Hello podcast listeners, my name is Danny Wisentowski, host of American Skyjacker,

the new podcast about one of the most epic true crime sockets in American history.

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It was an ordinary flight from Portland to Seattle, turned extra ordinary,

when a man in black registered as DB Cooper made a bomb threat.

The infamous DB Cooper hijacking occurred in the fall of 1971 at the height of an epidemic.

During the six-year span between 1967 and 1972, more than 300 commercial airplanes or hijacked

worldwide, with over 130 of those occurring in the United States alone.

This was the golden age of skyjacking, but it's Cooper's hijacking that we remember because he

provided the blueprint for how to pull it off and get away. When I decided that I would skyjack

a plane, I started to make preparations for which airport I would grab a plane from.

Six months after Cooper's legendary heist, a small time crook from Detroit would attempt his

own bigger and bolder skyjacking score. Just grab a weapon, grab a note, go on a plane and order

all the stuff you need. Parachutes, money, and bail out.

This decision would set in motion one of the most epic American true crime sagas in history.

I said, okay, this is it. One involving multiple aircraft hijackings. So he reached back and

grabbed her gun. They started wrestling while they were doing that, the aircraft starts falling

out of the sky. And I do remember the fear. It was very scary. Prison escapes. We're running at full

speed. I'm thinking damn, at any moment here we could get shot in the back. She told him what the

real plan was for a prison break and she had a gun. Life risking heroics. I jumped on top of him

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