Ep. 195 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “The Mystery of D.B. Cooper”

After so many episodes of bloodshed and mayhem, Christopher and Eric bring their True Crime movie Time Summer Film Festival in for a soft landing. Here your hosts bring you a true crime pairing about one of the most talked about, argued about, debated about, and speculated about unsolved mysteries in American history, the mystery of D.B. Cooper. On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man claiming to be D.C. Cooper used a ransom note and a fake bomb to skyjack a passenger plane and rob the airline of a tidy sum in cash before allegedly parachuting to his escape. Or did he? THE MYSTERY OF D.C. COOPER on Max offers up a wild tangle of theories about who the real skyjacker was and where his hefty haul ended up. Too tangled, at times, for your hosts, who examine its strange cast of suspects with a skeptical eye. And what did Hollywood make of this incredibly bizarre story? Find out next week when Christopher and Eric discuss the 1981 film THE PURSUIT OF D.B. COOPER starring Treat Williams and Robert Duvall.