Brendan Koerner: The Skies Belong to Us

Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Plane hijackings aren’t very common anymore. But in the late 1960s and early 1970s, armed criminals were forcing commercial airliners to divert their flights, oftentimes demanding ransom. Author Brendan Koerner tells the story of an American couple turned hijackers, whose journey ends with some surprising twists. Koerner’s book is called: The Skies Belong to Us.

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:04.0	In Mississippi, Yazoo Clay keeps secrets.
0:11.0	Seven thousand bodies out there, or more?
0:15.0	A forgotten asylum cemetery.
0:17.0	It was my family's mystery.
0:19.0	Shame, guilt, propriety, something keeps it all buried deep until it's not.
0:26.5	I'm Larison Campbell, and this is Under Yazoo Clay. Listen on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:36.4	Imagine you're scrolling through TikTok.
0:38.5	You come across a video of a teenage girl and then a photo of the person suspected of killing her.
0:44.4	It was shocking.
0:45.4	It was very shocking.
0:46.5	Like, that could have been my daughter.
0:47.8	Like, you never know.
0:48.9	I'm Jen Swan.
0:50.0	I'm the host of a new podcast called My Friend Daisy.
0:53.0	It's the story of how and why a group of
0:55.8	teenagers turned to social media to help track down their friend's killer. Listen to my friend Daisy
1:01.0	on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:06.5	Hi, I'm Sam Mullins, and I've got a new podcast coming out called Go Boy, the gritty true story of how one man fought his way out of some of the darkest places imaginable.
1:17.0	Roger Caron was 16 when first convicted.
1:19.5	Has spent 24 of those years in jail.
1:22.1	But when Roger Caron picked up a pen and paper, he went from an ex-con to a literary darling.
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