D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!

D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!, directed by Marina Zenovich, is a 4-episode docuseries about the search for the infamous D.B. Cooper, the pseudonym for a well-dressed hijacker who took over a Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle in November, 1971. During an era where airlines were hijacked at an increasingly rapid rate, Cooper succeeded in getting what he wanted and escaping, without hurting anyone on board. Fifty years later, he still hasn’t been caught, despite the best efforts of journalists and investigators.D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! Season 1 Download

Zenovich, also an executive producer on the series, uses animations, some reenactments, archival news footage, and interviews with people who have investigated the hijacking at various points during the past half century to tell what has become one of the most famous crime legends of all time. Cooper, a name given to the hijacker by the media even though he boarded the flight under the name “Dan Cooper,” managed to land the plane in Seattle, get the $200,000 and four parachutes he was asking for, get the flight back in the air, then jump out somewhere between Portland and Reno.But the docuseries is as much about the people who have followed all the leads, and thought they came close to finding the person everyone knows as D.B. Cooper, only to be thwarted. One of them is Tom Colbert, who has spent the past decade-plus investigating the case, and who to this day thinks he has found Cooper and thinks he has the evidence to support him. But we also hear about Dick Briggs, a stocky man who claimed he was D.B. Cooper for decades, despite looking very different than eyewitnesses described the sunglass-and suit-wearing hijacker. Still, Colbert took that tip and investigated, and a former FBI agent specializing in polygraphs was brought in. But, like with every other suspect, there was a fatal flaw in the case that couldn’t be resolved.