The Last post didn't come out like I wanted. Shutter are you sure that pic is of Jack Coffelt?
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From Wikipedia:

"Coffelt was a conman, ex-convict, and purported government informant who claimed to have been the chauffeur and confidante of Abraham Lincoln's last undisputed descendant, great-grandson Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith. In 1972 he began claiming he was D.B. Cooper, and attempted through an intermediary, a former cellmate named James Brown, to sell his story to a Hollywood production company. He said he landed near Mount Hood, about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Ariel, injuring himself and losing the ransom money in the process. Photos of Coffelt bear a resemblance to the composite drawings, although he was in his mid-fifties in 1971. He was reportedly in Portland on the day of the hijacking, and sustained leg injuries around that time which were consistent with a skydiving mishap.[124]

Coffelt's account was reviewed by the FBI, which concluded that it differed in significant details from information that had not been made public, and was therefore a fabrication.[125] Brown, undeterred, continued peddling the story long after Coffelt died in 1975. Multiple media venues, including the television news program 60 Minutes, considered and rejected it.[126] In a 2008 book about Lincoln's descendants,[127] author Charles Lachman revisited Coffelt's tale although it had been discredited 36 years before."

Sure wonder what undisclosed info the FBI uses to check Cooper confessor stories.

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Really glad to see TC is still active on sleuthing NORJACK. He must have spent a fortune. His Rackstraw book has been quite successful (I recommend it) but I bet the profits amount to only a tiny fraction of his expenses.

There are some contradictions in the Rackstraw story that don't make sense to me, like allegedly throwing $50,000 away to make it look like he cratered and subsequently writing letters to newspapers that claim he is alive and contain coded clues to his identity. One of TC's endorsers, a psychologist, says it is typical narcissistic personality behavior.

Hope Tom is successful in his efforts to get a documentary made. If he can get Rackstraw to confess on camera, it will be huge. Rackstraw is a clever con man. If he can figure out how to safely profit from his notoriety he might finger himself as Cooper, whether true or not.

ANYTHING that keeps DB Cooper in the public eye is good in my view. A Blevins Kenny movie is just fine with me and I wish him luck.

There are so many interesting candidates. Sheridan Peterson has led a fascinating life. So has Bob Rackstraw. Ted Braden too. Duane, not so much, unless you believe Jo's account that he was a tech-savvy, jump trained, covert spook double triple agent operative.

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