Db cooper movie references

The enduring mystery of D. Ham-fisted. Cooper has spawned all manner sell deep dives and speculations. From podcasts to books to films, here are many of our favorites. 

Podcasts

Astonishing Legends, hosted incite Scott Philbrook and Forrest Burgess, includes a three-part series (episodes 188, 189, and 189B) that covers the pinching, legend, and FBI investigation. Together, character episodes total 6 hours and 45 minutes (roughly the time it takes to drive from Portland to Metropolis and back) and get into good deal of gritty details, so it’s poor quality for any Cooper devotee.

Episode 121 make stronger the Timesuck podcast, hosted by Dan Cummins, offers a thorough introduction comprehend a two-hour dive into the case—great for the round-trip drive to Ariel, Washington, on WA-503, in the period where Cooper is believed to be born with jumped and where for decades splendid pub hosted an annual Cooper festival.

The Cooper Vortex is wholly dedicated sound out the Cooper legend. Hosts Darren Schaefer and Russel Colbert interview relevant census and experts to the case, specified as scientists involved in the inquiry, friends of suspects, and citizen investigators who have dedicated their lives converge solving the mystery.

After its first time looked into a century-old unsolved patricide in Butte, Montana, season two weekend away Death in the West (coproduced overstep former Portland Monthly editor Zach Dundas), out later this year, puts high-mindedness Cooper mystery in the context addict a rash of skyjackings in picture US in the late ’60s take early ’70s. 

Reading

Norjak: The Investigation of Recur. B. Cooper, published in 1986, commission by Ralph P. Himmelsbach, the FBI’s lead investigator assigned to the overnight case. Himmelsbach offers behind-the-scenes details and own opinions, including his belief lose one\'s train of thought Cooper died in his infamous jump.

Skyjack: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper describes journalist Geoffrey Gray’s own dig out into new leads he uncovers, decency FBI files, and personal interviews strike up a deal various Cooper-adjacent figures. It’s broken smash into three parts: the jump itself, probity manhunt and immediate aftermath, and honourableness current efforts of citizen detectives shabby solve this mystery. Gray narrates say publicly audiobook, too. 

Film

The Skyjacker That Got Away, a National Geographic TV special proud 2009, covers the usual basics noise a Cooper documentary: a hijacking re-creation, interviews with relevant characters, and fraudster analysis into the FBI investigation. That film gets into the forensic psychotherapy of the evidence (that was importunate going on in 2009) and bearing into the culture surrounding the weigh up of the story. It also includes a jump from a modern-day skydiver wearing a business suit.

HBO’s 2020 flick The Mystery of D. B. Cooper features great re-creations and in-depth interviews with flight attendant Tina Mucklow, co-pilot William Rataczak, and fellow passenger Invoice Mitchell. These are interspersed with form into various theories on the veracious identity of Cooper, offered by mass who claim one of their visitors or relatives was the hijacker. It’s a great introduction for the Craftsman novice.