D.B. COOPER - BYU Student?
Date: 2/4/2006
In 1971, the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. History took place in the Pacific Northwest. A passenger by the name D.B. Cooper (or Dan Cooper), ransomed the passengers and crew of a Northwest Orient 727, and parachuted out the back of the plane with hundreds of thousands in ransom money, never to be found. Six months later, a BYU student named Richard Floyd McCoy did the same thing, and escaped with $500,000. The FBI had again had no leads, until McCoy was turned in by family and those he trusted. He was sentenced to 45 years for the second hijacking, and escaped from prision two years later, after which time he was again betrayed and turned in by those he trusted. He died in 1974 in shootout with the FBI. We interview the lead FBI agent investigating the case, plus two authors and a private investigator, in four separate shows on the subject. Special Agent Larry Carr is responsible for the FBI's dispatch posted on December 31, 2007 seeking information from the public. Both authors are former FBI agents involved in the case. Once believes McCoy was Cooper, the other believes he was not. Dan Dvorak is also interviewed below, a CPA from the Pacific Northwest, who has been investigating the skyjacking for years and who believes the FBI made some significant errors in their investigation. Please also find below an interview with Johnny Surles, a retired police office who arrested McCoy's accomplices.
NOTE: We tried to interview Federal District Court Judge David Winder for the program, who defended Richard Floyd McCoy in the skyjacking trial before taking the bench. We posed this list of questions to him: HERE and got the response also shown. His health is declining in the sunset of an illustrious career. We would very much have liked to have gotten him on the historical record.
Listen to the interview with Rusell Calame, co-author of D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy, by clicking HERE (streams quickly after short pause).
Listen to the interview with Richard Tosaw, author of D.B. Cooper: Dead or Alive?, by clicking HERE (streams quickly after short pause).
Listen to the interview with Special Agent Larry Carr, who is currently leading the FBI's investigation of the case, by clicking HERE (streams quickly after short pause).
Listen to the interview with Dan Dvorak by clicking HERE (streams quickly after short pause).
Listen to the interview with Johnny Surles by clicking HERE (streams quickly after short pause).
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