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The Man Who Jumped Into the Night: The D.B. Cooper Mystery | The Innocence Files
In this episode of The Innocence Files, host Martina Sheerin unravels the enduring mystery of D.B. Cooper, the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history. On Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, a calm man named Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, demanding $200,000 and four parachutes before leaping from the aircraft into the stormy Pacific Northwest night. This narrative explores the chilling details of the hijacking, the psychological tactics used by Cooper to maintain control, and the subsequent investigation that has haunted investigators for over fifty…
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