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The FOX True Crime Podcast

The Hunt for D.B. Cooper

The FOX True Crime Podcast

Fox News

True Crime

4.7 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

One man, a parachute, and $200,000 in cash. It remains the only unsolved hijacking in commercial aviation history. For over 50 years, the FBI has chased the ghost of D.B. Cooper, yet his identity, his motive, and even his survival are unknown. Did he perish in the wilderness, or did he pull off the perfect crime? Expert Eric Ulis lays out the evidence, the suspects, and the search for the real D.B. Cooper. Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno If you have a story or topic we should feature on the FOX True Crime Podcast, send us an email at: truecrimepodcast@fox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.

0:04.7

A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel.

0:07.5

They think they're better than us?

0:08.5

Who do you think you are?

0:09.8

I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.

0:11.5

She's punishing me.

0:13.0

You destroyed my family.

0:14.3

I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.

0:17.0

A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.

0:39.2

On a frigid November night in 1971, on a flight from Portland to Seattle, a man in a dark suit ordered a bourbon and soda, lit a cigarette, and quietly handed a note to a flight attendant.

0:47.4

The message was simple. He had a bomb. Within hours, he had extorted $200,000 in $20 bills,

0:54.5

strapped on a parachute, and vanished into a raging stormwater abyss over the rugged woods of Washington State.

1:02.3

The man who bought his ticket as Dan Cooper became the face of the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history.

1:09.0

The Federal Bureau of Investigation officially closed the case in 2016, but a newly released batch of investigative files has revealed a name previously buried in the redacted files, Raymond, Sydney, Russell.

1:16.6

I'm Emily Campano, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

1:30.3

Thank you. In September of 1972 In September of 1972, the feds investigating the skyjacking turned their focus to a former

1:50.7

military pilot living in the quiet town of Norway, Maine.

1:55.2

Sid Russell had flown for the legendary flying tigers and freight airlines, spending years

2:00.3

on the west Coast before suddenly

2:02.2

returning to his rural Maine roots just months before the hijacking. The files paint a picture of a

2:09.3

tense interview at Russell's home where he calmly denied the crime, claiming he was only in Maine

2:14.9

to care for his aging mother. But among those who knew him,

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