Netflix Looking To Solve The D.B. Cooper Mystery in Trailer For The Doc Series D.B. COOPER: WHERE ARE YOU?!
Netflix is looking to solve the mystery of D.B. Cooper in a true crime documentary series titled, D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!. Cooper is the mystery man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines passenger jet in November 1971 and escaped by jumping out of the plane with a parachute with $200,000, and he was never seen again.
There are several documentaries that have been made about Cooper over the years and people have been trying to solve this mystery since the hijacking happened. All the docs that I’ve watched over the years pretty much just give us more of the same. One of the most recent came from HBO in 2020 titled The Mystery of D.B. Cooper. The question is, will this new doc series offer any new details?
The four-part series comes from Fulwell 73 Productions and director Marina Zenovich’s PMZ Pictures. It looks at “the 50-year quest to find Cooper, whose identity remains one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century and the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history.”
There have been multiple suspects in the case over the years including the possibility that Cooper was a Boeing employee, that he was former WWII paratrooper Kenneth Peter Christiansen, former leather worker and Korean War vet Lynn Doyle Cooper or recreational pilot and librarian Barbara Dayton, who underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1969.
The FBI officially suspended the active investigation in 2016 and all of the evidence, which includes three pieces of evidence found on the plane – a clip-on tie, a mother-of-pearl tie clip and eight cigarette butts, is open to the public.
The series features interviews with Cooper investigators and focuses on the ten-year quest by one of them, Tom Colbert, “to prove that he has found D.B. Cooper. Colbert, the author of The Last Master Outlaw, has previously said that he believes retired pilot and ex-convict Robert Rackstraw was Cooper.”
Zenovich said in a statement: “I’m excited to bring the D.B. Cooper story to the world. It’s an all-American adventure with many bizarre twists and turns and I’m honored to have worked on it with such a world class creative team.”
Producer Leo Pearlman added, “Marina, P.G., Blake and EJ have produced a stylish, original and most importantly fun series that Netflix viewers will really want to dig into.”
D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! will premiere on Netflix on July 13th, 2022.