D.B. Cooper : Where Are You?! - Interview w/ Tom Colbert

Mysterious Circumstances

Age Of Radio + Bleav

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Thomas J. Colbert is an American consultant, writer, producer and former media executive. He is the co-author of The Last Master Outlaw, a book that documents his five-year cold case investigation of D. B. Cooper suspect Robert Rackstraw. The book became the subject of a documentary on the History Channel which Colbert exec-produced. He was a story researcher for CBS and Paramount Pictures and founder of media service Industry R&D. He now heads The Case Breakers, a group of 45+ investigative specialists who volunteer their time to help solve the 250,000 unsolved cold cases in the U.S. You can also see him on the latest Netflix documentary, D.B. Cooper : Where Are You?!

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to a very special episode of Mysterious Circumstances.
0:28.0	I'm your host Justin. Today joining me I have Tom Colbert who is the head of the
0:34.5	casebreakers. And he's also an author of the book The Last Master Outlaw, which is
0:40.6	about DB Cooper. You can also see him on the documentary that is out on Netflix
0:47.2	called DB Cooper, where are you? And that is the topic of our discussion today. Tom
0:54.2	welcome. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you for the invitation. Very excited Justin.
0:59.4	I like weird in-depth cases and my listeners are huge fans of DB Cooper, so they are going
1:05.9	to appreciate this quite a bit. So I guess let's get started. Why don't you introduce yourself,
1:11.5	tell the listeners a little bit about you. Obviously I know you, but they don't. Tell us all what
1:17.4	we do at the casebreakers. Well, my deep background is CBS News for almost 10 years on the
1:23.5	ONO, the owned and operated station Los Angeles from there. I was recruited by Paramount. And then
1:30.6	while at Paramount, I met my beautiful wife and she had her own personal story. And I decided
1:39.2	because of her smarts with business, we would start our own true story company. And that's what
1:44.8	we've been doing all these years under various names. I would add that my other training dealt
1:51.0	with a school called California Specialized Training Institute. It's an OES school,
1:58.8	which means emergency management. They bring in people that are specialists and they invited me
2:05.3	from CBS News to spend 17 years there every other month. They'd fly me up and teach crisis management,
2:13.0	hazardous materials, hostage situations, all from the perspective of if you're law enforcement,
2:19.5	how can you keep your case private, but at the same time serve the public. And out of that
2:26.6	came our first cold case team. We selected some of the best people. My wife and I in 42 years have
2:33.3	never been sued. We're very very happy about that over the years. And I will tell you that those are
2:40.4	the type of people we have selected on the team. These are 40 members now headed by former FBI,
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