The

Hellwood Archive

Cult cinema, true crime, strange history and cultural oddities.

Stories from the darker corners of film, television, music, literature, crime, history and the unexplained.

d b cooper

Boeing 727 flying above the rain-dark forests of the Pacific Northwest at night, evoking the unsolved 1971 D. B. Cooper hijacking

True Crime History

D. B. Cooper: How a $20 Airline Ticket Created America’s Perfect Unsolved Crime

On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a quiet passenger calling himself Dan Cooper bought an $18.52 airline ticket, demanded $200,000 and parachuted...

05 Oct 2026 • Archive Note