Siblings in Crime

The Infamous Skyjacking- D.B Cooper

Ally Rossell and Blake Murphy Season 1 Episode 30

A man buys a $20 plane ticket with cash. Thirty minutes later, the flight crew is handing him parachutes and $200,000 cash. Then… he disappears. No gun. No struggle. Just a calm voice, a rear stairway, and a case that has haunted the FBI ever since. 

This week, we take you inside the unraveling of one of the boldest escapes in aviation history.


Sources Used

  • FBI Case Files and Archived Reports on the Cooper Investigation
  • Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper by Geoffrey Gray
  • D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy by Bernie Rhodes and Russell Calame
  • FBI.gov Official 2016 Closure Statement
  • Witness interviews including Tina Mucklow and Bill Mitchell (passenger)
  • Flight logs and aircraft records of N467US (Boeing 727-100)
  • Tom Colbert’s investigative team and the decoded letters 

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