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D. B. Cooper is the name we use for a man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the pacific northwest, in the airspace between Portland and Seattle on Wednesday, November 24, 1971. He demanded a ransom and leaped from the plane with a parachute…probably. Despite a manhunt and massive FBI investigation, the man has never been located or identified. It remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history. The FBI maintained an active investigation for 45 years after the hijacking. The FBI kept the case open till July 2016.
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William Gossett
Gossett was a veteran who saw action in Korea and Vietnam. His military experience included advanced jump training and wilderness survival. He was a crazy fan of DB Cooper, claiming he could "write the epitaph for D.B. Cooper". Late in his life he reportedly told three of his sons, a retired Utah judge, and a friend in the Salt Lake City public defender's office that he had committed the hijacking. Photos of Gossett taken circa 1971 bear a close resemblance to the most widely circulated Cooper composite drawing. According to Galen Cook, a lawyer who has studied Gossett for years, claimed Gossett once showed his sons a key to a Vancouver safe deposit box which, he claimed, contained the ransom money. Gossett's eldest son, Greg, said that his father, a compulsive gambler who was always "strapped for cash", showed him "wads of cash" just before Christmas 1971, weeks after the Cooper hijacking. He speculated that Gossett gambled the money away in Las Vegas. In 1988, Gossett changed his name to "Wolfgang" and became a Roman Catholic priest, which some interpreted as an effort to disguise his identity. The FBI has no direct evidence implicating Gossett and cannot even reliably place him in the Pacific Northwest at the time of the hijacking.
Richard McCoy, Jr.
McCoy was an Army veteran who served two tours of duty in Vietnam, first as a demolition expert, and later, with the Green Berets as a helicopter pilot. On April 7, 1972, McCoy staged the best-known of the so-called "copycat" hijackings. He boarded United Airlines' Flight 855 (a Boeing 727 with rear stairs) in Denver, Colorado, brandishing what later proved to be a paperweight resembling a hand grenade and an unloaded handgun, he demanded four parachutes and $500,000. After delivery of the money and parachutes at San Francisco International Airport, McCoy ordered the aircraft back into the sky and bailed out over Provo, Utah, leaving behind his handwritten hijacking instructions and his fingerprints on a magazine he was reading. He was arrested on April 9 with the ransom cash in his possession, and after trial and conviction, received a 45-year sentence. Two years later he escaped from Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary with several accomplices by crashing a garbage truck through the main gate. Tracked down three months later in Virginia Beach, McCoy was killed in a shootout with FBI agents. The FBI agent who killed McCoy said "When I shot Richard McCoy, I shot D. B. Cooper at the same time." Although there is no reasonable doubt that McCoy committed the Denver hijacking, the FBI does not consider him a suspect in the Cooper case because of mismatches in age and description; also he had a level of skydiving skill well above that thought to be possessed by the hijacker; and they also had evidence that McCoy was in Las Vegas on the day of the Portland hijacking, and at home in Utah the day after, having Thanksgiving with his family.
Walter R. Reca
Walter R. Reca was a Michigan-native, a military veteran and original member of the Michigan Parachute Team. He was proposed as a suspect by his friend Carl Laurin, a former commercial airline pilot and expert parachuter himself, at a press conference on May 17, 2018. In 2008, Reca confessed to being D.B. Cooper to Laurin via a recorded phone call. In July 2018, Principia Media released a four-part documentary detailing their investigation. Reca gave Laurin permission in a notarized letter to share his story after he passed away in 2014, at age 80. He also allowed Laurin to tape their phone conversations about the crime over a six-week period in late 2008. In the over three hours of recordings, Reca gave new details about the hijacking that the public had not heard before. He also confessed to his niece, Lisa Story. Using his years of training to determine the location of the jump, Laurin concluded that D.B. Cooper landed near Cle Elum, Washington. According to written testimony, Jeff Osiadacz, a Cle Elum, Washington native, was driving his dump truck near Cle Elum the night of November 24, 1971, when he saw a man walking down the side of the road in the inclement weather. He assumed the man's car had broken down and was walking to get assistance. However, he did not have room in his truck to pick him up. He continued toward his destination, the Teanaway Junction Café just outside of Cle Elum. After ordering coffee, the man from the side of the road also entered the café looking like a "drowned rat", according to Osiadacz. The man sat next to him and asked if he would be able to give his friend directions if he called him on the phone. Osiadacz agreed to this and spoke with the man's friend, giving him directions to the cafe. Shortly after that, Osiadacz left for the Grange Hall to play in a band. The man offered to pay for his coffee, and the two amicably parted. Laurin began his search for the witness, after Reca described the landscape he saw while on his way to the drop zone: two bridges, some distinct lights; and his description of the exterior and interior of the café, as well as his encounter with Osiadacz. He described Osiadacz in detail, recalling that he was wearing western gear and had a guitar case. He dubbed him "Cowboy". Laurin consulted a map to find these particular landmarks and began making phone calls about the "Cowboy who had driven a dump truck." Laurin was put in contact with Osiadacz, who recalled meeting a man that night, described what he was wearing and what he looked like, and confirmed his identity as Reca after seeing a photo Laurin sent him. In addition to the taped confession, Laurin also has a confession written by Reca and long underwear allegedly worn by Reca under his black pants during the hijacking. In 2016, Laurin took the information to publisher Principia Media, who consulted with Joe Koenig, a certified fraud examiner and forensic linguist with 45 years of investigative experience. He evaluated all documents, including passports, identification cards, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Koenig found no evidence of tampering or manipulation and deemed all documentation authentic. After comparing Laurin's research to the available FBI records, he found no discrepancies that eliminated Reca as a suspect. He also thought it particularly significant that Osiadacz's statement of events on the night of November 24, 1971 was identical to the account that Reca made five years earlier. Koenig publicly stated at the Principia Media press conference on May 17, 2018 that he believes that Walter R. Reca was D.B. Cooper.
Duane Weber
Duane L. Weber was a World War II Army veteran who served time in at least six prisons from 1945 to 1968 for burglary and forgery. He was proposed as a suspect by his widow, based primarily on a deathbed confession: Three days before he died in 1995, Weber told his wife, "I am Dan Cooper." The name meant nothing to her, she said; but months later, a friend told her of its significance in the hijacking. She went to her local library to research D.B. Cooper, found Max Gunther's book, and discovered notations in the margins in her husband's handwriting. She then recalled, in retrospect, that Weber once had a nightmare during which he talked in his sleep about jumping from a plane, leaving his fingerprints on the "aft stairs". He also reportedly told her that an old knee injury had been incurred by "jumping out of a plane". Like the hijacker, Weber drank bourbon and chain smoked. Other circumstantial evidence included a 1979 trip to Seattle and the Columbia River, during which Weber took a walk alone along the river bank in the Tina Bar area; four months later Brian Ingram made his ransom cash discovery in the same area. The FBI eliminated Weber as an active suspect in July 1998 when his fingerprints did not match any of those processed in the hijacked plane, and no other direct evidence could be found to implicate him. Later, his DNA also failed to match the samples recovered from Cooper's tie, though the bureau has since conceded that they cannot be certain that the organic material on the tie came from Cooper.
Thursday Dec 26, 2024
Thursday Dec 26, 2024
In this episode of Headlines we talk the recent healthcare CEO assassination, the drones on the east coast, and a man who was killed by a dead bear.
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Thursday Dec 19, 2024
Thursday Dec 19, 2024
Lars Joachim Mittank is a German man who disappeared July 8th 2014, near Varna Airport, Bulgaria. Mittank was supposedly involved in a fight, and was unable to fly home with his friends for health reasons. Mittank was acting strange once alone in Bulgaria. Almost a decade later, the disappearance of Lars Mittank remains a mystery, that has completely gripped the internet.
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Thursday Dec 12, 2024
Thursday Dec 12, 2024
On March 18, 1990, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston suffered one of the greatest art thefts in history. Even though only 13 pieces of art were stolen, the combined value was worth over $500 million….practically priceless. One was a Rembrandt seascape known as The Storm Over the Sea of Galilee, oh its just the ONLY SEASCAPE REMBRANDT EVER DID!
Sorry for yelling... they also took another piece called The Concert , by Vermeer. It's the only missing Vermeer in the world. The Rembrandt and the Vermeer alone were valued at the time at over $200 million....basically what we're saying is this was a big heist; the largest personal property heist in the world....so far ;)
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New England's Unsolved: The Gardner heist 30 years later
$500M Art Heist STILL Unsolved After Decades | History's Greatest Mysteries (Season 4)
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Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
On April 21, 2011, police found the bodies of Agnes de Ligonnès, her four children Arthur, Thomas, Anne, and Benoit, and the two family dogs buried under the terrace of their family home in Nantes, France. The father, Count Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, was nowhere to be found. Did Xavier plan to murder his family and escape without a trace? Although no leads have led to his apprehension, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès is largely believed to still be out there in the world today.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont_de_Ligonn%C3%A8s_murders_and_disappearance
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Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès Case: Dead or Alive? | True Crime Recaps
Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Pro-wrestling tends to blur the line between what's real and fake and the story of wrestler Bruiser Brody is a bit more complicated because of that. His death also shines a spotlight on the dark side of wrestling, or “Dark Side of the Ring” according to Viceland. Which also happens to be the title of a documentary we used as a main source for this episode :)
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The Viceland Doc👇🏼https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/ba5sz6/the_life_and_death_of_notorious_wrestler_bruiser/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruiser_Brody
WWC: Bruiser Brody Interview (1986)
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
On November 19, 2011, 20 year old Jaleayah(JUH-Lee-Uh) Davis, left home to spend an evening with some friends, whom she’d known for several months. Just hours later, Jaleayah was dead and the gruesome details continue to generate controversy as to what actually happened. Police claim it was an accident, but Jaleayah’s family and many others believe otherwise!
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Freak car Accident or Murder? The Mysterious Unsolved death of Jaleayah Davis
https://imgur.com/a/these-aren-t-folded-were-clearly-accident-8XETqz5
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimePodcasts/comments/erbtut/the_drama_with_milemarker_181/
https://gavinfish.com/cases/jaleayah-davis/
Murder Or Tragic Accident?: The Jaleayah Davis Case - Podcast #104
Thursday Nov 07, 2024
Thursday Nov 07, 2024
In this one Michael and Andy talk about a Walmart death that has Final Destination vibes, a man who "appeared" to have been mauled by a bear, and the new mascot for this years Catholic Jubilee, which is an adorable anime child and her friends...🤨
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Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
On the morning of Oct. 7, 2019, in Cape Coral, Florida, two women were brutally murdered. Thirty-five year old Kristine Melton, was strangled to death as she slept in her bed. Then, just hours later, Diane Ruiz, 43, was strangled, beaten, pushed out of a car (Which belonged to Kristine Melton) and was run over repeatedly. But luckily for everyone, the killer was arrested almost immediately as he called his father and confessed to the whole thing even telling his Dad where he was. Wade Wilson (no, not that one), then 25, was arrested the next day and charged with killing both women. But, Why, WADE!? WHY?!
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Wade Wilson's Confession to Dad After Alleged Double Murder
Accused killer Wade Wilson speaks from jail about murder case & alleged crime organization
TikTok Famous Killer Wade Wilson’s Shocking Jail Calls Revealed: ‘I Killed That B*tch’
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Lois Riess was a fun-loving grandmother of five who loved buying her family gifts, was a local bowler, and was known for her good cooking (in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota.) But anyhoo, when police discovered her husband, David, shot to death in their home in March 2018, they soon learned the truth about Lois Riess! Fast forward to now, Lois is 62 years old, and in prison for not one, but two murders!...and so much more. She’s been Dubbed the “Killer Grandma,” “fugitive Granny” and our personal fav, “Losing Streak Lois”.
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Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Catherine Griffith, was only 39 years old, when she was found stabbed to death in her Auburndale, Florida home, this was on September 8th, 2024. The police were called by her 17 year old son Collin. He told them, “I’ve had a very, very long fight with mom, and she fell on a knife, and she's bleeding from the neck." …here’s the first of many kickers in this case…Catherine’s death comes a year and a half after Collin was charged with fatally shooting his father, Charles, on Valentines day, 2023.....coincidence?
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Teenager Stabs Mother One Year After Shooting Father in 'Self-Defense' | Collin Griffith Analysis
Polk County Sheriff's Office arrests 17-year old Collin Griffith for murdering his mother
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
This one is off the rails....of course we talk Diddy to start things off,(it is headlines after all), then we jump into a crazy rare heartfelt story, where a kidnapped boy is reunited with his family 70 years later through DNA! And last, (and honestly, least) we talk about how once again Disney is taking it too far, by threatening to sue a family over their son's trademarked name. *facepalm*
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Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Trucking tycoon Bill Hall Jr was a hit with the ladies (namely his wife Frances), but even at 50, Bill was still winning hearts. Like that of the exotic dancer Bonnie Contreras. When Bill, his wife, and his mistress met in a high-speed chase on Route 1604, tragedy was inevitable. Now only two of them are alive to tell their side of the story.
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Meet, Marry, Murder - Season 1, Episode 23 - Hall - Full Episode
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
The neighborhood of New Brighton in Ramsey County Minnesota is a safe and quiet one…usually. Except for the evening of May 5th 2014 when gunshots rang out on Knollwood Drive. What had begun as a minor disagreement over feeding deer, would ultimately end with murder!
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Thursday Sep 05, 2024
Thursday Sep 05, 2024
Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious cult based out of San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles. On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group, who had participated in a mass suicide in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following the Hale–Bopp comet. Just before the suicide, the group's website was updated with the message: "Hale-Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate ... Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion – 'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level."
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https://www.sdsheriff.gov/bureaus/media-relations/common-questions/heaven-s-gate-case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)
Heaven's Gate Cult Initiation Tape Part 1