MYSTERY: The Disappearance of D.B. Cooper
About this episode
This episode revisits the mystery of D.B. Cooper, the only unsolved skyjacking in American history.
On the afternoon of November 24th, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded a Northwest Orient flight in Portland, told a flight attendant he had a bomb …On the afternoon of November 24th, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded a Northwest Orient flight in Portland, told a flight attendant he had a bomb in his briefcase, and demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes. After releasing the passengers in Seattle, he ordered the crew back into the sky and jumped out the rear stairs of the plane somewhere over the Pacific Northwest. He was never seen again. In this episode of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy revisits the only unsolved skyjacking in American history, the suspects the FBI chased for half a century, and the question that has fueled one of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century: who was D.B. Cooper, and did he actually survive the jump? Head over to our Murder True Crime Stories YouTube channel to WATCH our video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@MurderTrueCrimeStories If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Murder: True Crime Stories to never miss a case! Want all 2 parts of every case all at once? Join Crime House+ and get both…
People in this episode
Host: Carter Roy
Topics covered
- disappearance
- skyjacking
- mystery
- FBI investigation
- D.B. Cooper
Keywords
- D.B. Cooper
- skyjacking
- FBI
- disappearance
- mystery
- November 24th, 1971
- Pacific Northwest
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Northwest Orient
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