his episode revisits the story of DB Cooper from way back in 2018's SUM Episode 2 (Unsolved Mysteries E5).I think I really biffed up that story because I got one or two details wrong and barely scratched the surface of the madness that is this mystery. This episode is more of a casual sit-down chat session, where I tell you the story of Robert W. Rackstraw. I'm not a journalist and this podcast is supposed to be kind of a fun take on serious subjects to blow off steam and learn about crime history, so don't expect me to try to solve this case that the FBI gave up on. I read a book about Rackstraw, and watched a related documentary series featuring crime podcaster and author Billy Jensen--All about how a small investigative team is sure Rackstraw was DB Cooper. But why are they so sure? Well, it takes like an hour to explain it. It's definitely faster than watching a two-part docu-series, reading a book, then checking some of the sources in the back of the book. I'm not convinced, but the story is so interesting I wanted to share anyway. Then, we take a look at two other suspects as a comparison, and jump into the madness of DB Cooper media and the Venn diagram of serious FBI investigation and amateur sleuth detective work, and the Olive Garden. This episode is not sponsored by the Olive Garden. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TLDR: Lots of people think Rob W. Rackstraw was Cooper, but maybe. My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/destructoblog​ Exclusive stuff, early stuff and cassette copies of the podcast available to Patrons only! ================================================================== Mystery of DB Cooper: What The HBO Film Left Out About Richard Floyd McCoy By Matt Morrison, via ScreenRant. (TLDR about the HBO documentary) https://screenrant.com/d-b-cooper-hbo-documentary-richard-floyd-mccoy-leaves-out/ - Robert Rackstraw, D.B. Cooper Suspect with Various Bizarre Oregon Connections, Dies at 75 By Douglas Perry/The Oregonian. Accessed via OregonLive.com. https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/07/robert-rackstraw-db-cooper-suspect-with-various-bizarre-oregon-connections-dies-at-75.html - FBI History – Famous Cases and Criminals https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/richard-floyd-mccoy-jr - Hoosier says he helped crack the code to identify skyjacker D.B. Cooper, IndyStar, by Tim Evans Published Aug 3 2018. Video Clips and Article on Rick Serwood https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2018/08/03/db-cooper-letters-decoded-indiana-veteran-thomas-colbert-point-robert-rackstraw/774858002/ - Diatoms Constrain forensic burial timelines: case study with DB Cooper money By Thomas G. Kaye and Mark Meltzer. Scientific Reports 10, Article 13036 (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-70015-z =============================================================== Brad Melzer's Decoded, S1E6 (History Channel), - Bigfoot vs Db Cooper (2014, Dir. David Decauteau), I'm not telling you - The Last Master Outlaw, book, Thomas J. Colbert, Via Amazon Kindle - DB Cooper: Case Closed?, E1-2, (History Channel) Via Amazon Prime - Mission Declassified, Recreating Plane Hijacker DB Cooper's Skydive Escape (Discovery Australia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVyrofhI99k - History's Greatest Mysteries, S1E1, The Final Hunt for DB Cooper, Nov 2020, History Channel - Dana Gould on Conan 2015 (The money joke) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amoteml4Cj8 ------------------- MUSIC CREDITS: THREE CHAIN LINKS Songs: Magic Hour. Appears on PHANTOMS. CCBY4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...​ https://threechainlinks.bandcamp.com/...​ EROKIA Song: "Slow Synth Sounds." CC0. https://freesound.org/people/Erokia/sounds/541623/ https://www.patreon.com/Erokia Visit me at WWW.DESTRUCTOBLOG.COM

UPDATE THE UPDATES. This is the first Mini (but not) episode of the SOLVED/Unsolved Mysteries podcast. We talk about whether or not you can be a good person and also a murderer, and, I think, beards. The title of the show is very long and the logo makes it look like it says "SUM POO." Stories featured: Jon Yount deep dive, Joe Shepherd peed vide. I dunno man I'm exhuasted. OBVIOUS trigger warning for basically all the bad things you can imagine. RIP my search history. My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/destructoblog My website: www.destructoblog.com MUSIC CREDITS: THREE CHAIN LINKS Songs: Magic Hour, Shadows. Both appear on PHANTOMS. CCBY4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://threechainlinks.bandcamp.com/album/phantoms SOFT AND FURIOUS Song: Craving Ending, off the album Fluid. CC1.0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/music/fluid/ SOURCES: Jon Yount: https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/supreme-court/1974/455-pa-303-0.html https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1958453/commonwealth-v-yount/ https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/jon-yount-a-man-transformed https://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2012/05/22/jon-e-yount/ https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/yount/ --- Joseph (Joe) Arlen Shepherd: https://law.justia.com/cases/tennessee/court-of-criminal-appeals/1992/862-s-w-2d-557-0.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110105085117/ http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2011/01/02/16735101.html Photograph used was from find-a-grave.com. Source unsure, but is a prison photograph.

Welcome to pandemic pandemonium. This episode is not about viruses or quarantines, but I hope it gives you something to do while you count your rolls of toilet paper and ensure you have enough shotgun shells for the ensuing apocalypse.

In this episode we discuss the MURDER of Elmer DeBoer by Jerry Strickland with accomplice Melissa Munday, the ROBBERY and possible mistaken identity case in Michael Scott Martin's FINAL APPEAL, possible satanic cult murders or coincidences with the story of Kurt McFall's UNEXPLAINED DEATH, and FINALLY we get to talk about how mail worked in WWII!

It goes really sideways in story with lots of information about Satan, so hydrate, wash your hands, and prepare for evil to enter your body in the much belated EPISODE FIVE!

(Video Enhanced Version on YouTube will be up later on.)

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VIDEO/AUDIO

Unsolved Mysteries, S1E2 (Used under fair use for criticism/parody.)

1987-88 (Edited and re-aired)

WWII U.S. Navy Recruit Film, Pearl Harbor 1942. Used under Public Domain.

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

https://archive.org/details/NPC-3133

Sailors Barter With Natives And Receive Mail Aboard USS Nicholas (DD-449), Tulagi Harbor, 1943.

https://archive.org/details/NPC-1849a

PRIVATE SNAFU Films are in the Public Domain as they were produced by WB for the US Gov't.

Censored, Dir. Frank Tashlin. July 1944.

Booby Traps, Dir. Bob Clampett. Jan 1944.

Fighting Tools, Dir. Bob Clampett. Oct 1944.

U.S. Army Field Post Office

U.S. Army Field Post Office near Vierville, France during WWII. France, June 21, 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqxOETv2tEs

MUSIC

THREE CHAIN LINKS, Album: PHANTOMS, Tracks: Magic Hour, Shadows, Architects

www.threechainlinks.bandcamp.com/ Used under Attribution 3.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

"Dark Walk" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: Used under Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

“Sunglasses” Loyalty Freak Music, Album: INSTRUMENTAL R&B BEATS TO SING OR RAP ON

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Loyalty_Freak_Music

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Used under CC0 1.0 Universal License.

Thanks for waiting! It's EPISODE FOUR OF THE SOLVED MYSTERY UNSOLVED STORY THING OR WHATEVER!

In this episode, we talk about how a guy definitely Florida'd his wife in story 1.

Story 2 has us look at a old guy and how he gave his money to some people.

The number 3 story has us look for the explanation of how a lady was found in a burning car nowhere near her home.

Story 4 is all about rumors and bullshit about a Grand Canyon trip from the 1920's that left a couple missing.

Story 5, the finale, is the longest thing I've ever written and deals with a man who only wants to love his bugs and his wife who disappears.

People Profiled: Shannon Mohr, David Davis, Glen and Bessey Hyde, Jule Caylor, Dottie Caylor, Patrick Conway, and Aileen Conway.

This episode of the podcast covers Season 1 Episode 1 of Unsolved Mysteries as it was presented on Amazon Prime. I know the story order is mixed up, I address it and apologize.

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MUSIC CREDITS THREE CHAIN LINKS, Album: PHANTOMS, Tracks: Magic Hour, Shadows, Architects Link: www.threechainlinks.bandcamp.com/ Used under CC3.0 ATTRIBUTION

"Dark Walk" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Thank you Kevin MacLeod for letting us amateur creators to use your huge music library. Thank you THREE CHAIN LINKS for making rad shit and releasing it on CC3.0...please answer my fan mail.

Welcome to episode threeeeEEEEEEEE! Of Solved/Unsolved MystereeeeeiiIIIIIIIS!

This episode covers Season 1, Episode 3 of Unsolved Mysteries.

Stories:

1. Amnesia: Who killed Doreen Picard? Susan Laferte can't remember.

2. Fraud: Mr. Mustache (Louis Carlucci) bullies women and takes their money.

3. Wanted: Yount and Broadbeck escape. This is the original part, the update was on the previous episode. The episode order strikes back. I complain about this around 44:00, but Amazon has fixed this issue.

4. Mysterious Legends: The Beale Silver Mine Ciphers. DIG. BURY ME. UNDERNEATH.

There's a lot of complaining and bad Photoshop editing. Enjoy!

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Unsolved Mysteries is property of its rights holders and is not affiliated with this show in any way. Its subjects and brief clips are used for commentary and review only. This is not an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, and this program is designed to be a fan-made companion piece to each actual episode of the show. So support the show by watching the episode first, then checking in here after!

Information comes from Unsolved.com, UPI archives, “Discovered: The Secret of Beale's Treasure.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and New York Magazine. Audio clips are edited from various sources. Video/audio comes from Unsolved Mysteries (FilmRise) and WPRI news footage on youtube (WPRI). Used under fair use and or parody; it should be obvious which in context.

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THREE CHAIN LINKS, Album: PHANTOMS, Tracks: Magic Hour, Shadows, Architects

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Used under CC3.0 ATTRIBUTION

Welcome to EPISODE 2! WELCOME TO EPISODE DOOOOOOOM!

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Unsolved Mysteries is property of its rights holders and is not affiliated with this show in any way. Its subjects and brief clips are used for commentary and review only. This is not an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, and this program is designed to be a fan-made companion piece to each actual episode of the show. So support the show by watching the episode first, then checking in here after!

Information comes from Unsolved Mysteries, a bit from Sword and Scale, excerpts from the book Boys on the Tracks, Salon, DBCooper.com, Unsolved.com, Murderpedia, and snippets from other online news sources as well as pieces from online documentaries and film clips I could find. I have attempted a full works cited below, if there is a piece of information you can't substantiate, just leave a comment and I'll attempt to figure out where I got it.

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Articles

articles.latimes.com/1988-01-17/new…1_math-teacher

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-21…kills-jail.html

swordandscale.com/the-boys-on-the-tracks/

dbcooper.com/2016/08/d-b-cooper…ingered-rackstraw/

I'm back with a new podcast about the first episode of Unsolved Mysteries!

It's a skeptical look at a show that sometimes blends reality and total horseshit in the best way.

In this episode we talk about the Queen Mary ghost ship hauntings, wanted man Joe Shepherd, and missing woman Gail DeLano. It gets very goofy and then gets very sad.

Special thanks to the Center for Inquiry (www.centerforinquiry.net/)for great information about the normal side of the paranormal and Joe Nickell for being my hero.

Assorted music by THREE CHAIN LINKS from the album PHANTOMS

threechainlinks.bandcamp.com/

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Unsolved Mysteries is property of its rights holders and is not affiliated with this show in any way. Its subjects and brief clips are used for commentary and review only. This is not an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, and this program is designed to be a fan-made companion piece to each actual episode of the show. So support the show by watching the episode first, then checking in here after!