THE COOPER VORTEX : THE FBI'S ONLY UNSOLVED PLANE HIJACKING AND THE INCREDIBLE STORY BEHIND IT
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this fascinating and fun interview with "The Cooper Vortex" Podcast host Darren Schaefer we discuss the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the US which occurred in 1971, and the long list of suspects that are keeping DB Cooper mystery fans awake at night.
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| 0:30.0 | Because... because Oh, Welcome everyone to 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories and Mysteries. You all have been asking me for a good mystery. histories and this is definitely one maybe the largest mystery |
| 1:08.4 | cold case that the FBI has ever dealt with here in the United States. |
| 1:13.6 | Today we have with us Darren Schaefer, |
| 1:16.4 | and he has a podcast called the Cooper Vortex. |
| 1:19.5 | And on that podcast he brings in guests who are very, very |
| 1:22.3 | familiar with the FBI case and the search |
| 1:25.0 | for the true identity of D.B. Cooper. And Darren's going to get a straightened |
| 1:30.2 | out on who D. B. Cooper was, for those of you who may not know and what this |
| 1:34.1 | Cooper vortex is all about how you doing today Darren pretty good John |
| 1:38.6 | thanks for having me on I appreciate it you bet our pleasure would you please |
| 1:42.3 | introduce yourself and what got you into studying and learning about D. B. Cooper and let's do it. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. So about five, six years ago I was living in Woodland, |
| 1:56.3 | Washington and I got the book Skyjack by Jeffrey Gray as a gift. |
| 2:02.9 | Just sort of interested in D.B. Cooper, |
| 2:05.2 | just because it was a local story. |
| 2:07.1 | Woodlands probably the closest town to the supposed drop zone. |
| 2:12.7 | And in Skyjack it sort of leads to another book about D.B. Cooper. |
| 2:18.4 | So I looked and that book was available. |
| 2:20.0 | I read that one and started getting on the forums online and read book after book after book. |
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