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 ...

STOCKTON (CNN) -- It's a bombshell development in a 45-year-old cold case mystery. A commercial airplane hijacker escaped with a daring parachute jump in 1971 and was never seen again. A team of ...

STOCKTON — It's a bombshell development in a 45-year-old cold case mystery. A commercial airplane hijacker escaped with a daring parachute jump in 1971 and was never seen again. CBS Sacramento reports ...

A decoded message from 1972 has solved the mystery of infamous hijacker D.B. Cooper, a documentary filmmaker claims. Television and film producer Tom Colbert said the letter, sent to The Oregonian and ...

Shortly after the FBI officially closed the case of D.B. Cooper, the mysterious figure who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in 1971 and made off with $200,000 in ransom money, the agency was sued by a ...

SAN DIEGO – An intriguing twist in the D.B. Cooper hijacking case: Amateur investigators say a 1971 letter believed to have been sent to authorities by the hijacker has a code that points to his ...

A nine-digit number found at the bottom of a letter believed to be sent by the mysterious plane hijacker D.B. Cooper came from a San Diego man who is still alive, the leader of an investigative team ...

Robert Rackstraw loved adventure. He also embraced danger and confrontation. For a time, the FBI suspected him of being the legendary skyjacker known as D.B. Cooper. Rackstraw died Tuesday in San ...

The leader of the private investigative team who has spent years trying to crack the D.B. Cooper hijacking case claimed Thursday he believes the mysterious criminal was a CIA operative whose identity ...

It’s a mystery that has confounded professional and amateur investigators for 50 years: who was D.B. Cooper? He remains the only airplane hijacker to not only go uncaught, but to go unidentified — ...

A dedicated team of cold-case investigators has revealed how they used an alpha-numeric code-breaking system to decipher strings of letters and numbers included in a series of mysterious letters ...