*This episode of Hitched 2 Homicide contains descriptions of sexual violence, including rape, and graphic violence involving cannibalism. It may be disturbing or triggering for some listeners. Viewer and listener discretion is strongly advised. She was beautiful, young, and charismatic. He was older, wealthy, and besotted. Five days after they married, he was dead—dismembered in a Costa Mesa apartment over Thanksgiving weekend 1991. Some of his remains were in the freezer. So
He walked onto a plane with a name that wasn’t his, ordered a bourbon and 7-Up, handed over a note saying he had a bomb, took $200,000 in cash, four parachutes, and then—somewhere over the Pacific Northwest on a cold November night in 1971—stepped out the back of a Boeing 727 and vanished. No confirmed body. No confirmed parachute. No confirmed identity. The world knows him as D.B. Cooper —though he called himself Dan Cooper —and his hijacking of Northwest Orient Flight 305
