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Decades of frustration have transformed the soft no of a development executive from a banality to sinister intrigue. There are no definitive answers inside the Coopersphere — only a disorienting fun house of doubt and bewilderment. Given the mania that surrounds its solving, today the crime can now feel quaint.

After all, nobody died. Take that History doc, which caught the eye of a something Alabama machinist who catfished used a fake virtual identity to lure people online in his spare time. He targeted Rackstraw on Facebook, posing as a year-old nurse named Kelly Young. THR has confirmed they included Magical Elves.

But by his own account, his own hard bargaining had scared them all away. Rackstraw was most fired up about Colbert, whom he regarded as a mix of irritant, hellhound and sheer comic relief. He would have opened himself to a deposition. Brendan I. Maybe Rackstraw was a CIA asset. Maybe he hijacked another jet. Maybe he was in fact D.

Or maybe he was just another Cooperite obsessive who enjoyed being taken for an American antihero. More than one of these things could be true, or none of them. Yet this post-passing period, in which Rackstraw is out of the mix, brings Colbert a new anxiety. The perfect criminal eluded the law. But order can still be enforced on the D.

B Cooper narrative. As with so many mysteries, truth is consigned to play out as entertainment. The Making a Murderer documentarians, who like other darlings of the new age of true crime have seen their own facts and ethics called into question, investigated Steven Avery for a decade before their work first aired on Netflix.

A version of this story first appeared in the Sept. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. I want out of the system and saw a way through good ole Unk. Now you know. I am going around the world and they will never find me because I am smarter than the system's lackey cops and lame duck leaders. Now it is Uncle's turn to weep and pay one of it's own some cash for a change.

And please tell the lackey cops D. Cooper is not my real name. Rackstraw, D. Cooper is not my real name" and "I want out of the system and saw a way by hijacking one jet plane. But the identity of Cooper—and the author or authors of the letters—officially remains a mystery. Cooper: Case Closed? But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault.

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