Death in the West
Death in the West Season 2: The Taking of Flight 855
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Society & Culture
A history and true-crime podcast dedicated to the American West’s strange crimes and historically resonant intrigues. In episode one, we meet Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., a Mormon Sunday school teacher and Vietnam veteran who friends said had become obsessed with skyjacking and D.B. Cooper in the months after Cooper's famous crime, committed during Thanksgiving weekend, 1971. By April 1972, McCoy's fascination led him to his own skyjacking--a caper that bore striking resemblances to what Cooper had pulled off, but had a very different outcome.