Ten Thousand Feet in the Air

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 39.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a sawed-off rifle, and a plan. Special thanks to Danny Wicentowski. Learn more at the Riverfront Times: “The Final Flight of Martin McNally.” This episode was originally released in 2018. To hear the second part of this story, “The Fox,” click here. How are we doing? Help us improve by completing our audience survey: https://thisiscriminal.com/survey. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, members-only merch, and more. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Megan Rapino here.
0:01.9	This week on A Touchmore, it is Sports with a Capital S.
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0:12.5	Plus, we put our biggest bicker of the week to bed.
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0:22.9	Support for Criminal comes from Apple Podcasts.
0:26.5	Sometimes you get an urge to look back at your past and the decisions you regret or the
0:31.0	connections you lost. And you start to wonder, what if things have gone differently?
0:36.7	Heavyweight is a podcast that looks into that question and tries to make things right.
0:41.4	Listening to a single episode, you can laugh, cry, reflect on crossroads in your own life,
0:45.8	or even find the closure you might be searching for.
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0:56.0	Here is an idea. A get rich, quick scheme, no experience at all.
1:00.0	On the day before Thanksgiving in 1971,
1:06.0	a man using the name Dan Cooper
1:09.0	bought a $20 one-way ticket from Portland to Seattle.
1:13.1	He paid in cash.
1:14.9	He boarded the plane, sat towards the back, and ordered a bourbon and soda.
1:20.2	When the plane took off, he handed the flight attendant a note.
1:24.5	She put it away without looking at it.
1:26.8	She assumed he was trying to give her his number.
1:29.7	She was used to businessmen trying to flirt with her. But when the man saw that she didn't look at it,
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