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American Skyjacker: The Final Flight of Martin McNally

The Writer, the Mother, and the Con | Chapter 6

American Skyjacker: The Final Flight of Martin McNally

Imperative Entertainment and Pegalo Pictures

Documentary, Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.7855 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

As Mac and Trapnell execute their brazen prison escape, we'll explore the motivations of the third hijacker in our story: Barbara Oswald, the woman helping them escape via helicopter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Listener discretion is advised. imperative entertainment. In the first half of our series, we've met Martin McNally and Garrett Trapnell, two American Skyjackers who have led

1:06.6

wildly different criminal lives and who seemed destined for life behind bars.

1:11.6

But the story is't over yet. With the help of a woman,

1:18.0

Martin McNally and Garretrapnell were determined to break out of prison.

1:25.0

On board the helicopter on that late May evening in 1978,

1:31.0

Barbara Oswald was a 43 yearyear-old divorcee and single mother of five from the quiet middle-class

1:37.5

St Louis suburb of Richmond Heights.

1:41.1

She was a military woman, and while she recuperated from injuries due to a motorcycle accident,

1:47.0

the former Army recruiter and respected air traffic controller was in the process of earning her master's degree in corrections work,

1:54.0

working hard to put food on the table for her family.

1:58.0

But according to those who would later be interviewed by the press

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