Welcome everybody to a very special episode of Mysterious Circumstances.

I'm your host Justin. Today joining me I have Tom Colbert who is the head of the

casebreakers. And he's also an author of the book The Last Master Outlaw, which is

about DB Cooper. You can also see him on the documentary that is out on Netflix

called DB Cooper, where are you? And that is the topic of our discussion today. Tom

welcome. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you for the invitation. Very excited Justin.

I like weird in-depth cases and my listeners are huge fans of DB Cooper, so they are going

to appreciate this quite a bit. So I guess let's get started. Why don't you introduce yourself,

tell the listeners a little bit about you. Obviously I know you, but they don't. Tell us all what

we do at the casebreakers. Well, my deep background is CBS News for almost 10 years on the

ONO, the owned and operated station Los Angeles from there. I was recruited by Paramount. And then

while at Paramount, I met my beautiful wife and she had her own personal story. And I decided

because of her smarts with business, we would start our own true story company. And that's what

we've been doing all these years under various names. I would add that my other training dealt

with a school called California Specialized Training Institute. It's an OES school,

which means emergency management. They bring in people that are specialists and they invited me

from CBS News to spend 17 years there every other month. They'd fly me up and teach crisis management,

hazardous materials, hostage situations, all from the perspective of if you're law enforcement,

how can you keep your case private, but at the same time serve the public. And out of that

came our first cold case team. We selected some of the best people. My wife and I in 42 years have

never been sued. We're very very happy about that over the years. And I will tell you that those are

the type of people we have selected on the team. These are 40 members now headed by former FBI,

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