Lots of circumstantial evidence on Rackstraw. Had the skills, and they were able to place him in the timeline, including the washed-up money.

Part 1 was 2 hours Sunday night.
Part 2 was 2 hours tonight as a conclusion.

If you've ever watched a baseball game that lasted 4 hours with a 24 hour rain delay and your team lost, then yeah, tune in.

How does one determine the cash never showed up in circulation? Who the hell checks the serial numbers on $20 bills? I doubt banks or the Fed even do it nowadays with all the computers and scanners we have. In the early 70s, what are the odds that, even if all the cash was spent in retail stores or deposited into a bank, someone would have caught it? I'm picturing Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro in Midnight Run here.

Well, that's a very good analogy if you, like most of us, expected the program to identify D.B. Cooper, and thus, close the case.

The title reads, "D.B. Cooper, Case Closed?" Naturally, most of us saw that as a tease and the early posts humorously derided the program as the typical History Channel shill with the logical answer to the rhetorical question being, "NO." Turns out, the program delivered on it's promise. The FBI closed the case. So the answer to the title question is, "Yes."

From the mid-sixties through the mid-seventies my father flew out of and taught ground school at Pearson Air Park (now Pearson Field) in Vancouver, Washington. He was interviewed at length by the FBI about one of his students: a man who bore a striking resemblance to the sketch of DB Cooper, was a parachute instructor and who never showed up at Pearson after Thanksgiving of 1971. Don't recall the name and, sadly, I can no longer call my dad to ask.

Was a hoot to see Fred Jaross, a home town guy, being interviewed. They mispronounced his name, by the way.

Just finished this today. One thing that caught my eye was the FBI appeared to have fingerprints lifted from the arm rest of the aircraft and if the parachute and chest container in their possession was from the case there would also be fingerprints.

So........................... at some point can we conclude that the main suspect in the end of the programs fingerprints did not match? Also can we conclude the money stolen was never used / spent back into circulation? At least in the US?

This "investigation" had all the journalistic integrity of the Paul McCartney is Dead bunk or a lead story on the front of the National Inquirer with Clinton shaking hands with an alien.

The 93 "pieces of evidence" were loose bits of circumstantial info dug up to try to sell the series to the History Channel. The only thing it proved is that the History Channel made money selling advertising to this pile of conjecture.

So if the FBI has closed their case it's safe to spend the money? :rolleyes:

There's 5 times more money to be made by being convicted and writing a book about it.

One compelling moment for me was when they played the video id'ing the 'hippie' couple at the party would 'find' some of the money a few days later. That old guy really looked visibly spooked, body language was odd...........

+1 Big time.

" I cleared a spot for burger grilling and I found $6,000 wrapped with new rubber bands."

Also lab testing had been performed prior on rubber bands ( like the kind that held the money together) lasting outside in the environment. Repeated tests indicated that regardless of type of rubber bands, they all would start decomposing / falling apart by 6 months maximum.

The sudden 'finding' of the money was years later...............................

Yep. I smell something. Always thought the finding money was a stretch.

I think it's going to play out like an unsolved mysteries show. Over the next few months, others will come out with stories or evidence either confirming or denying Rackstraw's involvement.

I found the video interviews, especially the one from the 70's swaying my opinion that it may have been him.

Just cocky enough to try.