of their attempts to locate him ... to anticipate where to look. Maybe Vicki can share with us what that profile was?  How does Mel's profile compare with Cooper profiles?
   

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

Rackstraw Update

Tom Colbert said Bill Mitchell had identified Robert Rackstraw as DB Cooper, last Sunday, Nov 13, on Coast to Coast AM radio with host Richard Syrett. Colbert spoke definitively, and Syrett replied, "Bingo!"

I have spent all week trying to get through to C2C, Syrett, his producers, etc., to no avail to challenge this assertion.

I believe that Bill Mitchell looked at the photos in front of him. He pointed to Rackstraw and said that it was McCoy. It was also on the History Channel show. They are saying that since Bill pointed out Rackstraw and said McCoy, Mitchell subconsciously remembers the person he pointed to being involved with the hijacking.

Yes, that is our understanding, but it is not what Colbert stated on Coast to Coast radio. He simply said that Mitchell had confirmed that Rackstraw was DB Cooper.

Bruce:  You say: "Yes, that is our understanding, but it is not what Colbert stated on Coast to Coast radio. He simply said that Mitchell had confirmed that Rackstraw was DB Cooper."

I say Tom Colbert is all wrapped up in his long work so much that he forgets that Bob Rackstraw is TOO SHORT AT 5 FT 8 IN

End of discussion, that is it.

Bob Sailshaw
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

A Cooperite just called me to say that my books are selling on eBay for fifty bucks! Wow.

Ug. One more thing to figure out. I'm still trying to get videos up at YouTube.

Ah, read a little closer, Meyer, the above is not my commentary, but that of the "perfect" DB Cooper suspect, Sheridan Peterson.

If you don't like his politics, so be it. But you should know whose thoughts are expressed here.

If you don't want to know the fuller dimensions of this particular DB Cooper suspect, then I suggest you simply skip reading them. Reposting them and lambasting me in the process is not very scholarly, imho.