The Mystery of DB Cooper - Who Was He? #68 - a podcast by SMP

Who was D.B. Cooper?  This week on Solvable Mysteries we investigate the strange and famous case of D.B. Cooper, a hi-jacker who parachuted from a 727 in 1971 with $200,000 in ransom, never to be heard again.

D.B. Cooper has become one of the most famous mysteries of the 20th Century, because the crime was so daring and unusual, and has never been definitively solved.  D.B. hijacked a flight from Portland to Seattle, and then parachuted out over the Washtington state wilderness with a parachute and a massive backpack filled with money into the cold November night, thousands of feet in the air.  He was never seen again, and only a portion of the ransom was ever found, on a river back in Tina Bar, Washington.  It is a case that has been talked about for almost 50 years since, and much imitated in both fiction and reality. On this episode of the show we review all the facts of the case, including looking at new evidence about who D.B. Cooper was. We also review the best suspects for the case, including Robert Rackstraw, John List, Kenneth Christiansen, Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., Duane Weber, Walter R. Reca, William Gossett, and William J. Smith. We also present new evidence and theories around D.B. Cooper potentially being a CIA agent gone rogue, and the possibility the F.B.I. covered this up to prevent embarrassing the U.S. government.

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