SKYJACK: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper Audiobook (Free)

“I’ve a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me personally.”

That was the take note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered traveler on the Northwest Orient trip in 1971. It had been the start of perhaps one of the most amazing whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, then parachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and into oblivion. D. B. Cooper’s case has become the stuff of tale and obsessed and cursed his pursuers with everything from about SKYJACK: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper personal bankruptcy to suicidal despair. Now with SKYJACK, journalist Geoffrey Gray delves into this unsolved mystery uncovering new leads in the infamous case.

You start with a hint from an exclusive investigator right into a promising suspect (a Cooper lookalike, Northwest worker, and educated paratrooper), Gray is certainly propelled in to the murky depths of a decades-old mystery, performing new interviews and obtaining a first-ever look at Cooper’s FBI document. Beginning with a heartstopping and unparalleled recreation of the crime itself, from cabin to cockpit to tower, and uncanny portraits of character types who either chased Cooper or might have dedicated the crime, including Ralph Himmelsbach, the most dogged of FBI agencies, who watched with horror like a legal became a counter-culture folk hero who supposedly shafted the program…Karl Fleming, a respected reporter whose career was destroyed by a Cooper scoop that was a scam…and Barbara (nee Bobby) Dayton, a transgendered pilot who insisted she was Cooper herself.

With explosive new information and exclusive access to FBI data files and forensic proof, SKYJACK reopens among the great cold cases from the 20th century.