Trial attorneys will tell you that
when you have an actual witness
they're maybe 50% accurate at best.
You know, four people can see an incident
and every one of them will describe it differently.
And it's not just their perceptions
that they're reporting.
It's also their biases.
This is Bob.
Yeah, Mr. Rackstraw, my name is Tim Evans.
I'm a reporter with the Indianapolis Star newspaper.
I'm sorry to call you out of the blue like this,
but I've been contacted by a guy named Colbert.
He's alleging that you are, uh,
the guy who did the D.B. Cooper hijacking and--
I have no idea. But Colbert has been attacking me
for a number of years,
resulting in a big massive lawsuit.
So now what he's doing is he's sending out six pages of information
to a whole bunch of small-town newspapers,
and then we'll do the old Nazi Blitzkrieg
and hammer Rackstraw once again.
So that's where it is.
And have you filed a lawsuit against him?
- It's coming. - It's coming? Okay.
Do not print anything about me.
-I will sue the crap out of you. - Mm-hmm.
So are you, are you not…
Are you denying that you're-- what he's saying is true?
Don't get to the bottom line. That's a $40 million question.
-Let him answer it. What did he say? - He says you are,
and that's why I'm trying to give you an opportunity to say you're not.
Well, opportunity to dig into whether he's telling the truth.
Do you know anything about the guy in Indiana that he had supposedly
decoded the messages, or…?
Yeah. His name is Sherwood, is that it?
Yeah, I think. Yeah, yeah.
It was a hurrah moment, I guess, eureka moment for Colbert,
grasping at the last straw.
There was a correlation between
what he used in Southeast Asia
and then what was found
and decrypted
from the D.B. Cooper letters.
That's a pretty strong correlation.